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Show COSTEJIPT OP COURT. The followi:.? rr2r: by the Third DUtrict court, bad to give place yesterday yes-terday morning to election news. Jndge Morgan received a remarkably caustic scoring in court a few days ago, during the Pago case, and can add thiB to it. He has got to show cause this morniog why he should not be disbarred, aod as an earnest and unswerving un-swerving adherent of judgo McKean, duriog the Btirring times of'last winter, it Bbonldn't take him long to show that he couldn't be guilty of euch a thing as contempt for a court concerning which he has expressed such warm and continued feclinga of regard, if not veneration: Territory of Utah, Third District Court, Salt Lake City, September Term, loT': Present James B, McKean, judge. Whereas, The cause of Lucien Simons, plaintiff, vs. Samuel Riebards et al., defendants, was tried in this court on the third, fourth and fifth days of October, 1872, before James B. McKean, judpe, and a jury; and whereas, Charles U. Morgan, an attorney attor-ney and counsellor of this court, appeared ap-peared as counsel for the said plaintiff, in the said cause, on the said days, before be-fore the eaid judge and jury; and, whereas, during the said trial of the said cause, the said court decided numerous nu-merous questions of law against the said plaintiff, and thereupon, in every instance, the said Morgan did, angrily, insolently and contemptuously insist upon and persist in rearguing each of said questions of law after it waa so decided, and after the Baid court had repeatedly admonished him, the said Morgan, to desist therefrom; and whereas, tho said Morgan, upon the said trial, did repeatedly, angrily, insolently, and contemptuously insist , UDon tho introduction of testimony which the, said court had repeatedly excluded ; and whereas tho said Morgan, on each and every day of the Baid trial, did angrily, an-grily, insolently, and contemptuously persist in disregarding tho rulings and admonitions of the said court, as well as the suggestions made by the court with the view to expediting the said trial; and whereas, on the -last day of the said trial, and while engaged therein, there-in, the paid Morgan did angrily epriDg to bis feet, and did contemptuously exclaim, "Tho court has censured me long enough," and did thereafter, as be tore, contemptuously persist in disregarding dis-regarding tho rulings, admonitions and suggestions of the said court ; and Whereas, The caso of James M. Page, plaintiff, vs. Tho Central Pacific railroad company, defendant, was tried in this court on the twenty-third, twenty- fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, 1 thirtieth, and thirty first days of October, Octo-ber, 1872, before the said judge and a jury , and tho said Charles M. Morgan appeared as counsel for the last-named cause, on all tho last-named days, before tho Baid judgo and jury ; and whereas, during tho last-named last-named trial, the said court frequently mado suggestions with tho view of expediting ex-pediting tho Baid trial, all of which suggestions tho said Morgan did insolently inso-lently and contemptuously disregard ; and whereas,' on tho last day but one of tho last-named trial, aod during suoh trial tho oourt admonished the said Morgan that the questions which he, tho said Morgan, was then putting to a witness were trifling and utterly immaterial, and that they caused a needless waste of time ; and thereupon the said Morgan did spring to his feet, and with a contemptuous manner, and a sneering tone of voice, did say to the said court : "Thank you I" And whereas, the trial of tho first above entitled cause should have occupied but one day instead of three, and the trial of tho secondly above entitled cause Bbould have occupied thrco days instead of eight ; and whore oa, this needless waste of time waa caused by tho disobedient, insolent and contemptuous contemp-tuous conduct of tbo said Morgan as aforesaid. Mow, therefore, the said Charles H. Morgan is adjudged to be guilty of contempt of oourt, and he is ordered to show cause in this oourt, ab 10 o'olook a. m. on the 7th day of November, Novem-ber, 1872, why ho should not bo disbarred, dis-barred, and his name be stricken from the roll of attorneys, solicitors and counsellors of this court. Jas. R. McKean, Judge, &o. Dated Nov. 5, 1872. |