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Show Ol'i'ICUL CORRUPTION LN UTAH. Mr. B id's llus Soinelhius to l Sh . und Naj " ll. Re M nkes tinive Chures, and Hnhls the Proofs lor Iiivestiutum. 1 hit I It ill tne (oiiiilry nud ( uii'ri'ss S About It? Thiru m .11 - ;ipi, on motion of llu-h "Lelran-. then Attorney - Jen- eral. 1 was admitl-d to practice as an l attorney .tn. e. n n i-el. r of the Supreme j l-'-nu't of the I'nit'd Stan, and from I that period to tin- pre.-ent. in a large j practice in the I nit-d States and Stat-- e.,urt- of Mieiiiaii, Illinois and ; C.iii;.. nua. 1 never ha ve had any bm j the kindeL relation- with my hreth-j hreth-j ren of the b. iieh and bar. In i Noveinl.er ls71. at tiie sug-j sug-j g-'.-tioii of S-nator Trumbull, I Judei-; l.'niiiiinond and Itlidgett J of tin - l"n in d Stall's Court of Illinois. j 1 w.e- nominal. -.1 a- t'nitetl States IH-tiii t Attortiev of I'taii. and having lo-t all in the Chicago Hre, I accepted I the lo-iiion. and came to SaU Lake, j Tiie S.lieiioi Ceiieral in tendering my commi.--ion. kindly said lo me: "Von , are ttng in the" confidence of the President, and from wliat ( hear ! Liiere i- not the .-lightest doubt that you will he promptly confirmed by the Senate. At thLs end of the line we deem it very fortunate for the government, gov-ernment, that" so giKul a man as voui'soli ha.- agreed to accept the place." Nov. :i. 187-. Having thus, been a third time appoints! to that othee. and lonncrly as counsel for the Ignited States in California, I hopeil to succcetl in doing my duty. Having Hav-ing entered upon the duties of the office 1 found tlie court composed of three judges; against one of whom the Chicago Tu,'r.s has recently furnished tlie charge and evidence of bigamy; another an-other of whom is proven by the re-conts re-conts ot our court here lo have bought his office for a note yet unpaid, and whose whole judicial career w;w a grave scandal on temperance, justice and morality; and lastly, the Chief Justice. The records of tho court furnished a large iuuiiIkm- of indictments indict-ments against the leading Mormons, including President Youm,', Orson Hyde. Mayor Daniel 11. We'lL-, Joseph A. Young, Hosea Stout, Wm, Kimball, Kim-ball, and others, with Uic notorious Bill Hickman, for murder committal as far back as 18oo; lewd and lascivious lasciv-ious cohabitation by poIygamisU with their plural wives; adultery with his wife by n man who was married according to hi; religious ideas and customs; and a large number of these defendant were in prison at Camp Douglas and in the city jail; while President Young had gone south as it was charged, charg-ed, "to escape unlawful trial." Then were three patent errors in all thesi criminal proceeding in the courts. 1st Thy district attorney who presented these indictments, had never been legally appointed or duly confirmed. 2d. The grand jury that made the inquest, in-quest, was drawn in utter violation ol all law; and ."VI, the substantial witness wit-ness to send Brigham Young, Mayor Wells, Orson Hyde, Joseph A. Young-awl Young-awl others to the gallows, was Bill Hickman who confessed tome a largt number of other murders. In im endeavors lo do my duty, I found that all these judicial proceedings had been carried on without one dollar ot money from the United States, and tliat a United States Deputy Marshal had charge of the whole proceeding as adetcctiveand had special charge ol the informer Hickman, who was in confinement at Camp Douglas. For the first thirty days of my o'iiicial lift my relations with the other office-; were all pleasant, and I freely madi known to the Chief Justice all' that I did, and was 'trying to do, to execute the United States laws according to law; but when it was discovered "that I Would not collude in the hanging of the several Mormon leaders, on such testimony as Bill Hickman's, on indictments which the Supreme Court of the United States dveided were utterly null and void, as the grand jury wad a mere niob, (lien I became obnoxious to those who had prepared these proceedings, and from that; moment until a recent most undignified and unjust attack on me from tlie bench, I have been the constant con-stant objective point of all their assaults. as-saults. Had 1 gone on with them and tried these leading Mormons on invalid inval-id indictments for murder before a packed jury, ( ica.i promsc-l, and put Bill Hickman on the stand with his pal, to furnish evidence against these leading Mormons for niurdcr committed thirteen years before, and drove them, as I might have done, to the