Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

NOHPChoabivht hiAOaSC duu CWHtink-
ent expenses of Legislative AS
semby. i55, ISs, 81
1854, Reminding 10 the Territory Of
Utah expenses in suppressing In
dian hostiliiies &c, $40 Is
1885, Incidental Indian service 90 600 90
1856 Penlteniiary. $4,000 90
Under treaty obligations for annual
presents. 10 900, 90
Total. 1885,, 209 o.
Here is nearly 100000, and it does not
include the mail service, public buildings,
and 5000 more on penitentiary, aid some
other items. Part of this has not been ex-
pended. and part expended is understood to
be unaccounted for. Large appropriations
are still asked for the Territory. The amount
of $40, 940,65 was refunded by the United
States, for Indian hostilities, but the United
States officers at the time in the Territory
declares no war at all existed. The cost of
the transportation of the mails in Utah is
s14,753 GA per annum, while all the post
age collected rs $2,O64,74.
Two townships of land have been voted by
Congress to establish university; but the
university exists only in name. Money was
asked for and when land was given instead
it turned out a joke, sfor all the land there
worth having can be had on the squatter
stealing principle. Instead of such drib-
let as two townships, they seize the whole Ter
ritory. Even the act for $4,000, at first
passed by the Utah Legislature in behalf of
the University, has been repealed
We have memorials from Utah begging,
for money to pay for the provisional gov
ernment Of lS49, for geodetic survey, for
the completion of the capitol, for weekly
mail, a railroad, military road magnetic tel
egraph, &c.; but it seems to me, when so
much has already been appropriated, and
When such liberal sums are asked for" so
many folds of favor that ingratitude and
disloyalty furnish sorry requitals for our lib
crafty.
Governor Young's memory touching mon
cy matters is hardly as accurate as proph-
cts should be. In his report to the Presi-
dent June 30, 1856. he says:
me to state, that aearly two years have elapsed
since Congress appropriated over $40 600, for
the express purpose of making treaties, SC. o.,
with The Ind ans of Utah thai their lands have
been haversed by Government surveying parties
now almost a year. and still not one dollar of
that appropriation has yet been expended within
this superintendency, and, for aught knaw is
still fast in the Golfers at Washington. Is this
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tribes in any. other State or Territory 1-more
especially when the relative conduct, facilities
and advantages of the various tribes are taken
into account"
Upon this statement, the Secretary of the
Interior, in foot note, places the following
extingnisher;
Governor Young is mistaken in this, as the
records of the Indian Office show that drafts
to the amour, of 1927 OLA 80 dra,oa by himself
and agents. Hurst and Armstrong, have been
paid out of this appropriation for Indian propo
sails in Utah."
1t will be seen in the Territorial Laws page
1872, that besides jurisdiction relative to the
States of deceased persons
"SEc. 80. The several probate courts in the
respective counties have power to exercise orig
na jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and as
well in chanery as at COMMON law. when not
prohibited by Legislative enactment" &c.
This would seem to be a pretty extensive
jurisdiction for a court comparatively rank
ing with the justice courts of the States :;
but, although they are to have criminal as
well as chancery and common law jurisdic-
ton, there is another act which relieves the
court from throng of puzzling embarrass.
ments. 1t is to be found on page 260 of
Territorial Legislature above all other law
making tribunals, as follows
"SEc l. Be ii enacted by the Governor and
Legislature Assembly, u The Territory of Utah,
That all questions Of law, the meaning of
writings other ,han laws, and the admissibiliy
of testimony shall be decided by the Court
and no laos, nor parts Of la0s shall be read
argued, cited or adopted IN any Court during
any trial, ercept those enacted by the Governor
and Legislative Assembly of thus Territory, and
those passed by the Congress of the Uu,ed
States when applicable and no report decision
or doings Of any Court shall be read, argued,
cited or adopted, as precedent in any other traal
Here is studied attempt to cultivate le-
gal ignorance, or, if not that, to ignore all
of the world save the legal Solons of Utah,
The Scion of to-day is, besides, to have
no respect for the Scion of yesterday! The
policy of bringing up precedents would in
stitute comparisons, and comparisons are
odious )" therefore they are interdicted by the
Governor and Legislature of Utah.
There are many other laws of the Terrific
ry which invite comment quite as much as
those already cited. For instance, there is
law which allows them to remit taxes to
any favorites thew choose; to tax any person
they may think it is about to move from the
country to take into custody the proper
ty of any person on complaint Of any
body that he is about to remove, and is
indebted to some person; to take " all prop
erty left by any deceased or absconded per-
son, when there is no legal claimant known,
or sufficiently near to see to it In season" "
for the benefit of the perpetual emigrating
fund. All these laws, as worded, are liable
to very great abuse, and would not be harmed
by considerable pruning
AFRICAN SLAVERY.
According to the theory of,Mormonism,
Divine revelation has made no progress and
neither Christianity nor Mormonism, as they
say, denounces, habits or practices which
were permitted unto Abraham or Solomon.
In discourse delivered August 8, 1856, by
President j. M. Grant, published in The
Deseret Ne,os, find such IDEAS as the follow.
ing:
when you read of the gifts that we're be
slowed upon and circulated among the people
III God, you cerlainly would moi ish Others TO
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