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GcvEnNos MUnH4F ARRAtGNED.
Strong Resolutions Fassed by the
Utah Legislatures.

SirohE NesDtntt0hh AHasseu by the
Utah Legislatures.
SALT LAKE Cry, UTAH, March 12.-The
following resolutions were yesterday
adopted by the Utah legislature. They
were occasioned by Governor Murray's veto
of the General Appropriation bill:
WHEREAS, All laws In force In this terri
tory have been SO passed by the said legis-
lative assembly, have been approved by the
governor and have been SO forwarded to
Congress and have not been disapproved,
and,
WHEREAS, Under our political system the
right to pass upon the constitutionality OF
any law In this territory is vested In the
judicial and not in the executive authority
and,
WHEREAS, The officers to whom his
excellency refers In his said veto
message as "holding over unlawfully
and long after the expiration of their
terms under an Illegal statute and by an
election void in ITSELF" were duly COM
missioned by his excellency, Governor Eli
H. Murray, in accordance with the law
passed as prescribed in an organic act by a
legislature selected as therein provided for
and said law was duly approved by the
governor and was not disapproved by Con-
gress and has not been declared invalid by
q competent court, said law was not there
fore void, said election was not Illegal nor
did said officers unlawfully hold over;
therefore, be 1t
ResolUed, By the council and House of
Representatives the legislative assembly of
the territory of Utah that the refusal
OF his excellency to sign bills because of
his opinion concerning the official status of
the auditor and treasurer is only pretext
instead of a reason, that the absolute veto
power vested In him is an engine Of opres-
sion, partisanship and malice; that
In giving official utterance to sentiments
that the regularly enacted and approved
laws of Utah are acts of notification, Eli
H. Murray openly and wilfully insults the
patriotism of the various legislative as
semblies of this territory by whom these
laws were passed; that he openly, deilantly
and for revolutionary purposes, insults the
patriotism Of the good people OF this terri
tory by whom said legislative assemblies
were elected, and whose representatives
we are, and lastly, that he wilfully
and deliberately fnsnlted the Intelligence,
patriotism and devotion to the duty of his
predecessors In office, who, while possess
Ing the absolute veto power and being
equal In authority to him, the said Eli H.
Murray, and equally responsible with the
legislative assembly, have given their final
approval of said laws, and be 1t further,
ResolUed, That the said statements of the
said governor of Utah Territory "when
analysed in their very DOneS ana IN tne
lineaments of their every feature" are
found to be wilful, studied and deliberate
Misrepresentation, fabricated for the pur-
pose OF arousing Congress and tho people
Of the United States to bitter and unre-
lenting hostility to the people of this terri
tory and of promoting thereby such hostile
legislation as would ultimately destroy
every vestige of liberty and republican gov
ernment In the territory of Utah; that the
unhallowed purpose which he seeks by such
statements as these to promote, his public
utterances and career in this territory have
clearly demonstrated to be his chief aim
and desire ever since his appointment to
the executive position, and that his present
attitude in withholding his signature to the
needed laws and thereby obstructing the
demands of legislation with nothing but
railing accusations instead of sound
reasons for his executive disapproval, places
him in the position OF an obstructionist, a
nulliiier and an arrogant and defiant oppo-
nent of the legal and constitutional de-
mands Of liberty loving, loyal and much
abused people, whose best interests it
should be his highest aim to promote and
whose constitutional rights he has sworn TO
maintain; and be 1t further
Resolued That these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of both house OF
this assembly.