Show A CHANGE OF BASE When Chief Justice Sandford of the Utah supremejcourt was told by Attorney General Miller that the President wanted his resignation he inquired whether he had been accused of misconduct or male sation in office In reply he was informed that there were on file in the department some complaints as to the manner in which he had discharged his judicial duties but no further statement to these complaints or charges was made and with this reply came notice of his removal from the bench Our Washington correspondent applied to Attorney General Miller yesterday for information in-formation as to these charges and for permission per-mission to inspect and publish the papers in which they are set forth Thelittornci generals curious brief and somewhat incoherent in-coherent reply to the application reportc in our dispatches He will say nothing about the charges nor will he permit the papers to be inspected All this may recall the impassioned speech of one Benjamin Harrison in the Senate of the United State on March 201 80 in which he said I do lift up a hearty prayer that we may never have a President who will not either pursue and compel his cabinet advisers to pursue tte civil service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis allowing men accused to be heard and deciding against them only upon competent proof and fairly either have that kind of a service or for Gods sake let us have that other frank and bold if brutal method of turning men and women out simply for political opinions Let us have one or the other It is not asserted that Chief Justice Sand ford was removed on account of his political opinions New York Times |