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UEKDKRAO.H fc CO. W KITING MATERIAI, of alLkluia, Vet fM lbs VettaBc. OF Territory of Arizona, Ex. Rolof the Attor ney General, vs. Ornuvlllo II. Oury, District Attorney of the county of Plsia. Territory of Arhor.a, in the District Court or tht First Judicial District, on motion to quash and dUmlsi a amjJahU in t),e nature of s Quo Warranto. Opinion tf the Court. Thl J a proceetling; under the Code in tbe nattirt; of a Quo Warranto, tty the Code it i a proceeding required to ho ii)titutcil by the Attorney Oencral, in his oflicitjl capacity jut uch, or by otne other jiersoo specially au tboriml by the court. Tbe roinpiaiut or information filed in thU cawj in comptiancL' with the iciuireinent of the Un-, connretices "Jatne E, 3IcCaflfry, Attorney Genera! o( thc'Territory of Arizona, In Ijehalfof the aid Territory complains, etc of 'G H. Oury. Acting Dutnct Attorney for the county of i'ima, etc,' The complaint or information h signed hy the aid Junes E. JfcCnfTry, a Attorney General and u-nnj to by hint. This it all that i shown by the complaint or information a to hi offlcul (standing as Attornoj' GvtraJ,nd lttisnl in practke until in some way controverted orquetionod. This information or romithunt the riajM)ndent more to quash and net aside all proceeding under it. For reasons in support of his motion he al leges that James K. JIcOalFry, who autne to act as Attorney General in the case, is not such o!!:ccr cither dc, fzrto or dtjurt and that therefore the wrac is irregulnrlr filed and without authority and should "be otrioken front the file of the- court, and all proceed ings ucder it quashal and set aside. If Jatne E. ilcCaflry Is not Attorney Gen eral, as awnmed in the motion, either dtfacto or tU jure, then the comnwiiciui! of this pro ceeding by hltn as suclioftlecrU clearly irreg ular ssd unwarranted and should not b? jj-t-mittcd. Xo form of answer or other competent plea to the Information or coraplilnt could raiw the Imuc of Attorney General or not to be tried in the cans thus commenced, unless there fore, this question can in wtno other way be raised, presented and acted upon by the court, the inrritable consequence follows that who ctcT please mar assume to lw Attorney Cen tral .whether with or without any right to such office, either in fact or in law, and may commence and prosecute suits In this court without any power In the court or jarties to such suits ty rwwt or prevent teh jwlpablc Irregularity and usurpation. The law 5a grill ty of no such absurdity. " For where In the commencement or prose cution of letfal tiroeeedint. nuestlons off cither substance or form asrW that cannot be reached by plea they are always: arnilable ou motion If not waited by some step inconsist ent with such motion. " A complaint, Information, declaration or t.!ca. fiird or fiancd by a person noi an attor ncy of the court, may on motion I? stricken I rum me uics, ana ail procccummi unuer iv quasbvd. Also an Indictment hot properly endowed or signed, by Pon not authorized so to da, may before pica on motion, be quashed. A return of a sfcerftf tfr other officer may for Irregularity, or other defect be set aside and all prowedings under Itijiushc-d, so the return of a pertn pretendinjr to be an olllccr and not such in fact may be ct aside and quashed on motion. Thee are a few Instances of the many similar proceedings known to the lam' as matters of ercry day practice In court of justice, Chilly's Gen. pr. 50 Arch Cr. Ir. The law on principal of public jtolicy recognizes officers dtfacto and olllcers dejtrt holding proof ofthe former as Mthlcieut in all case when official existences is collatter ally brought in question, and proof only of the latter ts requisite in a direct isue ujwn a Quo Warranto, to try the lciral riRbt and ti tle to tins oflice in question, or where thenar- ty by his pleading make a strict legal title to the office the iiMue to m tried. JIfe, r, Thorutoit, 8 T. R. 203 Conoel, ts. Curtis, 2 Iling. S2$ Rumbary, u. Mathews 1 car Kir. 380 People, rs. Hopon, 1 IJeni. 6T4. An officer deacto is one who is in the actual ex ercise and enjoyment of the function of an ' office and in thu perception of Its emoluments, and U publicly recognized us such, an officer dejnte is one having the legal title to an office and may or not be in Ihe pimeBiWIi find"cJT ercisoof the funrtions of such office. 