Show HIOIITS OF CONRKKSS i I One of tho Mormon papers aH While Congress can by brute force destroy a Republican government in Utah ami order tho disfranchiscmcnt or even slauchter of her people Congress has no moral or constitntionil light to do either The Mormon paper is right Congress has no moral or Constitutional right to do any of those things It has however tho right to tnafnloiii u Republican Repub-lican government in Utah and to putdown put-down all institutions assuming governmental govern-mental control which are conducted in opposition to every principle of the Con Htltution and the luoral nnd political theory upon which that instrument was founded It not only has the right to do this but it is its duty under tho Constitutional oath subscribed to by all of itH members before taking their scats in that body It has no right to order the disfranchisement of the people of a Territory Ter-ritory but it has tho right to impose such conditions upon the voting privilege as will restrict it to tho ° c who aro in sympathy sympa-thy with our form of goiernment and who hold their allcgiancoto it paramount to their obligations to any political institution insti-tution whose tencls aio in direct antagonism antag-onism to the Constitution and 1edcral laws It has the right to require such a test to be applied to ail alike as will discriminate between the loyal and disloyal elements and place the local government in tho hands of those who will conduct it in harmony with tho redcral power which is or should lIJO supreme Congress has no right to order the daughter of the peoplo hero and It is its duty to protect the olllccrs and loyal citUcns of the Tcr j ritory from Ghiijhter by assassination from thugs or minions of a treasonable i i organization which is doing all in its j power to prevent the enforcement of tho 1ederal laws and to continue practices in opposition to then Congicss has the right to do them things and they arc tho only ones they liII exercise in the passage pas-sage of either of thu bilM Ufore it relating relat-ing to tho local affairs of Utah I |