Show IBE ing litin tiro two report reports as usual the tb art are of r slow blow belief oct 3 ol 01 the ulah utah commission comini BaIoa have filed bled with secretary noble majority and minority reports of the proceedings of the commission during ih irini the year year ended september 1189 IThe majority report signed by bless rs godfrey robertson saunders erg and williams says in regard to the mormon church in view of the fact that the mormon church has invariably in the past die dic fated the political movements move menta of its adherents and presented a united unite front against any and every party which came in con contact act with it those who now doubt its sincerity may well be excused tor for doubting the church baa through the peoples party strenuously opposed every effort made whether by the laws of congress the action of the courts or of the utah commission to put pat down polygamy it be baa denounced the commission commie eion through all the years that it has been administering laws directed polygamy and kept a united constantly standing and ready to op 1 I 1 1 I 1 pose every effort to compel its submission m I 1 s i sl 0 n alst to thelama h e I 1 aw of t t the h e I 1 land a when d i s f r a n e e m ent sao blared t a e d th the ne church in in the face when the city and county ot of salt lake and the county of weber and park city had bad bad been from its ito control and other places were showing signs of becoming antinor anti nor mor mon moo then and not till then did this change come the commission bodi it is the beginning of a better era the commission is glad says the report to record the steps already taken on the road oad r to a better civilization and will aid id with all its power in forwarding t the he rood good work but it cannot recommend the withdrawal at this time of any portion of the safeguards thrown around this people by the lawmaking law making power ol 01 the government and Is to most emphatic in expressing the opinion that it would not at this time be sate bar e to entrust to them the responsibilities and duties of statehood they eo so much desire the minority report which is signed by john A mcclarnand McCIer ernand nand states that polygamous marriages in utah have decreased to the point of virtual cessation that it would not be just or politic to extend by law the range of existing ting civil disabilities indiscriminately to all mormons cormons Mor mons McC mcclenard McCIer lenand nand recommends that the unreserved lands of the united states lying in the naturally am and states and territories should be ceded to them under proper stipulations |