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Show THE CHIEF JVETICE OF UTAH. A petition wua in circulation on Sutunlov and vcitcrday asking : 1 'resident 'resi-dent tiVaiit to appoint C. W. lien- tt 0f this city, Chief Justice of Utah '"'v'! Ji"" B- Mt-KcftH, provided' pro-vided' Judgo McKcim declined the appointment or did not rccoivo it. This petition was signed, wo under, stand, by nearly all the lawyers who previously petitioned for tho re-ap pointment of Judge McKean, and by many miners, bankers and busing' men as well. . We havo already ''1 lishcd a few oxcorpts of th . ands furnished by tho . 1L , ,. ,r lowing tho utter parts ot the Union, ' . ... , Mjkean for the unfitness ot N" , position he holds, and propose to public som0 more, all based on tll0 net that overy decision of lliis wimo Judiro which has yet been car- rial to tho Supreme Court lias boon reversed there. But there is another reason, besides tho many already given, why ho is unfit for the place. With the numerous and vast interests at stakohero in litigation.wo roquiro a Judge in the third judicial district who is enough of a lawyer not to require a year and a half to render a decision in a twenty-five cent case; who will be able to determine in a fifty dollar appeal case what tho law is without taking from six months to a couple ot years to do so; and who will have enough of respect for the judicial ermine not to besmirch it with the foulsomo ordure which ever disgraces bigotted prejudice and partisanship on the bench where Uodlike justice and purity alone should dwell. Hero arc some few more of the Tress opinions opin-ions uttered concerning Mr. McKean, and they ought to prompt lawyers and business men to pray for tho appointment ap-pointment of Mr. Bennett, or any other western lawyer who would make a respectable and impartial-Judge: impartial-Judge: Aside from all cuiincelion with Mor innuiin, with which thu fciiipmiu Court liai hud nothiiiK to do, thcrauL'iil Gun tiles will ndmit that the court in tho KriRlc-b'c.-hl i it?e could not havo decided clhcr-um', clhcr-um', and they will yut have reiion to bo thfuiktul th-ttho high-st judicial tribunal , n Hit hind directed nil tboso illegal indict-' menu of Chief Juitico McKean to be fju:i-hed, rather than a wrong, and so cj-jre:Mvu cj-jre:Mvu and pcrsecutiiifr an act, should Do counteuiinced by filial aupiist trilunal. Chcycmie Leader, May, lb72. On behalf of thi unrininioUi beiicli, Cliicl' Justice Cha-c delivering the opinion he Suprem; ('ourt of the I niled StaU'S to-day, in tho celebrated case of Knglehrecht r,v Clinton, dec:ded llinl t lie jury drawn by the UiiU.-U Statoa Marshal of Utah, by o.der ofJtidfjo McKean, under the laws of ilii Untied tslates, and nt.t by Marshal ileAlli.ste-r under the Territorial htatute.-1, was illegal; tint all indi tincnU Pjund by ueh juries, and nil verdicU rendered by iheui, are illegal and void. Tho court went further, and oho decided that finco the tir?l orgaiiijition of T"rritoriefl tiny have 1r.ul jHjwcr over all luvil in"lte9, and that nil jurie, grand and petit, drawn in Ut:ih in violation of T-rritoria laws, were illegal; that the Territorial statult-3 of Utah authorizing this drawing of juries have been in existence for year-, and thai Coii(;re??, hnvnuj annulled tt, i'(-s- rr-;,.iiiizcd it; that the United States Martial and Di.-trict Attomny wen. precii-ly Ihc same, in Utuh in the several sev-eral Mate,. Upon these grounds tho rul-ir.ts rul-ir.ts of Chief .Iu:lii':McKcun and hLseourt fur thg la;t year, were revo sod. ijunshe-d imd iurfwl imi! A-i a corrollnrv from Itm all the di-leiulniiLB under arrest tlieru 'j. IU Lti '1 i . r.- . 1 ut . i. - , -...J ' t case's, wQere proper exceptimis to tlie jurj have l-.