Show JUDGE BUCKS he bronss byi bin heavy flatteries flag flat deales teries to near bear oa sho gla edmunds larr the govermor GoTer sor ana and the the chesaw law maw shown to be infamous moua mons mona inquisitorial and Es ex jross post facto the following la Is a telegram to the chicago times september 29 budge 1 I adge blacks argument in behalf of the people of utah is in hla hia most vigorous and characteristic style and gives hib hla opinions of yasi past be tel lum reconstruction two per cent assessments s bess sess ments an and d other matters mattere as well as the me right of suf suffrage ringe linge in utah judge black begins the statement that a an nu election for terri terni officers officer alsed ed by law for the esth of august could not lawfully be held by the officers whom the people a had previously chaz chosen wen ien and who whom in the edmunds bill had displaced and the commissioners did not get to utah or enter on their duties till it was waa too inte late to make up the registers and hold an election therefore there was no election and can be none till august 8 in th next year but failure to elect does not cleato eleato a vacancy in any office the general rule of I 1 law aw and the specified statute of the territory provide that nil all officers cors corb shall hold hoid holdover over till their successors are duly elected and quail qualified flEd fied the federal judges in utah kno w ang this thia very vort bijl wll but desiring to C en nurge the powers of tho the government wrote to some senator sension a letter latter which was received tit at the tho dosoon the session in which th they ey represented that general disturbance and trouble were liable to be caused col 0 endangered and aud orgain government put la in serious jeopardy unless congress would for legal keces successors sors to all officers cern whose successors would have been choson chosen at the annual elec election tilon the tho judiciary committee of the senate benato did not understand the object or suggestion Eug hug of this the judges wanted an act authorizing thor izing the governor to beize seize all office offices vacant or not and fill them with creatures erea crea turea of his own the senators supposed that all offices were liable hable to be vacant on august 8 and judge black is of the belief that the senators had very little idea of what the edmunds bill which they had just passed senator hoar said it provided for a now election to be bce held in a nedway new way and that a new territorial government might ba be started in three or four months dle Ble sers hoar and bayard fixed up a an n amenda amendment ent to an appropriation pria tion bill giving 0 the governor of the territory power to fill vacancies resulting from non nou elec elee tion on augast 8 tho too governor governors commissions commis alons blons to ba be good for not more than eight months but no bacan clesmere cies cles were created by failure to hold an election and mr blackburn baid said in the houe house that every member of the conference committee commit tea was agreed that the amendment could not give the governor power to appoint to offices whose incumbents held over yet the governor has within a few fow days made appointments to various off omm offices iceo which the present incumbents chosen by the people will wili not yield without a contest judge black blaek bays says 1 I presume he intends to carry his point by for force ce unless you the the tha secretary ol 01 the interior teri or in iho tho absence of the president forbid him it if he succeed she sho and the small anti popular faction that backs backa him will possess themselves of unlimited authority which they will vill use for fon the foulest purposes they will seize bolze all the offices as th their belr lawful awful prey put the people under their feet and trample the lifo life out of ca clety cloty owing every assessor and collector of taxes an devery and every custodian cast odian of the public money and being at the samo same time master masters of the whole police courts magistrates sheriffs and const constables bleb bies bles they will vill revel in plunder it will not cost their ingenuity an effort nor their conscience a pang to burden the territory with debt sell bonda bonds put the proceeds in their own P pocheng ackels and tax labor to death for their payment not public property nione alone bat the lands and goods of in divi dividu duals alai will b bo 3 taken to gorgo gorge the rapacity of the tha falee false and illegitimate rulers peculiar circumstances not fo found und in any other territory may be anid ania an d already ara are set get up as excuses for robbing the churches to justify these acts of oppre oppression sealon sallon the priva privacy of families in the most moat sacred relations their kitchens and their bed chambers swill will wili be exposed and misrepresented depre dented by eves eavesdroppers droppers and lying yin relators reia rela tors toro fhe judge praises tha the thrift and enterprise of tho the people in cultis cultivate tr ing a desent desert and says utah is rich now and the people alo arc living in comfort but she cannot stand what south carolina did there is no ten sten years of good stealing there no mans man he be saya sayo is good enough to be trusted with such power in the great horde borde of thieves that overran the tha south under tho the auspices of the federal administration some