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Show A NEW WAY TO PAY NEW DEBTS. Judge Hawiey concedes that no contract niado without legislative authority au-thority can .bind tho Territory, but asserts that there was legislative authority au-thority for the contract between Woods and Patrick. He claims that Congress, haying the right to legislate for the Territory, delegated its power in this, particular to tho Attorney General of tho United States, and tho Attorney General in turn delegated them to Governor Woods. It follows, logically, that Governor Woods is the legislature, so far as all legislation required for the Territorial prison is concerned. We therefore expect that His Excellency will at once proceed to meet, introduce a bill to himself, appropriate money from the Territorial Treasury to pay Marshal Patrick, pass the bill in his legislative capacity, approve it in his executive capacity, and order the Territorial Secretary Sec-retary to enrol it among the Utah statutes. If the Territorial Treasurer should refuse to hand over tho public money on such an appropriation bill, would . that be treason or somo other crime? What would be done with him? death or imprisonment? the scaffold or Camp Douglas? Will Judge Hawicy kindly enlighten us on that point? |
