Show 9 some sensible as eions froni from without r ill I 1 talks of the work of the utah commission commissi oll FROM SAN FRANCISCO tile call makes some per suggestions SPRINGER thinks the fighte of otili will vill now be b discussed exhaustively and she will probably be admitted the omaha herald speaking of the work of the constitutional I 1 convention says i it ie is evident that the tile utah question vl ill demand as much attention in the next congress as in the last although in a totally different shape the utah commission has decided to permit tile submission of tho ilia constitution adopted by the late convention to a va vote to at the general election to bo be held august I 1 let at next this has been protested against by the gentiles as being v ft without authority of law and outside B the powers of the commission they have taken steps to send a a a strong remonstrance to the president but it is probable that he lie frill will not ini ter foie fere the quer question tion was settled in the tile case of kansas more than thirty year yea ago that the people of a terri tory were entitled to it fair vote on a constitution when they chose to ask I 1 it in tho cafe caf beof e of utah all the voting machinery and all the of elections are in the hands of a federal comin assion but that docs does not feces t deprive ill the people of their right to vote As tho the constitution to be S submitted is ho the bork of mormon it will undoubtedly be carried with the presentation of this con 6 in ill Con conomas gross n next axt tile of mormon affairs will bo be and its range will in doubt odly bo a comprehensive it will bo be strongly opposed in the senate on oil ilia ground that the mormons cannot be trus trusted td but as dakota wilt will be there filth renewed persistence stence it it ie not improbable that compromise con promie and red not merit will ab decide both will question questions by the creation 0 of f two tao now sutee As the herald pointed out a few days since the constitution adopted in ili utah provides that the tile section forbidding polygamy shall not bo be changed except by con consent fent of congress and the president should tile mormons cormons Mor mons after gaining power as a state disregard iris tills compact there still would bo r recourse acou ree to tile un united cited states supreme court under tinder that clause of the tile national no dional constitution winch gujin tees to every state a republican form oi of goern government ment and doubtless that court would hold that polygamy w m 2 ae 9 not in cau call with mith republican institutions the san in francisco call pays Amorn a lug contemporary assumes that the united states would be help less iii in the matter if utah should como come into tho tile union as an ail polygamous anti state and should afterward po so change her constitution as to recognize polygamous mar marriage riago as zis lawful while there ie is no espres i provision in lit the national constitution which authorizes lie the national congress to take from a state its state government there is in all constitutions a general provision against fraud if a territory which Fu sustained stained polygamy should to ret vet itself admitted into the tile union adopt an polygamous anti constitution i and should afterward call a constitutional convention and re lih poly polygamy amy the chances aro are that tho the united states would find some soma way to convince such state that its little game would not work precisely how holy that would be done is aaa a matter for future consideration it would been bean anomalous condition of things if a state can remain in the ilia union under a constitution that would have been regarded ae as sufficient ground for its rejection as an six applicant for admission mic moral Fenti sentiment ment of iho 1110 country ho lie eaid said is set against polygamy and that evil must go I 1 have per I 1 rily advised prominent mormons to accept the tendency of public sentiment on this tin s and to aboliso abo lisi poly polygamy pirly thern and I 1 regard it all a happy indication that the present movement for lood will ill prove to bo be the manifestation ofa of de determination to fall fail in with that line of policy 1 in ili the last census year utah bad had about tho ilia aline population as new mexico and I 1 think it has enjoyed a more inore rapid grow tit since the uncertainty about land titles in new now mexico has hindered the growth of population in that territory utah ia is destined to become very rich and po powerful erful 11 referring to dakota he said bat that territory would have been admitted long ago it if it had not been bell for the diversity of sentiment among ilia copio regarding division they can nereo on this question qu cOlonl said he lie there thedois the rois is no telling when hen dakota will bo be admitted congressman springer today to day gave expression to some of liia ills vie views a on tile proposed constitution for the admission of utah as a elite state the calling of the convention he said ws was a mettery to him in fact 2 he knew know nothing about it t till ho lie read fit in tho the papers that it was in session or about to meet lie ile said however that it if utah should come up to congress a ith a it constitution asking admission in in good faith lie was in favor fat or of f meeting tho tile question in a spirit of kindness iio would then favor an amendment to tho the constitution of the united states prohibiting polygamy if utah should 1 become a state ft ith till a fundamental funa law against polygamy ilia government could then control the matter even if the state refused to enforce tier own lin laws on the subject if alie new constitution now proposed is is found unsatisfactory he lie thou thought ht congress ought to pass an art enabling act prescribing the manner of 0 selecting delegate delegat eg their qualifications and the time and place of holding the contention convention congress could then pass on the all sufficiency of the new constitution and the question of the admission of utah as a state |