Show THE UTAH commissioners MAJORITY REPORT WIC have refrained from commenting on the report of the majority ot the utah commission as condensed condee sed in the associated press preas dispatches because errors errora so 80 frequently occur in t them hem when utah affairs are the subject now the report is published in full and we have a better opportunity to under stand it tie the majority report is quite minous and the first part Is id composed compo ped ot of quotations notations from the report of 1887 an and remarks repeating its recommendations on the question of statehood tor utah the utah commission or a majority of that body have been noted from the for their assumption of powers that do no belong to them and for intruding their advice and recommendations to congress unasked and entirely outside of the sphere sp hereof of their lof office fice the supreme court of the united states sat upon them heavily in the decision on the appeal cases as to the right of certain persons to vote and the assumption by the commission of powers that did not belong to them was clearly set forth they have no more to do with the guestion of statehood for or utah than they fey legally had bad with the issuing ot of orders and rulings tor for which they were rebuked by the supreme court of course they are nervous over the possibility of admission because that would end their official career and cut off of the fat salaries for the nearest thing thine to a sinecure in the patronage of the government ern ment iut roQ modesty desty would have ag gg ested that be better not to ka epa expose that anxiety anley so openly when 09 Is 8 eftin ey out 0 of ther except as it is likely to then liem personally lud and financially an is matter pap be majority are pot not cont Ss pt igister W aih h gratuitously thir thrusting forth IE irgin own views but actually te ort 0 0 p secretary of the interior what ant the go dwitte territories of 91 up the two ho houses uses of congress have done r coh on earning nina it last year they iley embodied to ii their report ta td opinions of certain religious sects on the subject they repeat their former advice that the governor be empowered to appoint the fol lowine officers who are now elected by the people selectmen clerks assessors recorders and superintendents luten dents of public schools this la is very generous generou republican and con sib extent tent of course and the people of utah ought to feel corresponding respect for these self appointed advisers of the government considerable space is taken up with remarks on the movement of the mormon establish schools under its own auspices and the falsehood is L set et forth that the object of this to is to destroy I 1 the public school tern tam of utah no part of the report r t has been commented i upon pon by tire the press of the country so VMS guch C as this yet everybody here ls Is not dot the e purpose of 04 2 Is the promo 0 lerg e r of opy oc church schools which are more mor particularly particular fy forde danced pupils T they hey have no department the di district strict schools being considered ruffic sufficient I 1 ent for that purpose who established the Dis district trist schools but the mormons cormons Mor mons who provided for their support joy by t taxation but the cormons mormons Mor mons who built the school 4 es and arranged arrao ged that they bhoola VI V property erty ot of the school districts Ut ritho cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 t athe majority report gives no of these school districts which ate are aft lar and public blat goes into details Vs and figures about the episcopal presbyterian methodist baptist catholic congregational and lutheran luthean lathean an schools which are sectarian and private according to lo these there are 90 denominational in utah with scholars these have been established for the avowed purpose of drawing away pupils f from rom the district schools and yet the utah commission see no reason to point out the danger that they if allowed to te succeed will prove destructive of the bublic public school system of utah if mormon church schools are to be condemned because of this alleged danger why should these sectarian church schools be applauded when they are intended for that purpose this false cry of danger to the pub lie lic school system is made madei a an excuse for clothing the with the imp improper ruper power to appoint all tile county superintendents of schools ane object is evil and anti republican the alleged reason for it is groundless and deceptive of a similar character is the charge they make that the go governor vernor was by the legislature denied the right to exercise his legal authority abat is to appoint the ferri treasurer surer auditor and other officers the men who sign this misleading report knew as well as anybody that this statement it is doubly untrue in the first place the governor is not authorized to appoint those officers no matter what way may be the full torce force of section seven of the organic act ile he is there authorized zed simply to nominate c certain bertai n off officers leers but can only appoint them witt the advice and consent of the council ot of the li legislature in the second place the council never interfered with his right to nominate but they declined to appoint