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Show JUVENILE COURT TROUBLES. It is unfortunate that the. Legislature Legisla-ture should have commilicd its usual fault, of carelessness and inattention in its dealings with the Juvenile Court of Salt Luke. Its slipshod lcgislntirtn on this subject two years before should have been a warning. 1.1 was evidently the intention of the Legislature to provide a clerk for tho .Tuvcnilo Court, but it appears that it. provided no way for paying that clerk. Tt was personal animosity ani-mosity on the part; of County Commissioner Commis-sioner Alackay that, discovered this fnult in the law, through which he could exorcise his hatred of lr. Irvine, who was appoinetd to be such clerk. But. of course, as the law provided no way for paying that clerk, INEr. Irvine was compollod to vacate the office. And iiow the court, is not able to do any business, because it cannot have a tlerk. Cases are reported as piled up on the desk of the judge with no way to handle them, because of Mackay's discovery, incited by his desire to air his hostility and political revenge, though he has never allowcU the unlawfulness un-lawfulness of tho act. to prevent his making an appropriation (hat he wanted (o make. Something more than a year ago. the city entered into an amicable arrangement arrange-ment with tho county, whereby quarters quar-ters were provided 'for tho .Juvenile Court temporarily; the city, of course, reserving the right to occupy for its own business purposes, these premises, at the expiration of a eertaiu time, in case they should be needed. The time has "expired, the need hns now arisen, and tho city is about to take possession of those quarters for use in- its official business. There would be no object".' either, in continuing the .Juvenile Court in the occupancy of those premises, as long as it is not able to do any business. busi-ness. The necessity for detention homes for the boys and girls is urged insistently upon the country officials. Those detention de-tention homes would be under the general gen-eral jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, and would Jic the appropriate places of refuge for the boys and girls taken in charge by this court. But it is hard to do even this part of the work without with-out having a clerk of record, so that the business can be forwarded officially and promptly. And so the County Commissioners, Com-missioners, themselves, appear to bo headed off from taking the action that is urgently needed, through Commissioner Commis-sioner Mackay's zeal in prosecuting his personal and private political revenge. The legislative carelessness in the drawing up aud enactment of laws has become proverbial. There i. very commonly, com-monly, a lack of exactness in the language lan-guage used- There is often apparently plausible and even good reason to construe con-strue the meaning ot1 a' statute in different dif-ferent ways. And there is a general looseness in the wording and drawing up of bills that is altogether deplorable. Prior to the session of the Legislature, The Tribune suggested that there ought to be provided, as other States have done, a sort of counselor to the Legislature, Legis-lature, who would have an office, "a suitable library on the enactment of laws, who would communicate with the different States, getting their routine of legislation and forms of bills, and proposals for new laws as shown in the draffs of measures submitted by different differ-ent members of the Legislature. This would provide a sort of hand-book on legislation, a guide to every necessary thing that the Legislature might be called upon to deal with, With such counsel properly equipped, as the Legislature Legis-lature itself should provide, and' of submission to such counsel of proposed laws before their final enactment, measures meas-ures could be put in exaeUnnd unmistakable unmis-takable forms of words, and the adjudication ad-judication of statutes in the different courts where those measures have been construed, would be definite; then every man would know precisely what every statute meant. Every State needs such' a head to help legislate through expert guidance: and Utah needs it more than almost any other Stale. A large number num-ber of States sec the necessity for, and the advantage in such a course to aid in the legislation and the proper drawing draw-ing up of statutes. Ami every Slalo hat: does so,- is well paid in so doing. Utah could amply afford such a help to the Legislature. In facl, without it, we do not sec how the Stale is going to get. along with-' the enactment of laws. The bills as submitted, and so many of the laws as passed, arc crude beyond even the most pessimistic expectations, and deplorable in their obscurity and contradictory terms. Examples come to light, frequently, as in this .Juvenile Court, case, and tho need of a legislative "steer" has become su evident that the demand for it cannot much longer be resisted. |