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Show a; - , jUijB" I'.M.MI US lll.ll HDAI'dA.S. S jffl, TllBBa.lt l.ak dlapntcli-flenil ta get. ill Wi' ling In bli work again, aa may betren Vi H bytho anneied telegram which ai i'M I eari In aoecral New York iari. We KJ take thli from the Tri'ntnt of tbatcllyi 'i : IS Mult Uka City, March 12.-It lonks as M '. la If tho World'a Fair appropriation from F! in Utah had fallm! entirely. Iloitrnor I? I IE1 Thomas vetoed Ilia bill, as aleled, for the f' I M reason that It violated Kectlon 7 of the m j U tlrganloAct, In namlnttho commission- K j H era, the act ren,iililnitall aiu'h ofllcers to m . H t appointed by the Uorernor. It ll aaid v i III that Mormon mainbt ra InvNted on tbla U violation of tbalao, In urdar lo put the If ' Ik (liireruor In a dllammi, with ilia Idea U Hji that ha would bare to iljn tha bill. On r Jja IU return lo the lglalalure tba bill a IB laid on tba table. fV ' Jf Tlala luluitled fact and fiction la k j Si utual with the fiend, who ooariu IV &1 hand ta teen In another dltpatch, re- K j ki ftrrlnic to tha arreat of gentleman Hi bJ lien charged with Infraction of Ibe JlB Kdmunda Act, tbe rare agalnit whom r' Ml, flttled In leaa than ten mlnulm In rill.i cuu't The accouut brlitlea with ei. Mat UU atlgeratlona and faUebooda, aud the KIVl ImpurUDtrrault thedUchamn ol tbe Rjrfl defendant, l entirely aupprnaed. Hfjlj The alalement that the Urganlo Aol .ii requlrea "all auoh olllcera to bo a p. A I Si poluted by the Uovornor"l a direct B'tt faliehood, and the attempt to drag In 9S aomethlug about the "Mormona" la m'M iharacterlillo of the fiend that fabrl- K 1 catedlU :' Wo hare been waiting to lee what Ll the "Idberal" organ would hare tu S haf In regard to tbe numerous de wJi i clalona of oourte, Including a ruling 9J I from the Hupreme Court of the United MB Btatea, which we baea cited to ehow lli V that the commlaslonera to spend the j ; people's money for tbe World's Fair Ili.R are not ofllcers In the intanlug of the jBj tlfj law, But we cannot Ri-t a word of Bll reasoning or rebuttal. On Friday It Mj.fll bad a abort lender attempted to touch KV" on the matter without replying to a iW ' if single jiolnt, aud ilirefully arolded the I ill il5 ""' "rcu "' col,r,! o( atlcVfalle Rn printed, nUmnds lu errors and mi KS'iJ truths. First It says tbe News tried XjiU "to prove that the Uovernor waa S'al '7tt wrong In assuming that the World's ftfl 'mm 1'alr CommlMlousrs are not officers." IV K Thetrutblsthathe claimed they ore lilin ulllcera aud the dectilona of courts HI'iflB showed he wss wrong. Xeatltaasests n'.D that wo charged Governor Murray Ikyi lu with making "a almllar mUtake In Ids 9ft Pm couitrution of Ibe Urganlo Act." Xot w tjft true. This caie Inrolvra an entirely 'yX dlflVrentiiirktlon, and one that did Tr! yf1 not enter Into the dlaputo with (lorir- If I nor Murray. Then It aert: t , I -j g 'Ill the decisions quoted by the AVirs ' li a tbero la no parallel case to this, no Inhlbl. I ! 114 lion plocod agatnsl tbo action of tlio I ' lll legislature as lu tbli Territory," j '? False agalu,lllully fale, for Iho 1 ll Constitution of llllnolshas an Inhlbl. I !-'? tlou exactly similar to that aliut the f :0 U'"'' I'eKlslat'i'e, we ijuoled It, and J''r alsoclted tho decision of the Supreme 1,' ,: Court that tbe Legislature had iower I1''1 ' to apjiolut the coininltslouers for the II reason that they were not "ofllcers" Ltyj within the meaning of tho organic I i llut the "Liberal" organ always has i I tolie when It Is cornered, and uanuot II t admit an error when It la so plainly In 'I I the wrong that there H no chince left V I ' for argumeut. " 9J 4 (doming to the main question, tho B I New Vork Court of Appealilu render t log a learned and lengthy decision 011 fJHl this lut, quoted Judge l'latt's logsl ' MW&, definition ot tbo Irrm "oltlce," as "an 'BVi , employment on behalf of the govern W ' meut lu auy statute or public trust uot H9I merely trantlunt, oooailonal or lucl- Hffj dtlltul." The eoiployintut ol lhe Bl cumrultsloners being of the character described, they ale, then, not ofllcers Intheinennlngof tbe Isw, The case of the United Htatea va. Hatch, which we have already cltid and which waa quoted approvingly by Iho Hupreme Court of tbe United Stater, was brought unler the laws of The Territory of Wisconsin. The or. ganlc act of that Territory provided that tho Uovernor shonld appoint all civil ofllcerr. The Legislature ap. pointed persons to manage and ills lte of land donated by Congress to the Territory. It waa claimed that the Legislature had not this power In lace of Ibe Urganlo Act. The Couils ruled II. at Ihiso icraom were "nut ctiil of. art tntliin , meaning 0 tha Orgaioa Mtoftht TirrU'iry;" and lurllun ''tha legislature has the power lo appoint ap-point them by naming Ibeni In the law, or to elect them under an etlstlng law providing for that male of lilting thoso nfriiTst and Ihe eiercw of Ibis power i,..l r-mHif I rlh Ihf ritiMnf (A Keren. tut to nfpomt nil nt'tt ftflrr, ..' la Ibis "no parallel care?" Waa lhire"uo Inhibition against the action oftheigllatdre"of Wlconsln as In this Territory? What Is the use of the Tnhune trying to worm out of Mi holo by sbcli twitting and ehamelesa falsehood? false-hood? The rase Is so plain that Ills bevond tbe region of Uoud or fair dispute, and the wiser way foi those who havo so egrsglously blundireil Is to let tbo proofs of their error go, without at. tempting to meet them with sophistry or deny them with Listen ellroulery. |