Show UTAH AFFAIRS IN CONGRESS THE POLAND roland biln blet it is somewhat hazardous to attempt to criticize a law without an official copy yet it is believed the act as published in tile tiie NEWS is sufficiently accurate for the purposes of this review candor compels the admission that for the last three years the district courts of the territory have been in a state of paralysis for the want of the necessary juries to bring the guilty to justice and to determine rights between man and man indeed so great has been the claws laws delay that timid capitalists ita lists have not sought investments here and aud hence the eyes of all utah were turned to the legislative power to furnish the laws necessary to set the courts to work but alas owing to the one man power armed with the veto the local legislature was unable to give any relief then an appeal to congress was made and who would have objected to a law of congress giving the courts power to summon a legal jury by the 0 ulcers selected by the people so of tie tle ie territory err or while this might I 1 t have luve been su subversive veralee of the girl giri rights lits retained by the people t to make ake their own laws constitution 01 of the united states art I 1 X it would have been cheerfully submitted to for the sake of harmony and the general good of the people yet when the law is ihnot if not unconstitutional and as originally framed by the piratical trat ical icat crew who only sought for booty by a judicial confiscation of the property of polygamists under tho the mild name of ali all alimony mony mory and cound counsel fees it becomes the duty of every man be he jew gentile or mormon who has the least spark of humanity left to rise and in the name of an outraged people protest against a law that was intended to first arrest a man for a pretended crime and then follow up the arrest by forfeiting his property to a woman whom the law refuses to recognize as his wife by prosecuting the husband for polygamy which virtually declares she is not his wife yet ces zes ives her alimony which is declared to be the right of a married woman only and her attorney was to aid in this plundering under the name of counsel fees had this feature of the poland bill become law it would have been a disgrace to the congress of the nation and have offered d a reward or premium to lawyers to seek counsel fees from persons not their clients and to induce the i judges adges as lawyers are called to become a miserable set of champer tors which are defined to be a set of judicial shysters shy shyr aters who stir up lawsuits in order to have part or of th the tho elands lands or gain in dispute with this temptation before them what a demoralized set the judges would have soon become but the senate not wanting to lea iea lead a them into temptation and wishing to save them them from breaking breaking the commandment as to coveting their neighbors goods gods struck out this item of land piracy and thus saved our judges from violating that other commandment which declares thou not steal but they do swear like the army in flanders at senator sargent and others who voted to strike out this abomination and made the bill less oppressive to a people who had bad no hand in its enactment and saved the constitution from orom violation which prohibits unreasonable seizures art IV the act abolishes the offices of territorial marshal marshai and attorney general thus depriving the people of the right tight to select their own officers and legislates into their offices the united states stales marshal and Attorney prohibits the tha probate court the only only court in the terri judge is appointed by territorial authority from exercising any jurisdiction in chancery or law cases and transfers jurisdiction in all chancery cases and law action to the district courts of the territory which courts the people have not been beem consulted in their organization nor had any voice in their creation and the only part they are required to take in running the courts is to be taxed to furnish the money to pay all ex expenses anses unless we may except the 3 jurors brors furnished by the probate aprobato judge as provided by the fourth section of the act there wo we have taxation without representation en tation f for which our fathers went ac t to war with john bull has haa one ono hu hundred adred years made right what was then a wrong so deep that nothing less than an appeal to arms could rectify it lave llave I the sons of 76 degenerated so that they must submit to wrong and injury heaven forbid 1 the purport and intention of this law as passed is of the rights of the people and can best be expressed in the language of the declaration of independence when it was declared the king of great britain had wronged the people of america by suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever which is a true bill of indictment against congress when legislating for utah if this law is used only for the purposes intended tile the intent of purposes congress angress is shown by striking out all in reference to polygamy to set the law in motion to try enders offenders and determine rights in civil actions no great harm will be done for the supreme court of the U S have the power to correct errors in capital cases bigamy and polygamy this Is I 1 a safeguard that will guarantee justice in the cases mentioned it will be shown to have been unnecessary in cases of polygamy as it Is ia believed by the best informed attorneys that no conviction can be hadovec ha deven doven in utah therefore no necessity for the tho right of appeal in such cases it would not be proper in this communication to indicate the line of defence that must be reserved to be most effective to the day of trial but I 1 venture this opinion that no r person teon reon will be convicted in utah of oj polygamy OM doubtless many aid ai ayd d desperate efforts f will be made to that end index |