| Show ANOTHER COURT SCENE YESTERDAY ar ad otherl court scene 11 was enacted in the play precipitated upon the public by judge zane land and the school trustees the case of the latter being hold held in contempt was called mr baskin appeared ppe ard in behalf of the trustees that gentleman was not quite so brash as on the occasion when he attended before the E examiner aciner as attorney for his clients by y courtesy of counsel for the court still his manner was as usual peculiar to himself he assumed an air of innocent ignorance regarding the matter of the contempt adjudged against his clients he designated the direct and pungent statements in that regard contained in the opinion of the court cart heretofore published as general allegations this brought upon him the incisive method of judge judd who took mr baskin speaking by the ear as senator blackburn did physically with senator chandler he did not however fling him against the wall but pulled him bim down in uncomfortable proximity to a figurative grindstone the handle of which his honor deftly turned playing havoc so to speak with the most prominent feature of the band some countenance of judge baskin the associate justice ordered him to read from the opinion of the court he did read the language of the document is so in unequivocal equivocal and direct that a half demented person need not fall fail to understand its purport the allegations are not general on the contrary the charges embodied in the opinion are clear and specific when the read reader ar had perused for the benefit of his audi auditoria torsa portion of the opinion he gaspingly asked Is that all proceed was the unrelenting re Join beinder je inder derl this interruption occurred more than once with the same result judge judd being determined that mr baskin should i 4 wallow the soup whether he wanted it or not it was nauseating to the stomach of the attorney and when he had consumed the entire quantity prescribed for him he seemed considerably exhausted there was a little byplay by play besides this general incidental current judge zane was also there in behalf of the trustees and ventured a few remarks addressed to the court this tribunal however seemed to have its deaf eat ear turned in the direction of judge zane and when he broke in upon the proceedings it evidently assumed a faraway far away look as if interested in something which occupied a somewhat distant position in space of course the court could not entirely ignore the fact that it was being addressed by an attorney and gave him therefore the smallest possible degree of recognition under the circumstances the court used mr baskin as a species of vicar in reply to judge zane it directed its answer to judge baskin by their manner their honors seemed to say judge zane we understand all about the political plot to get you instated reinstated re upon the bench we have no more to say to you in consequence than we can possibly help we think we know that we have been insulted and treated contemptuously we are not looking through a glass darkly the trustees are a four paned window through which we can gaze and see in the beyond a familiar figure thus the proceeding wound up further steps in the question of contempt being delayed until friday morning next at ten when there will doubtless be produced another scene in one of the most peculiar melodramas melo dramas of modern times |
