The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-05-31
ANOTHER INFAMOUS BILL.

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That political renegade from Oregon, Mr.
Williams, on the 4th Of last April introduced
in the United States Senate bilkwhich We
copy entire, as follows: rs
|. III lS1sl.8 A BILL I1l5E1 -
To disapprove an act of the Legislative AS
semby of the Territory of Idaho, passed
January fifteen. eighteen hundred and sixty
nine and for other purposes.
Ret enacted By the Senate and House of Representa-
res Of the United States of America in Congress
sembled, That much of act passed by the Legs-
ative Assembly of the Territory Of Idaho the f-
teenth day of January, Ammo Domlni, eighteen huD
dred and sixty mine, entitled 1" an Act creating the
Office of district attorney for each county in the Ter
ritory and defining their duties and providing for
their compensation" provides that there shall be
elected thereafter district attorney for each organ
lied county in said Territory is hereby dsapproved
of and annulled -..t.
SEC O. And be it further enacted, That the district
attorney of the United States for said Territory be.
and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to ap-
pear and prosecute in all cases provided for in said
act and to perform all the duties required of district
attorneys by said act, and he shall be entitled to
ceive compensation therefor salary of fifteen
hundred dollars per annum. payable quarterly, out
of the treasury of said Territory and the same fees
as prescribed by the laws of said Territory
for such services.
Until recently it has been universally ad-
mitted, and in fact believed by everybody, that
the people of Territory had the right to reg
ulate their own domestic concerns or. at least,
to manage their own local affairs as to them
seemed most conducive to their own welfare,
provided they kept themselves within the
bounds of the Constitution of our country and
transgressed no law of Congress. Douglas
-, 20 >e %bor ;rhf hfa +h.,
people cf Territory, and his opinions were
at one time received as authority; but the
higher law" party of to-day-the mongrel
party of amalgainationsts- upon the doe
trine that the people of Territory are no bet
ter than serfs, and that they have no rights
which Jacobin Rump Congress are bonnd to
respect The act which the Congressional bill
proposes to repeal, which was passed at the
last session of our Legislature, and over which
our Radical Boise City cotemporary has raised
such hue and cry, is one which the Legisla-
ture had the right to pass under the power and
authority conferred on them by the Organic
Act of the Territory. There is nothing in it
inconsistent with the Constitution of the Uni
ted States or of the Organic Act, and any &C.
ton by Congress upon this subject cannot be
considered in any other light than al unwar-
rantable interference in matters which does
not concern them, and an assumption of power
not granted by the Constitution. But Mr.. VIII
liams proposes to save the people of Idaho the
trouble of electing their officers. The general
government proposes to supply us with car
pet baggers," turn out the officers We have ell
ected, the men of our choice, and compel us to
pay out of our pockets men we have no voice
in selecting for the positions they fill. 1t was
proposed at the last session of Congress to do
away with the office of Sheriff throughout the
various counties in this Territory, (and it may
yet be done) throwing all the business of that
office into the hands of the United States Mar
shall thus placing the people at the mercy of
United States officers, about equivalent to be-
ing under military law. These infamous meas
ures were concocted and hatched right in our
midst by the very men who are now nominated
by the Radical party, and whose names are
now before the people for Office. How can
such men have the impudence and assuranceto
ask and solicit the votes Of the very people
whom they endeavored and still are endeaFor-
ing to disfranchse?