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Show DOUBLE BABE-BACK RIDE. Judtre McKcan's attempt in Utah at a double bare-back ride of two legal authorities federal and territorial ' has had rather a ludicrous result. This learned luminary discovered at an early , day that if he sat as a Territorial court he would lose the benefit of the United States statutes aud the United States treasury. If, however, he sat as an United States court he lost tho benclit of tho Territorial laws under which to proceed acainst the polygamous Mormons. Mor-mons. So he compromised hy trying to be both. When ho found himself losing in pocket he mounted tho government gov-ernment nag, when he discovered loss in law he bestrode the territorial steed, tie ends by losing both. The con.p' . trollcr here refuses to recognize his drafts to the amount of $13,000 for tryintr mormons on a cuuiku ui m.-cin-ous conduct, whilo he releases certain keepers of brothels on hnl-ns corpus on the ground that there is no law authorizing au-thorizing the courts under which they are condemned. So it seems that in Utah it is a penitentiary offense to marry a mistress, but perfectly iegal to keep a prostitute. Dogberry is outshone, out-shone, and the venerable Humphreys can hide his diminished head. We sec that tho chaste Cragin has introduced a hill to pay this remark-ablo remark-ablo legal luminary's drifts, t f course the chaste Cragin, whose virtuous bouI abhors lascivious conduct when done under the color of law, recognizes McKcan's Mc-Kcan's ruling, and feels that he can keep several mistresses so that ho is careful not to many ooo or two. This is beautiful, and tills our journalistic soul with admiration. Washington Paper. |