Show AX ACT OE DESPOTISM And now comes the Commerce of Tacoma WT whose editor is one of the true and faithful Democrats of the old line with an earnest protest against the Tucker bill and the usurpation of authority that has been exercised by the House of Representatives in the passage of the bill Here is what the Commerce says of the outrage and assumption as-sumption The passage of the new bill in the Hou e i of Representatives in regard to the vexed Utah problem is likely to further complicate mitt sin that Territory The bill virtually I disfranehes all Mormons destroys their church establishment and iinmi ratiutj bureau abolishes woman suffraze and gives the appointment of nearly all omcers in the I Territory to the Presiden of the United States and the governor Itrequires all vot erg to take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and law itself The act is unprecedented and at one time in our history would I have been regarded unconMliufbna1 but we have made such rapid strides In the application ap-plication f force prlnc pies iu the government govern-ment that an assumed neceMty or expediency expedi-ency nowglves the courts wide latitude in construing the legality of legislative acts Primarily we should say that the bill if not an absurdity is abo t as bad a piece of legislation as our government could well react It is a confession that the ordinary jaws and couisc of justice are inadequate teal t-eal with the evil of polygamy and that extraordinary ex-traordinary if not extraconEtitutionsI measures verging closely on those employed em-ployed by despotic government ae necessary neces-sary to extirpate It |