Show THE MILITARY usurpation tite disreputable organ of marshal ireland makes a weak effort to poor pussy his bis surrender of authority to the military power in the conveyance of president george Q cannon to this city but the fact remains that an outrage was committed which if perpetrated upon anybody but amorton Mormon al would have aroused general indignation and called for a full investigation it is not denied that a number of soldiers in charge of a captain and nd lieutenant took thel control of a prisoner who made no resistance out of the hands of the united states Marshal who quietly submitted and und also broke laith with the Tri prisoner after promising biag that lie he should not dot he be removed until unil a oven time if we are under martial law the fact ought to lo be proclaimed that the people may inay kilo know vv it jf not the action of captain penny was usurpation and a contempt of civil law or the submission of marshal ireland to improper authority was both unlawful and contemptible if the officials here want the mor mons to respect the law they must respect it themselves marshal ireland not only declared that he did not call for the aid of troops but that he considered their presence unnecessary who then is responsible for their employment report pretty well authenticated charges orlando with sending word which occasioned the sen senseless military display the only individual that appears in in sight as calling for their help fears as the smirched smirch ed deputy whose single chance of escape from punishment for a filthy crime of the most bestial character which witnesses claim he was seen to commit was a legal quirk of which he was given the advantage he is a sweet scented digal dignitary tag to strut around and obtain the services of the soldiery in a case where they were not needed and were only a menace in one sense and a burlesque in the other the theatrical di display play of the military is discreditable to its projectors whoever they may be one thing seems clear it is not likely that troops would have been furnished without a requisition from the governor it would be strange if he interfered without a request from the marshal if the marshal made the demand then he lied when he denied it if he made none then the requirement was without reason and the responsibility tails falls on the executive from what has happened before the public can reasonably conclude as to the present sensation it isa is s disgrace to avei engaged in it except the soldiers who had to act under orders |