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Show thousand announced yesterday that the judge contend that these seventy outrank him in power? h;id decided that Col. Patton was office holders is just what he has dein contempt for disobeying the in And yet that reha cided if he has been correctly junction, aud that a nominal fine The action ported. purged the contempt. FIFTH STREET. 1 OODEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. court in assessing a fine was I'lIE WOADItOUS POWER Oniric W. Penrose, Editor. highly proper, and as the question of OF PATTOX. the amount of punishment was in Walter Thomson, Dullness Uau'gr. the discretion of his honor, we Have Oliver A. Patton is the name of as the Land Register at Salt Lake City. nothing to urge against his ruling OGDEX. L'TAII. to that point. lie is a great man Probably the But as Judge Shaeffer is reported public would not know this if it were SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1876. It to have gone outside of the simple aot announced in this manner. stated in is quite unlikely that either the perquestion of contempt, and TO COItltESl'OXUE.VlS. what would have been his son or the office would be considered When you write for publication, write open court Give action under a state of circumstances worthy of any special notice, unless onlj on one Bide of tbe paper. real name, not necessarily for publica- which did not exist, and has thereby sonie peculiar circumstances directed and tion, but ior pvrteciioa. Be brief expressed his opinion upon a ques- attention to him or it. explicit. This great man is above the law. tion not now, but which might at Communications relating to some future time, come before him The reason is because he is a Land busijob work and all other a course seldom pursaed by courts egister. When he acts it is as an ness, direct Uvariablj to the Business elsewhere we deem it no discour- executive officer of the United Manager. of the States, and so long as he does not Correspondence for publication direct tesy to him, and a privilege invariably to the Editor. press, to comment upon the construe call himself 0. A. Patton, but a tion he puts upon the law, which he United States official, he can seize is sworn to administer. other people's timber and sell it, auyii(kizi:i AGE.vrs. If, therefore, we have received a clap men into irons without proeesss The following persons are authorized to and do sundry other law, collect subscriptions ami transact any busi- correct impression cf what the Judge of in damnable tricks ness connected with the "Junction" Office said on Saturday, it amounts to this: ridiculous and settlements. intheir reipective Col. Patton, by disobeying the which would be deemed sufficient D. M. and I'rovidenct Mhilh, Logan, junction, was in contempt, but if, to entitle any person unshielded with Hammond. instead of the act of disobedience, the panoply of the august authority W. and Richmond, Park SmithfielJ, Hyie that "officer of the government" had of a Land Register, to a lengthened A. Noble. to the rest from official cares in the peni- If. I" Weister. come into court, and replied hranklin James Umworth. injunction that he was acting as an teutiary. But ratton does an tnese llyrum All settlements on the west tide of Bear officer of the government, then, and things with impunity, and gets off in tht ease, Hid Honor would at from a defiant contempt of the Third River, in Cache Valley, J. II Barker. and Wilh Springe Willard, Malad City, once have dismissed the proceedings, District Court, by paying four dol W. Jot. Samaria, Pinky. and vacated tho order enjoining the lars, for expenses. And all this by 0. L. Robinson Fannington, sale. an absurd ruling of Chief Justice TF. S- Popple.ton Wellsville If this course is in conformity with Shae&r, which besides running . A. Shaw Paradise...... -- E. N. Austin the Constitution and tho laws, how, counter to common se3e is a plain Bear Lake Valley- James Salmon we would inquire, does His Honor violation of the provisions of the Coalville - W. II. Anderson dispose of the provisions we have constitution. Poatage. Eli Mkitear Co Morgan But this is not all of Pattou's queted, which extend the power of business oil Address eommtmkttions, the judicijry to all eases in law and privileges. He is accused by Mr. WALTER TIIOMSOIf, equity in which the United States is Job, who rivals his ancient name- Business Manager. a party? In the matter of stumpage, sak in patience, with diddling him Box Z2, Ogden, Utah. ia which tho "officer of the govern- out of the sum of one dollar, for ment" claimed the right to take delivering a patent to him on which EXECUTIVE