Show FIGHT IT FAIRLY THE anz liberals assailants of the utah bill still base their objections on ther the ground that under its provisions the united states will lose their right to approve or condemn any statute that the legislature may ap approve proNe 10 and would have no more power to legally interfere in the affairs of the territory than to interfere in the purely local affairs of 0 any state 11 it it would be surprising to hear such ren remarks as those if it were not customary with their authors to put in a wrong light everything of which they do not approve they do not furnish their readers with the text of the bill that they may examine themselves but from a clipped and garbled summary summary they draw conclusions which the text will not warrant and thus thug create the prejudice they desire the most direct answer to these statements te ments about the power of the gov is contained in the revised statutes of the united states sec 1850 all laws passed by the assembly and governor Govern of the territory shill shall be submitted to congress Congre sm and if disapproved shall be null and 0 of f no effect in the act of congress of J july u ly 1886 in relation to special laws ia in n the territories is the following provision sec 6 that nothing in this act contained shall be construed to abridge the power of congress to annul any law pas passed WWI by a territorial legislature or to modify any existing law of congress requiring in any case cam that the laws of any territory shall be submitted to congress if the U utah bill should paw pass is there anything in it which would deprive congrow of this thin power not a syllable oo on the contrary it contains provisions in recognition of that power and the of the government in the affairs of the territory the utah bill wye see sec 8 the secretary shall record and preserve all the laws and proceedings of the legislative Asser assembly ably and all the acts and proceedings of the governor in the executive department he shall transmit one copy of the laws and journals of the legislative assembly within thirty days after the end of each session beof to the president and two copies of the laws within like time to the president of the senate and the S speaker eaker of the house of representatives for or the use of congress ile he shall trana transmit one copy py of the executive proceedings on the 20 first day of january in each year to the president this is ie in ity with the old organic act ortle oae territory the truth is that although the bill would give to the people of utah the right to elect certain officers who are now appointed by the president and senate of theu the United cited states this local government would be still a territory to all intents and purposes with the same limitations and disabilities as ever with the exception of the election of these officers and in this we see the strongest objection to the measure the very thing which the liberals liberal antagonists of the bill allege against it and which do not exist would to us be arguments in its favor ft the proposition is to lot let the people of the territory elect their own local officers offices and pay their salaries instead of the government doing so but it retains thap surveillance of congress over the legislature the power of congress to legi legislate blote directly in territorial affairs and the operation of the acts of congress specially framed for utah with federal courts ala alt officers to eti enforce force them it also keeps utah without representation in congress and without a vote for national officers how then can it be urged that the bill takes away the right of the united states to approve or condemn any territorial statute how can it be said that under it the government could not interfere any wore than in the purely local affairs of any stat why do not the violent persons who attack the proposition in this way take pains to understand it there is no statehood about it statehood Stale hood would be postponed by it the territory would have a bill of over a year to footland foo tand it would still be no more than a territory none of the liberties of it a state would be secured except the right to elect its local officers this we do not deny is worth a great deal it is a modicum of liberty it to is a step forward it might prove a prelude to the full chorus of freedom fre odom it would pause a clear di division islon on party lines of all the people in the territory lt it would shat shatter the Libe liberal raPI faction faccon it would bring to more even numbers the republicans public publio ans with the democrats but it contains no DO such provisions provie ioos or probabilities as those held up in let kr borein bore rore in by rabid writers who seem afraid lest the mormont mormon people should obtain the least particle of political liberty s and we most emphatically deny that the scheme was war cousen consented ted to or considered by or known to the Mor mormon mons people or their leaders before it was sprung upon the public by its introduction in the two houses of congress let the measure be criticized criticised on its merits and demerits but do not seek to defeat it by misrepresentation which is sure to fail of its object |