Show THE BAIL BILL VETO ix IN attempting to defend governor murrays Mur rays senseless and illogical message in vetoing the bail bill which the NEWS riddled to pieces last evening his organ says oi of the bill except to provide some way through which polygamist lawbreakers law breakers might evade evad e the penalty of their crimes the utah legislature would never have thought of passing the bil bills Is which the governor las bias vetoed it had been the law for lears le ears ars and was satisfactory to t all ali that is is au all there is to it well now let us see the bail bill does not provide any special relief for polygamy cases in any shape or form granting bail to a defendant on appeal permits no one to evade any penalty it simply postpones the punishment until the validity of the conviction is tested appeal is made a matter of right by the law but appeal is of no ube in misdemeanors and of little use in some more important cases without ball bail is allowed because the sentence ben tence would be served before the appeal could be determined to refuse bail and allow appeal is to say a defendant may maybe be lawfully punished if unlawfully tully cola coa evicted it is imp to deny either the absurdity or the injustice of denying bail when permitting appeal the attempt to narrow the matter down to the relief bail would afford to appellants convicted of polygamy or unlawful cohabitation it is quite in keeping with the governors narrow mind and petty carping and evasive spirit s on what principle priti ciple of law or justice should such persons be denied denia d austice the he benefits of the law more than any other class of defendants yet the truth is it is because some sowe Mormon unjustly convicted might by a reversal of the verdict against him be relieved of an unjust penalty that the governor refuses to sign a bill that is undeniably in the interest inte rubt of common justice and of common sense now about the law existing for years beats and being satisfactory to all it it hiis has existed for nearly eight years it was satisfactory so long as it was not misinterpreted by the courts for special vengeance in special cases in the discretion of the court was supposed to signify tile the exercise of discretion in taking luch measures as would secure the person of the defendant if the c conviction should he affirmed not only that good and sufficient sureties might be required but that the mhd court might be satisfied that the defendant would not escape it was not until quite recently that t the he courts acted upon any other view of the meaning of the law the general prin principle ciple pre obtained in practice e that it il the attendance of the defendant was reasonably assured bail could not reasonably be denied pending an appeal no idea was entertained that good bail would be refused pending an appeal but a special application wd was made in a special class of cases and therefore it if the bill giving reasonable relief has an appearance of a special purpose it is only because of the course of the courts in giving the ball bail law a special construction there is no getting away from these facts the veto of the bail bill implies an absurdity it maintains a p palpable I 1 injustice it was mada with a special view to deny common coin inon justice to mormons cormons Mor mons it renders void in their cases tile the law of appeal it is so far nullification the reasons given for it are not reasons but non nonsense they are not true and the are self ref refuting abing they make the writer look like a noodle and no defense can be made of f the veto but just such shallow soph sophistry itry and begging of the question which is common to the governors disreputable organ |