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Show McKEAN AND BASKIX ONCB MORE. WaahiDgton, May 23. The administration admin-istration aod its Methodist spiritual advisers have apparently detormined not to relax nor discontinue their war upon Utah and its institutions, so long as they can command a majority in congress with power to make laws to suit the exigency, and repair any awkward awk-ward breaks the supreme court may make in tho devious course of Mc-Kean's Mc-Kean's justice. Mr. Voorhees having abandoned his bill, admitting also privately pri-vately that ho had been misled and deceived, de-ceived, judge Bingham, of Ohio, now brings the gathered wisdom of a thousand thou-sand years to bear upon the subject, and is usine hia cxtrcuiest efforts to force through a bill which will legalize all and more judicial tyranny like that exercised by McICean last fall, and en-ab!c en-ab!c the holy crusade against Brig-ham Brig-ham Young to go forward with the approval ap-proval of congress and the 6mile of the President. McKean daily haunts the halls and lobbies of oongress, boring and button-holing members in a most shameless manner, lobbying through a measure involving the gravest principles of law and the most essential rights of self-government with the persistency of an ordinary land-grabber. land-grabber. In this disgracing and disgraceful dis-graceful business ho is aided by-Bas-kin, an ex-distriot attorney of his own ' appointment, whose career in Utah is written in the lasting scorn and loathing loath-ing of the honest citizens of the Territory. Terri-tory. Bingham has four of his committee com-mittee at his back; but Butler and ' the Democrats Potter and Eldridge, arc bitterly opposed to any further in-1 terferenco with tho affairs of Utah, and will contest tho iniquitous measure : at every step. So would Mr. Voor hees, had ho not returned to Lis Indiana Indi-ana home for the session. A prominent promin-ent cx-federal official, who arrived today to-day from Bait Lake, reports business improving, tho city peaceful and prosperous, pros-perous, and nothing lacking for a quiet and successful summer but the assurance assur-ance that Grant, 'cwmau and Mo-Kcan Mo-Kcan will let them alone. As for McKean. Mc-Kean. Eelf-respeot and the respect due his judicial office demand that he either tender bis resignation a once or return to his courts in Utah, and in any event to cease his attempts to influence the making of the laws whioh he ia to execute. exe-cute. Cor.fLY- World. |