| Show NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC the utah commission opened its first session for this year at 10 february A 1 ad ld its home has the appearance pe arance of a private retreat rather than that of a public building the monastic stillness of the place was more suggestive of the cloister than of the political forum everything about it bore a domestic quietude absolutely unnerving to the news paper man and made him fear he was treading on the sacred hearth stone of the castle home bome of some peaceful anglo saxon but like the monastic dome of childe harold which in other days had been devoted to other uses than that of prayer so it may have been with this salt bait lake monastery it might in other days day shave have been used for other purposes that that of law that is as the poet says it ancient tales say true nor wrong them holy meu men 11 the writer awed by the apparent sanctity of the home of the utah commission Om mission asked the secretary of that body if its deliberations were open oben to the public certainly sir replied that gentleman the writer then ushered himself into the awful presence of the ibe commission he seated himself on a capacious lounge and a birdseye birds eye view of the scene three gentlemen were seated at a table one was reading a document relating to the ogden election another gentleman who ut at at the end of the table turned his gaze upon the writer this gentleman was a venerable portly person his aspect was oa bland and benign he asked the writer whether he had bad any business before the commission the writer confessed to being a newspaper man and that he was present under the belief that the sessions aea of the commission were open ho public the suave commissioner as bald d that in a measure the sessions were public but in the present case the writer cou could id not remain if f b he e desi deal red he could come at the close of the session and the commission would be happy to give the particulars the writer then told the gentlemen present that he was a citizen of illinois and that he thought all united states courts were open to the public liest lest the commission might elite entertain artal n a dread that the writer was a mormon be informed the gentleman that he was not a mormon and that they need not fear any I 1 nj u ury ry at his hands it was all to no purpose the writer bad to get and his parthian arrow as he left the parlor was then the sessions of the utah commission are not open to american citizens from illinois the venerable gentleman replied in his hie blandest blankest blan dest accents not in this case but if you or any other gentleman comes at the close of the session the proceedings will be gladly given the writer then left aud and he is now at leisure to tell the director general of the worlds fair at chicago chicag 0 that a chicago citizen eager for public information would not be admitted to the deliberations of the utah commission in salt lake city on february 2nd and 1891 |
