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Show The Contempt. The anxiously waited for decision of Judge Boreman, on the motion to show cause why Prest. Brigham Young should not be punished as for contempt in refusing to pay the $9,500 alimony pendente life, decreed to Ann Eliza by SIcKcnn, has been pronounced. Hia honor has embraced em-braced the opportunity for telling what lie knows abuut contempt and poly-ii; poly-ii; :uous marriages, divorce suits and alu.iouy, law and gospel, and various othi i- subjects "too numerous to mention;'' men-tion;'' and now the "little hero" will waltz off to his suburban sojourning place, in Beaver, and spend bis time in the bosom ol bis family, framing Methodistioal harangues to the grand jury, and attending to an occasional auit in his court. The court room was crowded yesterday yester-day morning by spectators, who had to wait a few minutes after the regular regu-lar hour for the opening, his honor being tardy iD taking his seat. Alter the opening proclamation, Mr. Williams, Wil-liams, of counsel for Brigham Young, stated that his client had in tend fid to be present on the occasion, in accordance ac-cordance with the court's request, but sickness confined him to his room. The attorney offered a couple of affidavits of physicians to the serious seri-ous nature of the defendant's sickness. Judge Boreman said it was toe mar-iahal'a mar-iahal'a duty to have the defendant in .court, in compliance with the requirement re-quirement of the attachment. Mr. Williams said no attachment had been issued. The court contradicted the attorney and insisted that an attachment had" issued, but upon the plaintitfs counsel stating that an attachment had either been asked for nor issued, the court acknowledged his mistake, and said he would either read hia opinion then or wait until the defendant was present, as plaintifl'B counsel pre-lerred. pre-lerred. The latter intimating that they would hear the decision now, tho judge informed the newspaper teporters in attendance that if they desired a copy of the ruling they must take it Irom hi? lips, as the original was so hadly written that it would be difficult even for him to wade through and connect the disjointed document. He then proceeded to rejid, and loug before he had finished gave many evidences of the truth ol his remark to the Fabcr slingers. The document was as long as one ol Chamber's encyclopaedia essays on bugs or beetles, and about as interesting, interest-ing, though not so well connected. In tact as regards the latter property, prop-erty, it resembled somewhat the stories to be found on any page of a well regulated dictionary. He recited the history of the notorious case from the time of the awarding of the alimony by McKean; referring to the ruling of Chief Justice Lcwe in discharging an order similar to tho one now before the court, he said Judge L.'s action was without the authority of law. He branched oft into long disquisitions on legal subjects, sub-jects, tedious immethodical discussions discus-sions of trials and finally came down to business in the following closing words: "The order of this case was not improperly made, and it stands unrevoked un-revoked and unobeyed, and no good reason iB given for its not being obeyed. I am asked to enforce it. A court, in order to maintain its dignity, self-respect and authority, cannot allow its orders to be repudiated, re-pudiated, disregarded or denied. Were a'court in a condition not to be able to enforce its authority its fail u res in making eftorts thereto might be proper; but when a court cau enforce en-force its authority but flatly relusus so to do, it cannot be long held in respect. re-spect. A court is therefore bound to enforce iltj orders, and there is but one course for this court to pursue, and that is to enforce the order. It is theretore the judgment of this court that the defendant bo imprisoned impris-oned until tho nine thousand five hundred dollars and the coats of this suit a repaid, or until released by tbu i court." Miij. Hempstead, of defendant's ; counsel, Bald they designed taking an appeal from the order, and were prepared pre-pared to give bond in any amount for a stay of execution until the question ot whether an appeal might legally be had, could ho argued and decided, lie thought they were entitled to aL appeal; but the plaintiffs counsel argued there was no appeal from the order. The court said if he had any doubts as to whether there could be an appeal from the order, he would willingly hear arguments, but as it was settled in his mind that there was no appeal, he declined to fix the amount of the bond. Mr. Williams suggested that the c-jurt would designate in what prison the defendant was to be confined. On a former occasion he had been taken to tho peniteniiary an institution institu-tion lor imprisoning felons after conviction. con-viction. There were other jails in the city open to the marshal, and in one of them the defendant should be confined, con-fined, if at all. The court said the enforcement of the order was entirely with tho marshal, mar-shal, who could select tho jail. And here the matter rested. Subsequently United States Marshal Mar-shal Maxwell, with Dr. Williamson, visited the defendant at his residence, and the doctor deciding that it would endanger President Young's life to remove him, the marshal concluded not to take him to jail, for a time at least. Last night Deputy Marshals Tratt and Porter were stationed witu the defendant at his house. The officers have strict orders Irom their superior in regard to the treatment ol their prisouer. |