| Show THE NEW SECRETARY OUR patches dispatches di state that yester d ty feb 13 the senate confirmed the appointment of or L P duckey luckey aa as secretary of utah this implies that mr luckey accepts the appointment and the Inre inference rence may bo be reasonably drawn that erg ero long he will make his advent in the territory in his lelal official off omm character when the appointment was made a washington paper remarked that president Pre Adent grant had bad tendered the ofelea to mr luchey luch ey 11 him lim this is aa 10 a compliment to satisfactory so far it ia is satisfactory that the offer of a federal office in utah should be considered by the president aa as a compliment to one of his bis personal friends as mr luckay Is understood to be and it indicates that the views of the president have been somewhat modified of late orsay or say since his visit to utah nearly two years ago 11 will be recollected that his messages to congress the last two sessions were devoid of the usual u ual strenuous appeal to that honorable body to do something toward straightening up the affairs of thia this territory his mind being formerly so much prejudiced against the larger part of the inhabitants by means of misrepresentation re presen tation that it was wats customary ar y for him to give congress distinctly ti acly to understand would afan any bill having that end in ale view w no matter how strenuous the provisions of such bill might be he was even in in favor of what people here considered extrajudicial extra judicial and land unconstitutional measures but as we 6 have slid said the evidences of such in him have become much lesi manifest of jaaj late and it will ho remembered that lie jie has removed more than one of his own appointees when he has become convince con cou vincel I of their unwise and illegal dings there is no doubt that he baill retains his hia opposition to things mormon 1 1 and to certain of the religious practices and domestic rations A aj antibus of the people of this territory all this he may honestly do but there seems some reason ta conclude that if he does so and ithe would today to day sign another act of Congress for the purpose of providing legal punish punishment ment went for those practices and relations he does not entertain the extreme view vuew that the people of this territory tory are necessarily rankly disloyal as his radical advisers and persuaders hereabout fiere about formerly led him nim to believe belleve he probably thinks think til inks s that thai the citizens of tinis territory al all things considered cons deed are on a par w wyth lh citizens generally in the teri hories dories tories lories and in the various states and that there thero really exist exists no necessity for him to recommend or adopt any proscriptive prescriptive measures towards them the fact that he has not done so of late favors this inference if wo we are correct in this then this instance is additional proof that acquaintance serves with well meaning moaning people to correct many false views and prevent the commission of many mistakes in action the appointment of mr luckey luekey may be the last president grant will make for utah and if it bolet us hope that it will prove provo to be behls hla hia best As the appointment is reported to be of the nature of a compliment to the adeo appointee antee let us nope lope that it will also aiso 1 so prove to bo of the nature of a compliment to the people of the ter iford at large and then aa as regarda regards utah the latter part of president dent grants administration will be ba better than the former part J |
