Show L FOR THEMSELVES ONLY It is a mistake te absuaae as some iI have done that because Associate Justices Einerbon and Twiss in their respective ° courts refused to grant the District Attorneys motion for an open venire this virtually determines the matter the two Judges being a majority i of the Supreme Court It merely settles j the question in the First and Second t districts until the Supreme Court has I t heard and decided the matter Nor can I the rulings of Emeron and Twigs be accepted as indicating what their J opinions will be as Supreme Court Justices Neither of these gentlemen hadjever entertained theidea thatre ort could be had to an open venire in making up a jury panel they had held court for years and obtained juries without this stretch of law and authority author-ity and it would have beeninconfaistent I r if notchildish had they now reversed their previous course on their own motion 1 mo-tion To have done so would have i argued ignorance or neglect innthe past jat least It anust he borne in mind that i I the District Courts are entirely inde r t j pendent of each other in their rulings 1 I 1 as to all matters that have not been passed upon by thfciSupreme Court hence Zane in his district can go along withopen venire juries anB Emerson and Tjyviss obtain their juries in accordance accord-ance With the law until the Supreme 1 ffi HUt shall meet and decide after which there must be uniformity da ail the 4 1 lesser courts Zones with the other Inthis connection it will notbe improper I proper to say that while the late rulings S by the Associated Justices denying open venires cannot be accepted as suggestive suggest-ive of the position they will assume when the question is argued be orethem In the Supreme Court the Belief that i Associates will not see things La the light in which they are viewed by the Chief Justice Judges are quite as much human as laymen andeverj body knows that the average layman feels that he understands the business in i which be has been engaged for years fully as well as does the stranger t I The8upreme Court meets next j month when we shall learn rat we f shall learn F < t I 1 |