| Show CONGRESS DUrAH AN 6 urah tue tun washington ton G chronicle tal tai talks i ks ai ali follows concerning utah and it t is very strange that congress does doci not attempt to remedy the tilo legal impediments to the administration of justice in tho the territory oi of utah rutih lust list sedr year the president in a special message called attention to the impossibility of Im panelling a ae legal at jury and other barriers to tho the enforcement of the laws for the punishment of crime nothing was done by that congress and alid no remedy has been provided by the local legislature it is probable that the tho latter body will continue inert on this subject it is largely M mormon ormon in its composition and it is said prefers that the civil magistrates should be legally impotent so as to make it necess necessary arv are for every one to rely on brighams Brig hams hamb chu church ach for whatever dewree degree of protection for ilfe life liberty or property he may receive this tills increases the responsibility lity of of congress cowe we are aware that it is the tile duty odthe of the committees on territories of the two houses to look after such matters but if they continue to judic neglect it why should not the judiciary judie dle die lary iary committees take lake it up and after maturing the tho necessary necessary cy rem dedialo legislation bring their respective houses to a vote on the subject and if those committee committees sas as V SUC sue I 1 ii refuse feruse or neglect to do their thai 1 r duty lu in this respect sonie some senator or representative ought to overcome come 0 lis liis its modesty sufficiently to lead oft off on a subject of so much importance senators and representatives may not be aware that the 1 mor wor mons have boasted that they have heretofore prevented and expect in the future to co continue to prevent the passage of any bill to ma make ke the united states courts of th that at terri tory effective it lias has been broadly asserted also from mormon source a that the continuous defeat of such legislation has been secured at great pecuniary cost to the j church yo abne of lourse course bet lieve that thO the mormons cormons have had ap 0 opportunity o ap pp even if it could be t supposed that they hada had an n inclima tion tb co apply apody money corruptly to prevent distasteful legislation buethe auf the existence of such declarations and boasts the delay of con cressand gass gres sand and aud the urged necessity for immediate action form unpleasant sol soi coincidences ies ces then follows an extract from drom the message m essaye 4 five of ot governor woods which need not quote as certain misrepresentations therein we have 1 previously shown the chronicle ChYon icle continues az cc con Cou congress gress should bear in mind tuat that this territory contains allun dred thousand ar or moro more of white people that salt lake lako city is the li centre of a arar largo trade that the union pacific railroad and other long lines of railroad have been constructed through gli this territory th that thab t immense mining interests hav hal have sprung ap drawing lo together gether gethen a large population including some or of the rougher elements of so society citty and yet the governor says that for more mora than three years this large population has lias not had the power to organize a legal jury to try a cause civil or criminal those peo people plo pio are practically without courts the members of congress know it they are supposed to take official notice of passing events of suca magnitude transpiring in their own country but if thero there could be doubt son that point the president has offie offic officially lally callea called their atten attea attention tion tolt to it in the most lii iii marked rl ed manner possible will they act with reasonable promptness nesa nest the mormon question every winter like the indian war que question every spring is regularly thrust before lefore the public and the furmer former former before congress for effle effect ct political and financial further 01 than a h that generally speaking as sir charles coldstream Cold stream says there is is nothing in it in either particularly is the mormon ques quez bloh a political political oli dodge 0 frequently a piously political dodge mere speculative and aud intriguing buncombe As to the statements by the chronicle wo we may ma y nail soma of them 1 legai legal impediments et etc ete j fudge 1 A judge is the greatest legal impediment 2 impossibility bof of panelling im a legal jury etc fudge 0 th this thia 1 impossibility has been overcome in all three districts 3 the legislature does nothing etc fudge it wont accomplish much if all its acts ere vetoed 4 the legislature is mormon 11 etc fudge neither the he U h S constitution nor the organic act of utah requires the members of the legislature to profess or abjure any religion 5 civil magistrates impotent 11 etc fudge if they tiley are the fea federal judiciary will have them so 6 roly rely on brighams Brig hams church for protection etc fudge buncombe Part izan misrepresentation 7 mormon boasts etc fudge buncombe Part izan fabrication answers of the above kind will be and proper in nearly early n every instance wherein the dror dior mormon question comes up in fashion like ilke he the above |
