| Show PERSONAL explanations MADE ADE BY HON RK rrt wliam WILI will IAMS lamb ja ON orr til ill THE OIE ole OPENING 2111 OF 01 THE dirst FIRST dremer diemer COURT couet IN ix CITY 1882 1832 if your honor please I 1 arise in parliamentary parlance to a privileged question ques tion tiou and aad personal explanation it has been mada mado known to me that your honor suspects hat that lu in isome manner I 1 vaa vas was yaa with certain publications in some soma of the salt lake cily city newspapers made in relation to the recent important cases and questions involving the legality of female dufft ioe ige m in this territory I 1 know that sometimes fa fit so reports ara reer secretly etly mado to the judge of a court for the purpose of affecting the thy professional status of a lawyer but as secrecy itself is a ba ige of fraud and ag as euch mean are too contemptible to be noticed by a gentleman genteman I 1 have uever sever con descended to into such things this however is of a dif dlf different lerent character it Is true that the ap bearance pc pe arance here last monday the day of opening tou too registration of for the november election of gov murray receiver of united states land office gen bane the senior benlor m aber of tho the distinguished law firm of sutherland mcbride ana tue tle rejection of the application for registration of a genine genile le lady by tha th county registrar major stephens and the suing out of a mau mar dainus dat dai Busand and immediate trial by an attorney of the liberal or uen tile elie party both counsel and partie belonging to the same party hos tile to female suffrage age and wid no lady jady applicant of the peoples People ld 11 or mormon party rejected so aa as to maea ma he a teat test cava casa in their b behalf excited much of com corn ment and of ut strong suspicion of unfairness and this was waa not a litt enhance enhanced a by reports of 0 boasts ba prominent gentiles antiles Gl that such measures had bad been determined on by byr the governor aa as would set aside female sum suf suffrage fraSe in thia state of affairs the peo alsa ples party parta had taken measures to get up a teat test case in their beh behalf alfa to be presented and argued by their counrel counsel coun sei so I 1 remained in court until the argument of the case casa of 0 mrs anderson vs B registrar stephens was closed when I 1 nrose arose ano and asked your honor to postpone any decision of the question as 1 JL had another caso case involving this bame tame que question stion as it would a large class clasa of voters and one of general interi ush and wished to be bet heard eard on it as asi I 1 thought thos gut goh got I 1 could coul d present boma eoma additional addition ond and impo slog alog rea iona sona lor tor the valid y of lemale suf fae fre fago fage f age rge which had not been presented Y your 0 ur honor at one remarked suba bubl you had hal not div en tho the question any thought were ump imp ca to decide it and were entirely willing to bear any additional argument oa on either elther bide elde it was then agreed to r further uither hearing on the question until wednesday and I 1 have sub bub stant eally and truthfully stated swed what did tild occur whenever I 1 have had demalon to mention this sub I 1 am in nowise connected with said publication publications nor am I 1 in any manner ie responsible for them I 1 did not know ot of them until on wednesday night atter after your honor had granted the mandamus on mrs gil bertja berths application against the deputy reg registrar is arar a at t brigham m cl city ty box E el I 1 der county major and Hence when your honor said raid to me on the 8 aid said application that some bome of the ddll rial blake t lak lab 0 papers had had bad gone for the court and counsel munsel in the mrs anderson ease case I 1 did not know the character of the article or that my nay nemo namo was mentioned in them bu naturally supposed there would be unfavorable comments in the papers representing the People peopled lis party ss as agamau a the governor Ga Go receiver and counsel couns eel fel but intended myself not to bo be connected with it in any manner nor in any way implicated furtner further than llred ifred by professional obligation S SD far as I 1 know or am inform informed eJ 1 feld feid sure that thero thera la ja no just cause for any reflection on the in integrity errity of the courts or board of united states Commiss commissioners loners indeed I 1 may say that thit thus far tho the general impression Is quite fiatte flatte flattering ring xing as to this board that they havu have acted fairly and with a view of administering the law as th they thuy understood it chave sald said thib this A much aa as due both to your honor and to myself B R K N WILLIAM |
