The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-22

sired that the compensation be fixed
and ordered pad, or that it be only
fixed.
JUDGE POWERS said that it was de-
sirable to have it fixed and paid. He
thought that Mr.. Hobson's argument
was based upon something that had no
existence.
1T WAS ON A FEAR
that the act might be declared I'M
constitutional. If that question was
entitled to consideration it should have
been thought OF when the court held
the law to be valid, and not be made
the matter of a doubt now Judge
Powers argued that the matter of COM
pensation was fully within the juris-
diction of the court and il should be
fixed. The testimony upon which
Judge Sprague reported was that of
leading business men, and the full
amount suggested should be paid.
1t had not been alleged that the
amount was unconsCionabie, but he
did not see it that way. There has not
been receiver appointed in the his
tory of the Jurisprudence of the United
States whose duties were more delicate
and responsible than in this case. He
entered upon duties which, to say the
least. were dls,asteful to the great
majority of the people of this Terri
tory. When he assumed the RESPONSE
bilities of the Office and flied bonds of
$3.50 0L0, guaranteeing the just perform
anCe of his duties, as he looked about
him he faced solid Wall of 200 coo pee
pie who were opposed to him In the
prosecu ton of those duties. say here
in this court that there is more per-
feet organic ton upon the face of the
earth than that of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints-an organ
ization which was .-
ANTAGoNIsTIc TO THE RECEIVER.
Whenit moves it moves as one man;
when the heart of the center beats, the
pulsation is felt in Arizona, in Idaho,
and in Colorado. 1t is an army IN civil
life, governed by $4,000 office holders
1t is an organization that this receiver
and his attorneys were compelled to
| face, and whatever they got, they had
to wrench little by little from it by
strategy and by force; aud therefore to
say the responsibility placed upon that
man was nothing, and that it might be
compared with the responsibility which
rests upon the shoulders of the mena-
ger Of railroad company is to say
something that We should leave here;
and which those who know and who
have felt the power of this organization
know not to be true.
Why, the man who acts as receiver
for railroad company takes his posi-
ton in the Office and finds at his dis
posal all the various sub-officials of
that great system. He issues his ger
eral directions, signs his cheques ana
his orders, and at his beck ana nod are
thousand, or two thousand, or five
thousand men who perform their duties
as perfectly So the intricate wheels of
the CLOCK. The receiver who entered
upon his duties in this case had nothing
to guide him; his duties were anomal-
GUS; he was to search out and secure
property which was to bring upon
| his head more or less condemne-
ton; it was to expose himself,
by the one side or the other, to
the shafts of SANDER and calumny
that were as certain to fall upon him
as the sun is certain to rise over the
mountain tops tomorrow; for 10 this
country where the feeling is so intense,
where each side believes they are right +,
no man can stand between and fallltei
receive the darts that will be hurled at
| b M by those who