Show the utah judicial muddle how one absurd act entails another iret especially in judicial proceedings is well illustrated in utah in some officials there took it into heads that they would extirpate poly polygamy amy ams the object was good but t the w means resorted to were scandalous and are res responsible pons for the present judicial confusion there it was found that prosecutions under united states care would permit appeal to the united supreme court and it wa thought a smart tiling thing to pre prevent yent bent f this if possible bo so a territorial law against adultery was construed as against tile the mormon institution and the prosecutions were urged upon the law passed by the saints themselves but a against ala aia the success of this course stood sto d the fact that a Tenito Teni lorial rial lawa specifically authorized by tile the organic act of congress required the territorial marshai marshal nia r hal hai appointed alli allt and instructed b by y th the e ie legislature gi slature to draw the jurors to get around chisa this a guo quo carranto warranto war ranco tanco process was carried through putting the united states marshal marshai in the office of tile the territorial marshal thence the present tangle the united states supreme P rem 0 0 court ourt has decided the ousting of the territorial marshal illegal ial gal it follows that tile tiie acts of the dual u al marshal as far as they were territorial have been illegal and all an proceedings bawd based thereon are prima facie vitiated since the tile supreme courts decision the ousted territorial marshal marshai lias ilas resumed his kofile office opened court and served processes but justice justlee ari ati who wiio affirmed the ousting in 1870 still insists that mcallister mcalister is ignot not th the e legal marshal mamba yet mckean merean proceeds to try cases in which the tile processes have been served by mcallister meau AU ister isten the united states actor ney general masaid to be engaged in unraveling this judicial snarl in which we trust he may soon be le successful meanwhile tile tiie little history has a plain moral which it is not too late to heed beed even ill in utah st zou lou louis is globe |