Show SPECIAL rowers POWERS GRANTED TO THE legislature GOVERN GONEr LNOR OR MURRAY pretends a great re regard gard for the laws of congress fyr dsa ticul arly one or two sections thereof when those laws conflict with the line of policy marked out for him by those who have used him as their tool he does not hesitate to dodge around or ignore them lie ue is very strenuous over a strained construction of section seven of the organic act the spirit of the law and the general principles that governed in its enactment he does not take into account well we vye invite his attention to the exact wordin wording of section nine kine of the edmunds which he has made reference in his message disapproving of the election bill passed by the legislature in pair pursuance of that section n the only duty suggested to not required of tile the legislature by this section is prescribed edin in these words abdat and at the first meeting of said baid legislative assembly whose members shall have been elected and returned according to the provisions of this act said legislative assembly may make mak c such laws conformable to the organic I 1 act of said territory and not ill lii consistent inconsistent with other laws of the united states as it shall deem proper concerning the lulin tilling of the othe offices es in said territory declared vacant by this act here liere is power granted to the legislative is assembly alone without any tilly action or oi concurrence or approval ot of the Gover norto make such laws as it shall deem proper for the tilling filling of the ollices offices made vacant by the edmunds law such laws must musi be conformable to the organic act and the laws of tile the united states anything forbidden in those laws cannot be legalized by the assembly of course but the power to pass them is vested in the assembly of itself it is not the governor and the legislative assembly together that are to enact them eor for this special purpose the edmunds act vests the right in that body of itself to pass such laws as the legislature may deem proper the governor la is left out entirely ordinarily tiie the legislative power is vested in the thy governor nna ana the assembly it is so declared in the organic act but this is a special enact inea iner aie mie ale reference to the organic act and other laws of congress does not apply to this special grant of power buu bul to tiie tile kind of laws which the assembly is specially authorized to pass taase laws must not be inconsistent with tile tiie laws of the tiie united states but this authorization of the legislature to pass thew them has no reference to any previous enactment and in this connection denvill we will here cite the governor to his own words in that part of his message relating to the qualification of omm off meers officers he says i the fact that these essential prerequisites are contained in some 0 other her prior statute does not answer because such prior statute might be claimed to be repealed in javor favor of this the later one and further persons elected or appointed to office might fairly claim that the late statute seta feta tute governs and repeals the former if not directly by implication and that no further guests than those prescribed in these sections should be required on this principle the edmunds law the later statute so far as the power of the assembly to legislate without the tho governor on the tile filling of the offices is concerned governs and repeals any former stati statute Ate if not directly by implication 11 and as he says the fact that essential prerequisites are contained in some other prior statute does not answer it is this later statute the edmunds law that prevails and for this special purpose the provisions of former laws concerning the power of the governor to join in the legislation or to veto it when enacted are arc in effect abrogated and annulled r the rhe legislative assembly of this territory may under the edmunds act yet jet enact an election law providing for the manner in which the registration and election offices made vacant by the edmunds act shall be filled and if that law shall contain no othel provisions than for the purposes named it will meet the provisions of the law of oon CoD congress gross gress which confers this power and the governor cuts no ligure figure in the legislation on the passage e of that law lavi so enacted the terms of all persons appointed to 1111 fiti the registration and election offices by the commission will expire as provided in section nine of tile the edmunds act and the duties of the C commission 0 m assion will be at an end this Thi is according e to the plain letter of the law of congress and cannot be refuted by implied intentions tent ions or br assumptions as to meanings ot expressed in the law |