Show AN interminable MUDDLE tim THE proceedings of saturday sept 20 associated with the alleged inquiry into the conduct and accounts of ex receiver dyer a report of which appears in this issue are suggestive of the interminably mixed character of the whole business the utah supreme court confers upon commissioner stone full power to send for persons ana and papers and rule upon the admissibility J of evidence one of the parties to the hearing who might be termed the defendant calls as a witness in his behalf the chief justice A j the court which created the subsidiary tribunal before which the proceedings were being bad that chief justice was atone at one time an attorney in the case he refuses to testify but upon just what legal grounds he can maintain his refusal is not quite clear unless he reli relies es upon the statutory provision which exempts an attorney from the ordeals of the witness stand the anomalies that have arisen in this case are remarkable first the case itself is an aia anomaly under american institutions second the chief constabulary officer of the government was made receiver with the government as plain plaintiff third the chief legal represent ave of tle government g fur for this territory became counsel for the receiver fourth an attorney who once healed a determined attack upon the receiver now sits siti as presiding judge of the court which is to pass upon the receivers receiver doings fifth that the receiver who is virtually a defendant in a proceeding believed to have been primarily instituted by that presiding judge calls upon the latter to testify in his behalf and the latter refuses refuse under sunder circumstances which enable him to defy the equal noual compulsory methods of judicial tribunals the whole cue case with its various features constitutes utes a remarkable mass of complications |