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Show pi.ai.x ii:i ia 1: or i.vw. Tho Clerk ol'Ilir ItiNlricl Court liromirlN the iut iinnt ion ol (he Court. 11ml SI ii r ul orj "revision. And tvill Xot Imi n Venire Tor 11 Cirunil Jnr.i 11s required by I.I1H. Yc-tcnlay morning, in the ThinI District Court, I lie Territorial Attorney General asked for an onlor to the Clerk of the Court that 11 venire issue for a Grand Jury. The action of the Court on the request wilt he Coum in our report of Court Proceedings. His honor held that the statute was ju-t as binding nn the clerk to iS-ue a venire for a Grand j Jury as ;i Polit .buy. Lest there should be any doubt 011 tho matter, we quote tho language of section 2, page 12b Statutes of I'l.ih. Sisinn of Legislative Assembly li r 170 : When a Di.-tri. I Court i In bo held, whether for a I list : i- t or ihr a ( 'ounly, the clerk of said . oiut - at loa'st thirtv days pri'vioiirt to the time of holding saiil eoui l, k-ue a writ to the Territorial Marshal, if said court is to be hoiden for a Di.-lri' t, or lo the Sherill of the Coiintv in which said court is to he heM. if' said court is to he held for a County, speoilyiug the time and place of holding said court, requiring him to summon eighteen eligible men to serve as grand jurors, and eighteen eligible men to serve as petit jurors. Yesterday afternoon a Iti:n w.n re porter proceeded to the District Clerk's ollice to ascertain il'lhe venire had issued or would - issue yestenlay, Mr. Nomina n", the clerk, was not in, but his deputy, Ivlwiu IJ. McKean, son to Chief Justice McKean, v;us close by, and in reply to our reporter informed him that Mr. Nounnan had said he wa-s not going lo issue a venire unless Judge Emerson ordered him to do so, and as the onlor had not been made he would not issue ihc venire. Judge Emerson gave the construction of the statute ; that statute stat-ute is mandatory, and makes it obligatory upon the clerk to issue the venire, and contains no provision requiring re-quiring the CourCto issue any onlor to the clerk for a venire. Mr. Noun-nan, Noun-nan, aping the style of the "mission jurist" who has wilfully obstructed the course of justice here since his appointment, disregards the Court, defies the law, and mocks the decision of the Supreme Court of the United Suites with the view, it is lo be presumed, pre-sumed, of courting favor with the man to whom he owes his appointment, appoint-ment, and to whose son, as a deputy, if report speaks truly, he has to turn over one-half the emoluments nf the ollice. We would like to ask, here, if Chief Justice McKean did not, last August, write prdei' furbidding Mr. Waker, the Ihen clerk, to issue a venire for a Grand Jury? And if that little document was not (iiihse-. uently alishieted from tho clerk's ollice? We are prepared to furnish the name of a prominent member of the Bar, who stands in excellent reputation re-putation in Judge McKean's court, who publicly said he was in a position to prove this. These people do not shrink in their boldness in wrong doing. Tmnipling right mid justice under flint, they dis-regai-d ail law, and set aside even the soemlng respect for it which ordinary decency demands. And to accomplish accom-plish a "missionary" object, the people peo-ple must be wronged, prisoners be held in jail without hope of trial, in defiance of the supreme law of the land, and criminals go unwhiptof justice. jus-tice. ; There is a way to reach these gentlemen unless they preserve at least the semblance of a regard for law; and we propose to keep their names before the country in such a plain manner that a roused and indignant in-dignant people, will demand a full investigation in-vestigation and cxposui't) of then-criminal then-criminal and lawless course. |