Show ZANES ZEAL carries him so far as to declare our public schools sectarian the case of certain non mormon residents of the ath school district of salt lake city against th the eTrus trustees came up before judge zane wednesday and nearly the whole day was spent in hearing the arguments it came up on oil motion that the injunction granted against the trustees restraining them from levying upon the tile proper property y of lib eral residents in the district be di dissolved solved mr cheeks opened the case with a motion to strike our certain portions of the complaint complaint as be ing irrelevant an and redundant after this he be made a short opening argument showing that if i f there were anything wrong the remedy lay with the legislature egi slature that chat body bodi had made the law and congress knew when it created that body that they were chiefly mormons cormons Mor mons he cited authorities supporting his position mr C S varian followed mr sheeks said it was part of the unwritten law of the land that all sectarian teachers be excluded from the public schools referred to authorities ties to show that courts had a right to interfere inter feie in euch such matters the main portion of his remarks was a ha harangue against the mormon church accusing bitof it of con broling the education of the young and redic predicting ting that it would always continue to do so if not stopped by the strong arm of the law mr bir rawlins closed the session wi with than an it hours ours speech he showed that the fact that there was a dominant church here had bad no more connection with levying and collecting taxes than does the claim of th the pope lu to infallibility therom the complaint alleges that no one can be elected to au an office without the consent of this church that is not true at least of the tile trustees of the seventh district as one of them ia is conceded to have been elected by the liberal vote he said the court might be justified in int interfering er with the schools if it cc could uld be shown that any sectarian books were used or that the teachers spent any time in making converts to the mormon faith or that the law is violated in the engagement of teachers nothing of the kind is here shown and no action can be taken until it is shonn shown the authorities quoted mere were taken to the judge s cb chamber amber thursday morning judge zane denied the motion of sheeks rawlins on behalf of the trustees to atril strike e out the opinion was expressed orally and occupied over an sin hur bur in delivery he ile took the position position that taxation could only be e assessed for public purposes and the complaint showed on its face that the tax in dispute was for the purpose of 0 f carrying carrying on a sectarian school in the ath district under the guise of a public school to teach te ach sectarian doctrine ho ile held that as there was a dominant church in this territory claiming to direct the temporary affairs of its members abe the law passed by the legislature in in relation to school tax so far as it contributed to a sectarian object wa was im improper roper because that body was forbid forbidden en by the organic act to pass a law for any other than a public purpose after the opinion was delivered mr rawlins moved that the case be heard on friday on demurrer mr varian asked for more time to pet get proofs etc I 1 ready chii request was met with a remark from mr kawlins rawlins that when the gentleman on the other side aide drew the complaint he be ought to have been in in a position to know what he would be able to prove after further rei marks by counsel on both sides it was agreed that the case come up on its merits and be heard on janus ry deseret news |