Show II j BUll MOOSE CHIEF CHEF CHEFf i j f IN IDAHO COMMENTS COMMENT ON CONTEMPT i Gi Gipson i Thinks Le Legislature slater Should Get Busy at This Sessions Session fa Tile The U n raI 3 K Ida Jan J 3 J II U. Gipson on O of or B Caldwell of ot the Bull Dull s state state- att comm committee c e of or Idaho had something to sa say t anent tho the Imprisonment imprisonment im Im- of or n. n Sheridan and Broxon In hi n the county Jail f for or r contempt of the supreme court Tho follo following I statement was g given cn U lout ut to the press by him The action of or tho the court in n Imposing a jail sentence and a heavy y upon on the proprietor and editor of oC the thc Capital News and anda a a yet heavier penalty u upon on a 1 whom they choose to regard na hi his own statements on oath and the testimony of or the proprietor or as ns responsible In some way for tor the strictures res published I In that paper closes a 1 remarkable case I The members of or the supreme a court have e apparently apparent chosen t tu to assume that the they are hedged about b b- b some divinity divinity divin divin- I it ity that the they can do o no w wrong ong or that no matter what injustice may bo be tho i result of oC their theil action no voice olce shall b be raised In n protest I l 1 condemn the code off erf procedure adopted In In this case cale by hy tl the c court ising be is being 00 ing the plaintiff constituting Itself the judge the jury Jur and the court of oC last resort If It this 1 is tho the law lacy or I If r the supreme court can arrogate to Itself such an assumption of or arbitrary authority then it Is high limp that an appeal should be made to the people of oC this state tate The courts court's record for the part few sew months makes the first dut duty af at this session oulon of the legislature plain Constitutional Constitutional Con Con- amendments looking to tho recall of or Judges and In certain constitutional con con- cases to tho recall of ot judIcial judicial ju- ju decisions as w well ll as one ono denn- denn Ing ina- contempt outlining some cr cv do oCI of oC fj procedure and limiting penalties s in such cases should In Immediately l 1 j i submitted submitted submitted sub sub- I to the people In In addition an ani amendment should be he adopted i for tor the election o of Judges at nt se separate rato g nonpartisan elections If It the people of oC Idaho have o created an Institution which strikes at their freedom or given Ji to an any body of or men power to take awa away their ther liberty t and property to lt satisfy motives es of oC r re o or OJ to appease an offended dignity tho the sooner this frankenstein is lath laid away with the rack ruck and thumbscrew of at the Spanish Inquisition the better It is planned now to have Nava ha 1000 IO persons person sin give one cents cent each to pay Y the thet t 00 fines imposed oscel yesterday upon Sheridan and an Broxon publisher her and nd managing editor o oC of the Capital Views 1 rho ho in addition to their theil fines are arc serving nI rv- rv lug ing da day sentences in the thc county count I Jail Such Ruch a movement was 1 by byi i Representative ne r e flow Dow of ot Owyhee I county count who contributed tho the first i enny I and expressed the hope that there thero were were v re one million men and women omen In tho the United States who would follow his 1 example and make penny penn contributions for tor the cause of ot freedom |