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Show One Statu in the Union has discarded dis-carded the grand jury system, and the sooner Washington, D. C, follows the example the better will it be for its reputation. A grand jury of that latest of Territories has indicted two prominent promi-nent newspaper men and two prominent telegraphists, for refusing to testify before be-fore a Senate committee, concerning the premature publication of the Treaty of Washington. The advance j copies of the treaty were placed in the j hands of certain well-known members! of the Senate, and a wiser act of the praud jury would have been to return the matter to the Senate and lei them fin-1 out who auion thorn betrayed: Senatorial crcc; for a "eousidera-j tion." Rut a still wiser thing would be, for the Senate to throw overboard ! tho old-fogy principle that attempts to; keep from the people what they have' the best right to know, and discard ! that remnant of monarchial diplomacy j which supposes the people should not' know anything of an important diplo-j matic nature until it is consummated. "What Senate could know that it re-' presented the popular mind oo so im- poruBta matter, if the public were' kept iu ignorance of it until ail were over; and what republicanism is there in any body of men, claiming to re-, re-, present the people, denying to the 1 people iuf'urinaiion on a vital matter which should have the popular will I clearly expressed? The New York , Tribune did an act, in publishing the j treaty, which will give it inm-a-itd Imputation and will win for it large sup-1 sup-1 port; and the court which tries these , journalist and telegraphists will only give them a kind of martyr notoriety j and become itself ridiculous. Our Utah Judges ahuuld be called tor to try I the caac; it would lie in conformity j with their cuursc. |