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Show ACCUMULATION OF LEGAL BUSINESS. At tin; opening of tli' September term of tlic third district court thx-rc were eighty-two ca-cn on the ciul docket. The term commenced on the 1 1 th of last September, and the m(-tinga m(-tinga continued uninterruptedly until the 2 1 at of Octuher, forty-four day-, . exclusive of Kundayn, when un adjournment ad-journment was taken until the Kith of November. The mWion.n of court iccoimncnced on the day Hpecifiod last .Monday and continued three days, when another adjournment wan taken until to-morrow, tho 20tli. The court, ha.s, therefore, been in .scs.-don furty-kcvoq furty-kcvoq working days, aud during that time ha disponed of nine civil eases of thoo on the docket at the opening of term, m near as we ean find out by a careful examination of the report of tho court proceeding published by u. Two other civil cases, wc believe, have been settled out of court, one by compromise and ono by aibitration; nnd otio "criminal" caye that of Thomas Hawkins has been brought to a termination. This would leave hoiuo seventy-one ca.ses of tho original civil docket still pending, with a decision deci-sion in one of the ca-ics tried and argued Clayton ix Clayton besides tho business that may have accumulated i Bince tho terra coniinonccd, Add to this tho criminal docket publi.shed yesterday morning in the Herald and tho other criminal cases yet to be added to it, in which the grand jury has found indictments, aud wc wil leave a clever mathematician to figure how lonfi it will take the court to get through the business now pending, at tho rate of progress which has characterized char-acterized the present term so far. Sovoral causes have assisted to put tho litigation of tho third district court in its present backward condition. Judgo Mclvean evidently gets through with the business as quickly as be can; but Iho practical ruling out of all Territorial eaurts is bearing its natural fruit. Tho judges at present I here, appointed by the J 'resident 1 of tho United States, having set in to : make themselves tho sole judiciary of every kind in tho Territory, bavo assumed as-sumed a responsibility in adjudicating on cases which they cannot meet. Many of the cases before the third district court should of right have been tried by the probate courts in the district, which aro virtually county courts, and from which there might havo been appeals taken to tho district court on sullieicnt grounds for so doing. Vet not only are the probate courts ruled out, but tho district court takes cases from thejustice's court of such a contemptible character that the higher court may well be considered as holding hold-ing itself at an exceedingly cheap rale. Everything seems to be not merely welcomed but sought fur, in tho district oourl, from trials in which, according to the court, the United Slates government govern-ment and a religious system are brought to bar, down to a petty appeal ap-peal case from the justice's court involving in-volving the matter of twelve dollars and a half! Then there are injunctions in various matters, liquor cases, and illegal meat markets we have not yet hoard of auy of the gambling houses seckiug or obtaining injunctions; and a general accumulation of business which a single court could not dispose of were it to be constantly in session, for litigation has been greatly on the increase for a length of time past. Last spring judge Mclvean dismissed the graud aud trial juries with a tirade against "priesthood," alleging that the business of the courts was virtually stormed because the Territory would not pay the jury fees. A bill was sent to Washington which was promptly returned re-turned unpaid, and congress was asked ibr thirty thousand dollars, which it refused re-fused to appropriate. Wc informed the court where aud how the jury fees could be obtained, and months after, the court accepted the most cuinburous ol the courses we recommended, so far as civil trials were concerned; and continued con-tinued criminal business with a furious onslaught on Mormonism, trusting, trust-ing, we presume, that the desired funds would be forthcoming from some source. Bur, the doming civil and criminal jurisdiction to the probate courts, which the statutes of the Territory Ter-ritory confer upon them, aud the process pro-cess of constituting tho district courts tribunals of orignual and 'appellate jurir-diction in every kind of a case no matter how trivial, so that courts created cre-ated by the Territorial legislature might in aimost every instance be disregarded, dis-regarded, have already be:n productive of greatevil to litigants; aud that ev:l is increasing. Men having important litigation pending are compelled to wait, aud wait, and wait, while some paltry cases arc having hav-ing the attention of court; or religious persecutions arc being vigorously puhod ibrwaid lo gratify personal uulioc and intolerant bigotry, aud the interests of the community have l) suffer suf-fer as a re-ult. - Wcare no friends lo eiwi lit:galion bvfjre the courts, believing that honest arbitrators wili in the majority of cases do justice to the coutending parties ppoedW and cheaper than the usually more cumltersoriic forms of law with a full b.tr and cwn an ii..p.iriial judge; but in icw of the fa-.-u .-tate I one of two tiling is imperatively demanded by tli' eireuoistaueo. : litlirr that the juii.-Jicii'tii of the Teiriioiial oourlo bo ietoied and aekuowledire i, or that we I be provided with more etbeieut dUtriot j courts- in this view of the matter, we believe, all sen.-ible men will unite, and certainly un-tiid nnd w.r'l'n lift gains de.-i:e :. We wii! add here that judge Kiias Smith, probilo iudg--ot'Salt Lake county, has always enioyeu as much of the respect of the bar, fo" his judicial bearing and decisions, a., any of the di-tiiet judges have done or do. And were his court in session as before, much of the now pending litigation liti-gation would be suti.-lactoiify disposed M. TlIK AltOI.lTION OK TIIK (IRANI) j Jl'ltV Svstkm. The newspaper! in j various States are pitching into this j nyteni in earnest. They term it a h'unbug, an inquisition silting in , darkness and eoudemning In stealth, a i relie of barbarism, a star chamber 1 1 inquisition, an opprcive instrument 1 . of inju-i!iee, etc., etc. These hard i words we believe are all true enough. J We Inve Ions? rcgard-d grand juries as grand humbugs, furniihiug simply an illii-lratiun of the facility with which j our early colonists copied everything ; imliluliunal from Ureal Britain. In ( limdal tunes the grand juiy W:is devised j as a security Ibr the people against the 1 rapacity of the pwerful b.irous and ui .Lies ; Lit in thin c nintry it is ' entirely out of place. L afford af-ford the opportunity for every 1 ignorant, prejudiced and passionate j man to bring his grievances before a ; Micivt tribunal, and weeuro iho revenue re-venue tif a:i indictment against his ( Neighbor. It puis (he liberty of par- i tie.- acemed of crime un esparto state- 1 ' menU without their knowledge at the ; mercy of perhaps a packed or an ig- noraiit jury, without an opportunity ! Ibr explanation or counter evidence by the detcuJant. A much better cys-leiii, cys-leiii, it seei'is lo us, U that of the French, with its publio examination of ' an accused criminal by a judge of ac- ctisalioD, who not only listens to the general evidence presented, but also , allows the accused to stale his own ease, which is a much more favorable method of eliciting the facts, and affords af-fords the accused an opportunity of showing his innocence if the case is plain. j The constitution of the United Stales, however, provides that no i person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime unless , on a presentment or indictment of a j grand jury, except in tima of war or public danger. This may prevent any hasty abolition of the system, as this constitutional declaration renders it peremptory upon the States. If anything any-thing favorable can be said of tho sys-i sys-i tern, it is that it sometimes prcTents excited and hasty action in disposing of criminals, where the community is aroused against thou). But public sentiment ia settling against grand juries and their existence is only a question of time. |