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Show Obtainiag Juries. Judge Z. Snow, whoso views on the law providing for the elect on of the Territorial Marshal were drawn out by the President's recommendations of legislation for Utah, and which appear ap-pear in the Herald this morning, might, with consistency, have said more on the subject. He might have added that President Grant had been nrifein formed as regards the status of legal a flairs in this" Territory; or that he had not been informed at all on the subject. He might have said that "ail proceedings, at law, are not practically abolished in the Territory, Terri-tory, "Jry the judicial decisions rendered ren-dered by some of the District judges. There is no trouble in obtaining juries jur-ies and holding jury trials in the First aud Se-cond Districts. Only in the Third District presided, over by Grant's special pet and mission jurist, Me-Ivean, Me-Ivean, can legal inries .not bejjbfainrd-only bejjbfainrd-only in this district are there no jury trials. If President Grant will give Utah a chief jusLicc who will interpret inter-pret u ml administer the laws as he finds tbcm; instead of directly to the opposite, there will bo no difficulty experienced in obtaining legal juries. Let us have such a chief justice, and there will lie no occasion for Congress to legislate specially for Utah. |