| Show THE OTA a COMMISSION It is a gloriously good time that the Utah Commission has of it with little to do an abundance of time to do it in an opportunity to perform their duties in Chicago or China as best suits their pleasure and convenience dead head passes on the railroads and a generous government < o pay for their sleeping car berths and to provide them with ch LUge for porter tips If there are any softer sits in the government service they are unknown to the great arm of officeseeVera who are ever on the alert for the good things which are I passed around The Commissioners spent a few weeks in Utah last summer when the lake bathing was at its best the heat in the east was intense and the cool atmosphere of our mountain resorts was inviting and invigorating tlten they hied themselves to their re spctive homes to resume their private business and pleasure It seems now however that they have found enough work to keep them employed for a day er two and they assemble in Chicago to do it because Chicago is convenient to most of them aid perhaps all have more or less private business to transact in that city The following is an Associated Press telegram tel-egram which went east but did not come out this way CHICAGO Ill September 21 18S6 he Utah Commission selected under the provisions pro-visions of the Edmunas law in 1882 brian a stb ion here this forenoon The object is to orepare the annual report for the year past to present to the President by October 1 ihe specific dULY of this commission is to conduct aa elections in utah including the appointment of registration officers and aboard a-board of canvassers It takes in the city and town elections as well as the county and Territory Mr Carton the chairman states hat the Edmunds law so far has been ef ectie in doine away with illegal voting the law prohilvtng a poly am18t or ine who has indulged in unlawful cohabitation from voting and that the courts of jUt j < tice during the past eighteen months had con rioted one hundred offenders In this sense he said the law has been a success but how far it has made the Mormon to give up his creed is another question Well gamble that the Commissioners wrote that dispatch or hunted up a press reporter and impressed upon him an inflated idea of the arduous character of their labors and the great responsibility resting on them They toll him of the fatiguing and important import-ant task of conducting all elections in Utah including the appointment of registration officersand a board of canvassers can-vassers but wholl say they told him that the very little real labor to be doi e was performed by half a dozen clerks while the Commissioners were enjoying life at their homes in the distant East They didnt tell the reporter that they came to Utah at registration and election elec-tion times merely to keep up appearances appear-ances and because the weather here at those times is more inviting than it is in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys They didnt tell him that as a matter of fact the Commission hasnt ten days or real work a year nor did they tell him that the Commissioners do not on an average reside in the Territory two months out of the twelve The Utah Commission is a wonderful institution Its a pity that it doesnt consist pf fifty members instead of five as there are fully fortyfive more great statesmen and pronounced patriots in I the country who would be willing to sacrifice themselves to the good of the cause for 5000 a year and expenses |
