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Show THE EXPOSURES IN UTAH. j Chii-f Ju-tb-.- 3mm B. MeK.-an.or I soiuelirxly fur iiiiji, lias furnl-hitl tin: e.)rrof..ud'-nt the New York Sun ! with liis side uf the -tury relative to! tlio charges of otiieiat corruption in L' tab mad--by Mr. Bat., whi.-h ap- ' pearn in tiiat j-.-irnal of August j under dan- of Salt Lnkf, Au-u.-t It. II:- in -nor 'Vinvereil' ' with our 1 morning ci-int-'fnporary somo time j in-r, and thi-i "eonver'ation," whieli was put in rditorial form, Appears in the rurrrpondenee of the v". Tt' " onverflation" mainl.thuil Judge M- K'ean"rt immaculate purity and j emphali. ally tleni.il that he had ever i sat "in judvui'-nt in any ca.e what-! ever, in which he had any int'TC-t whatever." The Hf:!:i.n of Auyii-t 111, propounded jtu cjii'-ries to his honor, in regnnl thin abortion, and ! quoted from certain Court ri'f'onis, showing that eithrrthf re.vmls have had matter entered upon their pages; which should not nppenr there, or that the recollection of the Chief Ju-ti-e is not tnitwortliy. AltT this "conversation," "conversa-tion," which is given in full in the Smt, the correspondent cays: I f Judifr Ib'Kfftn lin any iiMtn-y in (.'lull h-' j(i'i'K n-i outward ii-n.nrain-e i if it. Jli- i- iippareiitly jHXtru.- aclnircli !ii.iue. fie n-nts Iwn r.in-i in ft lillU' uii.-ti.rv tiuildinir rn ft l-a-'k Mr.-'l, hti1 liir im-nKfit 111.- C'ift Hrtir. llewnirfi n.:it el-a)i.. but rxliiliit- ii.j dirinnniil-i. HU wif-- ilri -!. vory plainly. Si fur a 1 can l.-nrn Ih.-n1 but liule ffftny .-viil'-ne.' ti c-fist (i -Imdow on lib integiily. Tile Ki-rieral" impri'".ien i Hint lie is a strictly himeet man. Hi- friend", whilo ndrniltitig tliat lie innr have made nmtnk, will init li-ten lo n tiint of di'li'inesty. ifr seems to thii.k' lliat hi nib-i-m to bring t-i li inl tlio Mommm wlio an. neeu-eJ of imiroYnii (.-niib-s in tho early dny of tin: Terril.-rv-. If r-i, he lnn iqipureiitlv mude up hi- min.l llmt tho Monnns jfmll not .-elect tin' jury h..fre which ihco men ;ire to fie tri.-d. 'J'lie law gives t hi power, iimf. fudge MeKean appear. to fin del.-r-niim-d to block the wheelo of tin.' United Stud's Court in hope tliat Congrr.-s may rept-nl the ;uv Hnd give tlie power of ?e-hrting ?e-hrting tin- juries 0 ill.; Gentile. Uninterested Unin-terested iiK'ii declare that lhi. is running from one extreme to another, The p.-o-ph; of the United States can judge for themelve. . Ye can sympathize with Judge McKean's straitcnctl circumstances; circumstan-ces; and must confess that fanatics who accumulate money and manifest the evidences of. wealth arc not numerous among gentlemen of our acquaintance. It may be inferred in-ferred from this that we consider the Judge as somewhat of a fanatic, and certainly his record in Utah gives reason for such nn opinion. There is little doubt that his friends would dispute dis-pute this, as many of them ' do all the charges of corruption in Utah. We arrf informal that a Congressional Congression-al investigation will be sought to clear up the latter; but how the former is to be settled to the satisfaction of all is a problem rathcrdillicultof demonstration. demon-stration. It will be interesting to many people peo-ple to knew how tho once celebrated Silver Shield Velocipede controversy contro-versy has been placed before the correspondent cor-respondent of tho Sun; hence ive give the story as told by Judge MeKcan's friends, and as we find it in the Sim: An old prospector named Joe Appleby, while wandering over the ::iount:iins struck a vein of ore. Itv law he could take but -100 feet. As i- ' unial in such eases, lie located his friends on the vein so a to clftim as much ft possible. Among the names jet down for 200 feet were liio.e of Judges MeKean and Strickland. Strick-land. Appleby called his mino tho Silver Shield, llo had put in tho Judges' names without their knowledge. For fl wonder the mine turni-d out rich. Strickland old hi interest to ono Kmamiel Kalin (Knhif. ntFubivit -hows tlii?) for?l,00l), and not to Jude MeKean, as is alleged in Mr. Hates charge. Mcnn while the nows of the richness of the fode got out. Somo sharp geniui discovered nn old hole on tho mountain, which lie called the Velocipede, and put in a prior claim to the mine. Sueli claim are not uncommon. uncom-mon. NoK)dy ever discovered ft ricti lode but what somo scamp either jumped it or claimed it on a prior location. The usual Course is to get out an injunction, and thus prevent one of the claimants from working. work-ing. The case is ttien kept drugging in tho courts until the real owner, to save himself from ruin, will allow him.-clf to bo blackmailed out of a given sum of money or nn interest in the mine, ll b not asserted po-itively that this was so in this ense, though it look very much like it. At nny rate one of the claimants went to MeKean for an injunction. The records -how that lie referred him to Judge liaw-ley, liaw-ley, on the ground that be (MeKean) wa personally interested. Hawlcy postponed the matter until a certain day. When that day rollo.1 around fie was Ku.-t. McKonn then referred it to .Strickland. A- Strickland had not heard the niac when llawley returned, by consent of counsel Judge MeKean n train tninsferrel it to Judge iLiH'ley. Ponding the latter"? action tho case was nniicahlv settled. Such is the foundation of the clia'rre. All of the above allegation are proved by ullidavits, and by tho record of tho court. Stucu that time Judge MeKean say he ha never allowed anybody to locate him, and lias uover owned a cent' worth of stock in It is a little unfortunate for this statement that the records make a diilerent showing. The Judges may have been located without their knowledge, but before there was any litigation Judge MeKean became President Pre-sident of the Silver Shield Company, with $15,000 stock in it, and Judge Strickland, we believe, appears op the records as the possessor of $00,000 stock. llawley did not postpone the-matter, the-matter, but refused to try the case unless Judge MeKean would appoint him acting Judge, because as master in chancery his decision would be subject to revision and overruling by Judge MeKean: but the latter l(rhiul t" Pittkf t'hc rt-i"in--i ipjfinhii'-nf. Was , he afraid of the result? Hawley and he were reported to In; anything but fraternal. And if any person desires to learn the particulars of that ''amicable ''ami-cable eompi-onrso." we refer him to the Velocipede parlies, who do not hesitate, hesi-tate, to-day, to say that they compromised compro-mised because they saw no prospect of obtaining their rights in the courts. It seems a pity that the statement-of statement-of Judge MeKcan's friends and uf Judge MeKean, himself, as reported tor him, do not agree with the twords; but as the Sun's correspondent says Judye MeKcan's friends court "the fullest investigation of all the char-ixes' char-ixes' we sincerely hope they may be accommodated; especially if they are not indulging in what Li generally known as a 'game of bluff"' |