Show AN irresponsible BODY onn OXE ose of the most singular phases of the decision of the supreme court of the united states in the election cases in which the utah coni mission were defendants fend ants is the thu lires irresponsible pon sible sibie aha character facter of those functionaries function aries are entrusted with an important charge yet the law which created them thom does nob not provide that they shall file any bond for the faithful performance of their duties the supreme court holds that they can go entirely outside of their jurisdiction and be the primal cause of inflicting serious wrongs upon citizens and no one can say them nay bay so far as bringing them under any liability is concerned no redress can be bad had against them for any malfeasance in office of which they may be guilty the decision holds that the commission stepped outside of their strictly ministerial province provIn be and usurped not only onla judicial but legislative functions the oath which they formu and made it imperative that it should be subscribed to by electors was a legislative enactment as there was no law authorizing it by it and certain rules regulations and I 1 decisions numbers of citizens were summarily deprived of the right to exercise the electure elect lre franchise who were not disa disqualified u under the law but they are held to be irresponsible for the consequences of these usurpations and the re registration 11 officers are made the s oats of their illegal proc proceedings eed and the people who were rob robbed bed of their rights the victims yet but for the assumption of functions by the commission that were foreign to their office none of the wrongs that accrued to those who were aggrieved could have existed if this la is law no amount of reasoning in could give it the appearance of justice lu stice yet the two terms should so far ar as attainable be s synonymous nony or they should at least go land hand in hand an irresponsible body of officials entrusted with the performance of duties of great magnitude and im import ort ancene is of the anomalies 0 of th the nineteenth century and a species of wart on the nose of t this his great ke re public well yell or allowing the gases from flom decaying vegetation or filthy outhouses out houses to be washed into the water they have to 0 o drink generally throughout our territory we are ble sed with good pure water to drink and care should be taken to preserve its purity |