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Show A Territorial Penitentiary. The Legislative Assembly appropriated appropri-ated funds for the erection of a penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Governor Woods didn't like it. He remembered having made a contract one time in the name of the Territory for the keeping of one Kil-foyle, Kil-foyle, which the Territory never au -thoriz:d, and which the Territory would not and did not honor by paying pay-ing the amount. The General Government Gov-ernment by a trick, tbe equal of that by which the late jury bill was killed, deprived the Territory of Utah of its penitentiary. An act of Congress was hUHMl ,rivinrr t.lto mict-tflv nf .ill fhn Territorial penitentiaries to the U. S. Marshals for the Territories ;aud when that was found to have worked properly, proper-ly, another act of Congress was quietly passed restoring the various penitentiaries peniten-tiaries to the different Territories by name Utah being excepted I That was the plan adopted to avoid special legislation, which a shrewd member of Congress found out that body could not pass. Some of the poor Territories Territor-ies growled at the expense, b.it Utah was deprived of tho chance to growl that way. So having no penitentiary, and iron cages being objectionable in many respect, let us have- a penni-tiary penni-tiary of which the Territory cannot bo deprived by a trick of legislation. |