| Show THE territorial AND ATTORNEY GENE As stated in a dispatch in the NEWS of april 6 the current term of the first district court associate justice emerson presiding opened on that day at provo 0 F strickland claimed to be territorial attorney strickland presented commiss commissions ions lons from governor woods to that effect but had bad no claim to confirmation by the legislature J D T mcallister McAll lster ister also claimed to be territorial marshal ile he had no recent commission governor woods having refused to commission him but mcallister had been elected to that office by different legislatures of the territory pad had been comin commissioned by a previous governor and had acted year after year in the office in another part of to days daya NEWS will be found the decision of judge emerson upon the question it will be seen that he be takes obvious and positive ground in favor of the persons elected by the legislature i the reasoning of his honor ij i plain and simple being to the effi effect act that from the construction construe tion of the law upon the subject the individuals elected by the Legisla turc ture were the only persons that could have any legal and rightful claim to the offices named |
