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Show ! FOR Kill Attorney-General Issues Official Rebuke and Transmits If to Marshal Smyth. i HOLDS THAT COMPLAINT WAS JUSTLY MADE Must He Real Good Xow. or Serious Consequences Will He the Result. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON", Dec. 29. Attorney General Bonaparte made public the following letter thin afternoon: ''December 21th, 1!)0S "L. H. Smyth, -Us., United States Marshal, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sir: The department is duly in receipt .of your letter of tho ID iust., enclosing the explanation of Bailiff S. F. Kimball, in regard to tho complaint against aim of writing, and causing to bo circulated an abusivo article. Tho department has noted the terms of Bailiff Kimball's explanation, his admission ad-mission that ho acted injudiciously, and his promiso that he will not again tako a similar course. It is also noted in tho correspondence that Bailiff Kimball acted under cotisidcrablo provocation. Was Grave Offense. "The department has taken all tho circumstances .of this case, as shown by the correspondence, under advi&e-niuut, advi&e-niuut, and directs you to admonish Bailiff Kimball that his conduct in tho premises was surh as to cause serious embarrassment to the department and to tho court of which ho is an otficor; thnt it fcols that a duo sense of propriety pro-priety on his parr, would have prevented him from engaging in a controversy nt this character, and from making "public "pub-lic utterances of which complaint has justly boen made. While the provocation provoca-tion 'which he heems to have had is taken into consideration by the department, de-partment, it feels that Bailiff Kimball's Kim-ball's conduct has been such as to merit a sharp reprimand, and this .you are directed to administer in the terms in- ! dicated by this letter. In view of Bailiff Kimball's previous record, his admis- i sion of his fault, and his promiso for tho j future, it is not deemed necessary that tho department shall take further ac-.lion ac-.lion than this let.ror of reprimand, although al-though any future indi&crotion on his part will bo followed by measures of a sharp disciplinary character. Yery respectfully. re-spectfully. 'CHA8. J. BONAPARTE, Attorney General." |