The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-14


must not be too enthusiastic over
or too severe upon Mr.. York for his work.
Men capable of doing such things are among
the sad necessities which long successful crime
demands for its unmasking. We must accept
the deed with thankfulness and recognize it
by trampling the political life out of the man
who has been betrayed.
From that investigation far out on the prairies
we must turn to the place where Pomeroy finds
himself for the present-namely the Senate
Chamber Of the United States. We can sec
Caldwell beside him, and Harlan, Patterson
and Wilson near him. We can see Colfax
presiding, and we can ask the people should
this painful exhibition be continued If
Caldwell bribed his way into the seat he occu-
pies should he not be cast out of it2 If Pome-
roy has bribed his way into private
life after the 4th of March next should
he disgrace the United States Senate by
being allowed to remain there until then2
If Patterson is perjurer and bribe-taker
should he sit while questions of truth and
matters of pecuniary public value are passed
upon9 AS we ask these questions the
Vice President raps to order, and we ask,
is it the same hand that signed the
check to Cakes Ames-the hand which
grasped, perhaps, that mysterious twelve
hundred dollars-that holds the gavelP We
review mentally the great work which the
body that numbers these men among its men,
bers is called upon to perform; and it needs
vbo IL 10 all
us why corruptness should fling out money
right and left to get there. 1t is for the people
to affirm, for the independent press to reiter-
ate, that we want no such money-changers in
our national temple. It was once q house
sacred to honor and justice; but does not the
presence Of such people in it now
mako it almost ga den of thieves? ?"
The exposure of York came in a timely
moment to wreak vengeance on Pomeroy.
The money laid upon the Presidents desk in
the Kansas joint convention swept the hopes
of Pomeroy away. In the other cases the
effect upon the people has been electrical for
the moment. 1t is the HERA1D's business and
that of every other Independent journal, Of
every honest man in the country, to see that
like ignominy to that of the Kansas Senator
overtake every man who, holding high trust
from the people, has betrayed that trust
President Grant and the Last Of the
Twin Relics.
President Grant has taken a short and
soldier-like road out of the Utah troubles and
complications. He is tired of the constant
and annoying conflict between the federal
Courts and the Territorial Probate Courts in
separable from the state of semi-revolt against
the laws and authority of the United States in
which the Mormon leaders exist. 1t is evil
dent to him, as to every practical man, that
the present condition Of affairs cannot long
continue without leading to deplorable re-
suits, and he is anxious that the matter shall
be brought promptly to an issue. 1t is
worth while testing whether or no we are
living under government which can be
made the sport of every set of crazy fanatics
or designing Adventures that may choose to
settle in the Territories of the Union
few days ago, as our Washington advices
inform u.s. the President went to the Capitol
and sought an interview with the
members of the Judiciary Committees of
the two houses, placing before them
his views on this subject and asking for some
practical legislation to settle the difficulties in
Utah before the adjournment of Congress.
He wanted such laws enacted as would define
the powers of the federal Courts and make
them supreme, and he requested that there
might be an end to that indifference on the
part Of Congress to the affairs of Utah to
which all the trouble may be traced. Doubt
less, in conformity with the suggestions made
to him by the Senators and Representatives
with whom he communicated, the President will
to-day send special message to Congress
setting forth formally his views and wishes.
He will ask that jurors in the federal Courts
shall be chosen in such manner as to take
their selection out Of the hands of the Nor
mon authorities; that the United States Dis
trict Attorney shall be made the prosecuting
officer in Territorial cases as well as those of
the United States, and that the Territorial
Probate Courts shall be prohibited from ex-
ercising either chancery or common law juris-
diction. At present the Probate Courts, under
the color Of authority from the Leeis-
lature of the Territory, are exercising
jurisdiction to which they are not entitled,
and through the packing Of jurors the au-
thority Of the United States Courts is practi-
cally destroyed in any cases in which the Nor
mon Church is interested
The suggestions Of the President do not
come too soon, and Congress should act upon
them at once. Independent of the pledge of
the republican party to destroy the "twin
relics" the impudent encroachments of Nor.
monism are scandal and reproach to tho
nation. Such laws should be passed as will
compel the Mormon leaders to act as loyal
citizens Of the Republic or to avow themselves
its open enemies such laws rs will ohlina