Show afie ah pay of ar P OF TERRITORY it is spent at the insane asyl i T T I 1 A request for a big Ap aaion KING JURY A brief exposition of the character of orles and jury in this territory notes rEdL toral special to arit SALT LAKE jan 27 1818 Itis asylum it is adall said medical superintendent pike at prove today to day when he was addressed upon the subject of the insane asylum by an legislator dr pikes theory is ahat an asylum is an institution where the best and most advanced treatment can be ac corded and that a jail Is a place where people are huddled together in confinement which merely m without aft other remedy the foregoing idea furnishes a good text for a legislative sermon this 9 at 8 in pursuance of yesterdays appointment by the legislature a party of about 75 people left this city for provo to visit the terri asylum Among them were the president and speaker of tile council and house respectively many members of both houses lioner carlion and ocher invited guests including a number of ladies at provo was reached ana the p dy were comfortably to the by conveyances which had been in waiting the structure needs but little description here except so far as way be necessary to give an idea of the demand by the necessities of the case fr an extensive appropriation nat present 92 patients are inmates of the building which is but the indent south wing of the structure as designed the women occupy one her although of course the sexes are kept entirely apart no possible tion can be made under the circum atances to keep the patients of one type of mania from contact and con flicht with patients of another type the violent and excitable mingle with the melancholy to the disadvantage of both the offices too are utterly inadequate and the rooms for attend male and female are insufficient and inconvenient A of about thirty flye acres surrounding the building is the extent of the doi pain of this tract but ten acres are tillable and yet from these ten acres of profit baye been returned within the past two years the proposition by the board of dir rectors of the insane asylum is that the territory shall appropriate 00 to build the main front the cen J aral building and the north wing L thereby giving capacity for more than patients or all which would be likely to require treatment within six or eight years in addition it is proposed to secure acres of land in the I 1 immediate vicinity of the aay turn t hat such inmates as are able to labor at farming may find employment both for their own physical and mental profit as well as the financial profit of I 1 the institution it is affirmed that while patients now inhabit the asylum there are many persons bo ought tobe there and are not this is a statement the which every one aill admit W all know plenty of people who ought to be under such restraint but in serious speech in every county in utah with the exception of the two or three leading counties poor mind wrecked bretches retches are said to be kept in solitary and unclean confinement either by their relatives or other private parties some of the cdan ties do not send their patients because of county poverty while in other cams the patients are kept at home through a belief that as good treat meat can be accorded as tile asylum Is at present able to furnish the sentiment of the visiting legis gators was one of flie utmost sympathy ith the unfortunate insane and one of the utmost admiration for the care ful manner in which the asylum affairs had been conducted the board of directors consisting of IV N closen berry governor Goyer nor west major joueph A ivest and fa 1101 daway dann farnsworth and don carlos young have labored most and to make tile and the receipt of appropriations If edical superintendent Pik elias tile fullest confidence of tile board cheso facts the legislators lecog mazed and the only qu estion with them Is a question f the possibility of af lording the relief desired there was bollia sollia talk of building a south trans berso section to the present south wing but tills is impracticable from the standpoint of the tand V medical superintendent its also from the standpoint of air kleing tile architect it would afford increased room it Is amo but one of the it pal I 1 at prevent I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1111 1 1 I 1 I 1 is that the kitchen and offices are not far enough removed from tile wards of tile patients another of similar importance is that tile administration has no adequate quarte to remedy these two latter defects which ill tile aggregate are as important as the lack of room for insane patients would re quire the building of tile central strut turo and rear kit elion and dining arid tile south tran svere section proposed and the central building with kitchens would cost almost or quite as much as tile central building and the north wing while tile result be gained would not be nearly so great the time alas according to tile opinion of tile officers of the ins titu tion alien male and female patients raould occupy entirely separate por eions of the structure it is true that they are kept apart now but the anat ter Is one of constant anxiety requiring go far as tho patients are concern eil the utmost vigilance with the females in one wing and tile males in another divided by the adminis tra tion building much anxiety would be removed the increased iraln would then afford opportunity to classify tile patients according to the type of mailia and to accord them the best treat merit known in such cases this serious question of abe feces of the asylum brings UP anew the proposition to b ond the territory and secure money for required public improvements it is very the territory bry cannot without securing a considerable SUM as a loan appropriate any buch amount as that desired for the com insane asylum great as is the necessity for this expenditure there are others which are quite as pressing A reform school for utah is as necessary as extended facilities forthe asylum to this one institution out of the present meagre resources of the terri tory would be to deprive all others of 8 it is therefore to be hoped that the legislature will immediately take into consideration the matter of borrowing at least on be ads and devoting the