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Show NAD BEST LEAVE UNTOUCHED. H All tho newspapers of the H stato, and particularly tho Salt H Lake dailies, arc and have been H having vory much to say con- H corning tho Supremo Court dc- H . cision touching tho atatus of our H . liquor law which the Record H covered briefly but in full lost H week. Hj All manner of speculation is H boing indulged in by tho papers, H And much confusion is likely to H resultfrom the newspaper com H ment, not from tho Supremo H Court decision. All that that H, . decision docs is to declare dead H all old ordinances on tho liquor H, question and points out that if V new ordinances arc enacted they H must conform to tho state law. H '' City councils, in passing now H - ordinances, can have that state H law before them while doing so. H If pur own city council, for in- H Htiince, docs not desire to risk H passing new liquQr ordinances, H it can wait and see what becomes H '"of ;somo others that othor cities H in 'tho stato pass; and in tho H meantime if any cases of illegally H soiling liquor arise they can bo H prosecuted by tho county at- H tornoy in tho namo, of the state H under tho stato law as it Is. H Inasmuch as tho city cpuncil H of Cedar City has thought of the Hj question of enacting an ordin- K .kJmcq to covor tho search and Htrtrr-Aurcaturo o th0 iu1U0r ,nWt H it may bo well for tho Kecord to K pick out of tho mass of stuff that I'Ih being printed in tho Salt Lako papors on this question tho fol- H. lowing words which appear in an !intorviow with Hon. A. R. Barnes printed in tho Horald-Uopub!? Horald-Uopub!? an last Sunday. .-Mr. Barnes, is tho Attornoy-General H of tho state. IIo sayH: "As far H as search and seizure aro con- H corned, I question tho right of H municipalities to act. In frnm- B ing their ordinances, they had HI bettor not touch thai featuro of I tho stato law." B ' This, wo take, is because HI search and seizure, in a sonsc, HE provides for what might be Hi termed conflscnt on of property Hi a question wholly beyond the I power of city courts, and of H . justice courts, too, oxcept as Hh pointed out in the stato law. |
