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Show UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY AT-TORNEY OP UTAH. The President, acting on the advice of attorney-general Williams, has concluded con-cluded to suspend his request that district attorney Bates, of Utah, shall resign, until the supreme court renders its opinion in tho case of Jeter Clinton against Paul Englebrccht, argued last week, and which involves tho question of the legality of judge McKean's proceedings. This suit was brought m the third district court of Utah, to recover fifty-nine thousand dollars frem the city of Salt Lake, this sum being equal to three times the value of liquors destroyed by the city authorities, au-thorities, under an ordinance forbidding forbid-ding liquors to bo sold without a license, li-cense, which ordinance Englebrccht had disregarded. A Terdict was given for tho plaintiff. An appeal ap-peal was taken to the United States supremo court, on the plea that the proceedings in the Utah court were illegal, the jury having been summoned sum-moned by a United States marshal instead in-stead of by a sheriff. The case was argued ar-gued in the supreme court last week, and an opinion will probably bo rendered rend-ered a wo ok IVom nest iUoinhiy. If the deoision of tho court in Utah is reversed, re-versed, district attorney Bates will be sustained, and all of the proceedings in McKean's court will bo decided illegal. il-legal. If the decision is sustained, the request for hia resignation will probably prob-ably be renewed. Tho President has, within a day or two, assured Mr. Bates' friends that he has confidence in his ability and integrity, but that ho requested re-quested his resignation simply cn account ac-count of the conflict of authority between be-tween tho judgo and him. Washington Washing-ton Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial, Com-mercial, March, 14. |