1 Rouv. Law Dlcy Titles deacto and de jure 1 Green, Er. 83 lT. 8. rs. Reybnm C Pet., 352 Hr. U. S. m. Dandridge 12. Wheat 70 Regina r. Vickery 12, Ad. and El. 478. The resjiondent in support of his motion shows' himself to he in the public and actual posseasion and use of tho functions of tho offico of Attorney General, ami to have so been in the actual possession and use fend al so in tho inception of the emolument of the office for a year or more last past and publicly recognized as such olllcer, Some of theMj facts arc judicially known to this court from its own records, which show the respondent to have been in tho ac tual possession and exyrcUo of the office of Attorney General by thti institution and prosecution ol tho proceedings In this court as such officer, and that continued up to the last aittlng of tho Court. The omeial character of the resjiondent a Attorney General ?t least de facto it wit di iurtU ahown W havo been recognized by the body autimlng to apt as tlje Legislature of in tho repeal of section 1$ of an act of 1865 which wirnorted'to devolve the dull? of the cMcn In questioH on th respondent at DisCncl' Attorney of the county 'of r,ri, w tfie prwent tniormanon or coxnpjaini QUO WARRANTO DECISION JUDGE BACKUS. which states him to be de facto District At- j toniey of the county of Pima and recogniz ing him a in the full post.Aion of that ofllce ox created by the said act of 18CC. To this state of facta the relator makes no ! posesed of legislative power mast be corn counter showing, much lwss afllrmativelv i posed, organized tmd elected in accordance shows that he is Attorney General cither de with the Organic Act authorizing such body. facio or dc Jure. The feature thaa distinguishes the legista- The former of which every officer is pre-! tivo wmbly of the Territory of Artzotu sutned at all times to be readv to show and ronl vcry other acmbly and gives It legis ts bound so to do when hid ollicial character 'alive power over that Territory is that it he is legally brought into question by plea, mo-1 apportioned, elected and organized in the tion or otherwise. Failing to do this when J tnanuer prescribed by the Organic Act, if not, m required on this motion, the relator can- however, moral, intelligent, capable andialU not be held or treated by this Court a Attor- factory it may be to people electing It, it U ney General oven d facto, first because when "ot l'se legislative assembly of the Territfiry projicrly railed upon In this motion he has i anJ no legislative or political power what tafled to make the proticr showing, that is to i ever show any uw of the functions of the office 'u', is 10 mT decisive of th so as to make him de facto such officer, and present motion; the relator Miowing no ree sccond liecau-e the resrxindent has .Hirnm- i ognize! ue or exercise of the functions of tively shown himself in the actual jxesion f and exercise of the functions of the office in question. It is therefore, legal! v impossible ! lor the came oltlce-to be held by the relator .. .. - ... 1 so as to constitute him de facto such olllccr. Here the inquiry of the Court as to official character in this collateral proceeding would stop, although the respondent has, in Nip pon of his motion, gone ou to show that the rvtetor i rjotf Attorney General, had not the relator himself rc&tcd hW right and used the showing of the respondent as the groumrof claim oy him, the relator to the ollicc in question. Tlits Court, for obvious legal reasons, would not have permitted this motion to Involve SLW.rjr..mt0,i I"2" , V"? .ifllwintmentshownonthUmotion by the re office in qtiastiun, but when the legal right is j i,)0n(jent E - h'T'i:',,, ground or lui clainis to tbe oflice it is the dutv of this court 1 tl , .t to eou. der it upon the mo principle that when the plainlifT in a suit avers a strict legal right to ollicial character, he will be "bound to prove it n alleged, although neither audi averment of character nor proof was prima rily necessary. Rut so presented and relied upon br the relator as the showing of the respondent is. It it the duty of the Court to consider it. The showing of the rcsjiondcntM) relied npon by the relator arid urged as hi title to the otficc in question, is in substance as follow, vz m j e OlllClA ! inai me rciaior noius ana Claims me oiuca s m queauoti or Mriue oi an appointment, w tbe Mine br the Governor of the Territory, which appointnKnttpurport to have been CT,u,r r " lnrunz w an as ino conneil of a Legislative Asscmhly of theTer nfory for the year low, on the loth of De cember, IMS. That this appointment and corrfirmation wa founded on what purports to be the acts of the bodies cUSiidnjj to lu? (he same LegLs lafive assembly of the Territorj for the year tse one ot the oi lSW, and the other of the date of the 15th day of Decctnljcr of the same year; the for mer purporting to repeal tho loth section of an act of I860, resting all the jvowere of At