Show federal courts ju iiii cutali after nine line years experience of tb the e working of their code of laws lairs and after its being over 01 er and often magnified as a great monument of mormon w wisdom iscom it was deemed necessary at the late session of the legislature to alter v very cry essentially its provisions as to jrie over this contrivance has been thrown w n a i ery cry thin veil and the trick is is transparent As this legislation runs the county court is 13 to select fifty men eligible to serve sen e as jurors v w hose names are to be placed in in the custody of the clerk who upon lenire issued is to draw twenty four names respectively for grand and petit jurors A years constant residence ownership of taxable property and payment of taxes is made a necessary qualification for any juror our readers remember what jedediah 11 grant said about the effect of the brief explanations of brigham young in producing unanimity in in the jury box bos and will readily perceive what a steady eye this I 1 little ittle arrangement has to the preservation pres of ecclesiastical influence by giving the power to exclude from jury service every body w who 0 is not subject to those explanations which have such talismanic effect in in reducing producing unanimity in the panel what an easy method 1 this alteration of the law presents of div giving ing beforehand before hand such explanations as will effectually prevent the faithful from sucking in in the dirt and filth of gentile courts court ostensibly courts in in utah if brigham by i virtue girtue of the secret oath bound league and mysteries ms tanes of mormonism morris im claims and exercises the right to instruct jurors w what hat to do surely this county coult is equally pliant to his purposes but bat we would like to know where this county court sprang from A court is defined to be a place vicere K here justice 13 judicially administered and upon examining the act creating this court we find an attempt to invest it with v ith considerable judicial power it adjudicates on roads controls timber and water privileges grants mill sites ac SC now kow the organic act which is is the supreme law here provides that the judicial power of said territory shall be vested in in a supreme court district courts probate courts and in justices injustices of the peace the establishment of this court therefore is is a plain vio violation of that organic act and a gross assumption of power dero derogatory atory to the dignity and authority of Cor gress it has haa been suddenly discovered too that a departure from the laws of all the states B m ith whose codes codea we ne are familiar was n as necessary in utah and a years eara pre previous ios uninterrupted residence ac is now low required to male a competent juror nine years experience peri ence hast just shed this light on the legislative gisla tive mind this is is a part also of the scheme to open up a readier way for those explanations upon which jeddy placed such reliance all these laws however will come up for the consideration of the federal judges for decision upon their effect and validity for happ ilythe hold bold chec cheal kupon upon legislation based upon a usurpation of legislative pow power er it may turn out that the laws lavis of the united states have haie been extended over this territory wherever applicable and that the legislature may be confined to authorized legislation supplemental to 0 instead of in derogation of them theia the ne time has passed and will never return m when hen the united states courts can be broken up and let loose on them because the judges may feel it tb their air duty to decide against the validity of or a territorial law thoughtless and superficial men there doubtless are who ian langh li and snigger over ov er these which have been thrown in the way ay of federal authority ili this territory but the time may come when they will laugh out of theother the other corner of the mouth are the laws of the united states and its officers respected here as good loyal people ought to respect their authority was the decision of the judges and of governor cumming respected in in rea relation tion to the lawful seat of government did not 09 til legislature I meet in the social hau half in this city cottem i ny with the meeting g at villmore lid id they not t adjourn to meet in in this the next session thus doggedly and insisting upon their views and construction of the law of the case as though the inspiration of god himself they came by but still more under counsel the mormon portion of the grand jury met last night i e understand in in the social hall to reverse judge Sin clairs order res respecting pectin the pay of the jurors for atten attendance daRce on the OK late district court and thus to h his hig record books could impudence go fur ther ier we understand tand also that a learned judge lately from australia has offered to rip the tiling thing up for twenty five sie dollars a head admirable judge great fountain of legal light try it at washington if you 5 ou dare we need not go on 01 with instances of tha want of respect which seems to pervade the acts 0 of f the leaders here to the entea states officers they the disregard their acts indulge in foulmouthed foul mouthed abuse of them in in the legislature and secretly hate and d despise the comm commissions fissions they bear now biow this whole altah affair must have hav e an end A day of reckoning g will come when all pacific measures shall have ha e been exhausted and omissions oms fissions Is errors an and d evident imperfections pe sections lir air the law ai aided by low cunning and intrigue shall demonstrate the LOI hol low heartedness of the reci recipients rients of a territorial government co gaess will deal out stern justice and cut loathsome ulcer 11 legislative usurpation will then be powerless judges will bill no longer be insulted and annoyed anno ed but the rattle of the drum may be heard beard instead of legislative abuse I 1 and bayonets one Is be more potent than those I 1 explanations v which aich ignore bills of indict indictment mert for fora a cold blooded murder committed on soul sav ing I 1 P principles |