Show EXTRAORDINARY 1OWERS In his communication to President HAU alias tendering his resignation Marshal DYE enumerates the powers conferred upon the United States marshal as follows It is perhaps proper to say that by reason of the extraordinary power which by special act of Congress has been conferred on the marshals office in Utah that officer exercises authority and has imposed upon him duties the most extensive ex-tensive ever conferred in this government upon a like ollicial He performs the functions of United States marshal elsewhere and in addition addi-tion he is the ministerial officer with power to serve process in all the courts in territorial business busi-ness criminal and civil is authorized to make arrests without complaint or warrant searches and seizures in the same manner to arrest supposed sup-posed witnesses without attachment writ or process may sit as a committing magistrate and hold to ball persons or witnesses thus arrested ar-rested and in many ways exercies by law powers of the most delicate character and gravest responsibility lIe is police officer a detective a judge a jailor of criminals before conviction then warden and keeper after conviction con-viction the officer who executes the sentence of the court serves process in civil cases and selects often the juries for all the courts of general jurisdiction Still we live in a republican government I where autocratic powers are supposed to be unknown The powers conferred upon the marshal of Utah make it possible for him to work infinite mischief in a community commu-nity and such is the tendency of human nature to feel power and forget right that the temptation to use autocratic authority oppressively is too much for most natures Such powers as are placed in the hands of the marshal of Utah ought never to have been granted It was under a misapprehension misappre-hension that they were granted It is true that governments in times of great peril when revolutions are pending or riots are imminent find it necessary to clothe their officers with extraordinary power Bat no emergency has ever existed in Utah that would justify the placing of such extraordinary extraor-dinary powers in the hands of the marshal of this territory ai he now holds The Congress Con-gress having granted the powers however how-ever it is the least the executive of the nation can do to see to it that that they are entrusted to one who will not abuse them |