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Show Curtailin Expenses. Io a circular to the district attorneys attor-neys and marshals of the Uuitrd Stales urging the excrcine of executive execu-tive economy in the expenses of the courts, Attorney General Davena says: "It must be clearly and distinctly understood that for the last twe months of the fiscal year the payment pay-ment of fees of the district attorneys, marshals and th United States commissioners, com-missioners, aa well aa the salaries to the assistants to the district attorneys, will depend entirely upon the passage of a deficiency bill at an extra session ot congress, which it is expected will he called by the president, aud that such appropriation, and its amount, is entirely in the discretion of congress. con-gress. No portion of these salaries, fees and expenses of witnesses before commissioners and courts cau be paid out oi an appropriation tor the nfxli fiscal year commencing July 1, 1S77. To ihe end that these expenses of courts m iy hi1 brought down as low as possible, I hfrehy direct Dial in calhnj witness thosa on'y should be served with process, whoue testimony testi-mony is eesentirtl lo provo tho cttse wliiiOi nuu'. he tried; that they are to he detained for such time only ta tliuir presence shall ho absolutely required; re-quired; that you will set for tri.il noun hut important cases those only i which the due administration of jus lice and tho interests of the government govern-ment require to he tried; that you respectfully urge upon the court Ihe dismissal of the petit juries as soon as their presence can be dispensed with, and that you urge upou the grand jurors short sessions. You will select very few of any class of cases for trial tliOso only which are beat supported by evidence, and which clearly muEt be tried. Other cases should be allowed al-lowed In lie over, the parties not being discharged. Aa far as lies in your power, the trials before tho United Slates commissioners must be watched and their expenses curtailed. |