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Show j Our Gentile friends pretfy generally jandnotafew of our Mormon ditto, seem to regard it as somethiug fully 'determined upon, that Congress wili o'ain interfere with the Utah piLblem this wiuter. There is no reason why they should think tlm territory will , iigure prominently bt-foro the national legislature during the coming session unless it be on account of thu action of ome Bait Luke ladies in adopting resolutions and circulating petitions newspapor discussion that ij going on, neither of which amouutd to anything any-thing when looked at in tho light of facta and common s?nae. Thn time ur.s not been, within the past fifteen years, when the press was not engaged en-gaged in a wordy war upon the peculiar pecu-liar institutions of Utah, This newspaper news-paper crusade is no more vigorous now than it always has been. Indeed, In-deed, the average editor to-day treats tho "problem" with more reason than he manifested ten, five or even two years ago. Very few of the newspaper news-paper people of this time advocate enne tct thn PTtrpmo lpnrthn that Lhey clamored for a few years ago, in iealing with Mormons, and not a few influential journals of the country are wisely conservative, and in favor of "letting the evil alone to cure itself." Tho Mormons have nothiug J ItJUl I1UU1 IUU pitOOi JXV UCDl no ark ia worse thnu ite bite, and not alf a dozen prominent journals are ery savage even in the bark. This 'woman's movement," with all dus ospect to the excellent ladies who iave figured in it, is simply a farce, ud will have little or no e fleet. At ome it has already about died out. Ve would hear nothing more from it rere not one or two of the dear reatures afllicLcd with an ambition uite common among a certain class f men, for getting their names into rint. Some of the timid, and others mong the enthusiasts, presume to say jat "congress can no longer refuse ) act," which is well enough to say, ut amounts to nothing when said. Vhy congress cannot continue to de-iv de-iv action is not clear to ua. anv more a in it is clear why it should act, at cl s time. The state of facts upon rt ich action is sought, has not ' mged during these long years; and ) knowledge ol tho condition of c: ngs is no more public now than & retolore. Yet congress has with od the besiegers year after year, d has not found it very difficult tc refuse to act. No one has ci jwn a single good reason for B1 ieving congress will deal with the tl ah question the coming winter. If p ise who are clamoring for legiala- n: n specially applicable to this terri 6( y, would look at the prospect ua it isents itself in its true colors, they 0j uld be Badly discouraged. The out- tl k to them could i.ot fail to be n' ire than unsatisfactory. Under the j ist favorable circumstances Utah is r reat deal larger out here than in Id jningion. xne average congress- ?lt? l does not think twice of it during chi session, unlees be is unlucky jot jgh to be buttonhokd oftener wit i that by somo representative beL 3 Bait Lake. The coming scision aD not be one for the kind of law- on' ting that is asked for. It is the pa ing session of a rather incongruous 6uf inharmonious congress just ne i a congress as it is easy to keep ere, l doing anything very good or very an It is a political congress, and wit Drk will be for party more than Ihe public. President-making am( monopolism a large share of its solic a, and the time not required in ary matter will have to be employed aDtl ivesligatioos and appropriation A live deleato and no one alio ntimate that Mr. Canoon ia not acct -can readily defeat the labom of cePl who aro putting fortb eflorts to e special legislation, and could iadt were their numbers and in- acce ce ten limes what they are. They Prnc be in earnest in appaaling to this ess, and at this the short sessiou, Colo ley are sadly mistaken in judg- ratei as to when, where and how to tna ed. ceed . upoi e United Statts. a't;r a eood h of quibbling and disgraceful tiatic )ling, has paid the $5,500,000 y tl ed to Great Britain by the Jjj1 x fisheries commission. The j U6t; f ia larger than it should mve that but this country has no cause jectet mplaint, especially as a very UQ' portion of the money paid by j'J id as damages done by the rarilj na remains in the treasury groui ,t claimants. What the United bi 81 ru3t do in these casea is look ftnCQ the commissioners, and not from ult with their verdicts at a l . that i tions tot rrpTrrcn ivo |