torney General In the District Attorney of the county of I'ima, the latter to create the olfice of Atterncy General and authorize the appointment of such officer by the Governor by and with the consent of tlw Legislative Council. The same nhowing of the respondent un contradicted Jiy the relator and a part of the same showing which the relator urges upon this Court as his ground and claim of right to the office in question, show that the leg islative assembly composed of a Council and House of Representatives for the year 18G8, and which purported to enact the taws afore Mid and to have advised and consented to the appointment aforesaid was apportioned hy the Governor of the Territory and its ap portionment not prescribed br lawas required by tho Organic Art for even legislative as sembly after the first, (this ouing the fifth in order of time.) That It members were, elected oS the first Wednesday in June Instead of the first Wed nesday In September as prescribed by law. That the Council of said legislative Assem bly lost its organization and legal existence by meeting and adjourning witboua quorum on the 1 1th day of December, 1SC', from 11 J o'clock of that day until 2 o'clock of the af- ternoon of the same da, and again without a quorum by pieetiag at 2 o'clock of that day purporting to transact business in electing a President an! exctteinjj the non-at-tendencc of a memlcr in the former part of that dav, and then without a quorum adjourn ing until 10 o'clock next day, the 12th day of December, less, uy again, on tne ttn uay oi December aforcAaiil, meeting without a quo rum and transacting basincs? in tbo reading, ' correcting and ajiproval yf its journal, ami then without a quorum pretending- to adjourn until 10 o'clock the next day the 13th day of December 1868. That tho Council of the said legislative as sembly destroyed its, legislative capacity by receiving into it and as ono of its members on the 10th day of November, 1805, one 0. D. Gass six a member thereof, and who contin ued to net as such member during the con tinuance of said Council and was necehsary in point of numbers to form a quorum for said Council. That aaid Gass was an inhabitant of and resident of the State of Nevada, and not of any Ditdrict of the Territory of Arizona. The two former nutations, vis: Hie appor - tionnient of the legislative assembly by the Governor and tho election of Its members on tbo first Wednesday of June instead of tho first Wednesday of September have already been fully considered by this Court in the rase ef the Territory ex Rel of G. H. Oury, District Attorney of the county .of "Rims, and txojjtcio Attorney General, ri. Oscar Ruck slew, and decided ta be object low fatal to to thu existence of any legislative authority cr power in an assembly so apportioned or elected at that time. . . . ' Tbii Coart frem'a 'eirefal 'recoiisWentJo of thco questions In thu case can sec no ground for any change of opinion. The true and simple test of these questions is this: that am legislative assemblr to be the olilw sought and chimed by him is not defarfo such officer and especially so when it ' aiurmatively shown by the respondent t&at ,ie wi tKti lor a long time past has been in .1. . t i i . ... . t. . e mc recoj.'iiicu use anti exercise -oi ine miic tions of the office and receiving the emolu ments thereof rendering it in iact, and in law, impossible for the relator to hold the same ofllce defaeio, whatever his rights may be ; dejttrt. The respondent must, therefore, hy jhe Court, be held and treated as de facto Attor ney General. The relator has in no ways attempted to show himself de fvio such" offloer but has rested his cam solely on his legal right asde- i nvetl from the legislative tiroceodtitxs and an- 'TiH.if the Inws and appointment were , .!'.. . i. . . nnu jiau eueciuai, wouiti give me rcjaior a Utj8 lo the oflkc lare & rf ht 0 proceedings to be put in poiseasion of the office de facto. Rut having rested his claim of tfilce on thes legislative proceedings and appointment as a question of law, it becomes the duty of the Court to consider the matter so submit ted and finding the acts and appointment of no legal force or effect, the riant of the rela- tor to ibe offioe in question as urged by him j twlf fail not only de fveto hut dejore; no user ! being shown to sustain the ono and nolaw-or valid appointment to create or tupjwrt the rt,ti 0t,cr xfac alrcaa (akcn of tj)h ht nectary to consider the. other questions above pnsinlrtl M tu0 mw.u tJi and adjouru- incnUof tiie Council without a ooomm and f .1 . I. . .1.. t..l.. f . 