Show TER territorial RIGHTS it wilt be remembered that in october last judge C J S black wrote an able clear sighted und and fair minded document addressed addre sed s to alie thc secretary of the tile interior it was nn all appeal in behalf of the people of utah in that article lie pointed out tho wrongs that had bad been perpetrated by the enforcement of the provisions of the and the hoar fear amendment in election matters in this territory the judge demonstrated that the failure to hold an election here on the fth of august sadid last did not create any vacancies in any of the locator local r territorial office offices and although the hoar amendment authorized the chief executive E of utah to fill vacancies vacancies if any did occur it did not empower him to create vacancies vacancies cies an and hence the appointments made by the governor ivero illegal void even according to the amendment tacked on to the appropriation bill in his bis recent on federal jurisdiction in the territories before the judiciary committee of t tho be house of representatives m lita tives the principles contained in the letter have been elaborated and made more ex erss he clearly proves the undisputed right of the people in the territories to local self govern government ment that when persons leave a state to open up and colonize a new portion of the public domain they do not lose their franchise or right to make local laws and enforce them for the protection and best interests of the community or colony any more thau they lose their citizenship by their removal to their new location in this relation it is not supererogatory to repeat the remarks of judge black in his ilia argument arg ament concern concerning ieng the provision of the united states constitution which reads the congress Con presa shall hare power poirer to di dispose spose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting lie territory aud in I other properly property of the United states and nothing in this constitution shall be BO so constructed ns as to prejudice an any claim of lie united states or of any particular state the tile learned judge judo remarks on this plain provision ap follows that this expressed nothing and meant nothing and granted granted nothing to congress except tho t ie power t to exercise for the general government its purely proprietary rights over tile land and goods it possessed ft whether I lying g within the states or outside of I them mm was wasso so perfectly manifest that mr stevens became disgusted with his own argument be freely expressed his profound contempt for it and fur all w who ho pretended to believe it having drawn them into it by his lifs a speech his fierce invective lashed t tho da m out again and he lie eo so chastised chastise d them with the valor of bis his tongue that they feared to speak of scruples any more he ile did not because lie could not furnish them any other pretense to stand upon and ho he told them thel it plainly ond frankly that lie would not stultify himself by professing to think his measure constitutional this eaid said lie is legislation outside of the constitution it wae was passed and congress inaugurated the reign rein of the thief and the kidnapper kidnapped kid napper by an n ld usurpation |