Show editorials ABOUT ALIMONY PENDENT LITE I 1 here HEBE HE R aro are a few brief extracts from the papers concerning alimony pen pe dente we lite from shenew the new york post after more than six months deep study bis big bonior chlof justice mckean of utah territory has given riven his decision in the cise case it is embraced in two closely printed columns of a salt lake newspaper which a correspondent who sends us a copy of it writes that he confesses inability to comprehend but therein the judge evinces his wisdom if it his opinion were written in the language of the utes or the sioux he could not bo be so successful in disguising his bis reasoning those aboriginal tongues kot not being adapted to the concealment of thought by verbiage only one thi thing ng is clear that is that the plaintiff is to hava have her law expenses paid and monthly alimony pendente pen donte dents irie life thus in order onder to deplete bank account does the judge repudiate his own p principles and I 1 infringe upon the law against polygamy which he has heretofore I 1 aso eso so strenuously maintained by this law a man mall call can have halve but one wife by the law of congress made espe especially lally for nor by the common mon law of the land any other woman fak tak eaken taken n b by him to his hla bed and board after his bis Is first legal e ga I 1 marriage is not his wile wife ife this ia Is the very point that judge mckean has bas heretofore considered it his special mission to establish r by his bis decision the ludge judge recedes ce des own principles and may fairly be hailed by the mormon church as a convert to the doctrine of poly polygamy gainy From the chicago rimes times the proceeding Is a somewhat extraordinary one it Is customary quaternary when an appeal has been taken and bonds filed forthe tor the faithful per verdict of a court bourt to kohold hoid he hold id J judgment u dam ent I 1 in n abaya abeyance u ca u until n ti I 1 the app appe alls eAlis augast argued this summary method of de dealing riling with the prophet looks very much batich like persecution and will awaken sympathy for nor him hira instead of aiding the the cause of justice j attice from froin the tho S F bulldis when judge mckean assumes that this woman is the wife wire of young makes an ai iner Inar interlocutory decree granting hier hor three thousand dollars to maintain a suit for divorce when whon there never was a legal marriage and commits young for contempt because he hesitates long enough to raise the question of the legality of the order he be burns some bome strange fire on the altar of justice v an oblique and cunning interpretation pre tation of law which assumes that to be a in marriage arriag which was no marriage ap X ignot is not a straightforward way out of the difficulty instead of taking the bull by the horns it Isan is an attempt tot tol to grasp I 1 f him bythe by the tail OPEN assassination MENDED the he editor of the attak apas sentinel is savage over sheridan who president grant thinks Is the ablest soldier of ancient oi or modern times the sentinel op openly e n thinks the gallant phil h has as lived too long and that to hid rid the earth of such a monster as phil sheridan would be a deed for all the world to applaud the sentinel sentina man thus further explains himself we dont mean for midnight masked assassins to murder him but for the people of bf new orleans of Lou Louisiana lAlAna rising in the majesty of their might to slay elay him on the streets as they would a rabid do dog 9 in the broad open oun d day ayi with the sunlight of gou goa gods s heaven shining down upon the act and growing brighter in approval dehero Is no virtue in that kind of fat business to help either the south bouth or the north DID jue rue GET theu THEM elthe the cleveland iove love herald is anxious about those caseb cases in the customs as see the wandering i shepherd has returned to his bis nock flock parson newman who has been travelling tra travel velling linZ around the world at publio public expense is back hack at washington did bid ho he get those cases of goods through th er custom house houie EVIDENCE the doctrine n i e is staled and sometimes sometime es strona strongly y pushed that grand juries must only hear evidence a against 0 ainest a person charged but this doctrine does dodi not meet with universal a acceptation i cep cop tation in charging the graid grand jury for tha tho second se judicial district of idaho judge clark thus instructed them tho tho the general rule 19 ig is 19 in la united tates states cases th that a t you should hear no other evidence but that adduced by the government doctrine has been doubted and I 1 you to the effect that tha if the case for the prosecution appears doubtful or imperfect yoli are at liberty to call for such other witnesses ns ner will muke out gut the charge or ai explain it away the proper business ofa ir grand gnand nd jury is 18 to td ascertain whether there is probable cause gause of or criminality not to try the case not to t heir ilear nil all 11 the witnesses that can bo be summoned in ip any pase page case not to fo hean hear the sup posed criminal nor hi witnesses 1 but inthe if the grand lury jury hear qt 0 awit ness who they are news important and anif determining 9 t facts ach connected with the cise case do not the interests of