galluWs, theniunwhoploltcd these judicial murders, would have upheld and sustained me. I should have reT cuivexl the plaudits of the King and tho prayers ami thanksgiving uf the Right -Reverend Xewman, wlio has substantially managed and controlled the Utah ollices and affairs for the last three ycarsi A single illustration of the state of things here at that time, will prove this assertion. A few days be lore Xew Year's, 1872, the Deputy M;irshal referred to, called on me with an order to sign, to permit L,im o take Bill Hickman out of prison, go win him itiid spend the holidays at Hickman's house under a guard; and when I protected against such an order, be quietly told me, "That it was very important that Bill Hickman should be pacified in order Jo .secure his evidence against the leading Vermont." I have goal reason to believe that Hickman was taken out of prison by the special Deputy Marsha! " and went home under guard, and paed the holidays in his family, for the reason alovo given. 8o much for the animus of those who attacked me through the telegraph, the suhsidiz-d press, and finally on 'the bench. And now let me call the attention or mi- Ut;(.lu'nn of (,,; bench and bar to the fpceilic chaise again.-). nfti, ar.d appeal lo their justice and truth to decide between the Court and myself. my-self. I publi-hed a card, stating that I knew of otlicial corruption in Utah: and when put upon the stand in the case of Haskins a second time, "I stated that I knew of no oflicial I coivuptiou in tiut j'.ucriin .ijii ose, ; and was glad to coricci thai error," and thereupon, the Court, per-l verted what I did sav and denounced me :i5 haying said that 1 knew of xo otHeiAj, eennplion whatever, hi Uwdi. 1 do know, and I believe the Court itself knows, ot otlicial corruption corrup-tion here, unless -it is both deaf and 1 'Und. And 1st. I aver that most grave .; nharucs of official corruption against i two United Suites orUciab of Utah Were preferred to tlie Attorney -General by teiegi-jph in li71; the chargei were of titling in judgment Ln raining rain-ing cases, whore thi.y iccre luni-sLtfc-i iiircrcjsic-f, and tliat an order was is-uisd is-uisd to uive.-.ugatc the ciurgca made, j anu t; joimd true, tw remo'.o tneui , both: oul I'Oi'ore the unieruas csu-1 csu-1 cnted the Kcv. Dr. Xew man intervened I at Long Branch, d the mutter w;e i drooped. Xhe icA-jrapaic charges were irem ii United" 5ute cecaur, Hand were on Liu o year 'ago in tiie j Department of Justice and are there ! nw unless abstracted. ! i aver Mim krs.:e peculation-of the-! the-! mail.- iu.d jw.'st "oihce h.ie occur n.tt : ii'rc-hice I eanic: in one instance a ' paetaue t,f sP.i.in.h) Uing lost: that 'tune ui'ier tiiup. in.': OP.ie!- have : lvii stoi.-n, mid v.-t no one has ever been Jin-ecul'.-d " I'-r these el lenses. ' ln t.ne ...j . ni..nu-i ! rk- de- t'-'-t'din p-.i-i-iiic the mail haie 'x-en 1 pennitt'd to o. and crimes if n--t acl-1 acl-1 e idle . ,,...(',,:":.-! !: 've l-'eu over-; over-; !'"kd. 1 .1.7 not ' liai 'e the sjeciai ' m:i i"j--.( ui.-ii .i:iv lieviati' -n of du-1 du-1 '". 0;.- ncor.L-'ol'lIiC L'i-H i-'t At-! At-! toni--y"- orii.-c and tiie naiie-s of ! many wit,,, j.-- will ppve tiiiit a ve:v ji;ere. i-ut u-j -hiie pro-.ecUiioii i..e-I i..e-I ever l.-een m.de. " I aver that lare K-,i:e- of coal land- Wort 1 1 a hea v an:, 'im: ofm. ney , not in market at all. b.avc i'OX-n iliegitimately -pirited away muler ihl-e pretense-: aiidare now' hel-1 a-ain-t the I'nitvd Stales a,- .male prop. :ty. by a combination of tiio-e w.io Kiiighl them at $1 A" per acre in fraud o: the laws of the United State-. And that even now this p.-o.-os of roM.-ivj the United Stales of it-coal land 1 il'ling on. I aver and charge, that the timber lands of Utah, durum tiie la-t eighteen eigh-teen montiis have been strippol in utter violation of the laws of tiie I'tr.t-, I'tr.t-, tl States and a circular puhh-hed by ' me as Cnitl Stares Di-trict Attorney from the LukI dep.ii'lmeut. ar.d that ; no attempt has ever been made to ; enforce the laws of t'ue United SiaUs against such tre-pa-s upon the public lands. I charge that a uovernment oil'i.-ia! of Utah purloined from my de-k during dur-ing my absence at the Ka.-t. a public document, belonging to the archive- of the Attorney -General's department, had it copied, tiien certiliid to by other officials and then sold it to a New Y'ork new-paper tbr money. 1 further el large and aver that in 17:1 a corrupt bargain w.is made in this city between two of tin leading official! of Utah, by which n laruo sum of money was to be and wa.-actually, wa.