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Show UTAH SPECIAL LEGISLATION. Congress has adjourned without specially legislating for Utah. At the commencement of the session great hopes were expressed by tho ring organ that several important laws of this character would be enacted, en-acted, and a number of bills wtro prepared and placed in tho hands of senators and members to regulate tho ballot in Utah, or, in other words, to disfranchise a large portion of our citizens. Senator Chriitiancy introduced intro-duced one of these, but it seems not to bavo found favor wl'.h the coin-milteo coin-milteo to whom it was referred, and it has slept the sleep ot death. One or two house committees were also entrusted with some bills of the same character, but none of them were reported to the house, uud the session passed off' without paying the attention to the men who have so urgently demanded special legislation for this territory that thdr pertinacity would seem to warrant. . Mr. Baskin, the contesting delegate, paid his annual visit to Washington, . and exercised all bis ingenuity and ability during two or three months to bring about something to compensate his ring friends for their great exertions exer-tions and expenditures in the cause or misgovc-rumeut. But ho shortly became disgusted and returned home, giving up, we believe, the contest for Mr. Cannon's scat as delegate. Meet inga, claiming to be republican and democratic, were held to endorse Baskiu's Washington campaign; hut all to no effect. Nothing has been dono to resuscitate the ring efforts to revive tho McKean crusade, or to disfranchise the people. The present is partly a democratic congress, through which the ring hoped to achieve great things. Baskin Bas-kin was said to be a democrat, and his influence would be potent upon the members of the house. But this was all talk. He succeeded just as well with a republican body, lho fact being that the representatives of both parties aro sick of the continual clamor for special legislation. The modest Baskin would have congress devote its entire session to Utah i affairs if necessary. There is never a year but a school-boy whine goes up . from this territory to congress for the regulation of the "Mormons" by - the aid of special pains and penal-. penal-. ties. The committees listen to these j complaints and that generally ends 5 the matter. Whatever special legis-f legis-f lation has been enacted for Utah has ; amounted to very little practically. The result illustrates the folly of I such efforts, and reminds us of an incideut related by an ex-governor or .Sew tlampsmre wuo visitoa mis city last spring- Referring to one of the members of the house of representatives repre-sentatives from his state, who was a member of a committee to which some "Mormon" question was referred, re-ferred, he said : "Mr. P. informed me that the committee always entered with avidity upon the investigation inves-tigation of the 'Mormon' subjects for the purpose of legislation ; but usuaiiy discovered when they had got into the mexiU of tbe quetisin that the constitution of the United States stood in their way, precluding the passage of laws which tho opponents oppo-nents of the Utah settlers demanded. This shows what tbe Herald has often said, that the ring politicians a?k too much, and far more than any party can grant. The demand for unconstitutional legislation only demonstrates their weakness, and ab , long as the people of Utah maintain tbe constitution and observe tho law? enacted in pursuance thereof, no political party will bo apt to meddle with them. The principles of local self-government must be carried out hero as elsewhero, and the fight for supremacy will have to bo made here at the polls by tho people themselves, and through the ordinary methods of enforcing the laws and administering administer-ing justice. The contest cannot bo dodged by a frenzied and prejudiced appoal to Washington. Utah is a full-fledged stale in all the elements of American statehood, and her people are abundantly able to take caro of themselves, though they calmly await the action of congress in regard to them, and submit to all legislation imposed upon them by the national legislature. |