Show MURRAYS BLUNDER lawlessness and pat loii such are the epithets with which the sacramento union characterizes acte the action of the fugitive governor of utah territory in refusing a certificate the legally elected delegate and giving it to the tool of an out clique the strictures of our sacramento are eo bound in logic and evere in diction that we will partly reproduce them for the benefit of our friends we have already commented on the grave blunder made by govern or murray in utah in issuing certificate of election to congress to the minority candidate but the question is so serious a one that it cannot be dismissed without further consideration we have shown that governor murray had no authority to inquire into cannons eli and that in doing so be at once violated the plain letter of the law and usurped the constitutional prerogative of congress apart from these considerations however his course is wrong and indefensible fen sible fer even supposing that he had been empowered to declare cannon ineligible eliat authority could not have justified him in issuing the certificate to campbell there are few points in american political law more thoroughly settled then this our courts have repeatedly and most uniformly held that the inel of a majority candidate does not elect the minority candidate there is moreover one eel braced cise in point which we should have supposed a republican governor could not have forgotten we refer to that of Cron inthe ore gon elector the electoral commission adjudicated that case and in line with the position hero stated tho republican counsel had taken this ground and their view was ac copied by the commission in this slate there have been several decisions by the court to the same ettelt and in fact it may be said that american law has taken this stand as a finality the justice of the position is we consider un deniable in every political contest it must be held that ke majority not only vote for the candidate who receives their suffrage but against the candidate who is defeated should the majority candidate condi date therefore be shown to have been ineligible it is impossible that the minority candidate condi date should be entitled to the office since it ia clear that he was rejected by the majoris ty in such case the only tenable conclusion is that there has beba a failure to elect and it become nee essary supposing the course possible as it may not always be to hold a new election governor murray consequently has committed a twofold error lie has usurped the pre of congress in undertaking to pass upon the qualifications of an elected to that body and he has issued his certificate in con traven lion of the established law in the premises A more flagrant case of lawlessness in an executive err has in fid seldom occurred for high handed usurpation and defiance of the ruling of the courts it is only paralleled by the action ot governor garcelon of maine and it ii rendered peculiarly aggravating by the fact that governor murray ii a republican and has notwithstanding gone coubler to what may be regarded as specially republican doctrine lie had no right to refuse a to cannon the law allowed him no discretion in llie mutter it directed him to issue his certificate to the candidate who had received the largest number of vales ami it did not empower him to in eli lute researches of h s own motion into the eligibility of that candidate SCHOOL discipline is tolerably difficult thing to maintain and numerous and different are the views concerning the treatment of refractory youths especially the question of corporal punishment has undergone many evolutions in the course of time and while was too much rod there is a danger that too much Is becoming the order of the day in tho management of juvenile exuberance the boston school committee has resolved that corporal it in the schools ought to be greatly diminished it is to bo inflicted only by a principal or by his express authority and only at a session subsequent to that at which the offense offence was committed the pupil must be told what this Is and the principal must keep a record of all cases corporal is absolutely forbidden in the high school and with girls in the gram mar school TUB of the living age for the week ending january has the following variety of interesting valuable articled sheridan A large crater prof john milne F Q S japan an autumn new guinea by alfred R wallace charles kingsley as a fisherman ame mme Thiers The influence of a tuning fork on the garden spider A jew ish cemetery visited on the children the conclusion of my faithful johnny and the usual variety of select poetry the new volume of this atan lard eclectic weekly began on january ast 1st a good time for the beginning of for fifty two numbers of large pages each or more than pages a year tho subscription price u low while for 1050 tho publishers olter to send any one of the american monthlies or weeklies with tae liv ing age for a year both postpaid littell co boston are the pub ushers of deputies in mexico by largo majority have refused to M charney to remove any of the antiquities discovered by him from that country tto gentle man has made many valuable dincov erie during the few year which he devoted entirely to the exploring of ancient localities and at a great expense the action of the authorities of that country in the matter u a most serious one to him |