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Show LATEST DESPATCHES. r Union I'iM'lliu in tlio ' Courts. Chicago, 23. Tn tlio U. S. Circuit Court at lies Moiney, yesterday, Judge Dolon rondercd a decision in thy cilso of the U. S. cx relation J. E. Hall and othors against the Union l'acilic Kail-road Kail-road Co., praying for a writ of mandamus man-damus to compel that company to cooperate co-operate the road from Council Bin Us westward, and to desist from operating operat-ing its bridge over the. Missouri Kivor at Council lilutls as an independent lino, Tho opinion seta forth that i two leading objections havo been : urged against granting tlio writ, Tho ono relates to the jurisdiction of tho court, tho other to the form of proceeding. pro-ceeding. Whether the Circuit Court of Iowa iB the proper Circuit Court to hear and detormiiio the case need not be now determined, tho Judge sayt, and ho accordingly rosorves his decision de-cision on tho question as to the jurisdiction juris-diction until the character of the servico of the writ upon it is determined. Now tho objection is to tho form of the proceeding, which is that tho law officers ol the United SUitcs have tlic sole right to apply to a court for tho writ, and that private persons can only move for a writ of mandamus when it is to enforce some individual right; that there is no legislation leg-islation of Congress making it the duty of the United States officers to institute proceedings like the present when the duty said to be neglected is ono which tho company owes to the public, and when individuals who suffer from such neglect complain of it, must tho court rofusc tho writ solely sole-ly because the Attorney-Ccneral docs not move for it? This question must uixjn principle and authority, tho court concludes, he answered 111 the negative. Tho judge cites numerous authorities in support of this position, and Jconcliides us follows: ' Preserving, Preserv-ing, as -wo do, all questions which concern the merits ot the controversy, and in order that the merits may be better undorfetdtxl, wc think our discretion dis-cretion will le more wisely 1 xcrciscd by awarding than by refusing the alternative al-ternative writ, particularly as in this way the opinion of the S'lprenm Court may more certainly be oU uii'.d lliau if the writ was denied. ' ltoston, L':t. A prelirnu.iry hearing was had today in the I'nikd States Court, before .ludee fv.vi II, on the petition against the Union Pacific Kailroad Company, filed by Henry W. Golderiug, of New York, to determine de-termine whither an order of a notice to show cause shall i-.-iiit: Counsel for the petitioner claimed the road was bankrupt, and th.it the leginl.tiiye cnaelmciit under which it sought to ev.ide tho operation of the huikrupt laws w;is unconstitutional. The latter lat-ter point was the quest on mainly at isue. The jude reserved hi dt ci-pion. |