| Show HE lle OPENED HIS WITH THE USUAL EFriE EFFECT CT I 1 I 1 THE tue new york mail and express lias has published an endorsement by ell eli IL H murray of the edmunds hoar bill which has passed the senate of course our gotham contemporary supposed su P that the governor of utah was an authority on utah affairs and that his opinion was worth something while the fact is that his bis acquaintance with the territory of which he be is tive is extremely limited and his 0 opinions 1 inloes because of his lack of knowl eige enge edge to say nothing of ills his disposition to pervert and deceive are of the smallest possible weight or val tal value ue the first answer to questions put to him showed the whole drift of what little mind he has on this subject lle lie ile he considered the bill legislation in the right direction because lt it is unfriendly towards the mormon ormon power and seeks to divest the church of its temporal powen power thus in his anything that Is ia unfriendly to the lor mormon formon coill I 1 church is I 1 in the right dir direction ec the right or the wrong of it the constitutionality or legality of it the injustice or dishonesty of it are not to be considered so long as it is hostile to the gin mormon lormon religion and its temporal power it is to be commended farhat is about as much as might be expected of the ex marshal marshai of kentucky and echo of the utah conspirators aspirators tors rss rsm w Hisil his nis next ext remar remark kivas kiras was that he lre had never thought that the tile territorial statute giving givin the right of suffrage to wo mencas very good law very profound indeed why the dent give this great j judicial authority the position of chief justice and thus remove one of the utah officials who is oo ou noxious to his nia aia mathematical excellency lie ile has tried with his bl associate conspirators by numerous hints and turn suf suf law to make the he courts of his opinion on this matter but butin in vain the law remains so valid and impregnable that it is recognized as such not only by the courts but by congress the value of his opinions is still f further ur exhibited by another remark ile he told the vail mail and express reporter that the annulment of the territorial law which now permits prosecution for adultery only on the complaint of the hu husband osband or wife is a good go n provision also very good andeel indeed Seeing that there is no such provision pro vision in the territorial law the astonishing goodness woo goo duess of the provision to annul it 1 is apparent and his wonderful acquaintance with wit h the laws of a territory of which mr ali All murray almurray urray has been nominally the governor for over four years is prominently exhibited in this profound opinion but hear him further 1 I think however that the clause claus e prohibiting the thel general assembly of utah from changing the laws respecting the corporation of the church without the approval of congress is roper 11 avery proper clause in croper S eed and of powerful utility util ityl I 1 but as there is a provision in the organic act that no law of the assembly shall be valid without the approval of con gress and that has been in force for thirty four years the propriety of this clause in the edmunt edmunds hoar bill does not appear in a very striking light to those who know kno m anything about utah affairs senator hoar and his associates may claim some excuse for not understanding more than they do about utah because of the distance and their multifarious duties in regard to greater reater matters nearer home but the executive of the territory reap re ap pointed atter alter strying servin 7 more than a full term ought to have some little acquaintance with things that are familiar to schoolboys this brilliant genius thinks also the attempt to rob the perpetual emigrating fund under cover of law is I 1 a wise and proper step for the reason that no church or corporation should be allowed to control the emigration odthe of the country as has been the casein case in utah for a long time 11 we can hardi hardly y bring our mind mind to alieve believe belleve that on this point it was ignorance that produced such unmitigated nonsense it is more likely that eli ell 11 was resorting to one of his well known tricks of falsification he certainly must know that the P E fund company does not control the emigration of the county nor even of this territory it simply pimply regulates the emigration of the members of the church ot of jesus christ of latter day saints with which congress has no right to interfere and which the dissolution of the corporation that manages it will not prevent in the attempt i the ulle property of a private corpor corporation atlon into the hands of officials appointed by the president of the united states with the pretended object of hin bin hindering dering emigration of dior mormons cormons Mor Alor mons wons to this country countr ts one of the most nonsensical measures ever proposed and at the same time a highhanded high handed outrage that cannot be defended on any honest ground round of course eli 11 murray endorses idol ses it because it seems to be unfriendly towards the T mormon power and we are arc well aware that any scheme of rascality and political infamy which looks in that direction suits him to a dot lie he complained to the reporter that 91 mining interests in utah had not been advanced as they would have been under a different condition of affairs and blamed this to the policy of brigham young and the indifference of the church ile he did not count over to the reporter the number of wildcat schemes to which he had lent his official name and influence nor show what effect such things have on the mining interests of utah neither did lie touch on the influence produced upon capital seeking investment of an executive who joins loins with adventurers in dirring up strife and in prejudicing he country against this territory creating the impression that its people are arc lawless and that it is an unsafe place for the establishment of any enterprise ter prise but it Is a fact that the falsehoods and misrepresentations ot of ignorant and malicious persons ilke like ell 11 i murray I urray have frightened away capital and prevented investment and hindered the development of mining an and d other interests in utah more than adv anything else that has worked in that direction president young has been away from the sphere of mining interests for many years andee and we fail to see why the indifference of the church should be a bar in the way of mining or other such interests but these stu pid and stale remarks of sir murrays Mur rays rass were iona on a par idith the rest of the interview ter view 11 the reporter who manages to get into print anything either cither wise or reliable as comin coming from our absent Gover governor Go vernoi vernol nor nox will have to draw strongly on his own ingenuity h c will cwill find in that head iiii little tle tie but bud but empty sound |
