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Show i By W. U. Telegraph J I TUB UTAH Q.UICSTION APPOINT-I APPOINT-I MEXT THJbl UKItlOCRATIC POL-I POL-I ICY, I New York, 7. A special Tribune I Washington correspondent says: Tho j appointment of W. B. Irving as rcgis-: rcgis-: ter of the land oflico in Utah is regarded re-garded by tho Mormon delegation bore 1 as indicating that the administration ( intends to modify its policy towards i polygamy. Maxwell, the former incumbent, incum-bent, and who is now a contestant for Hooper's scat as delegate, was active in the persecution of tho Mormons and was chiefly instrumental in bringing the late suits against their loaders. The Mormon question promises to become exciting during tho present session. I Senator Cragin has revived his old bill i to punish polygamy, while enabling j acts providing for tho admission of Utah as a Statu into the Union have i been drawn up and will be introduced 1 in both houses beforo the recess. They j will provide that from and alter the i admission of Utah, marriages shall be governed according to the laws of the United States, but that the marriage relations now existing in that Territory shall not be disturbed. The Times special says the caucus of tho Democratic members of Congress will probably be postponed till after the holidays. An informal interchange of opinions on the course to betaken in regard to the presidency, shows great unanimity iu opposition to undue j haste, or to any step that looks like a surrender of the Democratic organization organiza-tion into the hands of the anti-Grant : I Republicans. Whatever may be the ; strength of the latter in tho country-' . there does not appear at present to be ! a single one of the 130 Republican members of the house who is willing to publicly announce his opposition to the ronomination of Grant. There arc, nevertheless, many who are at heart opposed to it; but they at the same timo admit that if he is the nominee nom-inee of tho Republican party, they will be obliged to support him. |