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Show TO SUE'EM FOR LIBEL ASSOCIATE JUSTICE MINER TO BRING ACTION AGAINST THE COMMITTEE. tie Wili Not Occupy a Place Among- HI Distinguished Peer I ntil the ( liar ;og Ae,uiint If Im Have Iteen Removed-Sensation la Legal Circles. The recent debate on home rule at Wash, iugton is to have a sciiuel in a libel tutt in which Judge Miner of the First dintric.t court of this territory is to be the plaintiff. The defense will be represented by such distinguished advocated of local selfgoveru-mcnt selfgoveru-mcnt a ex. (iovcrnor West, a gentleman who has consecrated a lifetime to hard work; by Judge Judd, the gentleman with the mellow dialect from Tennessee; by "Kentucky" Smith, a gentleman who ha stirred up the in orgastic animals in Idaho, Wyoming ami Utah, and Cains Cufcsius Richards, an attorney who devoted a halt do :cn dynasties to the defense of poly gamy and the principle that Ihe ipiecu of a house- hold should have seven heads. Ihe papers are now in process of preparation and, it is said, will be tiled o soon as Judge Powers has had time to tix his approval. The auction springs from the brutal attack upou J'udgo Miner during the recent howl for homo rule at Washington, and it is understood that the charge of criminal libel is simply the mask under which the distinguished gentleman is to seek an investigation. It is said by those who have conversed with him since the altacU win made, that Judge Miner has openly avowed that lie will not oocupy a seat upon the territorial supreme bench with such colleagues as Judgu Zone, Judge Anderson and Judgo Blackburn until his escukiheou hall have been thoroughly shaken and until the rebuke is delivered from tho bench. The assertion that ho lias been guilty ol conduct unbecoming to a niuu of his distinction has cut keenly into his sensibilities sen-sibilities and tho investigation that must necessarily follow the charges of criminal libel promises to be ono of tho most sensational in the history of local jurisprudence. It is stated that his associates on the territorial bench are Squally desirous that an investigation be made and that Chief Justice Zano ha already expressed himself in terms that cannot can-not be easily misinterpreted. It is said of him that he recognizes the attack upou Judge Miner as a blow at the household of jurisprudence In I'tah and that atonomeut can come from uothiug this side of an investigation. inves-tigation. The charges against the associate justice laud upou a decidedly sensitive spot. They might have been launched agaiust tho average man and passed as a political nothing but placed at the door of a man who shares with his colleagues the most exalted posi- Hon iu the territorial patronage of this nation na-tion it is a different tiling. The idea of a man sitting upon the bench of a great territory terri-tory with '26u,0()0 people looking to hlin for the condemnation of wrong, and a committee commit-tee at Washington impeaching his judicial chastity will not be overlooked. Judge Miner realizes this and it is to secure the redress to which ho is entitled, en-titled, that he will demand nil Investigation under tho title of a libel suit. The announcement has created the wildest consternation among representative of tho church conglomerate, and the tiling of tho complaint and subsequent arrests is awaited with almost riotous anxiety. |