Hon. Geo. C. Bates On The Mormon Imbroglio

Fmm tho N. Y. WorU, April 18. Colonel Qsarg) C 1$ ites, United States DUtriet-Attorney of LTtah, was in this city yostorday, and it boiug known that ho left Salt Liko City for tho purpo3e of eonsultition with President Grant relativo to Mormon afVur, !iis retara from Washington was ipade tho occasion ot' numcroiu interviews. In responso to inquiries, ho said : Both Gentiles and Mormons thora are wilUng; to submit a-bsohltely to tho decisión of th) Suprome Court mado in the oase of Jeter Clinton nemas Englebivcht, which dou3 but reitérate tho law regulating the judioiary of the Territorios for more than fifty years, and which was anticipatod by every well read lawyer, and espeoi&lly by the Attornoy-U-eneral of the ünitod States, whoso views on tho courso of tho cases in Utah h-vd been freely and fraakly expressed over since tho important decisión of thii 29th of January laat. Indeed, this late decisión but reiteratos the law respocting Territorial Courts, their powera and dalles, as repeatedly enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States, and by thos-i of tho States of Iowa and ilinuesota, and alothe published opinions of tho Attorney-Goneml of thu United States, froin Pelix Orundy down to Caleb Cushin. But this most impoitant deoisioo iOfiafurther than this and lays down the doctrine i'ounded upon tho Constituüon that while tin; United States miy Bcqaire ferritory and hokl it for settlemont théy do not, as under othor forms of governniimt, hold theni as mere oolonies; but that whenever theri is a sutfiient number of pooplo in the Territorios to organizo local gov rnments, the people thereof aro entitled to such locfvl govermnents, and when organized by Congross under an organic iet, thon as to all local or territorial rights or laws they are as independent of tho Foderal govornments as are tho poople of tho sevoral States, aud that the right of trial by juries, selocted aooon}.ing to the local statutes, for all Torritorial offenoes, is an inalienablo right. This decisión, thereforo, is the most important ono evor reuderod by tho United States. Court upon tho rights, privileges and powers of the Territories. All that is now necessary to givo peaco to Utah, to restore harmony and to bring to punishment all who havo been givilty of . tion of laws, is to próvido eome simple legislation for the enforcement of tho act ot Congross against pc-lygamy, passed in 18G2, und whioh has eyei boon a doad lotter, no a-ttempt whatever having boon mado to enforco its provisions by the courts in Utah or by the olKoers of the United States guvornraent thore. With such legislatura jxlygamy will soon ond in Utah, and this accomplishcd, nothiug further is requirel to maintain and enlorce tho laws and authority of the Federal governmont. But in addition to this tho vast innuxof Oentilo bankers, minors, businoss men and lawyors with their familios, and the importation by thom of tho oxtravagancc in rtross aud nmaraonts, and tho other extraordinary expens(;s erf Oontilo ladies, is tast wmikening tho chains with whioh Brigham Young lioutul thom. Then again, railroads, telegraphs, and commoroe havo alroady ontered tho doors of the sacrod Mormon i templo, and fashion with hor mighty power -fcill aoon roitder it imposible ío any one man in Utah to maintain more than oue wifc. With these troublcs ended, Utah will soon prove to be the lic' est ininiug State in tho Union ; and with choap labor, cheap transportaron, and with all tho comfoits of a homo in eivilizatioii to those who dulve in her mine i harmonv and prospe.rity will soon ba the rulo. lorfectsecurity to lite and propurtywill hereafter exut, whatever mav havo boen the oriraea and violonco of tho past, vhen thosu paoplv, Üfa the Janéese nahon wen shut out from all tho world aml had no one but theinselves to protoct or caro lor. Under tho statuto of 1862 polyKamv conld havo been arrestod and broken up witbuj two months by simply empauel"ngagrandjarypf the Oaited Statesarrestmg, trying and convicting half a dozen oí the most prominent offonders. Chon the President might have pardonod t"'m "'"' ww Uiued a proolamatioi olanog thiit in futuro tíie law should be ngidly enforced. Thcro being no law rogulating inarnage m ULnh Territoiy, but only tho rehgious law of tho itormon, ia which they claim that they are proteoted by tl; UOMtltution, all attempts to punish them is a mero perversión of justioe. Brighara Young has always ivowud himsolt' to bj perfoctly wlliiag to aubmit to tho laws of oited States when Uwfully adminiatored ; but he is a very old man now, very much weakenod by these troabüs, and must soon dio. Let mo say, in conclusión, that all accounts of danger of outbreak or violonce by the poople of Utah - Gentüe or Morm-on- are absolutely absurd.