Show MORE X 0 RR FALSEHOOD FA L SEH 0 OD BY 13 Y TELEGRAPH THE tre T salt bait laho lahe press dispatcher has baen been at it again the tho following telegram appeared several days ago in the coast paper and we have been keeping heaping it till we could beare space for it in tho hews the supreme court of the territory composed of john A hunter philip phllip H Emer emerson and stephen P twloa signed a memorial to congress asking that a law be passed giving the governor of utah power to appoint territorial and county officers to fill vacancies occasioned by the lapsing of the august elec election I 1 and thus prevent anarchy through through their recommendation the hoar amendment to the edmunds law was passed and power to appoint was conferred upon the governor in october last the governor made his appointments and the cormons mormons resisted restated the cases came up in the several districts presided over by the judges who affirmed the law till finally they reached tile the supreme court and yesterday the farce faree ended by permitting an appeal to the supreme court of the united states As the term for which the omm off meers officers werm were appointed expires ja in august the thelah law baw Is virtually nullified fled and the mormon church again triumphs over the government this dispatch is of tho same nature aa others the tha un untruthfulness truthfulness of which has been proven in our columns it is misleading in intent and false in statement in the first fluit place the judges named did not in their memorial to congress ask that aa a law be passed giving the governor of utah power to appoint territorial and county officers 1 I they did not intimate any such thing they represented that in consequence of the probable lapse of the approaching august election all the county and those of ter it orial auditor and treasurer would be become ome vacant and said we therefore ask that Con congress congles gres greb shall take buch such measures as 89 will wil provide for legal successors to all the present incumbents of office whose successors would have been chosen at the august election and thereby secure the tho continuance of good order and the regular and undisputed support of organized government which would otherwise be seriously jeopardized 2 they were mistaken in two important ihma all the county officers were not to be ba filled at the august election as some of the county officers hold their positions for four years and others for two years then the provision of law making their terms continue until their successors are elected and quail qualified nned fled 11 prevented any vacancy and left no room for the disorder and jeopardy to organized government which the memorial anticipated and one potent proof that their portents were groundless is the fact that organized government has continued without hindrance and no disorder has occurred although the august election lapsed and no successors sora have been legally appointed the old officers have simply almly held hoid over according to law and there has been no anarchy or confusion but the judges did not ask for any such special and extraordinary powers to be conferred upon the governor as stated in the press dispatch they did not indicate any particular line of policy to the senate of the united states but simply pointed out a probable danger and asked for something to be done to avoid it the tho senators who undertook to take hold of this matter exhibited astonishing ignorance of the subject butcho but the hoar amendment which was passed did not confer any power upon the governor except to make appointments to fill such vacancies as might occur through the failure to elect but the failure of the election did not make the tho vacancies expected through the holdover hold over provision to which we have referred yet the governor attempted to fill them vacancy or no vacancy and a ali ail 11 tho the r resistance es istance offered was this the tho incumbents who had taken an oath of office and held the governors commission to continue until their successors were wera elected and qualified simply declined giving up their positions until the status of tha the case could be judicially decided there has been no farce in the conduct of the test case before the courts some bome of the best legal talent in this region of country has been engaged upon it the result Is an appeal to the sou Fou supreme court of the and settles affairs locally for the incumbents continue to perform the duties of their respective offices to which they were elected by the people and there is no dispute as to the validity of their official acts the term of such offices as tho the governor was wag authorized to fill was limited to eight months this dating from august last would terminate them in a april next leaving a |