Show TIIE the commissioners REPORT tue THE report of the utah commission to secretary lamar which appears in fuli full in today to day s news will be found interesting reading Z not that all it con contains contala tain talu i Is new or all truthful but on account ot of its coining coming f from rom a source which the people here are bro brought U 11 ll t I 1 in contact with officially or personally all the time and anything going to headquarters being supposed to carry with it a greater measure of importance than do mere talk or current pub publications locations licati ons the report has been looked for tor for some time and having been prepared with deliberation it may be supposed to reflect the personal views and political objects of all the members after reporting I 1 their own work well and la I 1 t aone gone the comm commission lasion call atte attention antion to the fact that though polygamists have been and disqualified froni ironi holding office entirely still the elections with the exception of summit county have re suited in the choice of those who sub beto polygamous ma marriage ariage as a doctrine of divine revel revelation atlon and then it goes on in the strain with we are all so familiar saying that but for the operations ol 01 tu my and the courts the federal power would become a useless factor fac torin iu the governmental control of the territory plural in marriages arria cs would increase etc it lt shuts wants no ste steps ps backward and th then en goes on to pay a high hig tribute to the zeal and industry of tile the officers of the federal courts giving the nuin numb berof crof indictments found within the past two years fur unlawful cohabitation tibi tation tallon at 83 with 2 13 3 convictions and 43 cases awaiting trial triai what has become of the other fall fail to state but one thing is sure there therb were but one or two acquittals they might as well have mentioned this while they were at it and given the secretary of the interior an insight of the method by which indictments are procured and convictions obtained to merely Werely state that men were being charged convicted and punished was apparently sufficient the why and wherefore together with the improved machinery at work in the judiciary department of the territory doubtless having been detailed to ane secretary seer detary personally per pen anally or so arranged that lie he could conjecture closely closel y in relation to it f for or it is hardly to be supposed that men who hold such responsible positions as do the member the utah ComInis commission sion slon who get five thousand dollars a year and free railroad rides for living in utah a month or so every year would leave anything of so much consequence as what we have nave herein suggested entirely unaccounted for no that would never do the chief of the interior department would have shaken his fat sides over a complete statement of the details king louis Louls XI of france enjoyed a narration of the latest massacre by his partisans but he invariably wanted not only all the facts as to how attacks were planned who participated and what booty was taken but in order to estimate the importance of the victory at its full fuli value ivalue he wanted to know privately how bow many men women and children his forces succeeded in butcherine doubtless the commission reversed the p pian plan I 1 an adopted by louis courtiers by b giving mr lama the number of yie vie tims on paper and regaling him orally with the way the thins thin works 41 the hard bard worked and underpaid under paid commission then atter alter taking a rest lest we presume nind find time tin te and vigor 1 enough eno uh 1 eft ef t to recommend that tivit the term of I 1 imprisonment mon for fon unlawful cohabitation ue oe extended to at least leant two years yearn for the first and three years for the second offense that all persons be excluded by bylaw law from making location or settlement upon any public land who kho shall refuse on demand to take oath before a proper officer that lie he if a moan roan does not cohabit with inure than one woman in the marriage relation and will support the laws of too united states or if a woman that she does not cohabit with a man having more than one living or wife that the laws with reference to immigration of chinese and importation of contract laborers paupers haupers and und criminals be so amended as to prevent the immigration of persons claiming claiming that their rell reli religion ion lon teaches and ja justifies stifles polygamy as this would cut off the chief source of supply to the Mori morl tion church it is to be hoped hobed that after this titanic feat the commission took a much needed rest the fact tact that all these recommendations and suggestions have appeared a thousand times in as many newspapers before tile the azary wl ary representatives of the government wedded their way to washington may have eased their burdens a little we hope so they needed it for tor later they tiley recommend the talked of legislative commis slon plan or the general diff disfranchisement scheme prevalent in idaho as a cure for tile the evils existing here thus it would appear that the commissioners are not satisfied with being ng high priced nonentities non entities in 11 our social system but use ue wha bittle little of effort they do put forth ili in the direction of harming hari bari ing crippling and perhaps plundering a people who have sufficiently oppressed and despoiled already whose vital interests they are arc supposed to protect not squat squal squander ider lder ruthlessly so that religious adventurers and political prostitutes may hold everything within their grasp the villainy villa tny toy which such a measure of oppression as a legislative commission would engender and the antl auti republican anti auti lad jad judicial ic ial tat and anti national character of the idaho diff disfranchisement ranchi rascality have been so of ten set forth and proved in these columns that it would be almost reiteration to do so again there is the hope left let tho however wever that congress may not di dispose pose as the commission propose there are some inherent ri rights lits which not even the former body boi will barter ruthlessly away and among them may be set down partial local self govern ment at least and representation in 1 the halls hails of 0 f the national legislature when such revolutionary schemes are asked for a community which is not and never has been in rebellion or anarchy in which the tho laws are transcended and still enforced in the most brutal manner perhaps those from whom such things are expected will think a ion iou long time before acting in the premises and then act adversely arse ly |