1 from without the Territory. It is an unbending maxim of American law indeed of the common law as applicable to all American institutions civil or political that majorities govern, and that no political or civil body, consisting of more than one mem ber can organize or perpetuate rtl organiza tion or do any binding act whatever, without the prescne? of a qaorutn or a majority of its members unless expressly authorized m to do by the sovereign power creating such body. In accordance with the fundamental and unbending principle the Constitution of the United States, and thoe of the several State expressly authorize each lioo-c of -Congress and each Route of the Lcgixlaturos of the several States lo meet and ndjourn without a quorum and fend for absent members. Without such provisions there, could be no such meetings and an adjournment would work a total dissolution of the bodies. Ifeither.Congress nor tho J.egislaturcs df the several States could rive themselves such jKiwtr; nothing short of the mprcme act ofj thu people by their constitution could do it and nothing short of the creative power of Congress, that gives life and vitality U the legislative assembly of the Territory of Ari zoua could give it such a power. Upon what principle tbirefurc the Council of the legislative assembly of the Territory assumed to meet, act and adjourn without a quorum I am utterly at a loss to understand ; or by what right or authority that body took in a member Irom the State of Nevada and from without tb ritory when tho Organic Act expressly pr jch that all "members of the Council and . .ue of Representatives shall reside in and bo Inhabitants of the Dis trict for which they may be elected respect ively." Organic ct, section 5. I can have no doubt fia at present advised that uch prt cwking would utterly invalidate and dratroy anv legal capacity or power in the Council, " Rut, it is not now neccvary to decide these questions upon the principles heretofore de- ciilol in tins case; tiie motion oi me respon dent must be granted and an order entered trikipg the complaint or information from the file as irregularly filed nnd without au thority by one not holding the oflice of At torney General and all ptoceedinga subso quent thereto set aside and quadied. It is so ordered. The Telescope The New York Tribune gives a readable synojmts of a lecture delivered Itofore the American Institute, by Prof. Alexander, of Princeton College, w bo, nfter being introduced to the audience, spoke as follows: It was a noble figure which Bunyan used 1 in his Holv War. in which ho calls the senses the gate of the soul the inlet of knowledge J from without, Among these, wJblost of them iaiL vno ey-gnie, uv hjcuiiuh uiruuu which from afar the glories of light am boriw upon the very wings of the mom. Quite as interesting, in some &s pcots, is ths cyo through which we are enabled to sec And then, how beautiful and glorious is tbo light, entering, as It does, through the unbarred gates of the inoniing; gilding with glory the canopy of the sky, revealing tbe distant mountain-top, and unvailing the fair faoo of nature. Even its shreds- and patches are WautifiI ae they sparkli ia the diamond or. twinkle jn the dew-drop? and the'ltght comes back blushing itietf bftw it has )risd'tfce cbetfk, 'bf 'thc 'hitching rose. .Vhl.hcautifnl i llghtj'but most grand and most beautiful, most glorious, when It reveals to us from afar the glories of tbe great panoply that surrounds lis, and the sun whocovcreth himself with light as with a garment. Most glorious, in the next place, is the adaptation of the eye to light, and of light to the eye. Oh, what a simple telling fact is it that the wonderful emanation is poured upon the most delicate organ of tho human body, in its own way. with the veloci ty which would accomplish a journey by steam of 2V) miles in a Aingle second, without injury to that organ. On the contrary, light is a blessed thing for the eyes, and all tho senses harmonize in its reception. The lec turer here illustrated by diagrams the effect which prisms and lenses have in diffusing the rays of light. About the earliest mention of the UM3 of instruments for diffusing the rays of light was the use by the monster Nero, who was near sighted, of a convex mirror, compascd of precious stone, in order that he might fully enjoy tho contests of the gladia tors in the arena. Prof. Alexander, in this connection, exhibited a magnesium light on the platform, fthowiug the cfibct ol the light entering at different point of the mirror. The lecturer next referred to the history of the telescope, and said that he had a book in which there was au article by one Professor Alexander, and as that writer was a personal friend of hw, he would quote from it. u Roger Raton, in