Show THE UTAH commission tim THE longa long A louled toul loul ed for utah commis is loners have come at last they arrived on friday evening by the regular utah central express these gentlemen were wore appointed by the ident and senate of the anitad states under the provisions of the act of Co congress agress commonly called callad the edmunds bill their names are Honora blea alex alez ramsay of minnesota A S paddock of nebraska A S B carlton of indiana G L godfrey of iowa and anda J B R pettigrew of arkansas it Is perhaps quite as well that the commissioners delayed their coming until now aa as if they had hurried away immediately after their appointment there was at that time io fio much misunderstanding of their duties and exaggeration of their powers that whatever course they might have then pursued their action would have caused P public bublic but jut iut the country countr y ims had timo time for reflection examination of the iava lava a wo bearing upon their functions and discrimination between the planes of fanatics and tho the requirements ol 01 the act of congress creating n and regulating the even now there ate are ranny manny journals impressed with the idea that these gentlemen are endowed wa I 1 h authority to establish a new government in utah mako an official assault upon and demolish my disfranchise and turn turu out of oali office ca persons who may bo be suspected of being too much married and perform many other extraordinary a and ard nud impracticable things but th the e extent and boundaries of the powers of the commission are not difficult of understanding if people will confine nine fine their imagination c and pursue the their az lexi IRNI investigations on this subject within the limits of the law their duties aro are defined in i the he act creating the office as follows they are kiri kalt malt to appoint officers in this territory Teni tory to perform each esch and every duty duly relating to of voters the conduct of elections the receiving or rejection of votes and the calvas canvassing s ing and returning of the bame same and tho the of certificates or other evi evl eviden evidence denes cs of election second when the next nest election for members of the tho legislative at lve ive assembly hiis haa taken place to receive and canvass the returns and issue certificates of election to those persons who being eligible for such election shall appear to LU have boen been hueu lawfully elected third to continue in office until the legislative asle Asie assembly go so third to continue in office until the legislative asle Asie assembly go so embly elected sha make mae provision for riling filling those thosa election and registration for ron which the commission commissioners ere cre are now noy authorized to make appointments cheo that time arrives the offices of 0 the commissioners and their appointees appointee 3 will naturally expire i there is nothing elee else in tho edmunds act provided for them to do there ia Is one thing however which ie it 13 ia 13 declared they are not to do it is as follows that eald board of five persons persona shall not exclude any person other othen otherwise wige eligible to vote tote from the polls on account of any opinion such person benjon may entertain on the subject of bigam biga myor myon por yon polygamy nor bhail ahall they refuse to count any such vote on account of the opinion of the person casting it on the subject of bigamy or p polygamy a y 51 the question may arise does not this give them power to regulate all the elections and es ex elude from the polls polia persons who elre are not qualified to vote under the special provision of the edmunds act the answer is no because their authority to canvass returns and dc decide cide cido upon the question of who has been lawfully elected only extends to tho the 0 erection ejection of members of the legislative assembly and they hareno have bave no authority whatever in relation to other elections except to appoint the boffl officers cers aforementioned careful reading of the act will establish the correctness of this thia beyond reasonable dispute al all elections in thia territory are still to be conducted under its its laws jaws and tho thoe e of the vie knifed 13 baates tatos tates there therefore foro foto to govern we the registration and election officers who may be appointed by the commission must be looker for in lift those laws imp and nowhere olee else those I 1 officers must moat then be governed in their official duties by the sami game provisions that regulated the officers wh oss places have been vacated by acton act of Con congress green greem the tho registration of oi voters voiers and ana the me conduct of or elections must to fco proceeded with exactly as before unless there ia 13 some must to fco proceeded with exactly as before unless there ia 13 some now regulation to be found in the edmunds act the forat election to take place the august elections having failed is 19 beet for the tuesday next after the first monday in I 1 november of this year this after the first monday in I 1 november of this year this Is a for the office of delegate to congress it la Is reasonable to suppose that the commissioners have come some for the purpose of making the necessary appointments that this I 1 election may be conducted according to the existing lawa laws of the united states and of th thia thib Is territory it is a question in some minds whether the november election c caa beheld be held heid or not what difficulties lie in the way sione none but those which may bo manufactured by ob obstruct zionists the first thing necessary is the appointment ot of registration officers that the list may be revised tills this revision la Is to taka place according to tho the week commencing on the second monday in september every second year after 1878 those them who talk about a sew sev registration misunderstand the law or beek seek to breed confusion tahereh no such thing in the statutes atutEs Et revision is the only thing provided for af after ter the first registration rear the registration officers revise e the lists hats by adding new now name names s or erasing old ones for caup causes es specified an tu entirely new registration is unauthorized ty by any law of ulah utah or of 0 congress allvane all ali uhe the rev revision ision islon that Is needful to prepare the lists for lor the I 1 november election can be done this I 1 year as asin in any other othen year when a delegate election takes alsee the thi omitted names that should have hate been added in may or in june according to sections 2 and 3 of the regis registration tm olcan olean bo be entered upon uron ur on the lists listi as provided in section 5 and all names that can lawfully be traced may be excluded from the lists ra provided for in section 8 objection to the right to vote may be heard and determines determined by tho the thoE enior justice ot tho the peace in the various precincts and a list of the disqualified furnished to the judges 0 ot I 1 elec elections eions who cre are authorized to the names from the lists there where is ample provision in the lawa laws for the conduct of the november election and there ia Is no valid reason why it should not take place if the commissioners ners now arrived mihe mike the necessary appointments of registration and election officers the tho T r ri tories at the best bee t have very lim jim limited i tei tad representation in the national legislature and utah ought not to be deprived for two years of the little representation allowed as it will be if the election does not take place in november of this thia year we have not written the foregoing by way of any suggestion to the commissioners it is for the information of the public and our object is 13 to protect erroneous Impress impressions lons lona that some people bent on mischief hief take pains to make RS ras far as their influence esisto exists we hareno doubt that the gentlemen of tho the commission mIs slon sion understand their powers and have come here for the purpose of exer ezer exercising cisine elsIng them as denin defined ea by the law nothing leea leaa and aud nothing more mom we vire do not hesitate to say that we regard some portions of the edmunds act ss unconstitutional as well as unjust and oppressive all AD this thia will te be proven no doubt in lu proper time and in a proper manner but it must be understood thai that these commissioners had bad nothing to toi til I 1 do with the framing 0 of the law not ath their own appointment as they were not among the hungry host which clamored for the position they are gentlemen of Bt standing anding in the country and we feel assured that they will win be bp treated enery every where i in this territory with the respect and courtesy which ia is their dub due their position is one of delicacy requiring discretion and g good cod coa judgment and for the possession of theal then qualities we behave they haw have been selected by the president vii vil vei bid them welcome to an and d trust that nothing bui but good wiil will accrue to them or tho people fron from their thein EOJ boj ourn in tho territory of 4 |