justice require that such a witness testimony be heard no matter what it is 19 other wise would nob not there thore be sk a likely hood of many useless harassing hurtful trials being commenced to 0 the good of no one but io to the injury of many the end of the la jaw is to secure justice not to encourage vexatious litigation it Is held hold that thu jury are the sole judges of the credit and conal dence to which a witness Is entitled and that the best practice 1 wind a true bill as oon soon as the he jur yur iare lure yare satisfied that the def defendant ought tobe lobe to be put put pul on fur fus trial IP 19 but how are they to be satis batis satisfied fied fled that A man ought to be put on his triai trial if they are not allowed to send for and hear a witness who they believe knows the exact facts in the I 1 case in this view the instructions of judge clark dark to his ts grand jury juny as quoted above appear very reasonable ab leand aud and proper Ir MARRIAGE ARRIAGE BY ny PROXY the ro roi i bently promulgated civil marriage law lagermann in la germany it beams seams occasions considerable difficulty in more ways than one judal judging by the following a in fix the german papers in missionary circles the introduction of the civil marriage jaw has revealed a difficulty of which nobody had thought it appears that in 1 many german missionary societies the c custom pre prevails vaili valli of sending out preferable married missionaries because good results are expected from thet the exam p e of christian matrimony now when the wife wire of a missionary died during their sojourn abroad it was w usual to select a new n wife for him hinr out of the reserve stock in the schools of the society and send her cef to him and in order to simplify ma matters aters the marla maria marriage go ceremony was performed here by before the departure of the bride when the marriage was wholly in the hands bands of the clergy they reco neco recognized such a ceremony as vall valid Zinc dinc ethe bivye promulgation romul gatlon gAtion of theobal batory civil marriage lawa law a basof of this bort sort arosen but the anxious missionary has not received the wife whom the kind care of others chose for him for such a marriage must now bo be celebrated according to secular rites and when application was made it was impossible to find an official who co could id d discover I 1 scover any warrant for r performing fior ming a marriage by procura gon UTAH mattera MATTERS the following appears among the washington dispatches dispatches in the B S P F chronicle washington march 16 the removal of judge mckean chief justice of considerable comment buethe but bup the resident president is generally sustained the immediate cafiso of his bis removal was the recent order of mckean threatening to diebal whitney an law who had ja personal quarrel wita with the judge budge outside of the court buot buop is also said that mckeand Mc Keans arlt arit arbitrary acts have caused much satisfaction dissatisfaction dir did heretofore A copy of the order threatening to disbar whitney was wag sent sent sept to the president and is 11 regarded td as edrita containing ining language unbecoming a judge on the bin bon bunch ob and more befitting a street brawl there la Is also a general come complaint plaint made against the agent of tue tiie associated press at salt lake who is accused of transmitting false and partisan reports of the pe press s the rho ja sensational 1 83 itlo itro al leporta circulated r cu labod by the associated press from salt lake with rorer reference ened to governor axtell are generally denounced noun ced and are charged to the 0 of f a political ring which desires to overthrow axtell w wha who nevertheless les ies s retains the confidence of the administration INSPECTOR OF op HELL gaty GATI 4 the tho new york herald thus presents pio pie ita it compliments to the rev inspector lor of consul consulates ates atos lintow ow that cherev Newman Dr of fee the metropolitan methodist church in washington and chaplain to his excellency has haa returned home after a long iong foreign tour at the theo expense of his ad admiring miring countrymen it would be well to adopt a previous loUl el hug Aug suggestion of the herald and appoint him inspector 0 o hell heli gate TELEGRAPH pone pole tn ru london and paris telegraph wires ar are carried underground and now the new rew yorkers are very much exercised about their telegraph h poles in the streets and wires in fh the air the underground plan of pih pik placing in gl iha wires wit ea is iq proposed and opposed baij bij t wilf will p pro baby bo be adopted event dually 3 JUDGE tunge tile the missouri Blisso url uri neno Deno democrat crat cral speaks of judge parker in this ex representative parker of st joseph bas has been nominated chief of utah a position in which bleh bieh bich his abano acknowledged legal abilities lie lle may be most usefully useful jy ew employed loyed N will lose an aclise worker abd and a good speaker if be he goes oes to tach the mormons cormons justice he awas was prebi president dent deat of the abe last wt rep bep republican lican beate convention 11 ye we arm are glad to hear a good ac act t bolit of a man appointed a adjudge judge ar for utah although the nom nomination in a tio n was recalled and arkansas arkanna s instead of utah gets him |