Show A RE DENIED at a session of the territorial supreme court announced to be held on wednesday evening in salt lake but which was attended only by one attorney one bailiff one reporter and judges sandford and lio remau it was announced that a decision had been reached denying the motion for a rehearing in the case of watson vs registration case it has created some surprise that while alie original case was only held under advisement one day this motion tor a rehearing haa been kept under consideration for a week and while in the former case there were several points conceded to be weak the latter was believed to present euch good and sull grounds that there could be no question aa to the correctness 0 the ground taken by mr watsons attorneys As far as the points involved in the motion for a rehearing concerned the coming election io this city they would not have materially affected the result in any way had the molion been granted there would have been no occasion to add 0 o or ake from lie voting list a single name but it seemed so clear that the court in its decision had overlooked the charier pow ers held by the city it was necessary to bring the to lla honorable attention the question naturally arises now is how will this decision act alio procedure in elections in salt lake city the liberals there have clamored for and strongly urged a illicy in hiis mattar dire olly contrary to that asked by the liberals cf this city those of the parly who reside here are exultant in their expressions of victory before tho cobit hut let us see whether the decision will operate as favorably in alie capital the lite law of the legislature providing for district representation has been declared to bo in e respects a nullity tho supreme court of the territory lias ruled that registration and voting enst be at not by wards yet silt S lake city during many years has had five polling places and five separate lists ot registered voters they provided lor this under what WAS understood to be powers granted by abo charter the last election was conducted in alii way before the passage of lie much discussed bill in alie last legislature and the next election in all probability ba conducted in the same way As far as the clauges per to the subject are concerned the chai 0 the t rt 0 cities sal t lake and ogden are identical the dilemma the situation is then briefly this good law for salt lake does not seem to be good law for ogden that which the liberals in salt lake of aej gave them in the last legislature at least ano members which they would not liae hail biad alie registration and voting been as is decided they roust bo in Od enat large the liberals here oppose to alie very list there is more involved in this decision than the mere present municipal election in this city it will be interesting to note the stepa which alie liberals of he capital will take during the enaid to get rehearing themselves it will be of more vital interest to them than it would have been to the peoples party in lie municipal election here next monday |