Show THE USI legislature two years ago our oar mormon friends professed to tubo take a new departure A convention wai wag called a constitution framed purport od to do da away with polygamy and everything put in to trick utah luto tho union about slits sixty per cent ot of their voters at the alio agugust election swearing nally daily prior to registration that they donld obey tho taws laws sad especially tho the laws against polygamy at tho the same eimo time they went la in an unbroken string from toni every district court coart to the rather th than an promise the courts to obey this very law for iho atura nor bior would they tate take the oath en as jurors because it contained the gain baino 0 sworn promise that they took it dishonestly in fit order to register li ii proved by alicio facto no domia wan cm call truthfully hully deny when the now legislature met lu in tho lite later following the effort of the iho session was to exhibit a show how s of advance while perpetuation all the olda old bubeR and andia and ia eDt loc as really many now ones as po PCs abble tho the ol 01 that contemptible body was divided between defeating all progressive measures and passing all fl il reactionary ones onee but tur for goyer nor noc use of cherto the ato thoy choy would I 1 have bavo brandr the llie federal courts as power logs na as they were noro in tho the days of 0 ahlet they passed a bill git gl ing the tha tit alia abt abs ulato right ul of ball bail on oa r T of 0 the cho opinion of 0 tho court thay cuned c it B jury bill lutell iu lod to force birco mormon on story jury governor Gote hla his veto and d knockel ked 90 hills out they I 1 awl im I 1 a court commissioning mil bill which would have given eiven mormon tho the over om ill all the HIB district court judges anil and becam to tile tho record of grand juries at rny any chaje 00 that wha wet heddin pou sling aalia po pa would be kewa to them in tetuo to warn the ha colprit to take to tollio the thoy defeated iia il the lie bott autt polygamy bill our oil cho shat lowest of all til a ingenious and extraordinary struggle to defeat the ot of the ilia law renewed la in another boror its often as 01 defeated we might sympathize with feeding tO Boroi orient under tio the peculiar and relations ro illein ot of these legislators dai the fie ra hail bad they not all the time beeta bed prot clog out ol of the tha other corner of 0 t their heir months month to have hare ilono done away with the practice to la their state n and had they not sworn to obey the law prohibition prohibiting tho the practices brit ant this wait waa only one coo branch ot of their recalcitrance they pursued tho the old debt with tho the governor to 0 o keep from him the prerogatives attached to his bin office by section 7 ot at the organic act which they stole irom from tile tho o as 85 noon boon as aa it had au an bocc occupant the utmost ingenuity was wan ex ei in fr fran mn laws to retain till athla plunder anti and at the same game time his alg assent the loan loaa bill to provide funds for three or four bailly badly nettled public building was allowed allo weil to rail full rather than yield this point namely that the tb Go governor should neat dominate a ate certain officers created by the bill DD an the law of at con gross says lio be shall the session was prolonged two or three days however anti anil what ahat was wai called cl lil a compromise patched p up dp so eo that tho the governor coall coald sra siga the bill without a complete sar rendor of oc big lights they voted down the bill to secure tho the rights i of legal wives iu in eases cases at 0 divorce they sought to strip the probate judges ot of their powe powers rs since they lial had been made by congre Conf fress as appointive by the president they bowd down every proposition to littler better the existing tras otty on a school a ye total tein nod passed a bill to japport avowed soc sectarian tarlan schools choals by public taxation illation this alo governor vetoed la in truth tt a more reactionary legible tore tare than tills this one wag wa noi or elected ovea la and they were elected and out eat while tho the Mor cormons mormons alons wore posing as reformed in the vala vain hope hopa of getting utah into the he union under fallen alfe pretenses pretense A without such an extraordinary incentive to good behavior what may not bo be expected feted ot of ill thorn I 1 it may tie a admitted that thero there wore were r soine omo naturally progressive moo men la ins that body bat they count not one of them ever came to the side ol of the little knot ot at liberals la in any matter ot at importance it will always be so eo it II they files dies on them they ha hibo strings on chorale them end d 0 nothing Is to bo be hoped from ill them whitt we do before wo we can get et A legislature that will give us a school system tor for willett which we ve shall not hato cause to bo be ashamed or that will authorize st salt late lake city and ogdon ogden to sprinkle their streets for or example Is to elect a of 0 it alliy be we can do I 1 it next monda Uon ilay 7 it EO otho tho night will be buo from utah let overy liberal dishlip do iiii duty lily and all tile the moro more that is lu probable |