Show THE COMMISSION CASES At last a much vexed and much agitated agi-tated question in Utah has been decided which question was whether the Commissioners 1 Com-missioners under the Edmunds law had the power to prescribe a test oath It has been decided they had and that suits brought for a refusal to allow a person per-son to register must be against the registrars regis-trars and not against the Commissioners This is but an old doctrine declared anew and the bringing of suits is of minor importance im-portance compared with the general result re-sult of the disfranchisement of so many voters It is proper to ask why the Commissioners Com-missioners did not retain the first test oath which they pormulated and promulgated Was it too sweepingand didittake in many who are not now included by the election oath The law was right but the discrimination dis-crimination was wrong and yet it was a discrimination that could omy be controlled con-trolled by the discretion of those to whom the power was given But should not that discretion have been used in the interest in-terest of all morality and not partial morality alone The decision is ery strong in its centralizing cen-tralizing tendency the thing which is most to be regretted about the whole affair It would be interesting to know on what grounds Mr Justice Field dissented dis-sented for he is the decentralizing element ele-ment 01 the Supreme Court The legal aspect of the case having been decided it will be necessary to let time decide what will be the political result re-sult Will any of the disfranchised ask for the benefits of the Edmunds law and purge themselves of their political disabilities dis-abilities But these disabilities are no longer in doubt and relief from them can only be had one way namely a compliance compli-ance with the law andpetition to the President accompanied with satisfactory evidence asking pardon which will be readily granted no doubt and the pardon par-don removes the disabilities and reinstates those to whom granted in their political rights It is also certain at least most probable that compliance with the law and the granting of pardon which follows if once begun by any one of those who are now under the ban of political disability dis-ability would be the beginning of the end the end which has been so long sought True many families will be disrupted and many hearts will ache and many lives will be stranded But is it not better bet-ter to do that now than in a distant future when more will suffer Let it be well considered by all who are now under disabilities dis-abilities and by those who are advocating the taking of them They are easier to put on than off GENERAL GRANTS love for his only daughter who has but recently arrived is most touching and her presence will help to smooth the pillow of death for that is what all are now looking for The arrival of Mrs Sartoris recalls an incident inci-dent we heard a gentleman once relate of het and shows her a woman and worthy of her father An American from Utah was traveling in England and being of an ingenuous and sincere nature he deemed all Americans Ameri-cans brothers and was glad to see them in foreign lands To them his all was free and he presumed that all were glad to see him and would gladly extend the hand he always offered Happening in the county in which Mrs Sartoris resided he announced his intention to his friend of going to see her His friend asked him if he had ever met the lady and he replied No but she is an American girl and a daughter pf General Grant and she will be glad to see me It was as he said and he was welcomed as heartily as though lie had been a noted man and an intimate friend of her father It showed a beautiful character ana a Warm generous heart in an American girl whose father is more famous than a crowned head |