The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03
THE M'KENzIE-NoYEs SCANDAL.

THE M'KENZIE-NOYES SCANDAL.
The Mckenzie Noyes scandal has reach
ed the senate of the United States where
Hansbrough and Pettigrew come to the
sonal assurances that he is an honest
man. The evidence submitted on the con-
troversy would be in order only at an
old ladies' sewing circle. Hansbrough
assures his brother senators that he has
known Noyes for years, and that he act
ed as an upright Judge; that he refused
numerous brides while at Cape Nome
and appointed Mckenzie as receiver for
the good of the properties concerned. 10
all of this Pettigrew says amen.
To the general charge of corruption
that is made against Noyes both by the
people Of Nome and by the court of APP
instead of yielding to the corrupt indu-
ence of Mckenzie, Noyes has stoutIy re-
sisted the advance of bribers from the
other side.
Noyes is, but from his own statements,
we must conclude that he is not particu-
larly careful of his honor as a judge or
as gentleman. We have in mind judges
who, if approached boldly with bride
as Noyes says he has been on divers and
sundry occasions, would have taken such
action on the spot as to preclude any fur
Their attemptes to tamper with the court.
To an unprecedented onlooker it seems
that Hansbrough has given the whole
snap away by publishing these wholesale
attempts to bride his friend Noyes with
out at the same time detailing the horri-
bic fate that at once overlook the briber
at the hands of the indignant judge.
Can it be that bribery at Cape Nome is
such a usual incident that district
judge does not see fit to punish a man
who boldly attempts to bribe the court?
It seems from the record in possession
of the court of appeals at San Francisco,
that Noyes arrived on Saturday and be-
gan Monday morning to issue injunctions
and to appoint Alexander Mckenzie re-
ceiver for them. This action was ex
parte, without notice to the persons in
terested and without the filing of papers
The evidence before that court showed
that these injunctional orders We're is
sued from on board ship, before the judge
reached shore, he being obliged to remain
over Sunday on board because of rough
weather
1t was this action which brought down
upon his judicial head the wrath Of the
court of appeals. 1t was of this pro-
cedure that the court was speaking when
it said has no parallel in the annals OF
American Jurisprudence and that it spoke
well for the people of Cape Nome that
they appealed to the courts alone to gain
redress.
After hearing both sides and giving
Noyes credit for the most favorable con-
struction which one can place upon, his
actions as outlined by his friend Hans
brough we must conclude that it is a
case 'N11CAC Gil 1R1NCoIlSdL1Ot1 Is
for the honor of the judiciary. If Moves
is guilty of "a tenth part of the acts
ascribed to him he should be removed.
The fact that the court of appeals took
occasion to establish the precedent Of ad-
ministering a severe rebuke to a federal
judge indicates how strongly they felt on
the subject of Noyes conduct.
In the meantime Mckenzie is in jail
for contempt and his attorneys are apply
ing to the supreme court for a writ Of
habeaS corpus