| Show THE DELEGATES DELEGATED SEAT VACATED vaoa VACA TEDo A A private telegram brings news that the seat in congress of delag delegate a 10 from utah has been declared vacant by the houe house houte of representatives by a vote of to 79 this territory la Is therefore now without any representation sen sent tation atlon in congress this Is of course to be deplored but the people I 1 le have the consolation of knowing that the infamous plot to give the feat keat to a person not elected and whom the people did not want under any circumstances has signally failed and brought neither position to the ambitions individual profit to his scheming attorney nor honor to any one engaged in the conspiracy our delegate has haafeen been exclude excluded ds not on the ground that he be was not duly elected not on the plea that he is not a citizen of the united states not because he Is personally disqualified for be he was declared in the reports which decided to be the peer pee r of any man in the committee cittee or in the house but simply because a popular outcry had been raised against polygamy and he admitted that he had married plural nivea wives and lived with them in the marriage relation in the vote taken taen on this question members of congress have I 1 prejudice passion and und priestly influence as against law precedent and established congressional rules for thero is no law ruling or regulation by which mr nir cannon could be iagal ly excluded but 79 members had the manliness to stand up for the right in the teeth of the raging monster of intolerance not because they had any sympathy with 41 mormon iam lam or plural marriage but because I 1 they knew that fo to exclude mr vannon cannon was wag a plain mation ration al qa right light and the principles which have heretofore governed the admission of members to the national bugl a lature honor to them their names should be published and recorded for future reference and approbation by all lovers of I 1 justice ustice and equal rights A vacancy now existing in the office of delegate a special election will have to be called to fill it this duty as wo we understand it devolves on the governor although no direct special provision la is made for it IQ in our statutes the of delegate not being a territorial office but an office under the laws of the united states it is presumable that it comes under the provisions of section 14 of the act of 1653 as the act of 1876 in relation to the ele eie election action of delegate provides that such elections shall be held under the act before mentioned it will be seen that utah can live and thrive even without any representation sen tation whatever in the republican body which makes laws to govern people without giving them any vote in its enactments |
