| Show A change of base when chief justice sandford of the utah supreme court was told by attorney general miller that the president wanted his resignation he inquired whether he had been accused of misconduct or in office in reply he was informed that there were on file in the department somo complaints as to the manner in which he had discharged his judicial duties but no farther statement as to these complaints or charges was made and with this reply came notice of his removal from the bence our washington correspondent applied to attorney general miller yesterday for information as to these the se changes and for permission to inspect and publish the papers in which they are set forth the at torney generals curious beef and somewhat incoherent reply to the application is reported in our dispatches he will say nothing about the charges nor will he permit the papers to be inspected all this may recall the impassioned speech of one benjamin harrison in the senate of the united states on march in which he said 1 I do lift up a hearty prayer that we may never have a president who will not either pursue or compel his cabinet advisers to pursue the civil service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis allowing men accused to be heard and deciding against them only competent proof and fairly either have that land of a service or for goda sake let us have that other frank and bold if brutal method of turning men and women out simply for political opinions let us have one or the other it is not asserted that chief justice sandford way removed on account of his political opinions new york times |
