Show THE DECISION AND DISSENT WB present in this issue the decision of the supreme court of the territory on the matter of the application of the receiver in the suits planted by the united states against the church for an order for certain personal property alleged to belong to it the dissenting opinion of chief justice tice zane also appears upon the question at issue the latter is clearly right the main point made by him is invincible and invulnerable it is a plain statement at f a constitutional a t principle of la law w universally fall acknowledged and established ae the property in question is in the hands of an a ion not a party to the suit and which lays claim to it by right the remedy of the receiver was a suit against the party in possession and asserting the claim the peremptory order authorizes the seizure of the property without the holder bolder of it being given an opportunity to be heard beard in court this is simply confiscation and must be illegal it is as plate an infringement of a constitutional priti ciple as ever was perpetrated under legal color it is depriving the citizen ot of property without due process pr of law that is the point in a nutshell and no amount or of judicial sophistry can place it in any other shape we look upon the es esc cheating hesting provisions of the law under which the whole proceedings have been brought as so much macai machinery nery for th the e purpose of perpetrating a legal robbery upon an unpopular religious community the granting of such an order as that given to the receiver yesterday goes outside ot of the bounds even of that or any other law on the statute books boks of the united states no author astion for such a proceed ing could exist on the face of any law lav for the reason that a statement that would give it would be directly in conflict on its face with a fundamental provision of the constitution that safeguard was placed there tor for the very purpose of preventing the citizen from betas being plundered by summary process in place ot the tb process of the law chief justice zane has on many questions exhibited an understanding of legal principles that has done him credit in ili such instances he g goes oes ab beyond e the surface suri ace probing t the e p phases e presented with incisive and analytical perception the occasion under consideration is a case in point |