Show 4 CHIEF a r m f 5 was witness edin the united tin salt lake city last saturday when parley P pratt appeared before the judge and his honor flew into a frenzy of passion because the de fondant refused to knees and answer certain nent questions which the court propounded because mr pratt choso to make no statement in regard to his future intentions in respect to bis household arrangements chief assumed judicial few dayse ince a train robber in illinois asked an express messenger to open his safe that the freebooter might steal the treasure more easily and when the staunch messenger refused to comply with this request the robber blew the faithful mans brains out with a re volver in the identical spirit of this murderous robber chief jus ir pratt to stultify himself and when the latter ventured to maintain his lionor and dignity the enraged judge angrily to undergo imprisonment in the for six month a labor this was a more severe penalty than even tho 1 law b ih e wisdom of congress had provided as a punish anent tor heaU eKed crime of which mr pleaded guilty and at the suggestion of air richards the attorney for the defense his honor was compelled to retract so bis inconsiderate and malicious sentence as referred matter of hard labor L ja on this occasion chief justice zane jhc thc trouble to display his dea of bis own individual importance and declared tb athe appeared here as the representative of afu ofu great government the greatest u pon the face of the gl obe if his honor had merely meant by ho was federal judge mhd w ouid eh en uncalled for but chief justice zane evi dently hasa notion in hi that hois something more than a mere judicial officer sent out hero to administer the law himself a viceroy of the united stated vested with a certain amount of discretionary power which he is inclined to exercise ex erciso despotically whenever a whim take aliat little sense he possesses so lie osten piously announces himself u representative senta tive of a nation of fifty lail liona of people with the evident intention of appalling somebody and while hc states that his personal sympathies have nothing to do with his duty ha declares that in his opinion tho offense of unlawful cohabitation is not vested by the ute with a very severe punishment not severe according to his individual notions so in mr pratts case lie leta his personal f 1 l inadvertently add the hard labor suffix to alie utmost extent of ahn penalty provided by law again when a prisoner ar before ordinary courts of justice lie s usual therb cne nt of all doubts but because air pratt declined to make any statement merely to satisfy alie vanity which imagines it is making a conquest of utah chief justice zane while admitting that the bof course that a man when ho hag committed 0 crime will not continue to commit it proceeds in the sabuo breath to presume that mr pratt hyill cons dinue to the law because that lemaa is not abject enough 0 ansiger the u og an fn which ilia honor extra officiously propound a in hia assumed capacity of inquisitorial viceroy of the stated chii justice nas once more lary odthe territory by gelling mad and proving himself a tyrant ou the bench but we are not entirely displeased because is eo for his every act of this description only hastens the time hia hobor will be relegated to private life and to everlasting infamy by the reserved curacy of tho he haa outraged and the nation which ho in his wanton violation of tae calai impartiality and impersonal dignity which should 1 utterances te rances and demeanor of a court |