Show E edito D I 1 T 0 R RIALS IAL lal S MORE JUDGES PROPOSED A washington paper has the following lowin 0 after the tile congressional recess it is probable that both the tile senate und and the I imse committees on judicial y will take tako up for consideration the recommendation of the president for an increase in the number or of united states circuit judges and the propriety of an increase in the supreme court the business of the supreme court has increased so s largely of late years that it is held to be impossible for the court with its present membership and under its present system to keep up there are cases on the locket docket which have been there for two years As one means towards lightening tile the labors of the supreme court it has been proposed that the class of cases shieh can be appealed from tho the state courts shall le lle narrowed down very considerably another plan to expedite the Ni business siness and which lias has been received with much favor especially among republicans is to increase the number of members of the supreme court from nine 6 t fourteen and to apportion the bi business siness among them thus a certain number of justices should sit in im patent cases a certain number in admiralty cases and so on and thew the whole hole hoie court should sit together in hear hearing lug ing and determining constitutional questions there may be truth in the statement ln ant that the supreme court of the united states is two years in arrears with its work and that an increase in the number of judges is advisable as well as some other changes being requisite yet the propositions offered above in this connection should not be adopted hastily those propositions we may arran arrange geas as follows 1 to reduce the number or of pea lable cases 2 to divide the general business aggregating renting reat the judges upon constitutional questions 3 to increase the number of judges judg eg in regard to reducing the number or classes of cases to the IT S supreme court this if done should be done with great deliberation and judgment because there may be many instances 3 as in utah where apparently the fear of a reversal of judgment in that court is the only check upon much unjust procedure As to the second proposition if it would really expedite the satisfactory conduct of business before the court which it probably would there could be no very serious objection to it the third proposition is of a different nature and it is the most serious of allas alias if adopt edit might very materially affect the decisions of the entire court and particular ly jy in constitutional matters now there are nine judges and it is proposed to create five more or upwards of fifty per cent this is a remarkable increase to be made all at once and it really would look uspicio auspicious us it would look as if the party in power wished to fix the complexion of the supreme court to suit sult the party coragene for a generation to come this would not be fair it would be ing 1119 dictatorial the Republic arl ari party has already added r several members to the supreme courland Cour tand of course all republicans if now five more were added that would make a heavy majority of the whole bhole court appointed by the present party and th the eapp appointments ointments would be in all pr probability ob ability more or less partisan action of this kind and especially on so ex extensive 1 a scale could not be regarded otherwise by the opponents of the be lle publican party than as a last bold stroke of declining power to perpetuate itself at the expense of the public welfare though ostensibly to further the public good if an increase of the number of judges be really necessary it would look much less like a forced lease of party power for it to be done gradually than all at once A decent respect to the op opinions Anions ot mankind and a proper regard to the welfare of the country would suggest that the increase if any be small during the same presidential term say one or at most two judges if if a larger increase be resolved upon and carried into effect it can hardly have any other ap pear bearance pe arance anice at best to an sed mind than that of a very equivocal partisan proceeding and to probably half the citizens in the union it would give an ill III odor the odor of partisan partiality to the name of the supreme court of the united states the last body in the whole union to whom anything of that kind should attach in the slightest possible degree GOOD TIMES TIDIES AND prosperity LAST beir year bad times were very general inthe in the united states but they were not universal omaha claims to bo be one of the most fortunate places in the country according to the tho omaha merald herald that city never neve rhada had a more prosperous year than 1874 which wo are very glad to learn the herald of dec 31 says the year which closes today has been the most prosperous that omaha has ever known this is proven both by the splendid and unrivalled building record of the year and st still ill lii more by the evidences of the growing commercial importance of the city omaha did not succumb to the panic of last year which threw a million of men out of employment at the east ea stand and this year her strength as a commercial commercial city has been scarcely tried by the locust plague which has been such a severe scourge to the limited district of the state that was visited by it real estate in this city was never in in so good standing as it is today to day the feverish excitement of the flush times attending the construction of the union pacific has passed away and steady and permanent values have supplanted fluctuating fancy figures the real estate of the city N assessed for purposes of taxation at and the appraisal is in most cases far below its real worth this estimate does not include railroad property the herald enumerates buildings completed in that city the past year at an expense of upwards of three quarters of a million dollars this is a very satisfactory exhibit for omaha and one that she may well r rejoice ej oice olce over another part of the country which has enjoyed the smiles of fortune to an unwonted degree 7 during 1874 is california where the past year has been ono one of great prosperity according 0 to the papers published there the oakland transcript of january I 1 says the past year has been a prosperous one for california plenty abounds in all her borders money is plenty her population has increased half a hundred thousand her mines have yielded abundantly the earth has