Daily globe., 1883-10-31
tended by all members except Secretary

from the money order business, is $47,-
| 104,076; the estimated expenditures for the
same time $50,0S2, ,109, leaving defcien-
cy in the revenue OF S2,95S, Ill. The es-
innate for compensation of postmasters
next year. $12, ,250, 600; increase, S3,O0O,OO0
For clerks in postofices, $4,90O.O00; in
| crease, $125.000. For free delivery ser
vice, 100000. Railroad mail trans porta--
ton, $12,750OO0; increase, $1,050,OO0.
Steamboat routes, 1925, 900; increase, $685.
600. Star routes, 5,600,000; increase, 3d.
100000. Railway postal service, $685.
600; increase, $50,000; ard for railway
postal clerks $4,295, ,289; increase, $5l8,169
FISH DISTRIBUTION.
The fish commission today shipped a
large number Of carp for Ohio and In
diana. The commissicn's ear, after dis
charging portion of It's cargo, viii be ex-
hibitsd Tor few days a. the Louisville ez-
position. On returning TO Washington it
will be Forwarded with another supply of
carp TO states and territories on the line OF
the Northern Pacific railroad. The dis
tribuhon of carp will ce continued until
about th9 mi6dle of January, whan the
distribution OF white fish from the propa-
eating ponds in the lake region will be be-
gun. When that work is completed the
commission will begin to distribute young
shgd from the hatcheries at Washington
navy yard and Havre de Grace
TIE UTAH PROBLEM.
The board of Utah commissioners have
submitted their second annual report to
the secretary of the interior. After max
ing statement of the former legislation
of congress in relation to bigamy or poly
gamy, they say the duties of the commits
sion appertain only to matters of registra-
ton and election and eligibility to Office,
while the punishment of the crime of poly
gamy is left, as under former law, to the
courts of justice. Under the anti-poly-
gamy act the commission had good sue
cess at the general election in August 1888,
in excluding po!ygamisis from the polls,
and as far as advised very few if any
illegal votes have been cast in Utah
since the commissioners took charge of
registrations and elections in August,
1882. The enforcement of the present
law against 10000 polygamists, who have
been excluded from the polls shows the
act has been fully and successfully execut-
ed. Il is thought the discrimination be-
tween those Mormon5 who practice poly
gamy and those who do not, while not
likely to have much effect upon elderly
men, who already have g plurality of
wives and several families, must have
great weight with young men
of the Territory, manv OF
whom ara ambitious and aspiring
and would not like voluntarily to embrace
political ostraclsm. Tee very existence of
the law, Gistranohlsing polygauists, must
tend 80 destroy their influence whenever un-
derstood 1t Is TO re permanent djscrim-
ination. The fact also that i5 will be nee
ess4ry to the preservation Of The political
influence of the peoples party, as tho Nor
mons style themselVes,to to have large body
Of their members who are not polygamists
must tend III time TO weaken the practice
Of polygamy, for every mormon who takes
but one plural wife looses
three votes for his party
his owr, and those Of his two wives,
woman suffrage being established by law
il Utah. Concerning plurality OF wivesithe
report says,that doctrine and practice so
odious throughout Christendom should
have been upheld go many years, against
the laws Of congress and the sentiment of
the civilized world, is one of the marvels
OF the nineteenth century, and can be
scarcely appreciated even by those IA
mi!iar with the worlds history in relation
to the difficulties of government
control or suppression of relig-
ions fanaticism. Certainly no gov
ernment can permit violation of laws under
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gress may not legisiate as to a mere mat
ter of opinion yet it may denounce and
punish as crimes those actions which afe
in violation of special duties or subver-
wise TO good order. The right of Congress-
to suppress this great evil is undoubsed.
1t is equally plain the dignity and good
name Of this great government among the
nations of the earth, demand such con-
gressiOnal action as shall effectuatly elimi-
nate this national disgrace. The commits
sion renew the recommendations con-
tanned in the report of November II, 1882,
no:ably the one regarding enactment
of a marriage law by congress declaring
all future marriages in the territories nail
and void, unleess contracted and evi-
denced in a manner provided by the act.
If the next legislature shall fail to adopt
measures in conformity with the provisions
of the act of 1888, for suppression of poly
gamy, the commission will be prepared to
recommend and congress certainly will not
delay adoption of the most stringent mea-
sures, compatible with the limitations Of
the constitution, that may be considered
necessary for suppression of this great evil.
The report refers to various municipal
elections. and says the most important
election was that of august g. 1883. The
total number of votes cast in this contest
was 1869, against 1898 at the last No
vember election. The principal falling
off was on the part of the gentiles or lib
erai party. In November the total vote of
the peoples, or Mormon party, was 25 ,039;
liberal 1884. In August, 1883, the vote of
the peoples party was 20,50S; liberal
1,453; from which it appears that large
numbers of liberals refrained from voting
"a fact much to be regretted for the reG-
son it IS believed that by proper effort and
oY good management one or more nom
Mormous might bave been elected to the
Legislative assembly. who would have had
opportun t. of putting the majority n
record. In conclusion the commissioner
says, "Recently some ten suits we're insti-
tQted IN the third district court of Utah by
Mormons against members of this com
mission, planning that they had been
uDjustiy deprived Of their rights to regis
ter and vote. These are understood to ba