| Show DIVIDING THE DISTRICT the council bill now before alio house committee on judiciary proposing to divide up the southern division of abo firs judicial district is as preposterous as it is absurd not one argument can be brou glit to favor the locating of the court at it lias been suggested by the promoters of the division scheme that a large proportion of ali cases docketed on alio court calendar arise from the counties south and adjacent to nephi this we emphatically deny and will take alie last calendar published for proof there are ciglio counties in this district utah emery wasatch Uin tali juab millard san pete and sevier the cases arising in the first four of these counties would of course be tried in provo cases arising in the last four were the district divided would bo tried at nephi we will admit this lucli far argument now let us take the figures gintic tintic is a portion of juab and utah counties but as parties in gintic tintic interested in litigation are strongly opposed to tho change and prefer provo arc can include that place in provos probabilities then we have the following showing utah 92 emery 9 wasatch Waa atch 10 uintah 2 gintic tintic 20 total cases for provo from the pres ent calendar for neobi juab 16 san peto 18 sevier 3 total cases 50 just think of it from a total of cases nephi at most can only claim 50 then there were 70 cases pending which apportioned to the counties makes the following showing 1 uintah 2 tin tic 7 total for provo out of 70 cases 55 the id remaining are classified huab 1 millard 3 san pete 8 sevier 3 besides this there are 75 cases for indictments have been found but which have not been served sixty of aliese arise from the four northern counties exclusive of gintic tintic are 40 in the commissioners court all from utah county consequently we have a total of cases of which number would be tried in provo even were the district divided the only eliat so much stress is laid on by parties advocating the division is eliat to hold court at nephi will bo to save thirty five miles travel for cases arising from alie southern cases by way of setting this immense argument we well present a few points first the expense of maintaining a separate courtroom grand and petit jury room witness rooms separate records safe additional clerk and numerous other et ceteras pertaining to court would be nearly double the ex pens eThis alone would offset alie amount saved in mileage I 1 second there would only be two terms of court held in eacle division per annum were the district divided which would the term in each division six months apart consequently we should have the same difficulty experienced now with the court alternating here and at ogden and the very thing we want to avoid the effect would ba ruinous on ivil litigation criminals alio could not furnish bail would be compelled to lie in jail await ing trial very often a period of six months as is the case now third nephi has not as good if adv at all accommodations in alie shape of hotels and other conveniences for court fourth the great bulk of civil litigation from alie southern counties comes from gintic tintic cases from that district are now pending judicial action involving millions of dollars witnesses in these cases to a great extent come from salt lake being experts etc provo is lucli more conveniently sita abed for this litigation than nephi would be parties from gintic tintic can come to this city the whole distance by rail going to nephi at least twenty miles would have to be made by team fifth if attorneys are procured from the north to attend alie litigation suits sa rising in the additional charges for expenses and additional time would undoubtedly offset the saving to civil litigants in transportation of witnesses in average cases it might be said generally that if court is to ba held in two places in the southern division of the first district nephi is not by any means the most suitable place manti is situated about in the centre of population of the four southern and is the only proper place if the change is to be made at all why not divide the northern end of this district logan can certainly make more reasonable claims than nephi can there are several advantages she can boast that nephi cannot she boo gut enough to supply the additional people that would come in at court time we can hardly say that much for nephi she has been incorporated nephi has been trying the last eight years to obtain a city charter but as yet has not succeeded now that she has got the three or four people that lived in juab to move into town slie might possibly secure these benefits if nephi wants to boom little chicago we are not in favor of it being done without reference to the convenience or saving of expense to litigants |
