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Show , j THE POLAND BILL. , j Thcro aro ft fW restless and ambitious am-bitious men iu this city wh- labor :n- diduously to get Congress to aecom-pliflh aecom-pliflh something that Twill be to the 1 injury of tho majority nf tho people of the Territory. Th-y lmvn trial year after year, first one thing and then another, and all their efforts lmvo invariably resulted in disappointment disap-pointment to themselves and to those who have hud any confidence in their efforts. It would bo something of a task to recall to memory tho Humorous Humo-rous bills upon .Utah nfl.uns that have been before Congress during tho last twenty years their name is legion; le-gion; but ono thing, without any effort of momory, has ever been noticeable, no-ticeable, Hint all these Utah bills have come to an inglorious end. Without claiming anything of a religious sentiment fur uch results, though we nssumo not to disregard that conclusion, and apart from personal per-sonal bias, or educated inclination, we havo ever credited tho natural good sense of American statesmen for their opposition to bills of that class. It is all very natural lor Congressmen Con-gressmen to make buncombe speeches in both tho House- and fctenato upon any subject to which their interest and talents may bo invoked, especially 1 when it may he popular to appear for or against a measure; hut after the speechifying is through with and tho stern reality of voting is reached and I responsibility '.is faced, the second sober thought 1 as very frequently led to voting in u contrary direction to tho speeches that had been made. Wo have seen this over and over again, and have credited the members of Congress who have made themselves thus conspicuous with exercising exercis-ing tho virtno of hard sense and soiu id legal abi li ty, rath ct than fly to the eonclu-doil that any member's opposition to Utah bills h. vd been purchased, as has so often been insinuated by the littlo "ring" in Salt Lake City, and the organs or-gans published in its interest. The McKee bill, in the beginning of the present session, inspired the little lit-tle ring in Utah with the hope that the gallant Mksis-rppun who fathered that measure "was going to carry all before him, and that before this the citiz?ns of Utah Territory would havo bom at the feet of Chief Justice 31c-Kcnn 31c-Kcnn bleeding and pleading for mercy; mer-cy; but when tin; monstrosities of tho bill were calmly listened to Mr. Mc-Kee Mc-Kee was gently set aside, and his efforts ef-forts were ignobly defeated i All thu blustering and tl treats of "the ring'' here came suddenly to an end, Mc-Kee Mc-Kee is a name now unheard iu Utah, and his greatness is unsung. Mr. Poland's bill ia now the object of hope and is the "prayer ' o' "the little ring;" but the prospect of its ever becoming the law o! the land is not very encouraging. There arc, doubtless, " iicprcscjitiuvf i Tin ' " tw House and fccuatof in tb-j Chamber1 who would l!ko "to get ril of the' pleading and beseeching of the anti-Mormon anti-Mormon missionaries now at the seat of government, and to their urgent and continuous clamor! they rnoy havo lent a listening ear, and may havo uttered flattering words of hope, butj when the moment arrives that yeaa and nays have to be counted, the result re-sult will a-aiu be as it 1ms been before. be-fore. Xo sensible man, who has any respect re-spect for his reputation before tho nation, will ever consent to " special legislation" for this or any other Territory Ter-ritory that will rob peaccablo citizens of their political righL-i.simply to gratify grat-ify the restless ambition of'nouthing "patriots." There is: probably no fegislatirc body in tho world where there are somanydistingimhcd mem bers of the bar as In the ConcjrOfl of j the United States, and to men' of j their intelligence and experience noth j ing C. ri be so offensive ns a measure that touches the political freedom of. any citizens. Special legislation h a dangerous precedent, and one to i which '""military necessity" alonol has ever lent a seeming justification. Ilc-ro 'in the" Poland Hill ia tho monstrous proposition to place' tho selection of jurors in the hands of a United HUUes Judge, his clerk and n, marshal! .Nothiutf like it has ever been heard of before in Congress. It ij tho grossest insult to the profe-sion of republicanism that could bo oliered, and ono which no statesman would entertain unless biassed and misted by the f.dso representations of the firebrands who go annually from this city to see what they can accomplish in the interest of "the ring," Judgo McKean, Mr. Duncan, the Governor's marshal, and Mr.Nounnan tho clerk of the court, may be as puro, and as honest as the best of men ever were, and they might select proper jurors, and they might do everything that tlio most fastidious could desire; but admitting all that is possible, why should citizens of tho United States in this Territory bo deprived de-prived of the right of trial by a jury selected here as they aro everywhere ohe throughout this nation ? The very fact that a distinction is asked for is the evidence that a wrong is aimed at. We have confidence in Congress that Poland's bill will go to the tombs whero its predecessors havo gone beforp. |