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Show THE PROPOSED TRIUMVIRATE RULE. The prumineilt fuaturi-a uf the VoOT hoes Mil, which w.; printed yi'Merday mornioK. will bo h;st seen tv a con-dentation con-dentation of its provision.-!, hy which it propOMi's to legalize the odiou-ily illegal and anti-n-puhlican course of J-niio.- H McKeaii, at present chief ju.-lu-e of I 'tah. Sections one and two mate (he I'uited Stales marshal and L'uited Stales attorney otiieepj of the Territory as well o.s of the l'uited Slates. This judge MeKean had accomplished by the simple process of ruliugs without troubling lei.-lation. The Territory is also required to pay them fur acting t as such offieers. In other words: congress is a-iked to provide for the disbursement of the Territorial revenue and the payment of offieers who are under no bonds nor obligations to the Territory, their fees being taxed only by the judiciary with whom they are associated, and, judging by the past, whose tools they may be in carrying out the "holy mission of a religious crusade. cru-sade. " Section three makes a district judge, the U. S. marshal and the United States attorney absolute arbiters of the lives, liberties and property of the entire people in a judicial district. They shall make a list in writing of one hundred citizens of the United States, who have resided six months irj the Territory and are residing in the district, and from these hundred persons per-sons grand and petit juries are to be taken, drawn with a care and exactness that gives an air of solemnity to a judicial farce intended to precede a tragedy. This triumvirate can select a hundred men in the third judicial district of Utah with its sixty thousand inhabitants, who will be a permanent oonvioting tribunal, to receive accusations accusa-tions the most monstrous, clothe with an appearance of sacrednes the most vile- perjuries, and send to prison or to the sea fib Id any man who may be obnoxious, for any cau.se, to this dictatorial dicta-torial triumvirate; while civil cases will actually rest with two or three men, and the trial of important causes, where heavy monetary interests are involved, in-volved, will be but a sham. The sanio list of a hundred men, specially selected for their fitness for the work intended, are not ineligible to serve by reason of having been so employed at a previous term of court. The only thins that can disqualify them for the easy position of office holders as jurors, is their giving offence to any of the triumvirate that selects them. The U. S. marshal can select a hundred men, "good and true" for the purpose in baud he can swear them in as deputy dep-uty marshals and present their names as the list from which the jury panels arc to be drawn, and thus hive his pliant tools at hand to 1111 each place and every emergency, drawing pay from the Territory for each or either duty. We arc not commenting on this, but merely stating bald facts; yet a more infamous proposition, or one striking a deadlier blow at the principles of republican re-publican government under the guise of aiding to enforce the laws, could scarcely be concocted. The open ve-niro ve-niro system, under which juries have been picked and packed here, was a model of justice compared with this, for even under it grand jurors were not eligible to serve for two years after having sat on the grand inquest for one term, and thus the "(Selections" had to bo made from a greater number of persons, per-sons, and with some show of conformity with law. Sections four and five have reference to the means by which extra funds are to be procured from fines and payments of costs, and their disbursement. Sections six and seven, recognizing with what utter contempt all honorable jurisprudence has been treated in the prosecutions commenced for "lascivious "lasciv-ious cohabitation," provides for an easy way to reach practical polyga-mists polyga-mists ; and makes the judge of each judicial district an extra-diota-tor to appoint anti-polygamy commissioners commis-sioners in the several counties; and authorizes tho judges to hold courts where they please in their districts, when they please, as often as they please in fact gives them unrestricted power in several respects, which might be admissable were all judges good, honorable and high-minded men, but as unfortunately they are not, the power conferred upon them by this bill would be capable of the most tyrannical tyran-nical abuse. The kinelv nowpr in tho hands of a wise, noble, humane and broad-idead monarch, may work well for a people; but when wielded by an egotistical, ignorant, bloated and nar now-minded man such as George the Third was freemen would prefer to meet and make any sacrifice rather thanendure it asdidthe founders of this Republic. So while this judicial power in the hinds of some men who have graced she bench of America might be wisely and judiciously exercised, in the hands of such judges as have lately sat upon the bench ot this Territory, it would be abused in the most tyrannical manner; for men who will usurp power, wrest law and defy justice, in the face of existing statutes, to accomplish accom-plish desired ends, when sustained by a statutory enactment would be uncontrolled uncon-trolled in their course, and would make earth a hell to the whole community against whom their prejudices were directed. The seventh section, still further, proposes to legalize the illegal action of the district courts in the matter of divorces; di-vorces; and provides that if the Territorial Terri-torial legislature fails to make the necessary ne-cessary appropriations to carry out all the provisions of this bill, they shall be paid out of the congressional appropriation appropri-ation to defray the expenses of the Territorial Ter-ritorial legislature. The proposition is absurd. Twenty thousand dollars in two years ! Why the district courts of the Territory, under this bill, would ' run up a list of expenses that would absorb the congressional appropriation and the entire revenue of the Territory, Terri-tory, and then, like the grave, would (continue to cry, "(Jive! Give!" the 1 demands being limited only by the I stealing capacity of their official'. |