money to the asylum a reform school tile sity and other worthy institutions THE aury BILL in yesterdays issue we published in full kings bill 11 F no 35 providing for the payment and selection of jurors and creating special court commissioners that the importance id value of such a measure as this tay be fully understood we will briefly refer to the changes that juri system has undergone during the past few yeam in tile early history of the territory a certain number of jurors were by the marshal from the several counties of the dig brict in which the court was being held and in proportion to the population and from these grand and petit jurors were drawn by lot in open court the federal authorities of the territory and a small faction of malcontents who for years had been in open hostility to the great majority of the people here found that while they could carry measures with a high hand in many other respects they could not always control the verdicts of juries this operated as a great bar to their attempted acts of injustice and oppression toward those who were under the ban of their judicial and political disfavor and chev soon began to devise means by the guardian of the peoples tights might be converted into a means of opples sion and tyranny early in the year 1874 they caused the measure since kloft as the poland bill to be introduced into congress and by a persistent to the prejudices of that law maciag body soon succeeded in having it made a ions of this act the probate judge of the county in which the court was next to convene and the clerk of the district court were to alternately I 1 belech two hundred names to be known agthe jury list there names were then to a jury box from which tile clerk was to select at random the names of those laho were to constitute the gand and petit jurors of the term I 1 the first provision referred to gave the minority party of the then numbering about fifteen per cont of the population fifty ver cent of the jury representation and on cases of polygamy and bigamy all of it so faras the persons jurors believed in the rightfulness of polygamy it was only necessary to bring forward one single caw of tills char ac ter early in the term to entirely exhaust the mormon representation and leave the future juries of tile form to be comprised of non cormons mormons TO these mentho were as a for their an ti prejudices all the jury civil and criminal cases were to be submitted unless the poll should become exhausted when the still more objectionable open system was to be called into n it will readily be seen that no mormon could expect justice even JU civil cases under tills system of things with tha great prejudices that such jurors possessed and that in cabes of polygamy bigamy and unlawful r an indict ment was in nearly every case equivalent to a conviction smarting under the injustice of this outrageous of things mr thurman long before the session of two yea to ago oct to work to devise some means of at I 1 east lessening the graver evil resulting from the open system upon 0 tile plan so t forth antho fore part of mr kings bill being subsequently returned to t he from utah county be formulated a bill upon subject which presentation to the assembly I 1 w was d I 1 I 1 the govermor almost immediately vetoed it stating as his reasons for so doing that it was an attempt to 10 it tile government in its prosecution of to meet this unwarrantably ablo objection of the governor tile hill was changed by its author so as to make it applicable to the trial of clell cases only and again introduced and pawed by the assent bly on receiving it a second time murray again vetoed it on tile plea that being supplemental to congress tonal legislation upon this subject it was amendatory thereof and therefore improper legislation the latter reason for vetoing the measure is even more unwarrantable and absurd than tile former for if this be amenda tory legislation then every law upon tit statute book that is n harmony with and in extension of the powers conferred in the or gaille act is amen batory thereof and therefore object flo legislation and null and void we think that governor west possesses a knowledge of tile law to entertain for one moment any such view of the subject and that his prejudices will not permit him from any reason whatever to veto go e acel lent IL measure as this when presented to him for his consideration tile latter half of the bill brov ming for court commissioners to audit and pay Y atness and jurors certificates and which is essentially mr kings ah authorship arid conception as the former part is mr thurmand Thur mans Is by means an unimportant of tile measure it is known fact and a subject much public comment that errors and moth once prevailed in the computations and allowances of mileage nd per them to witnesses and jurors it was no uncommon thing for the prin cipal and witnesses in a criminal case to be taken past the commissioner of the they reside and to a distant commissioner examination involving unnecessary extra mileage and per diem cases are not infrequent too when parties thus summoned have been at lowed per them and mileage for attendance in the commissioners court and upon being almost immediately summoned before tb e grand jury ii avo been allowed per aillem and mileage over again wo ware told only a few days since of a case in which a witness was brought from some point in provo valley to provo via bark city and ogden a roundabout distance of about miles and at 0 W e d per them for the time and milace for the distance traveled on this route when he could have gone directly across the countr y b tween these points a distance of 28 miles these are but a few instances that ca bo cited but enough to con vincnt person of the necessity for such a commission as mr kings bill provides anoche cellena cel lent feature of the bill is the provision that thew numbering one in each judicial district shall not only audit and correct an errors but I 1 m mediately pay for all servi ces rendered fiat y thousand dollars being by the bill appropriated for this purpose this provision if it becomes lawo will immediately restore the par value of witness and juror which for t wo years fast have been slow sale at from 25 to 40 cents the dollar |