New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-10
THE SAINTS THROWN OUT OF COURT.
IMPORTANT DECISIONS BY JUDGE JAMES b
M'KEAN-POLNGAMISTS NOT ENTITLED TC
NATURALGZATION- LAM
GRANTS OF No VALUE.

IMPORTANT DECISIONS BY JUDGE JAMES b.
M'KEAN-POL1GAMIsTS NOT ENTITLED TO
NAT GZATION-TERRITORIAL LAND
GRANTS OF NO VALUE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 20.-TwO important
decisions lately rendered by ChiefJustice James b.
Mexican OF the Third District Court, nearly affecting
Mormon ghts property and to citizenship have just
been published and copies have been forwarded To you
one of your correspondents writing from here few
months ago. mentioned that these two pend
ing and would doubtless be decided at the January
term 1t was not difficult to understand from former
rulings Of Judge Mexican, that the decision in the natu
raIzatiou case would he adverse Mormon interests
for the facts identcally the came, "Ony,"
say in the West mOre So III September last the Judge
decreed in the cases of sandberg and Horsey poyg-
amists in principle and perspective, though having only
one wife each at the time that they could not become
itzeps Of the United States because their expressed
readiness 10 become polygamss established that they
were not men OF good moral character fit 10 become
citizens lie has decided on the applications Of
Richard Douglass. Ralph Douglass. and William Kay,
each practciug poyganist, That they are not men Oh
moral character, and not entitled to naturalization.
rbese men committed polygamy prior to the time that
T-tab ecame Territory and they set up In defense That
they had violated no law OF Congress Judge Mexican
rcd that in violating the marital laws OF any other
country under which they may have lived beiOre coming
"a this they had committed crime which deDafieu te
,,o ncco,uinr citizens of the United States. This
Is
sane man questions s justice or that 1t can DC sustained
I'm law. 1900
The decision as published contains strong MINT 10
brigham Young aud his followers, which naturally oreas
much excitement here But IT has been expected ior
some time; indeed ever since IL became apparent tha'
the Federal iudges no longer under Mormon
influence as under former Administrations The con
eludng paragraph Of the decision ON the hatuialNa-
ton application Just alluded 10 reads thus:
II r. quite time that certain men in TINS c0hinunly
mislead the people who pTate about theU Oyiy 70
the Constitution while they denOunce every iaW lhas
opposes their usts had learned that the JURISDICTION VI
nation. within It's territory, Il exclusive ana hps
lutte. 10 T. susceptible limitation hot lhpohFu ~
itself" Che Exchange agt. McFaddon, Cfancb no.
Let them make mp their minds that TINS hatOh WIZ
enforce in Utah the same laws that are ei-
forced everywhere else In the civilized world.
Let those who have been lgh0ranly or
willingly Inislcd into bigamy make provision Tor the
0f those children, and then let them 10 cohaDt
with their cOncubines. After they shall have done
and persisted I'm such works meet for repentance
there will be time enough for them 10 apply Tor
American citizenship on the ground that they are
OF good moral character attached tO the pfln-
cpies Of the Constitution of the United states, ana
Weu disposed to The good order and happiness OF the
same" Whatever tie present applicants Tor natural
LatOn may have supposed In regard 10 the law PRIOR
10 1862, they know that the law condemns then
conduct. II they have any desire ever again 10 be
come the law-aDidug men which the court presuine0
'sSv 0iec were let them at once BEGIN 10 Obey the a~o