| Show ARGE IT UP GOVERNOR is alix anxious imis to pile pa on to the shoulders of this ter territory r aitor Y the mountainous bill which the treas aft ui y department hag haa been char charging ging up for expenses in the courts ano and the keeping of territorial pils prisoners ners in the penitentiary his sympathies aud and interest are never with the people of waru whom heli heis supposed to be a component part his speeches speech ts and actions action show him up asa as a forel foreign gil and discordant element 1 toi s 61 bill which he der de nominates a debt was not placed in his hands to collect col keet or with wita a request to demand its payment but bat he applied for the wilch as a matter of form appear on agn the treasury y books as 48 expended for courts in utah i chisso this so called debt teb has haafeen abeen ha veen accumulating mu lating for nearly a dozen years the law which was I 1 11 passed saed june pd 1874 lff abolished I 1 V 0 bipes 4 e of territorial rit orial marshal 1 aja land oi attorney and vested the dutie I 1 their callings in A the e united states arsba and attorney previous to thai time the duties dotes of those united states officers was as to attend to united states business in uie the courts the territorial business beina performed by territorial officers expenses expense of coure abre paid padd out of the herrl treasury and the expenses 6 of states business out ox of the united states treasury the territorial mar disbursed the appropriations of the territorial coast expenses lie he was the peoples officer and disbursed the peopled people ks money he was responsible lor for nis ms official acts to those f furnished urnis hed the I 1 funds but bus the united states marshal was t not an officer of tb the e people they had nothing to do with his appointment the hakl nothing to do with paying him aim helas he was not responsible to binem tor for his official doings cheref therefore ore they entrusted hip with no I 1 funds to congress undertook ta W interfere in this matter and through the misrepresentations of the then US marshal maxwell max well divert diverted dd the money which should have been paid to the legislature for sal salaries braid of mimes memes beis etc tc to the payment of court expenses unless the legislature should appropriate the amount a little over the legislature could not do this as a matter of principle longress Uon gress had no right to legislate money out oat of the territorial t treasury rea sury nor to require its funds to be p pat tit into irresponsible hands however that is 1000 1 for each was appropriated for payment of j jabors brors ete etc to tor ensuing two years but n ot 0 be disbursed by the united 8 stated ta W 1 marshal The which I 1 should have padd the legislators was turned over by the government to the U S Mars marshal laal who proceeded to squander it in aina a manner that we need not now explain the record is one of shameless draud false vouchers and the he common devices with bilth which AT U S fc marshals in utah kentucky and other places pla cesare familiar to run up expenses and swallow up appropriations it wasa was a lesson to our legislators they determined that tae tie territory should not bel be swindled as agthe the government had lueen and as the aae government Govern menti t had undertaken undertake ti to regulate court bourt affairs aud and by its own officer sif was only proper that it should pay those expenses just so with the penitent it was originally a terri tern tortal prison conducted by territorial officers the government took if it out of the hands bands of the territory pat it in atie control of the United States marshal and territorial prisoners and also persons detained for trial many ot of whom should favl 1 bleen been oon confined fined in the county ail were nvere sent to we penitentiary tent iary the government aad ta its officers off leei as assumed the tegu regulation latton of these maiter sand therefore ore had to pay the expenses i charging them up to the territory is an diry any action the so called 1 debt is a paper liability it hashe has ahe form and pretense tot of a charge but it has no substantial body as a binding bading obligation the governor thrusts chii bogus claim under the nose of the legislature as an irritant and if possible as an intimidation the assembly it is safe to say will not scare worth a cent they understand the motive of the governor and f the spirit of all his petty projects small squier obstructions and spiteful annoyances noy ances the government cau can liquidate its own debts settle its own bills billa manage its own treas treasure u it cannot legislate a dollar or a d dime e out of a territorial trea treasury it way may undertake the task but it has no lawf lawful ul authora authority I 1 y to do so the people have the right to say what shall be done with their own money and alid it the government attempts to make expenses the government can pay those expenses or charge 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