Show i OPI ormom iio x I 1 ta la response response to the clamor of a certain cert ain journal in ili utah uta fi that indulges dulgen in in a great deal of 0 vain glorious twaddle all is and rarely gives a 11 correct opt opinion n on any the chairman of tile utah C w i I 1 As I 1 i an I 1 hag caf reque requested sted the tha opinion X attorney omey general garland pis as to I 1 cheth wh eth er the pe persons zabris now in office in tile territory whose terms havu have not yet expired should be compelled to linbo subscribe uribe the oath in tha ilia edmunds tucker bill the respectable journals odthe of the territory have laid held that the law contemplated 0 I 1 ll 11 mno it the unwind or it would it have ave BO a stated in lan language baze that could not be ajril lt an now na coines tho ilia response nao of ier fr garland which will doge close tho controversy lie bolys gay ri i 1 the first question que tion asked is a Art A rethe lo officer officers inthis in this territory rutih who nord and and holding auice prior td the passage of faiq gaid act required to take wd iry oath in meaning a aning the oath y prescribed by the th section Be clion ia I 1 ilmy in my opinion this question should be la in the negative Iti it Is true 1 the law lav declares the be oath bath required to bo be condition precedent to the right rah I 1 to 0 hold office in ili or under said aid territory I 1 but it also algo declares that the tha oll officer icer shall ahall take and luba ulin cribe the oath before enter wg on UA th duties of 0 his hia office words 0 all I 1 T which of 1 in 1 a ariy 10 bilin opinion loll have a strong tendency to show that it was cers thereafter to be elected or appointed who were in in tho the mind of congress it I 1 it was intended that the law affect officers ili commission when it amt i ant i tito into operation it la Is hard to understand why congress omitted to provide for the contingency 0 of a laindre or refusal to tako take und and subscribe the required oat hsuch ns as by declaring the recusants office vacant und and tile the manner in which the vacancy should bo be tilled filled further priore it if congress had intended the oath requirement to apply to tiffi cers already alre a d fit in commission we must preau me it t would have anve provided either that the law should not go into effect until it a time ti ime within which it could be known ja in at all 1 tho ilia territories or that the hie oath should be ba taken find subscribed athin a certain time after ilia law went into force thus thug pro preventing venting the serious doubts that might arise no na to tile the validity of official acts performed after tho ilia statute to took k efi fret filet but before its provisions provi Bioni cou coufa f bo be it known llo wit by b the th a communities effected of by 1 01 ti them let 11 ift if it t should IB be held that the oath requirement applied to officers in III commission in melon when the tha act bejarno operative |