Show A LITTLE JOKES A recent issue of the detroit free press contained the following considerable speculation las has been indulged in by those who hare have op posed the confirmation of 0 IV rowers powers as to whether he ie is still on the utah supreme bench the answer ie is that mr powers ia Is still per pen forming the function of jude judge and arid will continue to do so until butil the end of the present session mr powers was appointed to nil jill the vacancy caused by the resignation of judge emerson and will hold hie his office las as heretofore elated stated by virtue of the clause of the constitution the president Pre shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen harpen during the recess of the sedate br mr granting commissions hibb sha I 1 expire at the end of the next sea aes ion senator edmunds Is quoted wo also taking the view heretofore elated stated if the vacancy really exists im as some hold holdway why does not the dent name mr powers successor successor there is 14 no doubt that edmunds views ara are chotia of the president the th theory eory w is even advanced that the president does not possess the power er to remove Mr Powers until hie his coia cow m mission isslyn expires Cert certain itin it is that he lie cannot remove a united stites the in mailer matter of territorial judges the power ia Is claimed and has aa already been exercised within a very few months past just what the president will do ben air rowers commission masslon mis slon expires is iii not known may way reappoint appoint rc him which be he would have the right to do so to act the situation ia is one that hia his opponents did not bot dream often days ego ago commenting upon this the kalamazoo kajs this news Is undoubtedly surprie surprise 1 ine ing to a great grgat many people since during tho the past few daye it il has bas been hinted at in Ili difed circles those who have been so elated at th the preel 1 dentinal action in tho the case cafe af hadjie powers have with their tune changed that joyful expression upon their countenances the facts contained in the above dispatch have been in the gazette possession for over four creeks weeks the gazette has aid said nothing concerning the case u upon pon co conjecture P j O 0 e ct ure aa 18 auta not liot have been judicious and then it would have interfered int urfred erfred with the thi baking or atiat political pie which attorneys michigan faai by mormonism hism in utah have been preparing buttee but the pie seems sema to have been ae the gazette re remarked parked the other day he ile laughs best who daab laab last the kalamazoo JOa gazette iette baa has al ways been considered ao au authorized organ n of justice vowels powers friends in michigan the above quotations will mill be very interesting reading for those well known and honorable attorneys who were in a great mens ure indirectly responsible for the withdrawal of his honor honors namena tion if mr powers or hia his friends re really ally have stay sanguine 1 ine expectation expectations the cat is 9 out of ot the bag now wo anre of the opinion opi however ever that the justice only desires to retain his seat long enough to let himself down and stud out more gracefully and it is possible that the fhe president ie is not indisposed to gratify him since the withdrawal of his nomination mr pc powers aers haa blis been discreetly reticent and it ie is rumored that he has hn a little surprise party in store for certain attorneys and others connected with t the he eureka beck beek case it ia is even conjectured that certain gentlemen who have ben very active and prominent in their opposition to the justice will be glad to turn around eventually and acquis ce in i his honors continued ed reg re gifts itne it I 1 ia s also rumored that if the president mr powers after the adjournment of Von congress gress there will bean be an e fiert made to impeach wim we do not put any credit in any of these rumors or conjectures but we do feliepe that justice powers will wp down and a short time |