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Show A3iriilFli:i) VIEWS. (ioirrnor lliomai l'urllicr l'tiifisc lllmiclf tin Hie .liniitsly l'ruc- 1 .mini Ion, Owing to tho txtremo closeness ol tho liuur to press time last waning when the iNtuu oltnliiod Uovernor Tl oraaa opinion on thu acopo of the amnesty proclamation und the haste In which It had to bo put In typo and proof read, scural errors crept Into tho Intcrvluw Hlileli aro herewith corrected nnd presented wlltinmplltleJ views ly the Chief Executive of the Ttrrltory. Tho Governor said: "The injittlon la 'Docs tho pardon restore the right of a pumon illnfmicli-laed illnfmicli-laed undtr reo Dof thu Kdinunds law, 1 roved March 2, 18b.', to votu and hold billet?' "To vute, onu mutt regltter nnd take the oath prencrlUnl ill ste." 1 of thu IMmunda.'tueker not. "To hold clllcu onu mutt be n voter lualllled to register and vote, uud tintu thu passagu of tliu Kdinunds-Tucker Kdinunds-Tucker act, ttiunlllclaloatlialiavu burn made tucoiifnriu to rtc. Ill uf the act. "Following what Menu d to motile elTect of the decision of thu Bupreme t'uurtol the Unltid Bliites fn re Garland, Gar-land, I had tuipuiod thu tardou removed all iiolltlcal dlsuhllltUa, Imposed Im-posed dlnctlyur Indirectly nan u use Mienco of thu oilentes intduued; hut others now claim, baslugthelr opinion, niluly, on thu dtclslou of thu United butes Bupreme court in re Murphy ut al-i and eteclnlly thu laugiugu on pages -1J nnd I J, that the union dots not adtct or rcmovu political disabill. ilea or rislorothurlglit to vote or hold cfllce. Thu court held that section 8 did not attach a penally to bigamy nr any crime and hcucu wa not an ex I"t ado law. It wsa hill by the court tlmru was in iiavlvu hiatus in which ono who had previously comniltle 1 n cilmo remained, thougli he wot only Jiving with ono woman, ."'a violating no law, aud the ollunno llfellWTi barred, unit that thUttatun remained until ho In ecinowny, not Mink, uutly thedicHlon.ahuuldgtt 'Idol this ttuius, which thuracttrlred inni hi n olj gaiultt within the mean. n of suction 8 of the law. 'JhUtacs. tu and In itself liiuociiit ttaltis has ccrajioned much dlllUulty mid boa SIOOI Ihmvuy 0f me iimtttly detlrlng to obey all lawe, and it 18 mw claimed that, as it Is not run. .'!'."' '' ""J b dlnlranchlsan out i.,1 IenHy for a crime, It la only n M U prisorlblng thu ijciulllloitluni of T0'l'r uJ n it atlect-nl ny thu p irdon. ,. 'neargunient ngutirttliatllnct ol I 7il,ra!Hhty Uni" "ot convlncu nu. I J'lylugiull iiiect to the languagu of I ino cjiirt, uud uj-plyliig It to thu ousos '"irtttheat-tltiuusjus to limit thu cllccl of the pardon. The status of u pulrgamlst could not exist us n con. teiiueucu u n aline, nnd l.o loin a crlmo be-iaute It wna lut puulshcd aud thu- tottulluu lurreU. Thu iiMlatcnanco of this statu., thecouit says, makes the person a jljgviili within the meaiiluguf seitinn 8, and Hi this moral wrong In rniitlimuus, thu law Is not nil ex jml attu nni . I do not find thucuuittaja llila is nnt u eu-nlty eu-nlty for Ihualatut, and If ttctlon H la r. ad with other pruvltloti, tho wlinu rtemi t bu u ptnsl act, 1 cannot M-o why pardon ooes nut reach llio crime anil all its pdltlcsl tllecls and dlsabllltlMi, nud protldea way cut uf thottatus uhiih tiiet-ouit did not 1-olliC out, and which thu parties par-ties tin inselVtB hate been unable tu II ml. The pilygnmoua rehtlou la unlawful, unlaw-ful, but melo Is no way If ciu be die i-olveJ ixcept by the mut nl couscul of Hie partite, nnd noway loliite-1 out by the Idw or the court fur him to ht-rtstorc-d to his forintr lolltical status, rhuamnctly, lltitmato me, providis tho way, and any piTioii who Iim not slncothe datn llxi-d by tho -ardoin vlolattd the law, ran vi te nnd hold olllce. Whennmau llMawllhn woman In un unlawful relation, the crime of that relation ct-ues upon thu nctuil separation of tho mill nnd womnu, nnd thupardon.lt aetms tu me, rules thu wroug committed prior to the separation." |
