Show assumption OF THE commissioners NERS WE publish today to day the report of the utah commission it recommends somo ome very stringent legislation all in the line of depriving the majority of the citizens of this territory of every right connected connect td with local self govern ment the recommendations are many of them hostile to the spirit and letter ot of the constitution and when they are summed up infamous is a mild word to use in relation to the mass we do not intend just now to discuss them they ma may come before coil congress r ess and may not we ve will merely re remark mrk that the whole thing is tunny lunny while at the same time it is shameful I 1 here is a commission whose powers i are defined and limited by a single section of a somewhat doubtful doubty ua I 1 law aw posing before the country in a variety of character characters altogether foreign to the functions marked out III in the law of their thein creation they were not sent to utah to inquiry into the marriage relations of the people to take notes of the progress or suppression of POI pol polygamy gamy to deh denine define ded nt the belief or unbelief belief of the people to exercise judicial or executive powers to decide questions concerning citizenship the me validity of elections the powers of the le legislature aliat s ure the authority of the governor the conduct of school affairs or any public questions wh whatever alever nor to frame laws or suggest legislation likely to be obnoxious to the mormons cormons Mor mons yet they have assumed all these functions and ravely gravely submit to the government and the country the result of their deliberations many of them predicated upon common rumor without the shadow of a fact to substantiate them evidently considering themselves entrusted with the responsibility of the entire solution of the mormon problem we are as much provoked to laughter as to astonishment at their amazing presumption the tiie edmunds law jaw gave them an inch of authority they nave have assumed about a Ib thousand busand yards of power and importance of course they ought to do something to earn their comfortable salaries but a small modi modicum curn turn of modesty would make a refreshing ivar variety lety to their ludicrous achievements as a pretended board hoard of plenipotentiaries and quasi judicial executive legislators |