| Show OF STATES ATTORNEY BATES BATE we find tho the following in tho the new york berau of the 2 th alt and in make ale room for it in in our columns be having it will mil bo be read with interest there was in ia tho the city yesterday col george C bate united states district dafnet attorney for utan utah recently front from that territory and still moro more recently from n and now that ho he is is returning to alio llio to field of hr his official duties he made tho the following declarations touching DR lila iho existing conditions in utah and os as to tile tho governments government e pro gramme of action by which polygamy is to be destroyed peace maintained nod and hutting harmony and prosperity insured to both mormon bonmon find and goduto throughout tho the real realm or oc ing baro young the united states district attorney Y declares as follows that both and there tharo are arc perfectly willing illing 40 and d so no frankly declare beclar a to submit to the deci decision bion of the supreme court as made in in the a cao of jeter clinton is i eagle eollo bracht which dom does but re i berato tho the law regulating tho the judiciary of tho the ter lonea fur for moro more than fifty years and which w b I 1 h was w as anticipated 0 t heip ted by every e v e r y w well e L rea read d law lawyer y c r i in a the danou countr n t r y yi 0 and ly by tho the attorney Atto gen brads of the united states choc views on tho the coot course SO of the cases in n utah have been teen C bell and in d frankly expressed ever since the he decision of tho the aoth or oc jim jan uary story last ladee 1 this his late jat decision but reiterates the law upon the so subject ble a t of territorial courts their powers and juries juries as repeatedly announced by the supreme court of the united states stales and by those of iowa and mume eota bota it is also in a rull fuu accord wit w ith tho the published opinion opinions of the attorney genelis 0 of f the iho united states fron from grundy to caleb C willing goes even further thin than this and lays down tho like doctrine foun founded deI upon tho the constitution that while tho the united states may acquire territories and hold them lor for they do not as under tinder other forms aims mend a of government govern me hold them as were colonies hub but that at whenever there here tire arc a sufficient number of people in the Terri tones to organize a local government tho cho people thereof are entitled to such bucu tucu local government and when organized organised sed by congress under an organic organic act then as to all local or territorial rights or laws laws they arc or na as independent of tho the federal government as are the people of ortho the several states and that tho the right of trial by juries selected in accordance with local statues it is oil an inalienable right light this decision therefore is is tho the most important one ever tendered by the united states court upon tho the rights privileges clefes asia and powers ot of tho the territories Terri tones al all that is 13 now dow necessary to give per luct cot peace to utah and to banog to pun pan lehment all who love lavo been guilty cuilty of violations of laws is to provide i 1 soma gimeli kimple legislation for the enforcement of tho t 0 act of at congress Cong reia against agai nit polygamy in laj 1 and which up to tho the tinie time has been a dead letter later no DO whatever having ocoa lee mado made to enforce its provisions by tile tho courts in utah or by tho the ceris of tho the government there T r r i Is let tab stion polygamy gamy will soon end cad in utah tab go md goy this to dono dead nothing is ia required to maintain main taia nod and enforce tho the laws and powers of ortho the yede j but in addition addi tiou to 0 this tho the vast influx of gentile bankers lawyor ii minors and business men with their fann liei and their importation of th tho 0 trava ganco in dress and orn amoDt tit and de ds tile the other ex deosca of cho G outdo lis dico ii fast fail weakening tho lie chains which bri crip liviu 2 1 a young youn bound around to them ech then 0 0 raili cicma ba dal and commerce have already entered t tho to deals boora of the sacred mormon and I 1 faglon abbien wilh till her mighty might T gocr will vill GOOD renier it itu ab for auy any sow man in 10 utah to wills tain lain mote than ono one wile I 1 with the these troubles ca ended utah will wil toon prove to bo be the macat missing sado tao in tho the union and cheap chead baior cheap transportation and d all i tho to comforts of bf homo home end civi civilization lor for these vb ho to dig in tho the mines will render alco on and d tho the rule pa perfect elect lect ity to lire lifa a and nd 11 property to p at t Y w will 91 hereafter exist jil there tere whatever may inay haic bae been the iho crinna and I 1 dolence in the put part and when these people were shut out from all the iho world lilo like those in japan and bal bad tto no one but themselves to caro ion for under tile iho statute or of 1862 pol polygamy gain 7 could halo haie been treated arrested and ml bixen broken up tip wilhm h in two mot tile b by pimply limply ini impanel 10 ing a 1 grand jury jary of t the ti a united IS states stale mel aa and arresting and bryin trying a few of the wore more prominent casee awn then C n after conviction T vic i tion ti e als st calp too president p m might ig b t bas have ve con pard rd gift oncil bem bu and drei issued ssu ced a p W jaw m k declaring hiring that thereafter the law would bo n idly enforced it is ia no fault of fadera grant that this was waa not act done danei for his orders were to coralea tho the laws but it was vas tile tho fault of tho the territorial officers officer who atler did not at know the low law or clao chin to pervert il it I 1 here baing bin no law bw regular ing war mar riago in ia tho the territory of utah but only the law ot of tile tho lor in which they claim that they abey liro are protected 1 by the constitution ill all atte allenip apts la to kunii punch them for fc le lewd w d anil and lavivionn cohabitation with a any ny ono one of their wives wivel i is a were mere perversion of justice arifi ali am young I 1 oung haa ban always avowed amse if perfectly willin wilh to submit to tho the laws lawa or of tit diio drw united led states when administered a ac corling to law but bat he hi is a ve cry ry old man now vm vc y much weakened by theae troubles and must soon appear before a higher tribunal all statements of danger alani or of an outbreak or violence on OB tho part of either genii Gentile an ii or cormons mormons Mor mons mossi are absolutely 1 ab I they will say eay with tho on let its iia have peace |
