Show THAT OGDEN MATTER points mado made for and against the 06 division ordinance on saturday afternoon last before the utah commission C C richards answered the argument made b by H W smith against the validity 07 of the general municipal law which the latter held to be in invalid alid because q se it had no enacting cl clause W richards Elc hards cited the fact to hat atthe e or orga of this Terri Territory tog doer oe not rire an enacting cl aafje ta ol 01 e th the body of a bill and contended eull d that the validity of the statute in question could not there tore lore attacked attached on ground he argued that because it had been signed by the president ol of the legislative council sad and the speaker of the house certified b by at the he secretary of the territory and pu published ishad by authority ot of the legislature in n a colure of the lawa it I 1 must be accepted as a valid statute so far ar as the formalities of enactment are concerned judge powers followed mr richards Bic bards holding that congress having declared in the edmunds law that elections in utah should be held according to the laws of the territory then in force those laws virtually became the laws of et congress which the territorial legislature haa bad no right to repeal nor amend and that for this reason the general municipal law in so ao far as it it provides new dew methods of registration pr gr section is invalid i i it was anticipated that judge henderson would render reader a det decision islon upon the points in controversy in this inter estin eating and important case today and ild the utah Comtoi Conita will probably ly take no ao action until the judicial opinion to Is tiled filed |