Show AX ELECTION LW SEEDED I i For eight years past matters per tilnlng to elect In us have eet been man anomalous condition In this Tcrrl tory Five men who have hate no permanent per-manent Interests hereatitl who Lave not even the right t vote in any precinct In the Territory are hated with the control of 1 general and municipal elections in It The creation cre-ation of the Utah Commission by Congress In ISSJ was a temporary exnedient dcfdfrtifHl fa ipTtrn n expient llue t f an Interim which was expected to terminate at the oat session of the Legislature as it was supposed that the Assembly jt Its first session would pass an election law which would render the further existence of that body useless 1 this t I plainly apparent from section 9 of the EdmundeLawi hlch created the Commission and is confirmed by con1re section 23 of the EdmundsTucker Law with the proviso that legisla Tcer ton by the Territorial Assembly Asombl designed to supplant the Utah film mission must be approved by Con gross before taking effect Two election bills have been In traduced the Council The sec ond Include the 1rt and Is known s n a Brians bill I i designed t b complete election code and to contain all tecessary provisions relative to Ihe qualltlcatioca of ele tons and office tolan hole the regisfca ton of voters the management rgb of elections and the making of returns It is substantially similar t the present law lulls more epeclflo In some of its provisions particularly In relation to registration and challenges chal-lenges at the i ll9 This bill ought to p with such amendments a critical examination of it may show to h necessary hub i Is time tho anticipations of Congress were met I y Inc uovernor uuu JISlatVe Assembly of the Territory of Utah that the expense to the national treasury of maintaining the Utah Commission may b terminated However I Is like hoping against hope to expect that any election measure would travel any further on the road toward the point of becoming be-coming a law In fact and tflcct than the Legislative Assembly There I ton evident a disposition elsewhere t nun and jierpetuato the imported im-ported body entrusted with the manipulation nipulation election matters |