Show A MINORTY REPORT Of the Utah Commission Filed Thursday NOTES YROM FOREIGN LANDS The Fe rThe Archbishop of StY St-Y Trusts MaUlnecker Exonerated The Minority Report WASHINGTON September 2JTwo of tbe five members of the Utah Commission Commis-sion Jonn A McClernand and A B Garlton have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a minority repert They also submitted a minority report last year The report received today says The reform in Utah is progressing 1 favorably far beyond our most sanguine san-guine anticipations Utah is forging to the front among the Rocky Mountain tales and Territories and may be compared favorably with any of them in the enterprise of hrr citizens fertility fer-tility of her valleys richness of her mines and flouriaaing condition of her cities and towns A great deal of capital cap-ital is being invested in Utah by non Mormons in city lots farming lands and mining property and such investments invest-ments are as safe there as in any other State or Territory that is to say there is not tne slightest danger of an insurrection insur-rection nor in our opinion is there any clanger of adverse legislation that will jeopardize personal security or property rights Apart from sexual offenses which are decidedly decid-edly on the decreasetbe Mormon people peo-ple of Utah wtM 1 compare favorably vith other communities for peace good order souriety honesty and industry The commibsioner say in their opinion opin-ion the majority of the Mormon people have wisely resolved that the practice of polygamy should be abandoned We are thoroughly satisfied say the commissioners hat the work of reformation re-formation in Utah is progressing rapidly rap-idly and teat it will soon result in a successful issue without resort to legislation legis-lation that is proscriptive of religious opinion Our view may be epitomiiec in a few words punish criminal action but religious creeds never IIJ The commissioners are adverse to any further restrictive legislation by Congress believing the present laws Are sufficiently stringent and will accom pUsh all that can be reasonably required re-quired of legal coercion I |