Show I 1 DO THEY NEED commissions 1 THE ousted liberals 1 who have been figuring as city councilors councillors Counci lors without being elected wisely withdrew from further contention and did not attempt to take their mate beats on tuesday june the duly elected councilmen presented themselves with their certificates of election but weremey were met with another technical objection this time on the part of city attorney hall who stated that they could not take their places until they each produced a commission from the governor it is time that the question lon as an to what officers must obtain a commission from the governor was wag judicially determined the organic act provides that the governor shall commission all officers ficera of who shall be appointed to office under the laws of the said mid territory this was understood for years just as it reads that officers offices who were appointed app oyed should be commissioned by the governor while those who were elected received their arl oates of election from the proper official some of them however were required by law to obtain commissions from the governor but as an governors and secretaries were changed and new incumbents wanted as many fees as possible commissions to elected officers became general and resistance si to the exaction was not insisted upon because the fee was small and there was no desire to make unpleasantness over so insignificant a matter but it if the view most people take of the law Is s correct there bisno is no need to keep up this custom and seeing that a number of the liberal councilmen took their seats without ing any commission from the governor it looks a little invidious to require the peopled councilmen to present such commission however if it was wan wrong to let the liberals take their seats without commissions of course athe the wrong ought not to tw be repeated but if it was right in their case why is it wrong in the case of the legally elected officials we understand the secretary of the territory holds that a commission is necessary for all officers because the edmunds tucker act requires the oath or affirmation prescribed in that law to be recorded in the proper office and endorsed on the commission or certificate of appointment but as this requires the endorsement on the commission or certificate the argument seems to be against his view of the matter the endorsement indorsement indor will do on the certificate so the commission is not made a necessity another seeming point is made in support of the notion that a commission is necessary from the requirement in the proviso to section compiled laws of 1888 but this only relates to county and precinct officers and a city council man is not either and if he were the require ment of a commission is only for per pons reelected elected re thereby becoming their own successors 11 the theory is that an appo appointed Oded officer under the laws of the territory should be commissioned by the governor bemuse because the commission is in his evidence of appointment while those elected to an office receive a certificate of election which answers the same purpose and as some officers who are elected are required by law to be commissioned som it follows that those who are not so required by law need not obtain a commission the question ought to be settled that no further disputes over it may arise and that no further obstruction of that kind may be placed in the way of officers duly elected by the people |