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Show If IMtmiSTOT IIUI.IMI. TliKChlcf JuatlreofAritona, I' the dlapatche! rerclreil are cornel, hni made a ilngulir ruling. I'crhapa when the full account of the miller lx-forolilmlapublMinl, lx-forolilmlapublMinl, It will explain the rcaaone fur hbi opinion. He de cllra that the lanaof (,'ongrrsi In relation rela-tion lopolygamy and unlawful cohab llallon, relato to all tin Temtorlc an I laceaoTerwhlcli the United Htatra hareJiirUllctlon, except the Dlatrlct of Columbia. The!.dmiiiidinctcf UK itatea dla-tlnctly dla-tlnctly that lie provlilona l.i reference to the two oQenaea named aro for "a Territory or other plc oter which the United Hlatea hnre exoliialrit Jurisdiction." The Kilmunda-Tucker act of lit; la declared by Ita title to l an amen'lment to th net of IB'jS, which aim relate to "a Territory of the United Htalr or other lnco over which tlm United HtatM tiara nxclua. I ro Jurladlttlon." I'arla of each of fiere atatutc relate airclally to Utah. Hut In crery arcllon of Ihla kin I the Territory of Utah la apeclrlcally men. tloned. If the clauera In the 1'dmiinJa-Tucker 1'dmiinJa-Tucker act not aelally pllcabl to UUli, do not Include Ihu Dlatrlct of Columbia, then they do not Include the Territory of Atlxona. If there ll a part of this country orrr which the United Hlatrahevo ticluaWe Jutlllc-tlou, Jutlllc-tlou, without doul t and beyond con-troTcray,ll con-troTcray,ll ll Ibo Dlatrlct of Columbia. Colum-bia. The Constitution of the United HUlea Mile Ihla. All I wllllu the "exrlualrn Jurladlctlon" and "aleolut KiTrrelgnly" of thu United Hlatea orer the Ttrrltorlea have lo ho tnftrrtd from other proelilons In that lnilnimrnt,Hrrllon Klgl.1 In exprrai term! confer that authority upin tho Congrraa over the dlatrlct we liavo named. Tliereforo If the law! paated iiMn by the Arltona Chief Justice apply to any other place than Utah, they take In the District of Columbia. Huch parts oflhemaado not rehleto that dlatrlct do not apply to Arlaini We ale aware that a court In tho Dletrlctdrcl led that tliel.drmi.ide-Tuckeract doe not a-plytolhat a-plytolhat dlatrlct but that doe not alUvt our argument. If the Judge hail alruply derided that tho dialled clause, were In force In Arloina with. out making referenco to the District of Columbia, lie might puaalbly have been right. Hut III rxenitlng tho latter an 1 Including the former he waa clearly and Inconsistently wrong. |
