The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-10-06
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYsHIP.

The people of Idaho Territory appear to
have no rights whatever that few designing,
one-horse Radical politicians feel that they are
bound to respect When defeated for Office
they resort to any underhand trickery-even
to securing the Intervention of Congress-in
order to defeat the will of the people as ex
pressed through the ballot-box. Another new
scheme has now developed itself, by which it
is hoped that the people of Idaho may be prac-
tically dsfranchised as to selecting one class of
their public servants, in electing persons to dis
charge the duties of District Attorneys in the
different Judicial Districts Through the ma
licious and meddlesome acts and opportunities
of one or two self-constituted Delegates to
Washington, Congress- on the last day of the
session, passed an Act annulling certain Acts
of the Idaho Legislature, and in that bill We
find the following section:
SECTION q And be 1t further enacted, That the Act
passed by the Legislative Assembly of said Territory
on the 18th day of January A. D. 1869, entitled can
act creating the office of District Attorney for each
county in this Territory, and defining their duties and
prOVldlnS tnelr compensation, be, ana the same
is hereby, disapproved and annulled.
The Act which was thus annulled by Con
gress contained a repeating clause, which abol-
ished the office of District Attorney, created
by former Act of the Legislature, approved
Jan. IL, 1866. The bill passed by Congress
annullng the whole Act creating the Office of
District Attorney for each county, as matter
of course carried with it the clause abOlshing
the office of District Attorney for each Judi
cial District, and therefore leaves the former
Act in force, just the same as though there had
been no legislation ln.regard to that office since
January IL, 1866. An attempt was made, at
the time of the passage of the annulling Act by
Congress, to induce that body to provide in the
same bill that the u S. Attorney should also be
the District Attorney for every county in all
criminal eases arising under the Territorial
laws; but sense of decency and lingering
respect for the few rights possessed by ouI
people restrained members from indulging in
any such outrageous legislation simply to graf
ify the malice of the editor of the Statesman
and the cupidity of the present incumbent of {
position which amounts to q sinecure. Having
failed in this flank movement, the very learned
individual, whose whereabouts, upon his ap
pontment, was discovered only after advertis
ing for him in different Radical journals, has
as last resort, brought suit in the Distric
Court against A. Heed and John c. Henley
Esqs., to determine who is entitled to the Office
of District Attorney of the Third Judicial Dis
trict The absurdity of the claim put forwart
by Huston is only equaled by his immense ex
hibition of "cheek," and his ignorance of tn
law applicable to the case. If he and hi
friend of the Statesman are making calcula
tions upon a political decision beng rendere
by the Courts, we think they have reckone
} without their host. We have too much conf
dence in the honesty and integrity of at leas
two of our Judges to entertain the slightes
uneasiness of this nice little game proving
success.