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Show Vtali's Clamors for Admission. New York Press. From the day when congress met members mem-bers of that body have been besieged by lobbyists fttotn Utab for the admission of that territory as a stale. The lives of the members uf tiK. senate and house committees commit-tees on territories have been made a burden by the constant efforts of I'lah men to pour argument! in fvon of the admission of I'tah Into their ears. It is a notable feature of the raid on congress that the mormons who are in Washington on the admission errand announce that the mormon party has gone out of business in the territory because, as polygamy was its backb me, and as polygamy has been formally for-mally abolished by the church authorities in obedience to United .States laws, there is no longer any need of a mormon party in the territory. This plea is unquestionably only a blind, and it may be certain that if Utah is admitted as a state the mormons will rule it. Of the 80,000 voters in the territory fully 18,000 are mormons, and they will voto together in statehood for mormon interests just as solidly us they have hitherto doue in the territorial elections. There is still another reason why the mor. mon influence ought not to prevail. In supporting the hill for thu admission of Utah the mormon agents in Washington have made serious charges against tho federal fed-eral officials of the territory, against t'ic federal courts and against the Utah commission, com-mission, with an animus entirely out of keeping with tlieir claim that the mormons have gone out of politics. They have charged the federal officials with committing com-mitting illegal acts in the discharge of their duties and with discriminating unjustly unjust-ly against the mormoni in all their official actions, but when challenged to name specific spe-cific acts w here such things trauspired were unable to do so. They have charged the Utah commission with ignorance, bigotry, falsehood and prejudice, and when inquiry was recently made if by this Statement they intended to reflect upon the character charac-ter for integrity, honesty and fairness of such members of the commission as the present Senator Paddock of Nebraska, and of ex-Seuators Saunders and Ramsey, who are still members of the commission, they answered in the affirmative. No one will believe such charges unsupported by proof, and no proof has been produced. It la quite certain that if an admission bill Is passed in the house It will be defeated in the senate. So long as the mormons dominate domi-nate Utah that territory shoiijd uot be ad. m if ted as a state. i |