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Show VTAII EXPOSl IELS. Ex-U. S. Attorney of Utah, Gcorgt C. Bates, is engaged in cxposim official corruption in that Territory and "goes Kir" the corrupt scoundrel: who have been foisted on the peoph of Utah as Federal officials in a waj that is commendable, to say the Ieasl of ii. Bates was ostracised ant hounded out, of otlicc by McKeat and his corrupt clique simply becaust he was a sound lawyer, and possesseei too much honesty and self-respect tr. allow himself to bo made a tool of by a ring of thieves and scoundrels in furthering their nefarious scheme; against tlie Latter Day Saints. It: dealing with that judicial ass, Me Kuan, Mr. Bates says : " I have only to add that the farce ol the attack upon mo here1 has been paralysed paralys-ed by the notorious f-u-ta that nil judgments judg-ments appealed from thi? court to the tni- Grt'iiiti Court of Hit! United State.-, have een overruled there.', from that oi'Engel-brechtdown; oi'Engel-brechtdown; that all indictments found here' have been quashed there, that nil im- Sri-otmients he-re, made under such in-ietnients in-ietnients have been decided to be false imprisonments, nnd that tho nble-t law journals and many of tho most e-iniiint jurists of the country have openly condemned con-demned and denounced the Coui t'whieli mi.-iiUe-rpivted or perverted my laniing,-, and tried, condemned and sentenced me without a preliminary hearing or opportunity oppor-tunity of di-f-n-e. McKcan .reaps, with contempt the opinions and decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and appears ap-pears determined to keep alliiirs in Utah in a muddle, in onler to procure, pro-cure, if peWnle. some vindictive legislation leg-islation at the bauds of Congress, that will enable him and his corrupt associates to carry out their designs against the Mormons. The whole trouble in Utah could be settled if the President would only kick this pettifogging petti-fogging fanatic out of a position he has disgraced and appoint some honest and lesietablc lawyer in his stead. McKc.in conceives that he has a mission to fulfil, ar.d common law. common sense and decency art alike disregarded by him in his obstinate ob-stinate ami tanaiic endeavors te achieve notoriety. Idu'-j .'. |