| Show ive ye publish the following correspond corre spon after asking judge sinclair a ince g and after his answering g it t question fuestion lu estion epithets were cre applied to colne ine gross ga th the ag letter and himself by tho the solons it aho vho control the destinies de of utah we iso ull der stand that tat secretary hartnett I 1 received a liberal quantity of left band ajol ij compliments legislative assembly At T 4 coccia CoCCI I CHAMBER SOCIAL january 20 11 t WOT E SINCLAIR Isso claie justice of the united slates for the su gremle court of the territory of utah SIR SIK the Lisla legislative tive council re request your 3 our honors report of f all omissions omission discrepancies or oth K r evident imperfections ious of the law i luch have hae kallen fallen under your our tons ions as required in in chap 1 sect 4 i an act in m relation to the judiciary 0 very respectfully yours sc DANIEL 11 II WELLS brebt of council lw hawins secretary GREAT SALT LIKE CITY U T J january 1859 1659 S iroy HOT D II 11 WELLS president of council legislative as i i utah territory SIR I 1 am in in receipt of 3 your our communication ni cation of the dinst the act r referred to seeks to make it it imperative on the judges to make report to the legislature of 11 all omissions discrepancies or other oiher evident imperfections of the law a which have fallen under your their I 1 observation with due respect to the hojo honorable rable body over which you preside I 1 beg to say that I 1 do not rec recognize onize the lindig india authority of such an enactment I 1 came caine into this territory under a commission from the president of the united states to enforce the laws of the U S anil and the laws of tho the territory in in subordination to them it is the function of the tha governor bowmar to give to your Asse assembly rally ial or mation of the state of the territory and to recommend to their consideration t sue such a ruea measures as ho he shall judge iary and expedient this includes the whole service which the act of the legislate Leg legislature islat u seeks to impose 0 o on the judiciary the judiciary is an independent division of the government whose duty it is to pass in j judgment on in laws avs enacted but not to recommend or adv advise ite them to illustrate the yiew view which I 1 take of this matter permit me respectfully to say that if I 1 obeyed your requirements I 1 should unhesitatingly state to you that in my best judgment there is an omission in your statutes to provide a punishment for polygamy a crime which is extensively practiced in this territory and which is severely punished in every state and territory in the union this alone excepted might it not occur to the legislative body that in such case I 1 would be trans 1 bending my powers and still could you say eay adibe report would not be in com coin r aliance with the commands of your act la in a communication to his excellency gov cumming my iny associate judge cradlebaugh and myself informed him f in the legislation of this territory to provide for defraying the expenses of the court of the united slates whilst settin setting in the exercise of 0 I 1 territorial jurisdiction action and the fai failure I 1 ure also to provide for the maintenance and anc 41 disposition POsition of criminals to be brought to trial toll at its lar which omission pracie cally ousted the courts of tho the united states of the jurisdiction which the or ganic game act contemplated would be accepted in good faith the governor made a special recommendation men lien dation to the on this subject object I 1 am very respectfully your obit CHARLES E U SI scLAin associate justice supreme court utah territory and ex officio judge ad macial judicial Mi cial district G S L CITY jan 24 1859 kmic kinic ANDERSON ANDEn sot esq dear sir I 1 returned late last night from camp floyd where I 1 filled an engagement ga with arra peen a principal chief of the utah tribe I 1 invited him and his sub chiefs some time ago to visit camp floyd my object for thi this 1 s was to remove from the minds of those these indians all prejudice against the army and so soldiers I diers I 1 the interview beaw between een gen john job ston chief arra peen and myself at camp floyd last saturday was entirely the chief said many things had been told him calculated to prejudice him and his people against the soldiers and that in in future he would listen to no talk against the soldiers the chief made no demands for the accidental ci killing g of sub chief pin tete his half brother last september by a soldier at spanish fork these indians are kindly treated by the officers and soldiers at camp floyd flod and I 1 feel confident that their visit will be productive of much good if I 1 can find time I 1 will give you ou a full statement of the causes of the recent confusion among a portion of the utah tribe three sub chiefs accompanied arra peen to camp floyd I 1 also alo visited durin during my absence a la lage ge e land of gosho go sho utes encamped at Grants grantsville ville these are very iery destitute I 1 continue to provide for them yours respectfully J FORNEY in whatever you engage pursue it with a steadiness of purpose as though you were ere determined to succeed A vacillating mind never accomplished anything worth naming there is nothing like a fixed steady aim aim it dagni nes fies your nature and insures your success who have done the most for In mankind allkind who have secured the rarest leonors lio nors who have raised themselves from poverty to riches richest those who ho were steady in their purpose they move noiselessly along and yet what wo bonders riders they accomplish they rise gradually we e grant lut but surely the heavens are not too high for them nei ther are the stars beyond their reach how worthy of imitation rathe esthe most remarkable instance of indecision we ever eer heard of was that of the man who sat up all night because he could not decide which to take olf off first his coat or his boots go it is not more than twenty years bears ago since since the tinder box was as m in universal use it is is abolished now the in invention of the friction match spread slowly aly but who n ho at this day would ven ture to say they could do without it in int T significant as matches appear to be sin sin gle factories fa ct ories with ex extensive e machinery I 1 cut up large rafts of timber annually for them the latest case of absence of mind occurred to a friend of ours he purchased a brace of ducks and a bottle of whisk whisky y he hid the ducks in in his straw pile and put the whisky hisky in in the hencoop au jatho tho question is whether we can weather this tight weather without getting weather bound but the weather wise say we must weather it whether we can or not to a friend who had bad married a lady who was on the point of taking the thewl veil jerrold ferrou said ali ah she evidently thoi you better than nun it is a curious fact says some eto mo logist that it is only tho the female mus mu auto that torments us A bachelor I 1 says it is not at all curious |