-en taken, are now wiped out, and the foO.OW expenses created by MeKean'b blunderi, mu?t be appropriated l.y Congress, Con-gress, or the Marshal oftho I'niteJ Stale must lose Ihein. Chicago Tribune, -M ay, If? 7:!. This foO.OOO was appropriated by Congress, and swelled the Territorial expenses to $-38,000. The decision of the .Supreme Court of the Unit-.d Slato in the Utah en-e, it is to be hoped, will have the-eU'ect of squelching squelch-ing An arrant and hra.en pretend'-r, McKean, Mc-Kean, who telegraphed himself into an Ai'uivucftl notoriety. He will probably t;ike a back seat on finding hU decisions all rever-ed hy the higliet tribunal in the land. Colorado J'copl,;, May, liiTi I Some papern and per-ons have under-1 in Ken me lUine iivh ui uenniuiiig uio in-dfferioibli' in-dfferioibli' conduct of Judge McKean tf Utah. There is no pallintmn for ld disgraceful dis-graceful course. J (u knew that ho was running hia court in violation of law, and that lie wai coiiinii.ting moral perjury per-jury by allowing himself to he hounded on tj the persecution of Mormons through tho formfl of judicial proodurr. The MorraotM arc bad enough, and their marri-ge i-iitWms are abominable, but they are not eo disgraceful or demoraliz-i'lgiis demoraliz-i'lgiis the conduct ot McKean, who use lii.s place lo pander lo tho bigotry and prejudice pre-judice of unscrupulous od veil tun tu, who hive gone l' I. lah to rob tho pcoplo of 1 hr; proceeds of their labors. I iidianupoll-Joui iidianupoll-Joui iftl, b"iiat.r Mnrtoii'H organ. It was General Grant who -ent .lu.stiee McKean lo the Territory, who held there illegal courts summoned illegal juries, made illegal arrests, mid held pi ihoiierB in jail illegally. Wi'.n it became evident that McKean wna exceeding his jtowers and trampling on all law, 0- ndmini-itra-lion formally upheld hnn and rer-nested l.'nited States Jitrict Attorney Hates to resign, wliohad remonstrated against McKean Mc-Kean illegal nilingn. The rourtof Itpf re.-ort lias now settled this1 dispute, find McKean i? overturned, the Mormon pro-heculiuiis pro-heculiuiis have fallen lo the ground, and over a hundrtd pii.-onerH lelnined for murders are now to be discharged. All this is because iho President, disregarding the advieu uf tlei AttTin;y (ieneral William-, supports iu Iho most iraporUmt judicial ofliee iu the thu Territory, a .'(''e .Vrh'wm, who fnivir o air, N. V. Tribune, .May, Witty Wi-tty the decision of Iho Supremo Covirt of United Blatci it appear that the eourhC pursued by Chief Justice McKean, was c-sotitially illegal, lhaL hn has no right to 'Msregard the Territorial law of Utah, mid Ilia', he in utterly in- ompetent as a .Judge, both from ignorance anil fanaticism. Away with lum. Ho.'ton 'tbe, ,l ay, Thedi.-graee of I lie- United .Slat;s jirose-eution.s jirose-eution.s rit'Uio- jM ormoiiM came I hroiigh n plain disregard of law by James It. McKean. Mc-Kean. Judge McKean proceeded uh if he wasiiut entirely above all lav. Hy I he decision of the Supreme Court ol' the United ;States, Ju.stiee MeKenn lis disgraced dis-graced in the eyes, of all the inhabitants. My disregarding all, mixing up tln-juris-jljclion of the courts, and hy wresting a Territorial statute and the American lang nige from its true meaning find hi-leul, hi-leul, be organi.ed a court to convict, nnd liincied lbit he was about to distinguish himself m the great Mormon pnr-eeulo-, hul this lunch of the law collapsed hi bubble, and Ins court was hiought into '(pirace. Now, Jlidgr; ,Mclean should k',,;;,',1 HdJ-fns -oon ! jiojHihlo. W'halMr,- 1 Mormon"K "1,li,ll.V wantis to plundor Iho 1 that oflends"i,ry- . 11 nul 'lyKaiiiy that hierarchiei;1,11' '"Jt the trailiiiss of drinking and pro,',', l,al,"tl11 K"'"-t 'h'am , Kcun's reforms wiw''!f"V .V"",0' 'lt;-very 'lt;-very stringent Mormon .r!,';'!,! '""K"1 11 I aw, and lo give iudgrntml again1, "!"-v '"tlJwr , who evented it for tho liquor d!","'l,!(r,:r .McK can's tinie is mostly ONiploy"),' 1 the discharge of criminals o'.Jti detuned sibling lrU(tr without license, and keojiing ' bawdy houses and billiard rooms io violation viola-tion of law. (Jincioiinli t'a:vtlr, .May, J-S7U. |