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Show I JOSE ! BWS Defeated In their Appeal to Supremo Court of the United States. tle EJnnuids Law Dissolved . Ch'rcli Contracts and tho Courts Were Oorreot.' -. OEIAL OOUKT SUSTAINED. tb Court Says, Had Authority ;tpeal all Territorial Enactments Enact-ments at Its Will. , Act Incorporating the Church js Invalid in Attempt to Establish Religion jo THE PROVISIONS tetitntion and That Its Prop-j Prop-j Was Properly Escheatsd to tie Government. isgwx, May ID. I he supremo llio I'nin'il Stales today mi-! mi-! opinion of vital interest to the i church in the suit ' of. tho ifLaltrr-Diiy Saints against tho fclm, which comes here on ap-in ap-in a decision of the supreme Utah in favor of nitod Nates. This court The case grows : out ,imrs anti-polygamy law which it the Mormon church corpora-es'lieulcd corpora-es'lieulcd to tho United States estate owned by the church, raioiis entered suit to have the hired unconstitutional, on the iliat congress, by dissolution, I tlic judicial power that the net -li-lalive assembly of Utah in-img in-img the church constituted a I nhii'h could not la; impaired res? under authority to repeal itorial enactments that the doe-I'sihcat doe-I'sihcat alioiiclh the spirit of iiiition. the part of the United it was eontemlot'l igwss had authority to repeal itorial cuuclmcnts; that the aet rating tho church was invalid as ii)t to establish religion Contrary provisions of the constitution;' i' charter should lie annulled ibusc of granted rights en the ciiitfch corporation waived, there was no one to i turn over its property, tiiul it HK-rly escheated to the United |