Show A A BITTER MINORITY REPORT OUR oun readers will remember that the committee on the territories of the united states house of representatives to whom was referred the cassidy bill 11 II E to establish a legislative commission in utah reported through mr alexander a substitute sti tute pro providen providing for the solemnization and recording of marriages in utah the bill was published in full fuli in this piper aswell as well weil as the reasons given f for or rejecting the original bill this however was the report of the majority not of the f fuli full ull uli committee the minority also li resented presented a report which was ordered to be printed the minority report argues emphatically in favor of a legislative commission and in s support upp ort of it the stories told by antl anti mormons cormons Mor mons before congressional committees for the last thirty years with a mass of untruth from various sources are repeated in de detail talland and the members composing the minority have adopted the methods and lanna ianna ian lan language na e of the grossest defamers def amers of the mormon people even the harangues of seeth sectarian rian preachers and the diatribes of norman mcleod and joseph i cook with magazine and newspaper extracts from such un truth tuf luf writers as judge Goodw goodwin ln who has clearly had a finger in this unsavory pot pie are worked in to give flavor to the mess and pander to the prejudices existing against the mor mons the minority report is signed by joseph D atay taylor lor of ohio frederick A johnson ajohnson of new york george V lawrence of pennsylvania isaacs isaac S struble of iowa and ewilliam P kellogg of Loul loui louisiana siana slana five fite members against el eight ellit lit for the substitute bill it is 19 not likely that the mi minority dority report will be be adopted in face of the strong argument of the majority and the improbability of a democratic house assenting to the extraordinary and antl anti american scheme incorporate ed in the bill which bears the name of cassidy the report is unusually bitter and aud being entirely one sided and unfair will not raise its signers in the estimation of any but the most radical of mormon eaters and office hun huu who have hoped for pickings out of a re rc of the legislative power of utah territory |