Show A FAIR AND ABLE REPORT WN WB publish today to day the minority re port of the committee on the judiciary of 01 the U V S house of representatives on the measure introduced at the last session of contres congress and now known as the tucker edmunds bill it was tiled died with senate bill no 10 and emphatically dissents from the views set forth by the majority of the committee in regard to that remarkable piece of special legislation the printing of this report was delayed because of the absence from washington of the gentlemen who reported it and to whom the proof sheets bar bad to bp be referred before publication we hove have but recently efured secured a copy I 1 it makes excellent reading it has been beell evidently prepared with care and its authors nave have thoroughly studied the bill which it opposes and tw report I 1 of tile the majority from it dissents ithe wrongs contained in both are and denounced the unlawfulness and unconstitutionality of the chief provisions of the bill are prove uin in a masterly manner also the sections which assume to td repeal utah statutes which have no do existence are pointedly designated the infamy ot of the proposition to luter lere with tue property properly of the mormon and to LO disfranchise and deprive ol of all ail political rights a 4 large r e body of citizens solely beet because tise of their associations is depleted depicted mind and condemned as to every principle of our jurisprudence J u ns prudence it ajr ka balf Is discussed in the t he thrown aton its by this minority report we do not see how any conscientious member can vote forath for its passage pa nor how bow any lawyer can support it except on the grounds of rabid and unreasoning anti mormonism we understand that it would have been signed by other members of the committee it it had been prepared in time but the majority report was finished so late in the session that this had to be hurried so much that it failed to receive that attention which its merits demanded we recommend it to tile the study of all who are interested pro and can con inthe scheme to despoil the mormon Mor church of its ita property hod and rob the majority malo rity of the people of utah of the commonest rights of american citizens |