New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
THE MORMONS.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE CULLoM BILL-w0RK
OLE TIE UTAH LEGISLATURE.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE CULLoM BILL-WoRK
OF THE UTAH LEGISLATURE.
A private letter from MIR. j. II. Beadle, who
Utah published in The Utah Reporter OF Cornne Mr.
Beade has boon in Washington giving special attention
After speaking of his interviews with the Senate Com,
,ee on Territories and ITS Ne%s OF te
lows: The President has promised to thoroughly exc.
night Deb 2 The President had just promised to fully
sustain him. but thought It would take 10000 men;
arms and authority call for yOlunteers-at Corinne
and from Idaho. etc. ETC. But there Is one dcny yet
bills before the Senate, which will occupy at least
one week each so this one cannot be reached IN about
March 20. q The Treasury Department oticials
swear they will sustain Dr. Taggart in his efforts 10 col
Correspondent Of The Chicago Tribune reviews
OF important acts of the last Utah Legislature.
annually convened in Utah for 20 years" and which has
now adjourned not TO meet until 1872 In accordance with
a law Of Congress making all Territorial Legislatures
biennial In nothing ia the influence new ideas more
manifest than III the dOngs OF this body Ihey seem 10
have seen that the people getting ahead of Them
and 10 have taken some long strides 10 keep the leader
ship. Heretofore. the legislators OF Utah nave Thought
OF any and OF decisions courts founded on stat
other than those of the Territory they were pro
bling of the body Secretary and acting Gov. Mann
called attention to this policy and pointed out several
lawyers specially debarred from collecting any pay
for their services, aud no preeedent could De pleaded
as that is possible with any body Of men Gov Mann
urged the necessity OF adoptnga civil ana criminal coue
OF practice, concluding on that theme, us follows
Il won this connection suggest the Examination Of the code me
adapted 10 the wants
hi. Territory the recently adopted and by
and eminent ability &C. He for peo-
similar
comprised In sm, volume which 10
equal the legislation Of single Per
nan, M has .ep mistaken that the needed lev
mon law begins in such obge to resort to
the determination ofthOse questions which should be
plainly doWn In the statutes
The Legislature acted on this recommendation adopt
ing The Code of Nevada with very little alteration. and
repealng almost en- their former puere enact
ments Including that clause OF the election law which
requires numbering Of the ballots They succeeded IN
getting through general incorporation act only by Sec
Tetgry Mann's assistance They first PASSED 10 with
proyson allowing all the stock capital TO be with
drawn through agency OF the Probate Courts which
might appropriately be called "Brighsms dirty
agency" TO illustrate 1t would have permitted Zion's
Holiness the Lord Mercantile Cooperative Bulls Eye
Institutions retail miscellaneous store" 10
pledge its credit goods East to the utmost and them
while they were being turned into cash, through
some Probate Court hOcuspOcus TO withdraw all
the said cash. the capital of the concern, and let
before was presented to him for his official action and,
pointing IL out OF the members II was stricken
out They needed badly enough an incorporation act
and when they found they couldn't have 1t with this very
objectionable feature in it, they took ii out We know
how opposed they have always been 10 mining for gold
and silver IL has been deemed cause or eXcOnmu-
nicaton that man would hunt mine for those metals;
they have advanced sufficiently 10 enact law regulating
that IL Is the only cash resource LETT To Utah. sun,
the law was Dangling binding on the miner, that
the Governor compelled to veto IT. and he who reads
il Is lost to knew whether it intended TO encourage
TO it, 1t is quite victory for so short time that they
seen 10 IL.