| Show TILE tiie ADOPTION naw LAW wr WE publish today to day the act of the legislature isi a ture providing for the adoption of children it Is a good measure but hut would have been more complete if it hadnot had not been shorn of an important unimportant section which appeared in the nal bill as follows sec 8 the father of an illegitimate child by publicly acknowledging it as his own receiving it as such with he consent of ills his wife if he is married into ills his family and otherwise treating it as if it were a legitimate child thereby adopts it as such and such subh child is thereupon deemed for all purposes ur legitimate from the time of its birth the provisions of the forego foregoing ln sections do not apply to such adoption when the bill was presented to the them governor some of his advisers imagining agenol ng that there was something in t the foregoing 0 section that the amor mor imor mons wanted objected to it so strongly as wA mormon formon legislation that the ie governor returned the bill with the request that section eight be stricken out and the assertion that the subject is already provided for b by y existing laws I 1 the section was therefore expunged not because it was waa true that existing laws provided for the subject but because the tile assembly did not want to lose a good bill for the sake of a single section the existing law provides that every illegitimate child is in all cases an heir to its mother it is also heir to its it s father when acknowledged by him this is quite different from the section expunged from the bill by the governors request and it is evident that those who manipulate the executive had an idea that they had I 1 in n some obtained a victory over the assembly for the organ of the governor and of the most depraved creatures that bear the name of man or woman exalted him as a fearless officer for defeating the provision and berated the assembly for attempting b y it to make a direct recognition of polygamy with its usual disregard of the truth it printed the section in quotation marks as follows all illegitimate children should be deemed adopted and invested with every ever right right of inheritance and other right nights rights 0 of legitimate children in all cases where the fathers owned them and had them in their households and this without any proceeding whatever in the probate court comparison of this para paragraph P h with the section we have quoted quote tra f from rom the bill will show how near it is to the text and the wonderful victory supposed tu to be obtained over amorton attempt to give legislative I 1 recognition to polygamy it is is understood that the expunged and rejected section is a verbatim copy from the code of california it is identical with the provision of the law now in force in that state no doubt the lawyers who helped to compile that code will be surprised to learn that when they fram foam framed ed that provision it was forthe for the purpose of making a direct recognition recognitions of polygamy 6 our legislators at several sessions have yielded to the pressure brought upon them by lawyers to repeal old utah statutes and adopt portions of the code of california and when they have done so and the new laws have hav become part of the utah statutes greal great outcry has been made a against them by anti antl mormons cormons 1 I 1 and the legislators have been denounced for their labors it was so with the penal code passed in 1876 which superseded theold the old oid criminal statutes of the territory the california statutes were held up as so greatly superior and the legislature was urged so strongly to make the change that the new I lenal benal lenal code was adopted as compiled from the code pf af california by lawyers af pf f this city in eluding one gentile judge of eminence yet no it signed by governor emery than an outcry was raised raised because it superseded some old laws which had been perverted from their true intent by mission judges in their crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons and when the term of the governor expired and he was likely to receive his rea re a appointment his signing dignin I 1 of the bill chattos th that atTOs ra s so much lauded was urged against him and aided in his def des defeat at the only proper and consistent thin thing g for our legislators and other people to do doat at any time Is to perform their duty to the best of their abury regardless of the opinions of the chronic growlers prowlers grow lers and indifferent to the criticism of the miserable wretches whose regular business is to abuse and misrepresent |