-actually, juitupin a bank in (hi- city, and also a bond payable out of the producUofa certain mine, whenever an injunction should be granted, and a receiver apptanti.l by the othcroili-eial othcroili-eial in (hn ease; that a retaining fee was paid to the person who was to manipulate ibe uiaiter: that an argu- injunctiou and receiver refu-etl; and tlierelipou a diilerent arrangement was made. Is this otlicial corruption in Utah'.' I charge and aer that information wad givon to a late Judge of this Territory, Ter-ritory, to myself and many others of the citizens of Utah, by a leading agent of one of the largest and wealthiest wealth-iest firms in the Unitetl States, of a much graver offense against one of the United States officers, at that time, and the name of the informer, the character of the crime and all the circumstances were given. This charge had reference to a case in court involving large sums of money: in which it was also said that a sham trial took place alter tlie real issues had been first settled between the parties in the suit. I further charge that in the spring and summer of 1S72, by reason of illegitimate ille-gitimate conduct on the part of one or both officers of the Indian department depart-ment in this Territory, tho Indians were compelled to buy their food at enormous prices, were finally starved out. and so left their reservation, came down into the settlements, beged and roamed alout. until an Indian war was imminent, and nothing but the wisdom and prudence ot Inn. Morrow Mor-row and Hip keen sagacity and gallant try of Gen. Ord. prevented it. That the United folates contractor for the department sutlcred large losses, and mode constant complaints to me: and taking the statements ol the Indian agents, each against the other, and the Jacts furnished by the contractor and other of beers ot the I mud states, the evidence was complete, ot the grossest mal-adnu lustration m thai department at that lime, whicii verv uearlv precipitated an Indian war. But the question will be asked why were these charges not multigated bv a grand urv: The answer isplam: because the clerk ol the court here would not issue a venire demanded by me. and the court would not order it done. All this I reported lo the Attorney At-torney t-eneral last tail. the names of the witnesses lo prove the tads here charged, anil of the nil ice r-a r-a gainst whom the accusations are laid, will he luim-hed to the 1 . S. District Attorney whenever he w;l! summon a (rand Jurv to enquire into in-to ollcnces agamt the laws ol ilie L tilled Mates : or to a coninuf tee appointed ap-pointed by Congress to inve-t i-.ile into in-to the mat lei's involved. I have only to add that tjie turce ol tho attack upon me here ha.s been paralyzed by tlie notorious fads that all judgments appealed from this court to the Supreme Court of the United Slates, have been overruled there, from thatof Engelbreehl down; that all the indictments found here have been quashed there; that all imprisonments imprison-ments here, made under such indictments, indict-ments, have been decided to bo false imprisonments, and that the ablest law journals and many of the most eminenfj jurists of the country have openly condemned and denounced the Court which misinterpreted or I perverted niy language, and trie I, ; condemned and sentenced me without with-out a preliminary hearing or opportunity oppor-tunity of defense; a Court, too, which, after deciding that the panel of the jury was illegallydrawn, undertook to compel the bar togototrial beli nesueh illegal jury, and "when they rebelled j advised them "to .go home and read their Bibles or study geometry." Tls blunts; the sting lhat would wound any member of the bar, proud of the high character of hi pro fession. were such attack made by a Court of reputation for soundness of judgment and correctness cor-rectness of decisions, and animatid only by an appreciation of tliat dignity, dig-nity, impartial justice and strict adherence ad-herence to the requirements of law. which should ever characterize the elevated position of a judge. It Ics l;ecn incorrectly charged that I said I j did not know of oHieial corruption in I Utah. I have herewith set forth the charge:-, and earnestly desire that they should be fully investigated, when the testimony to sustain them all will i be furthcoming. Audi appeal from the most exini-judicial act by which such charge ras made against me, to my Brethren of the Bench and Bar, by who-e decision I shall cheerfully abide. And of all thi-. put mv.ieif upon the country. Cko. C. Rati, Kx-U. S. District Utorncy. |