Show THE NEW LAW As wo we anticipated and as everybody knows before this timet tl methe be notorious and proscriptive prescriptive poland bill as it passed from the tile house to tile the senate failed to become law it was difficult for us to believe that the tile congress of this great republic would show itself so far lost to justice and to republican principles as to enact such an unconstitutional I 1 and iniquitous law a law thoroughly subversive of the very first principles of american government in that it substituted federal appoint appointments ments menti for local elections authorized federal disbursement of the local taxes denied the people the right 0 to sit injuries on junnes junies or to bo be tried by a jury abury of their peers and practically placed the entire ruling power or of the territory in the hands bands of half a dozen officers office rs the passage of such a bill would have been a fatal blow at republicanism and it at the dearest right sand most cherished liberties of the people the enactment of such would have constituted one of the most dangerous precedents for if congress ean abolish local seir seif government ern ment and the right to sit on juries or to be tried by a jury of ones peers pee in in a territory it can dilso so wiatt with equal justice abolish those thos rights in a state and their abolishment in a territory would only be a st stepping eppink stone to their abolishment la in a stale and consequently to their utter abolishment throughout the union but the bill did not bot pass pasa until ome of its most objectionable features j had been extracted an indis dis 1 the tile bill in the house one 0 the members mem bersi the sponsor we think urged in its favor chat it was not nearly so severe as uhe bill which passed the but failed to pass the house last session this argument is as rational as the high who after robbing his ills victim told him he had bad not een aeu so badly used as he would have been if he had fallen into the hands of another desperado who intended not only to rob but to murder him A similar illustration u on will apply to the poland bill AS it passed the house in compani compari on with its shape as it subsequently passed both houses it is not lot so 80 nad wad lad now as when it first passed the house by a great deal but it still nas has features seriously obnoxious to every lover of american liberty and popular rights the bill as it passed both houses if it has not already bean been undoubtedly will be signed by preside president nt grant for it cannot be disguised that resting on statements byln by influential fluent ial republican journals there Is a very general assurance that the president would sign any special bill against utah no matter how republican how unconstitutional a how severe evere r how unjust nor how prescriptive tive in its character it is unfortunate ate that such a feeling should be general in the public mind concerning the ch ef magis whose duty it is to bea ben be a father to tho the people but such is the fact we re are sorry very sorry to have so much reason to say but what have we in the bill as passed and as it lias ilas or will become law we have mainly as we understand the bill 1 theu the U S marshal and attorney or their representative representatives to be the court in all court business throwing out the territorial marshal and attorney thou though 19 ai the territorial le legislature eliji lift ille it altes does goes hot sit for a year and a half may provide for nur the election of county atto attorneys ineys to commence or assist twist in prosecuting suits under tinder territorial laws 2 the costs and expenses of prosecutions under tinder the territorial laws are to he be paid out of tile the territorial treasury thus establishing practically even local taxation without representation 3 the governor instead of the tile legislature is to appoint all ali notaries not aries public 4 the tile governor fixes the terms of tile the supreme Sti premo preme and district courts two of the former and four fou f of the latter annually 5 Cil minal and chancery jurisdiction is taken from the probate courts 6 the clerk odthe of the district court virtually the j judge and the j judge of the probate cou it shall shail make maksout out lists of names for jurors annually to bo be drawn from by the 17 S marshal or liis ills deputy 7 f the the tho supreme court of the territory shall appoint comal commissioners 1 1 to take acknowledgment of ball bail and to oni late as examining and committing magistrates and justices of the peace 8 lne ine rhe rne beba feature of tho the bill is that which makes capital and or cases to the supreme court of the united stated the great objection to the bill in its present shape iq IH a fundamental and fatal one it takes from the people and their legislative depre renta tives powers and rights enjoyed by them for a quarter of a ceni tury always enjoyed by them enjoyed now byall by all other te territories ancl anci states and concentrates those powers and rights in half a dozen federal appointees a thing entirely foreign to constitutional and republican principles tilis this we can never approve of and no american can sanction it without repudiating tile the very distinctive principles upon which ills his own government was founded the bill as it is is an other bad precedent another step towards centralization and the undermining der mining of the principle of local self government another blow at tile the rights of the people and is in direct violation of the american principle that the just powers of governments vern ments are derived from the consent of the governed |