AND JUDIlot in lumber of a and Patton denies sell, no fees were due. of, CIAL POWER. the possession of, and claimed by the dollar impeachment and, in hrs The second section of article third Wells, was not the United official capacity, of course, politely calls the editor who published the cf the Constitution of the United States a party? If in the above case, the United charge a "liar, a knave and a scounStates, defines the power of the juin the following States was & party, did not the drel." ' dicial department words: It will be perceived that Patton is "power" of the Third District Court, "The judicial power shall extend extend to the case? a polished person, as any one above to all casc9 in law and equity arising If then the provisions of the con the law ought to be, and as becomes under this constitution, the laws of stitution which we have quoted, are one against whose violence or vitu the United States" &o., and "contro portions of the supremo law of the peration there is no legal redress. Tersie9 to which the United States land, how can a court, whose "judges Now let all Utah do honor to this shall be a party." are bound by tho laws of the land," distinguished personage, and to the The second article of tbo same in- set these provisions aside and declare profound judicial acumen of the strument points out the duties aud that the court has no power to stay Judge who acknowledges- his power. defines the power of the President ol the proceedings of a person who al. Or else let the facts in this outrage the United States, among other loses that he is acting as an officer of ous case be presented at headquarthings be has the power to make the United States? ters, and while the petty official is due oi with and his deference honor the conaent to With made an extinguished liegister, let treaties, by tho SeLate, "and ho shall nominate wo feel constrained to say that the unsophisticated citiaens ponder npon and by and with the consent of the position assumed, if really that of the beauties of a sy.'ttem of governSenate, shall appoint ambassadors, the Third District Court, is an un ment, which, according to Shaeffer's and other public ministers and con- tenable one, and if it be said that ruling, permits a teuth rate incumsuls, judges of I ho supreme court, his decision is made in conformity bent of a tenth rate office, to waltx aud all other officers of tho United with opinions expressed by a higher over the head of a Federal Judge, States, whose appointments are not tribunal, aud ia therefore binding put his thumb to his noEe and wigherein otherwise provided for, and upon his court, we have to say that, gle his fingers at the highest authorwhich shall bo established by law," if it has become the settled doctrine ity, and trample alike on law, jusand u be shall take care that the laws of our law courts that they them- tice and decency, while an outraged be faithfully executed, and shall selves are powerless against the public looks on in helpless amazecommission all the officers of the ipse dixit of an officer of the ment. United States." government, then have we indeed IIOKEMAX'S 1IALDER. Article G, declares ,lthat this con- fallen upon evil times, and in this DASH. stitution and tho laws of the United centennial year, instead of living in In another column will be found States which shall bo made in pur- a land of order, where civil laws are all and treaties suance thereof, made, held to be supreme, wo are over tho text of Judge Boreraan's speech made bo shall under the shadowed by a despotism worse while passing sentence on John D. or which authority of the United States, shall than that which our ancestors Lee. Borcman has been less bitter than usual for some time past. He bo the supreme law of the laud, and threw off an hundred years ago. There are in tte United States has acted within the bouods of his the judges in every State ihall be bound thereby." seventy thousand "officers of the Got office, and as if he bad learnod that Our attention has been called to eminent," nearly all of whom beloDg it was not required of a District these provisions of the constitution to one political party, and have re Judge to abuse the people among from reading in the Salt Lake pa ccived their appointments, directly whom he was sent to administer the and law, no matter how much he was oppets some statements concerning the "r indirectly, from the executive decision of Chief Justice Shaeffer who owe allegiance to tho party. posed to their religious views and Will lib Honor, Judge Shaeffer, ia the Pattoa contempt case We of th adfer-tisemen- ti, - D ex-May- or - But in passing sentence upon Lee eggs a toot he has