Show JLX OBJECHOVABLE PARAGRAPH i PARA-GRAPH jt J A SOJTEWUAT lively debate 1 11 occurred I 0 I oc-curred in the House yesterday af t f ternoon over the report of the committee I 1 I com-mittee on education on the report I rendered to the Assembly by Hon Jacob S Boreman I Territorial i i i ii School Commissioner The com I 1 mittee recommended that a certain paragraph bo expunged from the Commissioners report and that the balance with accompinylng in t formation and statistics be printed t as a public document for the benefit otbe CitlLeD9 of the Territory and i J I exchange for educational reports I it of other States and Territories Mr C K Allen a II Liberal J is 1 I i 1t chairman of the educitlonal committee lj com-mittee and eg Each signed tilt I I i 1IL report 4 f U re-port Mr J x Kimball Liberal ti r I member from Ogden opposed the adoption of the report declaring that the JIouso had no right to amend the report of a Territorial officer rendered in compliance with Liaa law to Assembly SDeakerSharp J I = t t suggestedthat the quretion wag no one amending the CommJ oner report but of printing such a portion por-tion of it as tfaeHouso might fit Mr Allen by way of a pcnonal explanation ex-planation and for the information of the House stated that the Commissioner Com-missioner hd expressed himself willing that objectionable sentences should be omitted from his report for the fake of having the balance of it and the accompanying statistics statis-tics etc printed Mr Williams incited that the House ought to print the Commissioners Commis-sioners report entire or not at all He said that a former session of the I Assembly had refused to publish the Governors message because the members did net like its contents and that with refusal had beta regarded re-garded ever since as a mistake If a part of the Commissioners report were expunged it would lie said be a similar mistake The majority of the members of the House found themselves called upon lo vote on the question whether or not they would spend the peoples peo-ples money to pay for the publication publica-tion of matter which they believed was u rj ust and ofle nsl ve to the great majority of the people of the Terri toiy At length the matter was re committed to the committee on education edu-cation v hose report will be awaited with some interest The paragraph proposed to be expunged ex-punged from the Commissioner report Is as follows Whilst tho nonMormon religious denominations are looking forward and in many Instances with anxiety to the Inauguration of good free pnblio schools so that their primary schools may be given up the authorities of the Mormon church are inaugurating a system of church schools which aro calculated to draw the children of tho I members of that church away from the district schools The dislike of tho district schools seems to be based to a large client upon the fact that sectarian books aro prohibited therein If this policy of withdrawal be persisted in the district schools will be greatly crippled as there are several times as many children of Mormon parents as there are of nonMormon parents It is to bo hoped that wiser counsels and better Judgment will prevail and that UO policy will be abandoned and that the true American policy of providing free public schools for alt shall be encouraged en-couraged and adopted The intimation here conveyed that all religious societies in this Territory except tho Motmons propos to discontinue religious schools on the establishment of a public free school sysleni means that the various sectarian churches here propose to cease giving their children a religous education In L schools adapted to that jmrposc That the various nonMormon religious denomJnations contemplate t anything of the kind is totally untrue un-true Even if they intended to cease tending their children to religious re-ligious schools It would be no ret ron why the Mormons should do likewise but they do not Many of r them are as anxious to have their children religiously trained us t Mormons are The object of the Commissioner who is a fanatical Methodist in making so ridiculous an assertion was to avoid including nonMor mon sects in his denunciation of r religious schools as tending to cripple the public schools that he might confine that censure exclu sively to Latterday Saint educational educa-tional institutions Ills complaint against religious schools is a gratuitous I gratui-tous departure from his duty and the language employs is otTensi ve not to say ungentlemanly and insulting in-sulting to the majority of the leo pie of the Territory To publish it would bo to create unjust prejudice against them and the committee oncducatioudid right to recommend the striking out of the objectionable religlopollUcal feature of a report which should not seek to make political po-litical capital for any party An official report should be free from demagoguery If it Is not it should either be Ignored or the demagogic portions stricken out It ii I bad enough fortIes people to have an objectionable nubile offi I cer thrust upon them without their representatives undertaking to aid him in his efforts in theistIc of a i machine to dlschargeinsultsat those who pay his salary The effort of a small minority of the Legislature to aid this objectionable and very smallcouJed official in that capacity taints them with a similar hue I |