Show retrenchment and the mormons cormons Mor mons the following from a correspondent of tho press philadelphia is in accordance with the entime its and feelings of many in washington and oth er portions of the union as expressed in relation to utah difficulties and the effect that the expense already incurred in prosecuting the so called mormon war has had in irl depleting the national tre treasury nury aury and nd the consequent result that will fol lowin the event that bat so large a portion of the army is continued in this territory the causes that produced so much excitement in the public mind are being understood and the originators of the difficulties seen in their true light and there is a fair prospect that lying about the people of utah in order to induce the government to make expenditures for the benefit of unprincipled speculators army contractors and butlers for a time to come will be a little below par at leant till there shall be some way provided to ie replenish pien plen ish an exhausted treasury washington feb 17 1859 two tto T vo leiding leidi nsf item itom which have swelled the budget of secretary cobb to its enormous size are the utah and wars but actual cost of these expeditions la so adrai adroitly aly intermingled with the general expenditures of the army and navy that it I 1 13 dubi difficulty culty cully to exactly ascertain it the national expenditures during the year exclusive of payments pay mentEr on account of the public debt amounted to about quadruple their amount twenty years ago if it be possible as the opponents of the tariff contend to reduce these expenditures to those who have guided the affairs of the government for the last two years have a grievous sin of extravagance to answer foi for for there are no good reasons ab why the expenses of next year should be thirty mil mii mif lions iessi less than those of last year unless corruption lavish expenditures and reckless squandering of the public money unprecedented in the annals of history leave h ave heretofore prevailed the anti tariff economists are either trying to do entirely too much now or they have been boim doing entirely too little heretofore when we cor con consider s ider lder the rp lation between out past expenditures and their present pro gramme of appropriations in connection with the ML heavy beavy debt already piled up and the expensive project for the purchase of cuba which is being steadily pressed pr essid the clamor against a revision of the tariff at this kimt time must strike every intelligent man as the arrant it is worthy only pf af a state legislator 0 r who fears to add half a milt to a stape state state tax when he knows that the tb cred t and honor of his big commonwealth imperatively demand the imposition of such a tax because he is afraid that the indignation of the tax payers of his district will prevent his return to a seat which he dishonors by his cowardice buncombe is the great curse of american legislation 4 and buncombe has more to do with the stubbornness with which a change of the tariff is Js resisted than any other cause for the simple reason that members who have free trade constituencies fear that their chances of election reelection re might be imperilled imperil led if they did justice to the financial interests of the nation i I 1 it is said sald that the mormon war has already cost the government more than and if an army of two or three thousand men ia to be kept there foran for an indefinite time a similar drain upon the na re sources will be continued the american people are eminently practical in their views and sonie sonic of these days will begin to inquire whether it is desirable to incur BO so much trouble and expense to attain results of comparatively small importance the great difficulty in utah appears to be between the judges and the people so far as recent advices advises inform ua us peace reigns there governor cumming possesses the confidence of the people and to a great extent commands their obedience and respect in the courts district attorney wilson seems to move along as successfully as the generality of district attorneys from the very nature of the legal system of utah as of all other american communities the juries are made up of men chosen from the body of the i people and represent inevitably to some extent the passions feelings and prejudices of those among whom their lot in life is cast when judge sinclair in the discharge of his official duties chose to place upon the pardon 0 of f mr buchanan an interpretation differing from the sense in which it was ordinarily accepted and from the meaning which the peace commissioner commissioners and governor cumming placed upon it and when he evinced a disposition to press prosecutions against a 1 large arge number of the prominent citizens of the T territory errit ory even against the better betten judgment of the district attorney it is not very singular that a people banded together as the mormons cormons are should not only feel disposed to resist his dicta but bub ut in their resistance to go beyond the bou bounds i of legal propriety that they are not wholly disposed to ignore the action of the courts Is I 1 shown by the fact that when ferguson was indicted for alleged indignities upon J judge stiles the grand jury composed of a majority of cormons mormons Mor mons found a true bill but after a trial of three weeks duration during which he displayed considerable ingenuity in lu defence which he being a lawyer conducted inper son he managed to secure an acquittal in the subsequent case of a man indicted for the murder of a deaf mute the allege that there were extenuating circumstances and their version is that the deceased waa was killed while in cull cuil custody tody for a criminal of bf fence at a time when the officer in charge of him was compelled in self defence to destroy him bim it is no doubt vain to pretend that according to the strict rules of law under the circumstances as we understand them that a mormon grand jury was justifiable in ignoring a bill of indictment in this case but the point which I 1 wish to present to your rea readers dersi derai Is this that juries everywhere throughout the country are notoriously influenced in their deliberations libe ibe rations by the sentiments and peculiar pecullar ideas of th communities in which they live liv and serious as that evil is subversive ag as it is of the true ends of justice does it impose upon 0 nil all t the e N national ati onal government the duty of correcting it by having martial law declared in utah by having men tried by drumh drumhead e ad courts 11 by y g giving ivi ivl ng judges absolute power cf life or death a and d unlimited control of or property yr by qa ari arl derin away lff iff vain tain att attempts e t to establish establish mormon jurisprudence al als ils on a basis which the ideas of clearheaded clear headed lawyers it if the national government is to undertake to compol juries and grand juries to act in all important import alib aitt cases as the judges think they should act it will have its hands bands full and it can squander away huid huld hundreds reds of millions annually and afar it has done so discover that infinitely inore more harm barm than good has been accomplished the press speaking of mr kelloggs kel KeI ios Ioa I 1 amendment to the arizona bill providing for the election of the governor secretary of state marshal marshai and judges by the people of the territory says bays the marshal and judges beital t properly r federal officers whose duties corr correspond trond arh ph those of the federal mare marshal haib balb ani an dg judges in the several states should always we think be appointed by the prebi presidents president denti b but ut it is a question worth considering whether I 1 r governors e 1 lors lore tore and secretaries lofstate of state should dot not nt be e elected by the people of the Terri territories totes topes some time since a bill to this his effect was as into the house by mr morris illinois and while the pio plo proposition position may be at this time tiffie premature mature and per pet perhaps hIpS liable to boine soine bome some serious objections we shall not be at all if when a full fuli examination ot or it is the subject t is discussed in all its ils bea hea tia iia ring the american can people should finally decide jp clde jn 16 1 11 tte baa 1 favor what are the he duties 0 of f federal ai wana WANG ai ard aid d judges as defined by law lavi M |