his nominees as they had bad the undisputable right to do under the law and the commissioners know that a case la is in before the supreme court of the united states to determine whether or not these very officers are elective by the people under a territorial statute they do not mention this fact they certainly would have done if they intended to t treat the with tue the faintest shadow of fairness another piece of gross misrepresent WWII tation is the statement conce concerning ruing a young youn clerk of st silt like lake city con evicted vict edof of polygamy that while he was yet in prison he watt was made president of box elder stake one of the largest and most important in utah ec e excepting c edg salt like a stake to the keople of which he be wis a stranger how truthful these three ers are in their report may maybe be dete determined in the light 11 of these T the be you bonne yonne man was not an while he was yet in prison box elder is not one dt bf the largest and most important stakes iti ir utah excepting salt lake and he was not A stranger strangers 1 to the people of that stake When he received his appointment be wast was through the pardon of the president of the united states and the circumstances existing at the time a free man and a citizen and eligible as a voter and officeholder under the law what then was in tha way of hio appointment ta to an ecclesiastical office with the appointment to abich the civil law has nothing to do aej why should these commissioners strain a point to misrepresent depre e atthe the facts in ghecas the case they a speak eak of this appointment as a 9 reward ard 11 when hen there is no such thing thine in t the e 11 mormon or on church as offices for a reward but only as an obligation and a service requiring arduous labor and responsibility the acts of the legislature on the marriage question are given with more fairness but a strenuous effort is made to cast doubt as to whether they will he be fol followed owed in good faith they also s speak eak of twenty nine names re of whom the registrars have good reason to believe have entered into poly gaW since tune une 1887 four of these cases they say are classed as doubtful this would imply that the other twenty five were not doubtful TO answer to this disingenuous statement apen is in the minority report of coit carlton and mcclarnand ernand wao shaw PatO hat tare efe has heep beep only one indictment found ur up to 0 for a polygamous marriage alleged to have baye occurred since the ard 3rd of march ma ph 1887 11 if there were twenty five cases cases not doubtful would there be any less thin than twenty five indictments u ta the term exclusive occupancy is repeatedly used in ia regard to the mor mons and the larger part ol of the territory and this with accompanying remarks is evidently intended to io convey the false impression that non mormons cormons Mor mons are from ocen ancy of the soil tse disposition of the mormon people to antagonize the laws of Congress il ts is another terra term calculated to mislead as though this was the attitude of the whole body of the mormons cormons Mor mons all this shows a desire on the part of the majority of ef the commission to ual ae e and increase public prejudice and nd keep up the erroneous impression that tat prevails about the people of utah in their concluding remarks they argue that until a majority believe in the efi enforcement ot of the laws then hen so long lone the laws las be enforced that is the point in view of these persons they italicize italicise cise the word be believe lifee it is the faith ot of the mormons cormons Mor mons which they and their tribe desire lre to extirpate by force of law and for this belief they would deprive the cormons mormons Mor mons Wf of the commonest lightb of american ek citizens izeris tefie acne majority report let ii more a collection a ot of anti aati A lormon opinions ban a statement of the doings of signers sio ners ers it would be just se thing ai a an article in some anti mormon journal jo arnal but when the section of the edmunds act which created the utah commission and defined its duties is read and this so called report is examined a candid person Is led to wonder abat relevancy there is in the latter to the former and why the authors or signers did not work an something about utah notions on oil the tariff the state of the lead market the price of wool and the absorbing question of sewerage tor for main street there is one conclusion they arrive at which we will mention and then bring this review tet a conclusion it is this mormon problem is not settled until this territory is filled by non mormon immigration the end is not near this is a pretty shrewd opinion but will afford only cold comfort to the class lor for whom the three commissioners speak and in whose interest they have fabricated their report As an account of their official acts it is an exasperated exaggerated ab all that relates to them is contained in ia two small paragraphs on pape page eight As an argument to still further farther oppress the majority of the people of utah who have broken no law it it 14 strained unjust an largely untrue in word and in spirit but as aa a ale plea for a continuation of their office obits ana its emoluments it is a huge and unmistakable sab success eess |