uncorked the peut up vials of lew of them will and relieved him- er.; Put io as his acrid bigotry self a little. His buMDess was merely to sentence Lee. But, beiug angry because he could not try men ia the "Mormon ' in authority Church, betook this occasion of convicting them so far as his uunarraut-abl- c language could, do so. To us his harangue from the bench was au insult to the people of Utah, and unaccused of an arraignment persons which renders him unfit for To tho position that he occupies. the great public it will appear as a disgraceful act in a public officer, and to the District Attorney as an attack on his veracity. When the Drosecuting officer finds no case against persons whom rumor has accused but against whom the law has no ground for indietment, the Judge has no right even to in sinuate anyth'm against them, much less to condemn them in language only suited to a pot house debater ou current report. Bat then,whut could be expected of Borenwu, the last lingerius remnant of the McKean ring, the fag end of the defunct Methodist-Christiacrusade? some -p- mucht ' onwatent, and then turn mtofthe tillable Ud. ij advice is v" ovll followed . ' k.9 ,! ear 'hen- willV ",1 grain raised in Northern IV, H ? - it yearofourD,.d,onethou,;u hundred and seventy Josh Billings says: SKv( Ij. AHV busine firm that hasu't got saod its craw to expend a fe ..h J making itself fcnowu t th.. orV thousand people, ought, to ek P aud go peddling peanats." j iu ? 2; 3 0 h3 . - a s O .5 w - a3 is J- & c a 4 Es. o jb 3 S3 i i " Ia S!Ts n HI TWO CONVENTIONS. CO The People's Convention held last w3t 5 Saturday in the City Hall at Salt 3 Q u "9 Lake, wrs a large gathering of reprew 2 sentative naon from aH parts of the Q Territory. They voted and spoke for the people of every precinct. They acted in harmony, having in S2 view the good of the public and not individual ambition, party purposes DAVID In pass- Tinner. CiK.Water A-- Stentn Fitter. or personal predilections. (Ssewssor to Mitchell A James.) ing the resolutions which were - 0 JAMES, FULL LIN S Of BLACK AND GALVANIZED Iron Pip nd Fittings kcb in stock. Ha Pipe and Fittings f.r same. Agrat for HumseyV eelebroteit Force and Lilt Pttmps. Pumps repaired, and Pump Fittings on kand. A adopted tley were prompted by'pa-trioti- c motives and earnest desires fore wise legislation not only for Utah, but all the Territories similar- situated. In nominating Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon for re election, they were unanimous in the belief that no man known to the people, could, in every respect, so well stand up in the counly cils of tbe nation as a full represen- t FURNACE YTOKK ASD ROOFING, Im Cornice made (o order Shet Self lSUing, Soldered Top Fruit and Hooey Cana a their season. Order from the coantry promptly Ailed aci shipped. Vfarsbons and Workshop,. Weet Temple 8t, OalvaniwMi SALT LAKE CITY, Opposite City Meat Market P.0..B0X. 309 42-l- ' A NEW DEPARTURE tative of their principles and institu'IrawJiiijE ami Local 0HltBi)i7i) wiiuteil n til every I city aarf town on the PACIFIC tions. He was endorsed without liUSLOPK.to Introduce our Old and Staple MAN 6'FACTD KKS. fco PER MONTfi .Hotel an opposition, and eulogised without traveling paid. Apply by letter or ia to dissent. He will be by the person S. A.&KA37 A CO.. 3; 4. 6 and 8 Hdme 8tiee Ciuafiutitl, Ohio. largest vote ever cast in Utah for a s564m Delegate in Congress. The "Liberal" Convention met E. A. BREWSTER, M. D. yesterday. It was a simple farce Mechanical & Operative Den without force or humor. Four Has taken rooms s 6th Stroet. eppesite the counties only were representedi TitlhDK Office. UTAH. Weber, Tooele, Salt Lake and Beaver, 03ltF.X CITY, the latter having no delegate present. Poor McKean was chairman. The resolutions adopted were chiefly a tirade of illiberal sentiments and liberal abuse of the "Mormons" R. N Baskin was nominated for Delegate H We are pleased to note that the WeCD m ber delegation went solid for a gentleman C. W. Bennett, Esq., and thongh they did not succeed we applaud their good taste. This my 03 be regarded as tho last dying Sicker of the "Liberal" lamp, to be followed m by their utter darkness and despair. 0 HOPPERS AND PLOWING We Botice on looking over the Report of the Department of Agriculture for August and September that grasshoppers hare been committing ravages in Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Utah is not mentioned in the list. Next year she will no doubt furnish a big report. We again urge upon our farmers the propriety of plowing as much land as possible before winter sets la. 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