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Show i 1 . THAT LITTLE BILL. j .. ( A Washington dispatch, which will be ' "v i found in our telegraphic columns to-day, - " states that the First Comptroller of the .; ii Treasury, in response to the Senate reso- i ' lution of Saturday last, has prepared for j i the Secretary of the Treasury a statement ; ' of the moneys advanced by the General ' Government for court and other expenses ; ; . . in Utah, which mone's, by the terms of the statute authorizing their advance- -j t ment, should have been repaid to the i . ! United States out of the Territorial treas- i ury. The records show the total amount i ' . so advanced, since June 23, 1874, to be ' . ; $285,775, no part of which has ever been . j ' repaid, so that Utah stands indebted to-i to-i day in just that amount to the General ! ' r-.- j Government. j The refusal of each succeeding legis- ! lature, since 1874, to make provision for : it the payment of this just indebtedness to j the General Government, i3 only another j j illustration of the inherent meanness and r- I latent traitorism which runs through the ! entire law-defying organization known a3 the Kingdom of God on earth, from j who3e subjects, with one solitary excep- I ; j tion, the Legislatures of Utah have al- I ; ways been made up. In their intense I ; J loyalty to this blighting theocracy, these I , men have entirely lost sight of the alleg- i iance which they should give to the Gov- j ernment of the United States, and fol- , ; lowing the teachings of their ecclesiastical j leaders, set themselves up as judges of 1 what is and what is not constitutional law, regardless of adjudications by the national j court of last resort. No wonder, then, that in the matter of moneys advanced 1 . from the nation's treasury to carry on the I business of the courts here, over which 1 ! these Churchmen have no control, 1 they should, on the most flimsy of pre- 1 texts, deny the justness of the claim now . : made upon them and refuse to meet it. i Such a small matter no doubt sit3 easily enough upon their seared consciences, (and but for the fact that the Government declines to pay the salaries of the officers I " , . and members of the present Legislature ! until they manifest a disposition to do 1 what they ought to do, it would be looked I I upon as a huge joke perpetrated at Uncle Sara's expense, and something to make i ! merry over. j , It is evident, however, that the Gov- t ernment does not intend that a handful of nullifiers out here in Utah shall treat - its just demands with derision. The bill j must be paid. If a Mormon Legislature i will not make the necessary provision therefor, a Gentile Legislature will, and I i before these sanctified solons get through ; I with the matter, they will not think it so ; I much of a joke, after all. |