Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-10 | Page 7 | Allow No Jury Trials

ALLOW NO JURY I TR L 1 Commissioners Are Aie Reorganizing the Judiciary t 4 NATIVE JUDGE JUDGES TO GO 4 PLACES WILL L BE BB FILD BY BYI I 4 Manila Feb 9 Commissioner Ide is completing the drat draft of tIle the civil chU law 1 w code It I abolishes all al distinction in the thel law l w of equity The The court practice wilt will willbe wi 1 be modeled somewhat on the New Zealand plan pl n All suits will wU be begun by a complaint n and ard defendants defendant will be required to answer The various forms of commencement of lawsuits in the commencement United States will wi be dispensed with wih There wilt will be no jury trials tria s but Com Corn Commissioner CommiSsioner missioner Wright who is preparing the criminal code is arranging so ao that judge or justice will wi summon summon advisers in criminal trials at his discretion There has ha been a vast vat amount of criticism crt criticism cism of the native judges of the Ma Manila lIa lIanna nila nna nib first firt instance courts court The new ne y code will wil recreate the courts court and and the commission will wi appoint new judges These unquestionably will wi be Amen Ameri Americans Aeri cans the first southern province I pacified will probably probably be the fourth in which a provincial government will willbe wil willbe be established Colonel Gardner of the Thirtieth regiment which is at Manila Maia on its way home from will wi be governor of the province The United States Stat commission desires d sires Colonel Gardner tip tb t accept and General Genen Mac MacArthur MacArthur a Arthur Art ur has lias ha intimated that tha the colonel coonel might be released for that that purpose When the commission is IB on its It way wy southward it is likely to touch at Lu Luce Lucena 8 cena ce and ad establish the gov government government