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Show The Brigham Young Case. At la nia iu u-k vf iLv crooks aud turns and vagaries which characterize the administration of justice in Utah territory. It will be remembered re-membered that in the suit of Ann Eliza Young rs.Brigham Young.Chief Justice McKean awarded Mrs. Young alimony and sustenance pending the suit. We expressed our views at the time the decision was made as to the question of tho propriety of making the allowance, and will not repeat them here. Subsequently Chief Justice Lowe, the successor of Chief Justice McKean, refused to enforce this order, in which he acted as became be-came a judge. But now, by some arrangement we do not understand, Judge Boremau, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of that 1 territory, is holding the court at Salt Lake; and ho has lately made an order disregarding the judgment of tiie chiel justice and enforcing the former onlcr of Chief Justice Mc Kean, and requiring loung 10 pay $9,500 accumulated "alimony." Mr. Attorney General Pierrepont in his report to congress, has lelt obliged to call attention to this, matter, and in doing so he uses the following language : "If the nineteenth concubine of a man having a lawful wife living, is to bo treated by the courts as also a lawful wife, lor the purpose of giving her alimony and counsel lees, pendente li't, then the offspring of such illicit intercourse must be regarded legitimate legiti-mate for tho same time, and the cauits of the United States wiil thus give countenance to a social system corrupting aud degrading." It is quite time that llic attention oi congress con-gress were called to the matter. It is a matter of indecent, public, and historical notoriety that Ann E iza is notlhewifo oT Brigham Young in any sense which the law can recognize. recog-nize. Judge Boremau knows it of his private knowledge, and he can not avoid knowing l Judici illy, unless he stops his ears against the evidence. She, therefore, being no wtfet is not en' titled to alimony, and her suit for "divorce" sinks into a mere blackmailing black-mailing litigation. That Bhe is encouraged en-couraged in such a litigation by lodges appointed by the president aii continued by the senate of the United States, is a national disgrace, and the matter deserves to ha enquired into by congress. St. Louis Central Journal, Dec. 24. |