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Show WANTS TO PACK JURIES Tbe New York Sun quotes a Stiil-aon Stiil-aon letter in reference to the arreflt of Messrs. Burton and Clinton for tbe Morrisite affair, and the indictment of other Utah parties, adding editorially: edito-rially: None of tho men indicted are to be brought to trial until coDgress, by new loeislation, makes it po3siblo for the district dis-trict attorney to obtain n on -Mormon, and therefore convictiDg, juries. This idea has been thrown out recently re-cently in several papers, evidently inspired in-spired by Howard. By what right doea this district attorney assume lo dictate to congress legislation for1 Utah, or to refuse to bring to trial indicted persona because the jury law doea not suit him? If it be true that v Howard has determined to bring none of the men he baa caused to be indicted to trial until congress enables him to pack " non-Mormon, and therefore convicting, juries," the parties charged with crime will Drobably have the right to complain of an unwarrantable delay, as no congress con-gress ia likely to grant the power to any court to experiment upon the Uvea of criminals indicted for capital offenses with packed juries, which are opposed to the first principles of American law and justice. Let Howard remember the fate of Jud$e McKean, whose illegal tampering with the jury avstem brought down upon his head the condemnation of tho supreme court af the United States. |