The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-01-08
Territory of Arizona, Ex Rel
 Granville H. Owry,

Territory of Arizona, Ex Rel
 Granville H Owry
 rs. Affidavit and
 John B. Allen, Territorial InterlOcutory TrsaGurer, Coles Bashford, snd Injunction. Charles H. Lord, Territorial
 Auditor.
 Owry, Atty for Territory. ...... .Bashford, Atty forDsfsndantt............Titus, for Judge.
 This is amotion, on Affidavit, to dissolve the interlocutory injunction, ordered by former Judge of this District, and issued in pursuance thereof by the Clerk of;hO said Court, to res train the said Coes Bashfori, payment to the amount of certain bonds and warrants, in the aggregate as alleged, of the sum of six thou> sand four hUndred and ninety-ssven dollars l9-lO0, delivered by the Territory 10 him for his services a. Attorney General of the same x x
 The most forcibe exemplideatiou of this proj ositicn is perhaps to be found in the Terri. tories oi the Unittd States. Art. ", Sec 3, clause second of the Constitution declares that ''The congress shall have power to dispose of aud make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory O- other property be- longing to the United States Either from this grant aione, or assisted by implicat on of our national sovereignty American Insurance Co vs Csulen 1 Peters. 5.l, Congress derives it's whole noser over the Territories
 Ihls is no small or uaimportant part of the whole power ol Congress. It will be perceived by inspection that this power i3 conferred on Congress alone; and Vel, beginning with the Ordinance ofJuly l3, l787, Congress- has ever since left lhIs vast and important part ot legis- l@tiye power to territorial organizations of it's own creation. True, it has retained the power of disafirmatiOn. Practically however, almost none of the voIuminous Territorial legislation has ever been modified or annuled by Con gress Perhaps no equal mass of public aoor has ever bsen so free from question or moQi- fcation under any revisory power.
 Nor are these grants Of Territorial legisla tTe ower either stinte5 or embarrassed by tmej checks or reservations. They are full and urreserved Cur own organic law Of New N xico, (Sec VII, Stats at Large, vol 9, p. 4lS, ] naay be taken as type of them all. The portion oft which illustrates this question is in these terms, 'Ihe legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rigLtful subjects of Legislation, consistent with the Constitution oI the United States, aud the provisions of that act
 No one article of Arizona Legislation, it is believed, has ever been questioned or disaf- Grmed by Congress, or by any other competent authority.
 Here this exemplifcation might safely ter minate, for if the learned Judges opinion is true as stated, our Territorial legislation of eighty years is a mere nul'ity. The learned Judges commission was mere ockery, and his opinion as utterly wanting i'll authority as it is in reason aud precedents applicable to inc case
 The powerful States and growing Terntcries which have arisen under this policy, t7ium ph- antiy vinIcatsthe action Of Congress in mak. iag these grants of Territorial legislati7, power
 Art l, See. 8, clause seventeen, of tho Cen su,u,ion of the United States, enioips Conrres. .'Io exercise exclusive legislatsn ia al. case, whatsoever. ever such district. (uot exceeding ten miles squars), as may by cession of par ,ieoIar Sta.es, and the acceptance of Congress- become the selt of the government of the United States" t will be perceived that this grant of legislative power in Congress, over the District of Columbia, is as ezclusirt as human language can make it. And yet, Cor. g'ess early incorporated, and has e1er since maintained the city of Washington, by which nest ot ,Ao -sjs.aloa ofthat District has been exsrcised
 oflhs thiriT, rore or l,s., ggea, legislative p'"ers vested il Coasrzts. by the Constitu> lon, At ], Sec VIII, several of those net exclusively vested in Congress, or buried S,Rte actioU, by teme IeFuznance in ,heir nutare. have, ever s.nee the formation If ,bs Coneti,u- iOL, been free subjects of State legislationi