Show ino huo ano LEGAL GRAND JURIES aurles atrit reader tho the general public have hav e been pretty thoroughly advised from a perusal of past issues of the news that no criminals have been brought to trial in the third ph judicial district of this territory for some soine years past pasi because its chief officer chief justice me mc Kean kein maintains that owing to the defective conditi condition ign of the laws of utah no grand jury cabbe ean can be legally ampa impanel n elied led thib this cry onge h As been persistently reiterated by the clique to which the gentleman we have just referred to belongs and it is well known that two bf his principal supporters who may be ber termed ills his 11 hight right and andt left bower 11 the states district attorney and that notorious aspirant for congressional lio ilo honors norg nors the redoubtable gen general eral cral are arb now now in washington lu wiro wire working for special congressional legislation in relation to the jury system of utah perhaps nothing could better illustrate the absolu absolute to lack of foundation for this charge and aud the utter shamelessness of who make it than a circumstance which occurred in the house of representatives presenta tives of lature on friday last on that ia day ay hon hen Z snow territorial attorney a bill for the services ofa of a grand jury of the district court held in beaver county at the may term of 1873 A motion was made to rener refer tile the bill to a committee mr T taylor ily ivy lor arose and asked for information how it was that a bill of that kind mas was presented to the legislature and whether it w was vas as for the services of a grand jury in a united states court held by a united states judge if it was lie he wished to know how such a circumstance curns cum tance stance coul dhave trans transpired plied piled I 1 I 1 yr if I 1 and tho the governor of the territory not know it inasmuch as his excellency celI cel lency ency then present in the housea day orloo previously in a message had bad stated that there bad been no legal grand in this territory for the last three years that it was wag impossible under the present laws to impanel one and reprimanding the legislature for not passing an emmi effi efficient clent elent jury law mr taylor said there seemed to bo be a conflict of opinion in regard to court matters mattZ rs notwithstanding ding that justice Bradley IS radley of the tile supreme court of the united states had stated in ills his decision in the case of X Z snow vs C 11 hempstead that there was not necessarily a conflict between the courts of this territory and those of the united states and that judge boreman associate justice of the supreme court of utah notwithstanding the action of tho the chief justice of that court in irk refusing to bring criminals murderers burglars highway robbers ac to j justice us because bea use uso a legal grand jury could not bo be impanel led under the law of the territory had held court and impanel led a grand jury for whose services this bal bill was presented mr taylor said that notwithstanding the striking conflict in the opinions of these parties and the fact that the governor in his veto message had taken tho the liberty to chastise the he legislature for their views in relation to the jury question the views of the legisla legislature ture turc and those of justice boreman seemed ei neli neLl to coincide and before that hlll bill was paid he was desirous to hear the house permitting from the gentleman pent rent leman ieman who presented it mr snow who was then present s whether th the jury ejury for whose services i payment was demanded was a legal one and whether it I 1 nas was MS a lawful court held by judge boreman at the time the services of f said jury were called into reque requisition mr air joseph F smith arose and said he would like to hear from mr snow but he would prefer that his lis his opinion should hould bo be given in in writing mr taylor did not object to this provided it was given but he be thought that it itt was wa proper in view of the peculiar position that this til ill is matter had assumed that the legislature should hear in in some form from the attorney general seeing that his name was appended to the bill and that he mr taylor said was their proper legal adviser leavo leave being r granted ranted mr snow arose and made a brief brier statement to the effect that a term of the tho brict court was held by judge borei man in may 1873 that a grand jury had been impanel led for said court several indictments found including one for murder ono one for adultery one for house louse breaking and one ong or more for larceny and that some if not all of said parties had I 1 been tried and ana one of them sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary tent lary iary mr taylor then asked if any appeal 1 in n said cases had been taken to the supreme court of the territory mr INV snow replied that so far as he lie was aware no such step in any of said cases had been taken up to the present time |