his Opus 31ujas, makes use of such language vritij reference to what mar Iks performed hy refracted vision,' as to render it somewhat probable that he was at least acquainted with the theory of a refrac ting telescope, though there is no sufficient proof that he constructed one ; and RaptisU Portia is said by Wolfias to have made a. tel escope, but the description of the instrument given by the inventor is very defective, and the instrument, whatever it was, does not seem to hare been used in any celestial ob frvatftm. Indeed, we have no distinct evi dence that such aa instrument was used be fore tho beginning ofthe 17th century. Descartes ascribes the invention" of the telescope to Jarae Mctia (Jacob Adriansy). of Allmcar, in Holland ; but liuyzsnx, as well as Rorclluis to John Lippensbelm, or Lipper sy, (llans-Zaur. or Janscn,) a maker of spec tacles, of Midd.eburjj. L'rpf. Moll, after an examination of official papers preserved in the archives of the Hague, cumes to the con clusion, that on the 17th of October. 1008, Jacob Adriansy was in nosscibion of the art of making telescopes, but from some unex plained cati-c concealed it ; and that on the 21st of the same month, Hans Zanz, or Jan uen, was actually in possasSion of the Inven tion ; but there "is little reason to believe that it was devised by either him or bis son Zach. arias, though one of them invented a com pound microscope about the year 1590. Ope, of tiie earliest of the telescopes made by tho Jasscns was preiicnted to the Prince Maurice, to bo used in the wars. It was In April or Mar, iCOO. that Galileo first heard ol this, and the instrument was then described to. him as one which had the property pf making' dbtant objects appear as though "they were near. Gafilco thereupon divined how that might be effected, and the next day, aeccvil. ing to Delambre, was in possession of a tele scope magnifying three times. Galileo's sec ond telescope magnified about IS, and his third about S3 times." The next topic was the planet Jupiter and his satellites, of which there are four, Thes Nttellitcs were observed by Galileo, who alsa observed their telipse. Jupiter turns rouud in less than ten hour. The moon, it would le noticed from the diagram, had a very rag gjtfd edge, which was aocounted' for by tho tact that the mountains upon it uicfae wers first struck by the rays of tho sunthws caus ing it to exhibit as uneven appearance to tl eye. They have a different atmosphere In the moon from that on earth ; things weigh only one-sixth what they do bore, and tns) moon Is not made of tho same stufl as th earth. The sun, it would be observed, vaa broken by long, black, hollow spots, which . sometimes open and close in the space of three or four day. The spectroscope shows that there is iron there, and magnesium, anil sundry other things. Next is the planet Mars, which seemed to be covered with some thing very liko snow. The distance to .the moon is a ten months journey by steam ; from, . hero to the sun is more than 51)00 yeans uhihim. t tin ...ila mn t) 1 I ! T ttA itaftcd With CortvZ Whu 3 0Cn"jUi rvu "cX- ico, we should hare had a residence there of but 25 years. Bat what is that compared to tb distance of the fixed stars, which were 7,000 times a far off as the most remoto planet 7 Tbe light of some of the stars has hen v-toally measured, and &r.$ .vf hrfu seems to be brighter than a hundred suns. What shall wo say of the Power who gives light to thcee hundred suns 7 Those jns, which are so remote, were started before th human race began. The consideration of this allowed us the power of cmniscicnos and tho velocity of light. Tho lecturer here ex plained why the statu exhibited a white light, showing also that fixed stars, being in pairs, revolved arouud another, and thus sc&stimes presented thu appearance of being but. one. For the samo roason, some appeared to be colored green, other ycjlow and Wuc, and and others black. Tbo greatest 'imagination , ever exercbed that of Milton never con-' reived anything more sublimely magnificent than is found in these tinted suns, these gems that surround top dark brow of night. Yor , these discoveries., said, th speaker, we are . largely indebted to an American, Allen Clnrlj, one of tho best opticians In the world. Flio- ' tography has been a valuable assistant in pro- ' moling tho sciences of astronomy as well as . other sciences, showing a beautiful jnstaac, of tho ftoncratiun of tho sciences .in thew J days. Prof. A., In' conclusion, exhibited a photograph of a remarkable phenomenon which ho sahl exhibited the appearance of a whirling foekot ok' its travek through ''thV sky, aad clod, Vitk an eldqaenl "piruratlQa