Show i- i In conCluding its annual report the Utah commission under date of October 28 1886 1885 summarIzed the recommendations which the commission commission com com- mission had made during the period ot of its existence Tho recommendations Lions were The enactment of a marriage law making the first or legal Wife a 11 competent witness in prosecUtions prosecutions for polygamy restoring to the tho first or legal wife tho ho right of dower as at common law or other interest in the real estate as provided provided pro pro- vided in the statute of many states that provisIon be made for fora a fund to be furnished by the department department de- de of justice to the proper legal authorities In the territory the conferring upon the United States commissioners concurrent Jurisdiction with the justices of the peace in civil and criminal mat mat- The appointment of tho territorial terri tern tonal auditor treasurer commissioners commissioners commis- commis to locate university lands ot of the probate judges county clerks clerk county county assessors and collectors an and l county of district schools by the governor to confirmation by the commission Authorizing the selection of jurors by open venIre ye- ye nIre especially in tases tasea prosecuted by the United States GIving to the dIstrict courts over overall overall all cases of pOlygamy wherever In Inthe Inthe the territory the crime may have been committed That thE territorial terri tern tonal courts in United States cases be in ested with a power coextensive she sive with that possessed by the UnIted States circuit and district courts In the mato in the matter of contempt and the punIshment thereof prosecutions for polygamy polygamy po- po be exempted prom the op- op ern tIon of the general limitation on laws Authorizing the process of subpoena in aU cases all cases prosecuted by bythe the UnIted States to run from the I territorial courts Into any other district of ed States ThaI provision be made for bindIng over witnesses on the part of the government in all United States cases to appear and testify at the tho trial That when a continuance continuance ance Is granted upon a motion of the defendant provision should be mada tor taking depositions ot of witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses upon the part ot of the government government gov- gov the defendant to be confronted confronted con con- fronted with the witness and to examine cross the deposition to be used in case caso of death absence from the territory or the concealment ox ot witnesses so as to elude process of subpoena That it be made a penal offense for any woman to enter into the marriage relation elation with a man knowing him to have a wife living livins and this should be coupled with a provisIon that Incases in incases cases where the plural wife is called as a witness In any prosecution lion tion for polygamy my against her hus- hus band her testimony could not be used In any any future prosecution against her with a like provision as to the husband As supplemental to the foregoing recommendations the commissIon submitted the followIng suggestions suggestions That the term ot of Imprisonment Imprison Imprison- ment for unlawful cohabitation fixed by the act of 1862 be extended at least two years for the first and three years for the second offense That au ad persons be excluded by law from mal making location a or settlement settlement set set- upon any part of the lands of the United States who shall shah refuse re- re fuse Cuse on demand to take and subscribe subscribe sub sub- scribe to an oath before the prop e officer of the land office In which his or her application is made that he it if a man does not cohabit with more than woman in the marriage marriage mar mar- and that he will willobey willobey obey and support the laws of the United States In relation to bIgamy or polygamy or if a woman that I Isho sho does not cohabit with a man having more than one living and wife and that she will vili willobey obey and support the laws of the United States in relation to bigamy and polygamy That the be laws with reference to the immigration of ChInese and the tho importation of contract laborers paupers and criminals criminals-be be so amended as to prevent prevent pre pre- vent the immigration of persons claIming that their religion teaches and justifies the crime ot of polygamy as thIs would cut oft off the chief sourCe ot of supply to to the Mormon church This resume of the recommendations of the Utah commIssIon as also their suggestions in addition is embodied In thE th report ot of the commission submitted submitted- to the secretary see sec of the Interior on October 28 1885 Then the commission says that previous reports will shoW shoy that it has refrained from suggesting suggest suggest- in ing any radical change In the form of civil government of Utah |