Show THE SCRAMBLE FOR SPOILS scramble over fees for despoiling the church of jesus christ of latter laiter day clay saints seems to excite resentment and scorn scorn among among people of opposing views in this territory gentiles are quite as pronounced as acmor mons mona in their animadversions upon the game of grab that thai seems to go 90 on with the approbation of the principal members of the legal fraternity the sentiment appears to be heres a church to be robbed let us take a hand in the plunder it if we dont get it somebody else will and the opinion of the public singular to say is for once united as to the honesty and morality of this raid upon the proceeds of a seizure seizun that is yet of very doubtful legality the me snoie arrangement its is peculiar first the united states marshal is appointed receiver in a casein case in which he be united states Is a party to the suit next the territorial superintendent of district schools to is chosen attorney for the receiver while he should be looking after the interests of the pi strict schools which it if the suit is successful are to receive the benefits of the confiscation and fiut u t of the property so seized he wants fe ail len thousand dollars which will make so much lestor the schools tools of which he be is superintendent then the united states district attorney the government in this suit is also an attorney tor for the receiver and wanas ten thousand dollars more for his bis services in that capacity while the rule in law is that an attorney for a receiver must not be engaged in the litigation by either party to the suit it is one of the most singularly mixed up cases on record the marshal however appears to have acted on instructions or by the approval of the department of justice and therefore cannot perhaps be censured for his choice of counsel the blame tor for this must mast reach to higher sources and in the work he be has hild bad to dusome allowance must reasonably be made fo for r the amount of property 0 of which he has become the custodian the heavy bonds be has bas had to furnish and the persons and means he has had to employ and remunerate in his search tor for and seizure of f various pieces of property what is right and reasonable under all these circumstances we presume will be duly considered by the court in passing on his bis claim but the attorneys fees demanded strike most people with astonishment and many with disgust when viewed in the light of the facts connected with their position it looks to an ordinary mind that the district attorney as counsel for the government in this suit should have been watching the case to protect protect the government on the one hand and and the superintendent of schools should have been vigilant to guard the interests of the schools on theother baud band but neither of these parties was represented during the scramble for fees md and the sc ramblers were the office officials al wh who 0 ought to have been on the look out to see that nothing wrong iwas done and no at at extortion should be successful iset here comes another strange event another remarkable figure in this farce larce or tragedy whichever it may turnout turn out to be the chief J justice us who sat upon the case at the start since become a simple member of the bar ot of the court where he once presided now steps in as the professed champion of the district schools and asks to he heard officially as their attorney att oniey to do him justice perhaps the trustees of two or three of those schools have consulted him on this matter I 1 but they do not represent the thousand or more trustees who are interested on behalf of the schools we think the present chief justice was perfectly right in requiring an application in writing and some evidence de of f a authority hority tor attempting to ran represent earnt as 6 attorney the district schools of Utah what is tile the end likely to be if everybody claiming an interest in this cause has a high priced attorney engaged caf ed or claiming to be engaged and ready to poke his bis hand up to the armpit into the bag that holds the spoils snatched from a church corporation it is a nice spectacle for the nation to gaze upon it must be a pleasant thing thin for the framers of the thieving scheme to contemplate it works ip in the spirit of the original undertaking the 11 mormon church defamed misrepresented lied about in pulpit press and congress became an object for plunder and the measure for its despoilment though startling to minds that revolt at the thought of confiscation and the op oppression presson of a church however heterodox has been winked at or naif approved because it was supposed to be destructive of mormonism conceived in dishonesty and born of bigotry and hate no wonder onder that the tendency is to extortion and rapacity all along the life and lindof line of the movement it has been disgraceful to this great government Govern met from the beginning hitherto and unless tile the supreme court of the united states stamps upon the iniquity and puts an end to it the stain ot the infamy will be a brand upon the nation in the sight of all the world but while full of indignation and despising at the shameful shaine ful business the latter day SaInts cau afford aff ord to b patient and quiescent in the assurance that even if the whole bundle of properties real and personal goes goe to the government or to is sequan ad filched nichea by perso persons a terr ms or services in th the steal it ave no BO effect in putting down a th ell glOn weakening t thir faith ith or retarding the progress 0 of tie church to which they belong belong but will only serve to prove the false ground taken by its opponents and their inability to assail it except by falsehood dishonor and rand fraud f but when the whole story of 0 this despicable attack upon a religious institution ution is unfolded will not the just and true throughout the country and the fair minded of all civilized nations regard this couff with its scandalous accompaniments as a disgrace to any aisy government of modern times a palpable violation of the spirit of the constitution ot of the united states and a burning shame and reproach to all fp parties arties who have taken a hand band in the legalized robbery |