Show expressions OF REGARD tx THERE ibre has been some racy byplay connected with the investigation into the conduct of the p receiver e and his attorneys before examiner I 1 harkness our readers will remember the unique scene that ensued immediately upon the appearance cearan pe arance ce of R N baskin as attorney by courtesy of counsel for the court in addition to the grepo report rt of the proceedings an editorial word picture of the affair appeared in these co columns since then the principals connected with the scramble after aca a large amount of money taken from a church Chuich ll have been hurling through the medium of a reporter of the anti and cM mormon ormon organ of this city left handed compliments at each other this is 18 what the quill driver drew out of mr B R N baskin whose chos eim impetuosity invariably submerges his discretion judge baskin takes decided exception to the strictures placed upon him by judge powers find and says that any man who will make such statements about him as appeared in yesterdays tribune P fane is mean and cowardly judge powers powers had bad been flinging mud at judge zane right along and the latter latte r had not resented it but he judge baskin wanted jud judge e powers to understand that he coufa could not do this with him judge baskin believed it was judge powers who had been inspiring the mean sayings about him in the chedes desmet NEWS and ha said in very plain language that he would have a personal reckoning with him he propose to be accused of con duct unbecoming a gentleman A michigan lawyer named howad had treated him in a similar fashion some years ago and he judge bas kin taught him better in a way mr howard had occasion ocoa sion to remember the speaker held tote manner of questioning mr williams correct enough under the circumstances cum stances mr williams answers wandered off from the drift of the qu questioning es tio nin g and tho those se inter intersections interjections interject jet ions were simply to bring him back to the points the questioner was trying to bring out if chehad he had heard judge powers accuse him in the examination of being ungentlemanly he would have reached across acro the table after him the attorney concluded by expressing himself forcibly and clearly to tn criticism of the way in which judge powers had insulted judge zone zane and conducted the ease case generally judge powers had nothing abat whatever to do with the inspiration of the articles referred to they were the result simply and solely of what transpired coupled with the quality y of the actors engaged in the farce he has however on more mom than one occasion inspired us with disgust when he or any other man takes a proper stand however we are willing to make a statement to that effect if any individual belonging to the crowd to which baskin Bafik ln powers et al belong they hey are component parts of the same class cla imagines in that he can inspire articles of this journal he be has but to try in order to discover how egregiously he is mix mistaken taken the articles referred to have touched the truth and consequently qu antly reached a sore spot in mr baskin we have weighed wel glied each of the active politicians of utah and taken his measure and need no external inspiration to enable us to delineate him as he is the threats of personal vio violence lenee made against a man who has agthe authe appearance of being physically leally weaker than although though 41 intellectually superior to mr baskin coupled with the boast of the attene at prowess in punishing sumner howard speaks volumes volume regarding the quality of the source while on the subject of raking up the embers of past gladiatorial conquests the gent lemans memory failed to bring up the ghost of a personal p encounter with the late judge hawley the physical appearance of the latter was grimly suggestive of one of those ancient worthies exhumed from the catacombs cata combs of the egyptian pyram pyramid d by scientists in pursuit of knowledge and his bia vitality was not much superior to that tbt of one of af those remnants of paa greatness judge beang interrogate inter rogat ed by the scribe io relation to what occurred at the scramble among other things said he see as there was any ani animus or angry feeling in the passage at arms although for a few minutes the scene was a little lively but toe the entire affair was of little consequence here is what is attributed to mr parley L williams evereth Ever everything ILL was friendly between him and judge baskin but the latter had no occasion at all to br break eakin in on him the way he did it nettled him finally into intimating that the questioning was baskins but to the witness belonged the answer baskin was not thoroughly posted on the case having been away so long and his questions strayed away from the matter immediately in hand As to judge powers outbursts outburst mr williams was not at the time paying much attention but he felt certain that the word discourteous land and after thinking a moment he was confident ungentlemanly was used as descriptive of the way counsel was interrupting witness but then mr williams laid no great stress on the affair when hen judge baskins remark about judge powers insulting judge zane was mentioned mention mr I irn williams iliam woke up as it were and said ludge judge zane had been guilt y of IX pettifog Wog geries gerks that would have been a disgrace to the meanest lawyer in town re he had misstated and perverted oats and been stupid and foolish were he to be gumb of such conduct he might expect to be disbarred barred dis mr williams was su surprised at judge zones zanes acting 0 8 0 a and right hi after an honorable career on the bench HP he entered the oase case because of his enmity toward dyer and it was not the trustees but mm him who was responsible for the reprehensible manner in which their side of the ease case had been konduct conducted I 1 mr williams explosion brought this outburst from the ex chief justice 1 41 I have seen the interview with mr williams and I 1 am so accustomed to attacks from the mormons cormons that I 1 am not surprised at this attack of their attorney it is probably not his own fault that he is not a gentleman but it is his bis own fault that he is untruthful when a man becomes entangled in a diere disreputable potable pu table business busine so he is likely t to become reckless in order to shield hims bims elfand allowance should be made for him I 1 hope however he to is not responsible for all the grammar in his interview A charitable har flable construction to koput put upon mr williams action is that of a weak man impotently angry but it is not iu in the power of such men as mr Will williams ianis to insult me and strive as he may he can never rise to the height of my contempt if there had been any further proof needed of judge zanes ability to act stupidly and foolishly it is furnished in what to is attributed to him by the interviewer it bas boen been said by him that the edmunda tucker law which tas a large amount of property from a church borders on a subject upon which legislators have no right to legislate so it may be said with regard to mr williams anti mormon bias I 1 it borders on what might not inconsistently be called insanity this is so well understood on all sides that to intimate that he has a leaning the other way shows that the tor leaps the border which separates discretion from foolishness and clearness from stupidity it is no wonder that the anti mormon organ disclaims at this late date that there was any political end sought by tho the inauguration of these proceedings and practically adopts a suggestion made by this journal a few days ago to the effect that it withdraw its nomination of judge zane for the chief there is something in the good old book to the effect that it is beautiful to see brethren dwelling together in unity but alas what a pitiful sight it is to see the spectacle we now behold those who were wont to fall upon each others necks and weep are snapping and snarling at each other over a huge bone of contention a large amount of property taken from a church |