| Show A remarkable coincidence BY an unusual coincidence the evvs bivs of yesterday april 8 contained ta ined side by side dech deeb decisions lons ions of two of the three federal judges for the territory in favor of local laws and local officers this is a circumstance of such infrequent occurrence as to be worthy of a passing note when it does happen one of the decisions that of chief justice nic lic mckean Kean in the third district was supportive of the municipal liquor ordinance and the other that of associate justice emerson in the first district was supportive of the legislatively elected territorial marshal and attorney general and of the law by which they were elected this is pretty well for one days NEWS sews there is now only one judge Asso associate justice boreman fi oreman of the second judicial district to be heard beard from and a fair report may bo be credited to him until his court sits again for renderings ren judgment sustaining lical laws and local officials judge I 1 emerson may expect to be a an n object of the decided and virulent hostility of the ring t here judge mckean has not distinguished himself by man many y decisions or of that character for him to decide in favor of local laws and officers must have been equal to a cold water douche to the ring one decision of that kind may not hurt them very much but they will not relish many such from the chief justice if his honor indulges in many more he will have before him two dilemma horns to choose from one to make some counterbalancing rabid rulings the other way the other to feel an increasing and very sensible coolness in the sometime red hot af affection of the ring towards him |
