Show ABOUT THE LAWYERS iv that courts for cou counties titles letter his hid honor chief justice mckean was pie pleased sed to J inform his is honor MA bayor n NN wells ells clis and ot other ic r prominent CIU men inen who vr erg erp active ene ine ino se g eie ele ic u useful and honored adi repe ro pei peu ted tod citizens citi zens zeus of utah froni from one t evl IA i 1 cd hi f eln ela tin the jude judo know anything uit uly i hat oat it this portion P oi of uie ule fr 6 public dalr dair or its ita that ii notts ot one pra tian ti cn ng 0 lawyer had signed tie vie t ie p to him to hold a 1 I court oum it in and for salt galt lake Cou county fity hut hui thau thai many 20 10 1 members of the bar had llad united in a inam m norial orlaf to con oil oll grass grasi urging legisla legislation tion tiou by najat that body budy tor to elleve the ae utah mid mia from thet the inextricable embarrass ments caused by local legislation legis I 1 11 ili fil answer to td this statement by the chief u masaya ilat there thero art ili ay the twenty six ix signed that memorial to 0 aniere s and wl why y ii ruo lawyers signed tim tie tio poLi peul petition tion to the ceef justice 1 most if not al all ali of ahe twenty six al x are aro members of or br affiliated with the notorious utah ring to procure procuro proscriptive legislation froni from congress for utah i justlee 2 the tho peti petition tion tiou to the chief f jume justice was was not nut deai deal designed n ed to bo be A a lawyer yera petit petitions ioni loni I 1 lowas etwas was rt it petition petit ion iori 0 of prominent citizens apart from the profession 3 3 clawy lawyers ers many of them care chiefly fly to have things so that the court shall run and litigant business abound and these 20 26 apart from their ring pro proclivities clivi no doubt thought that congressional interference would be the surest sil sti rest it if not the only way under the present judicial regime to have the courtland courts court sand and litigation and pettifogging in full blast in tins this district at least I 1 4 the 26 hia fia having v i ing petitioned congress to interpose it was hardly to be expected they would petition the chief justice to hold courts for counties and thus render runder even ln in their opinion loir congressional 0 ae ac tion ne edess 5 the other lawyers n not ot 11 in sympathy with the could hardly be expected to P ign a petition to a judge who was well weli to be in sympathy with the cring ang to do v a thing which would work in in opposition to the desires desie and I 1 intrigues I 1 n and alid conspiracies es of the ang verin 11 for in the hi hist first st place those lawyers outside that hat magic circle had no confidence whatever that i the iha chief atis justice tice would have hoyl acee acce deato aeeti such a petition if they had signed one knowing 11 his honors extreme desire to 1 have ave congressional legislation and his apparent deter dete minati onto doas little business as possible if congress should fail to effect t the legislation desired delreo and arid in me the next place they his hig honors nors bitter and vindictive prejudices might well hesitate be fore forer signing their names toa to a petition asking him jilin to do what they were well satisfied lie would not do and thereby peed needlessly heedlessly lessly render themselves the iho points cf his honors powerful prejudices 0 otherwise and particularly lieu licu barly if there had been any belief that his honor would have favorably considered such a pati poti petition tion we have no doubt thavone would have been presented to tj him with tile the signa sigDa signature ture of a number of members of the bar thereto appended |