Show AN IMPORTANT POINT cly A and apparently invulnerable point has been elucidated in the motion before the territorial supreme court for a rehearing of the ogden election case the court practically adopted as well as affirmed the decision of judge henderson in the court below it was to the effect as we understand it that the new law in relation to incorporated corp orated cities etc did not give authority to city councils to provide for elections from wards I 1 land and therefore the city council had no power to provide for registration and voting in wards it appears that the court was right so 90 far as related to the new law which does doea not confer the authority to elect from wards it seemed to be overlooked however that the conferring of authority to register and vote in wards would have been superfluous as it was already S ao f in possession of the ogden city 2 council the election law of 1878 which was practically adopted by federal legislation gives ives the municipal councils this power forin for instance ta n ce the statute last named gives authority u for the council to provide for registration proceedings in salt lake city in which registration and voting are conducted in ward divisions to carry the comparison AIr farther ther the charters of salt lake and ogden are identical being in that respect couched in precisely the e same language if the one municipality has power to conduct registration by wards the other has and wee vice versa it is clear that the court erred by an oversight omitting to refer to statutes salutes that existed previous to the one on which the decision was based and which are still in force under these circumstances it appears probable that the motion for a rehearing fal be granted it being presumed at t the acqua cour twill seek to do justice he e matter matteri i n h |