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Show MI39I0N JTJEIST LAW. Wo prop0 t0 Bhow' thia mormuK-! ( ' ctcnt, how littlo of law the! ".o Court of the United States , U1 WIJ, as compared with the vast dL'a' rcsoarch and profundity of jurisprudence of bio honor, Chiof Justice aicKa n. On Thurstlay last tlio Chief JuBtico, assisted by Assoeiato Justice Boroman, dclivored Bomede-cisions.as Bomede-cisions.as a majority of the Territorial Supreme Court; the one on divojjj clainiing our attention first. uJJ decision ruled that tlie W9,' nm has jurisdiction in divoro -iXSC& - , . r, , lias not. We that tho Probate Cof ... . . . j.juiro into what an will not stop to;" 1 . i i ui-cdicamcnt this will awkward f . , tlPL,,. ono of tho Chief Justice s jt,ir friends. No one can think, for a moment, that tho two Judges form-id form-id a majority of the Court, had any prospective vision of a divorce suit, or divorce suits, against a leading Mormon Mor-mon or leading Mormons 1 Tho cou rso of h is 1 lonor h oro has been bo impartial ; he has ob-sorvod ob-sorvod bo faithfully the laws of the Territory; ho had never permitted his rhetoric to unfold ita power in unbridled attacks against tho large majority ol ttic pcoplo here ; indeed , his whole judicial career hits been so, notoriously unbiased, that no ono could do him the injustice of imagining imag-ining that ho saw visions of rich Mormons being itccced as a result of this little picco of "mission jurist" law. The decision of his honor and Justice Boreinan is, in ellbct, that Congress, in section nino of the Organic Act, has defined the jurisdiction juris-diction of the Territorial Courts, by tho very titles given to them, and by the meagre conditions annexed. That Justices' courts have no jurisdiction for a higher amount, in a civil case, than a hundred dollars, all admit, for Congress has so specified. That the higher courts, Probata included, havo bad their jurisdiction defined de-fined comparatively by their titles is, in point of fact, the doctrine of Chief Justice MeKean. In the case of Honibueklc and Marshal nr. John Toombs, the Supremo Court uf the United States has said: Whenever Conjjr-'ts li:is proceed. -d to or'ftiii.e a govern iin ul tor any ol'the Ter-riturii.", Ter-riturii.", ii 1 1 as merely m.-lituted a gcwrnt AiAfi ui of c;urU tln'1'efor, and huri committed com-mitted to Die Territorial A?-ernhly j'nH "It'Cr, subject to ft few specified or illl- plinl conditions of supplying all details of legislation nej'.'sary to pot lliw pyj-b-m into operation, even to the I'jiituui tj llir jo riMiirdun tj (Ac sera tl rot'.rt.i When one reads such plain language lan-guage as this, setting forth so clearly a doctrine directly the opjKisito of that advanced by Chief Jutico Mc-Kean Mc-Kean and Justice Borcniau, and then considers thatthU language emanates from the highest tribunal in the country, coun-try, one cannot but wonder why that tribunal should have been deprived of such luminous jurisprudence as has been bestowed upon Utah, which is thus able to overturn, by a passing breath, t:ic fabric reared by the tri-hutial tri-hutial uf iJot rcooi I, Again wc lfnd the Supremo Court of tho fntintrv doclarinc. in tlif mc case, that as A general thing, fubject to the general scbeine of local govern men t i hnlk-I on I by I he t Jrfranie Ai I, nn-1 such -x-cial pro-1 vi-.ii ma ai an: cuniained therein, tli local legislature lin.i Ivti cntm-tel with tlio enactment Of tho entire .y.iem uf iki'iii- ijx'l ttuv, subject o!-o, however, ti the right ot ( 'nocres.-to revise, olti.T, find n-oke n-oke at it-di-erelion. Tin: jxiwera Uiuj exerei'od by the Terrilorial legi-lntiire are as rj t e.'i' C ti.i Ihw rsi rri.ir (I fii any S'ih- xui'in-c, nd tlio ," nx'i---tntt of (In: Trminnal citi f 14 collectively collective-ly co- ctjnut! with and :orreapondnt to that of the State courts. Jn line, (he ' -ti-,,-,at ', like the ,S'i"f court-, nre ((ico'fi willi j'1 unary municipal jurisdiction. Inasmuch as our Chief Justice has undoubtedly read this quotation, in the Supreme Cuurt decision in which it appears, and as he docs not believe (hit the Territorial Legislature has any such powers as arc hero net down, the oidy conclusion to bo arrived at ie, that the Supreme Court of the Unitul Stat?s docs not, understand tho law; and that it should kcihI to the Supreme Court of Utah for the necessary neces-sary information. IJut these extracts arc so intcrcHt-ng intcrcHt-ng that wc do not propose exhausting exhaust-ing tlicm 111 one article. In fuel thry will form subject-matter for reading and reflection for several days. |