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Show LAPSED l,lcJ old JUlrict court Li U ,.d. It (: :;: wh.n bro.ter Mc kean wont c.,1 to elbia .L. J problca1"too0grets'7 JthathKatihouldno.befiUcdaad hU memory ovorl.adood during lus IIe,. Governor Wood, thereupon .....owted the gentle and u.mb. St inland a-judgeom. ol the th,rd judicial dtet ;.nd the gcntlo and ....ambitiomialorodatoneo Proceed-o,io Proceed-o,io the lactase of a wralhy admiralty ad-miralty lawyer of our acr,ua.ntanoo to -play hell on hi, watch." through ignorance of law, or in eon-.cuence eon-.cuence of a telegram from musion-ry musion-ry Me Kcan ho "lapsed" hi, brother s court. Ho did it in thu ; he faded to attend oourt in bait iako on the day ho appointed therefor, but tele-raphed the marshal to adjourn the institution until the firat of July. Now, it soeuu that in the labscnM ot a .taluto authorizing the sheriff or mar-rh-l to "recess" ta court, it requires the physical presence of judg in order or-der to mako a legal adjournment. It cannot be done by telegram, it cannot bo done by proxy; and the only result of iho attempted adjournment was to oawo tho court to "lapse" for the term. There aro those who do not scrapie to say that this apparent blunder was really a "put-up job." ThatMoKean, finding ho could not hold court his way, determined not to hold it at all; that ho mnJo a oat's paw of Strickland for that purpose; and that our mission jurist prefers to enjoy tho salary of his office without tho labor and discomfiture discomfit-ure of presiding over Mormon juries. In the meantime his chancery and other powers remain. Ho can habeas airjjns his clansmen, and certiorari the "Mormon" justices, and prohibit the enforcement of "Mormon" ordinances, just as well as if court wore in session; and can devote himsolf to chancery business, dabble in injunctions, and operate in "Silver Shield" and "Emma" "Em-ma" stock with much more assurance of profit than if tho court were in session. ses-sion. When September comes other excuses for giving tho court another "lapso" may, perhaps, not bo wanting; and in December next brother McKean can rcsumo his missionary labors at Washington. This, however, is but the street talk of difappoiotcd lawyers and angry liti-gauts. liti-gauts. Tho people at large are not seriously se-riously exercised about the "lapse." A littlo of McKean's court will go a great ways with this community. We havo no particular fault to find with tho result of tho blunder, or conspiracy, whichever it was; and to our despairing despair-ing legal friend who gloomily said to us, "the oourt has lapsed," we reply with indifleroncc, "Well; let her lapse !" |