were not without fair reputation at home what makes the matter worse for the cormons mormons is that tho the leader of their enemies Is the same governor who less than a year ago signalizes signalized his contempt forlaw for law and wid justice and truth by deliberately certifying to the election of a candidate fo for r deleo delegato delegate a to to Congre eq whom he and all men knew to be de defeated earod by a majority of fourteen to one Furthermore jany sany outrage 0 on cormons mormons would bo be hat bat hailed with sincere delight in all sections of he the cou coustry atry the judge concluded this portion offis argument thus gelt it needs only that you yon tell the governor to give up his jawless enterprise that tho the edmunds bill was waa not a bill of pains and pen ailles allies and at nor any other law will justify his hia contemplated usurpation and that ho he must therefore confine himself to hla hia proper dullest duties and leave the tho people in possession of their just rights judge black then turn turns s to the con federation of tha commissioners and ahks if tho imposed by tho the edmunds unUs law could be inflicted indicted for oh buses or for future fema without ut legal conviction and andr replies elleB if I 1 had the voice ofa of a thousand trumpets I 1 would answer as lol iol loudly oly as I 1 could no to congress meant to make acts retroactive is to charge it violation odthe constitution tho commissioners commands the registration Istra tion tiou officers to strike from the list of voter severy citizen who fuses ta to swear that he id Is innocent of polygamy and to place none on the tho thel t list who will not undergo the same process the commissioners Com mizz had no more right to pass ims sueh auch a decree than they had to toor or der that every mormon in the ter should ba be shot or strangled indeed the massacre Glenece ati at commanded by william wllliam III ili for delay in taking the teat oath closely resembled thia this case in ever every eveny y point and circumstance except that it was death there and disfranchise ment here the measure 13 la 13 merely an act of attainder or bill of pains and penalties and snit therefore unconstitutional it violates the fun T da mental law by inflicting punishment without a trial a degrading and infamous punishment consisting of depaiva de priva tiou of the most important right that a citizen alixe h entailing the loss of his enste casio in society and reducing him to tiro the condition of a v mere merd pariah besides this it is ex L post facto in its operation thelreg the tho reg i stars and election are re quiren to extend inquisition over twenty years of every manris manlis and every womans comans previous life hold all to be guilty who do not furnish the demanded proof for their inno cence and thereupon adjudge th them em to buffer a punishment which no law annexed to their offenses at the time they were committed no mail mall manis mania Is bound to testify against himself you cannot command him to swear in his ow own n case and tell him before I 1 hand that if lie he does dees not obey you yon will take his silence as a conf confession emlon emion of eulit guilt the judge juve then introduces some trl striking tri king illustrations theares the presence encel in washington of a lange large number of oi pt half breeds physical not political leads or ds him to suggest that public sentiment would not tolerate a commission that attempted too ta turn on tot or away from tho the polls overs every man who would nog not swear that during the past twenty years ho lie had not beon been responsible for ha the existence of any ono one d or 91 these recent events sug suggest g est an other illustration to him he baji safi nigh high placed men ta tax tas tho the eala rles of their subordinates to t keep heap thome theme elves elvea in power ower over til the inferior officer the tho contractor the laborer are made m mere ere instruments for drawing money from frona the treasury and putting it into a fund which manufactures public opinion and corrupts elect elections I 1 ons 1 it t ia t tho h a worst form forra that P publio ublia robbery has as admed it is money twice cursed in thia athaway way in which it is taken take and ana t is in tho the purpose for which it is used it is arrendy cited by law but bt b t still it gosa OB on i and it will vilf never nr at stop op until the i offenders are disfranchised franchised dis dib a eon con cont summation devoutly to b be 0 wl wished S hed bed but the thought cannot bo be endured ot of treating ng them as we treat the cormons mormons Mor mons catching them with a test oath which reaches back like the terrible hind hand of a gorilla would our mighty leaders like ilke ta 0 alternative of losing their offices and their votes on the one band hand 6 op swearing on their oath that the they thes had find never violated the law against political assessments or evaded ov eded it ife by getting members of congress con gress grees to do the prohibited thing in their theli stead and for their benefit judge biach blach concludes as follows ittris this Is my argument now hear bear rny my prayer remove remote theae un unfaith falth faith ful fin cona coca mission ers era unless they im fin y mediately retrace their aters and be betrice talce trice themselves ti to the path fath which the tho law lawand and the constitution bave traced for them aa chicago teme reme mes |