Show THE TIIE 11 AN AND TIIE THE JUDICIARY oun our chief justice requires the applicants for naturalization in the third district court to give a weeks notice of bf their intention to make application biso ito forward to tho the court at the same time the names of their witnesses where does he nind find the law for this rule and if there is no law for this requirements require we think he will readily admit there is not then b by what authority does he usurp the legislative function for if such a requirement ia is not sanctioned by the law of congress his making it ia Is a clear usurpation of legislative power can any one imagine congress intended that every judge throughout the country should supplement its laws by provisions of his own that every judge should presume that it had not made the laws as full and perfect as they should bea be such a view of the action or laws of congress is simply absurd the naturalization j laws are drawn up with great care they provide for every possible contin gen cy that would be likely to arise upon the subjects to which they relate and when they passed both houses and were approved by the president they were finished no judge however high his position has the least i right to add to them or to enforce rules upon the subjects to which they pertain which are not pres prescribed bribed by them to do so is to the intelligence of congress with as great propriety might a judge say tha that t an applicant for naturalization shall be a resident in he countr country ly for a greater or lesser lessek time than the law prescribes we shall not be surprised to hear that the disposition which has been manifested of late here to put new constructions upon the naturalization laws and to enforce new regulations in administering them thim has called forth rebuke there are thousands of influential men in the tho country many rn ny of whom hold official positions who can instantly perceive that if infractions of the laws lawa of congress be permitted in utah territory there la Is no telling where they will win stop slop and it is not nob unlikely that their influence will be used to check them in the outset there is a sense of justice and aind propriety in most mens minds upon such points as these and when they hear of invidious distinctions being made in the case of mormons cormons Mor mons they revolt against them they feel that the government and people of the united states are strong arong enough to deal with the mormon question up upon honorable principles without h having haying an ng recourse to chicanery tricks and cunning to carry points which may be b e deemed desirable there may be many who do not feel so they would use any means however low and unfair to gain their ends the mormons cormons Mor mons are too strongly entrenched in the right to he ve reached by sound legal measures so this class would use every unfair means in their power to obtain advantages over them by EO so doing they virtually acknowledge the weakness of their own position and the strength of the position occupied cu ed by those whom they oppose the te cullom bill is not yet law yet this ba elass class ass would havo its provisions carried out as though it were the law of the land they would have its ita passage anticipated the fact is they would like to exercise all the power powen which they may deem n necessary to carry out their schemes if congress has been too liberal in it laws to meet their ideas of what is suited to the cormons mormons Mor mons c case cage they want the privilege of cur curtailing them if that body has failed to pass the laws which they think are needed to regulate the territory to their no noi tion they want the privilege of arranging and enforcing them what they aim to obtain is the right to exercise the legislative executive judicial and military functions to be judges ann afi anid arid djury jury will they obtain it wom now berrong vet ver ronS rong |