Show I i T r Py 4 In recommending changes change In the Edmunds Edmunda law Haw the Utah Itah comm comm lon Ion recommended that for tor the courts cOurt of ot the territory that the provisions provision of ot the law of ot 1874 1814 rn- rn rel- rel ati aU to Juries Jurle and th the mode mod of ofa a Uon b be revised either by providing pro pro- viding for tor a greater number of jurors ju ju- Ju- Ju tore or by authorizing an open venire Vre w when n the names In the box have been ben exhausted A better letier pro pro- vision perhaps it was WM said would be one authorizing an open en venire Ire IreIn in all lUtes cases persecuted b by the United d State Stat other changes recommended rec rec- Omm were were- That th the Jurisdiction of ot the severaS several sev sOy eraS eral district court courts should be e ex- ex tended so eo o as a. to give each Jurisdiction tion of ot all cases calles of ot plural marriage wherever in th the territory the crime Ime may have been committed tint In United State Stat caStle cases t this territorial rial rid ourt be bs Invested ted with a ft power Jower coextensive with that possessed b by the United States circuit cud district dis courts COUt in the matter matters of f COntempt contempt con con- tempt an and the punishment thereof Also Aio that prosecutions for tor plural plural plural plu plu- ral marriage be exempted exempt d from the operations of ot the general limitation laws anti and certainly while the parties par par- U ties s continue to live In plural marriage th the tho statute st st. should uld not run against the principal crime polYgamy polygamy am amy that provisions be made for binding over of oC witnesses on the part of the the- government In all p United States cases to appear appet dud and nd REPORT NOT PRINTED U I Also AIO that it should be made a p penal nal offense ottense an any woman to enter into the marriage relation with a n man knowing him to o have a wife living and un divorced and this should be coupled with a provision pro pro- vision n that in cases wh where re the plural plu plural ral rat wife was was was' called caned as al a witness s In any for tor p polygamy against the husband her t testimony gS given n in such cas case could not be used against her in an any future prosecution prosecution pros pros- against herself with a a. like provision as t to the husband as a witness In prosecution against his plural wife In endeavoring to refresh sh memory memory memory mem mem- ory of t th events in the year ear 1884 1834 which should have lave b beep been ep in the report report re re- port of the governor of or Utah to the Be secretary of the interior it was discovered that the report of the executive for that was not printed the supposition being that the events occurring that J year r were ere contained in the voluminous report of ot the Utah commission In the report of ot Governor Eli H. H dunar unar for tor the year ear October 1 1 1884 to October 1 1 1885 1883 figures and facts disclose that the year ear was a most momentous and most eventful one in the history of ot the territory It was declared in the report that tutt the execution of a national law in the face of most bitter Apposition on the part of those who assume temporal as wen ivell as s ecclesiastical control over the great m majority of the people was successful to a de degree do- do gree which It was believed la 3 a impossible le CRISIS REACHED Then Thee Governor Eli Ell If H. Murray Murrar In his Ils report declared that a crisis had been reached which must have but one ono of 0 two results That Js s the government either must yie its claim for continued supremacy over the territory permit Its power to be broken and its laws nullified o o- othere there must be a a. surrender to the rightful authority of the government goy gov upon the part pact of 0 the maJority majority ma ma- of ot the people He then pointed out a condition he declared d he had little tittle reason to b believe lIeve could exist und under r the government This condition which he declared existed showed that the administrations had been misled that proposed legislation had been robbed of 0 effective fea- fea luies tUles and congressional action ac ac- tion had been defeated by rOse on or the floor of ot congress congress congress con con- gress appeals from good citizens had been un unanswered and a feeling feelIng feel feel- Ing Ins of hopelessness p pervaded those who hod Iad confidently to their g for redress of ot many wrongs long borne and grievances ances l present for redress |