been liberal to the husbandman and the cattle upon a thousand hills have waxed fat no plague pestilence or famine no unusual disturbance of the eie ele elements ments meats 1 no ito floods or devastating fires have afflicted the state nature seems to have smiled benignly lyubon upon our people the past year in no one year since since sinco california was admitted into the union has there been such a gener general al stride of improvements in this state both in wealth and population an and substantial improvements take oakland and san francisco franc Frani iseo isco as a sample in the former city nearly one thousand new buildings has been erected many of them pala paia palatial hial lial residences in san francisco the erection of buildings have been of a class elass superior to any that have llave been erected for years while other improvements ave kept pace with building the advance in real estate luring the year has been of a substantial and permanent character new towns have sprung into existence and old towns have felt the life blood of universal progression substantial homes are taking the place of ric ketty uncouth habitations and the people are turning their attention to the comforts comfort of life making the wilderness to blossom as the rose the prosperity of oakland has been aeeti unprecedented no ho town torn or city in the united states has increased in population and wealth in as aa great a ratio as this taking tho the past year as a basis the increase for the decade will ge be over two hundred and fifty per cent the future ia ls certainly promising for this city the future of california is indeed bright with a climate un equalled equal led by that of any country on the face oy 0 f the gobe globe with a rich fertile soil producing every known cereal and fruit on the face of the globe with mines of gold silver copper iron and every other othen metal metai known to the world with a live energetic go people wealth will sit in our gates and prosperity cover us as with a mantle of light glorious california queen of the sunset at once the occident and the orient blest above all lands here if anywhere on gods footstool man should be happy and content this is a promising view of the present and nud future of the calef chief pacific state which we trust will be realized utah cannot make so cheering an exhibit of progress and prosperity tile the past year as omaha and california do still this territory has not suffered ered so much from ahe the prevailing depression as many places in the states east have and the prospects for her increased prosperity this year and the years immediately succeeding are very cheering which cheering prospects would be enormously enhanced if she could get rid iid of the carpet who sit as an incubus upon her prosperity and operate to hinder many enterprises of great pith and moment to the of the community comparative criminality or OF SALT LAKE AND NEW YORK 01 CITIES TIEi tieh tiie tire statistics published in the HEWS N ema wms on monday show the appearances I 1 of criminals before the city authorities for 1874 to be 1160 or at the rat rate of about one in twenty two and a third of the population estimating it at according to the annual report of the board of police justices of new york city the summary of crimes shows that prisoners were arraigned in that city last year which is at the rate of about one in eleven and a half of the population allowing it to be that makes new york twice as wicked as salt lake city notwithstanding all the vicious carpet here and the crowd of bilks beats and bummers by whom they are attended and by whom the criminal ranks of this city are mainly filled thus demonstrating that the mass of our citizens are composed of excellent material and are remarkably peaceable and law abiding 0 0 C TWO SHINING 0 LIGHTS THEM THEIR LUSTRE PALES alarmingly to only one of all the great men that this country has produced has been ungrudgingly r awarded the honor of being first in war first in in peace and first in the hearts of his hla countrymen several others have stood in the front rank in one or other of these particulars but only one led gedly in all to the pre present cent incumbent of the presidential chair has been awarded the distinction of being first in war but there his high distinction appears to end he can hardly have proved himself first in peace or first in the hearts of his countrymen he might have so appeared at one time biale after the close of the war but the present thoughts of the public seem to be by no means so favorable to him washington sustained the exalted distinction awarded him during two wo presidential terms and to the day of his death it is still accorded him but then washington was both a soldier and a gentleman he heald did aid not outlive his fame either for his acts of war or his acts of peace on the contrary his auie aule f 1 outlived him and deathless is ia his glory such is not likely to bo be the case with president preside nt grant he was undoubtedly successful in the war to whatever causes that success may be fairly attributed and he received the gratitude and the votes of his hla countrymen on that accounts his great popularity originally was founded exclusively clu upon his war record ari and d his hla later popularity was based partly upon his war record and partly upon his appointive power it is very doubtful whether he would be sufficiently popular today to day to secure a majority 0 the national or i the electoral college votes one thing is certain that his second term has greatly decreased his popularity ul and the recent events in the south have added largely to that decrease if he had declined his second election he would have reta retained lied hied his popularity as to both war and peace for then it was at its acme or at least it had not materially teri ally declined but it has been surely declining since and the signs are ominous of a still further decline to such an extent that an immediate third term will be impossible to him bythe by the voice of the p people popie ople opie the november elections foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed that and the louisiana policy thickens and blackens that foreshadowing shadowing fore his hla national reputation now noir is on the down grade similar things may be said in a degree of general sheridan he ca came me out of the war with a brilliant an t reputation and if not first he was still very high in the popular regard but his late unwise course at new orleans has proved that his popularity is on the de decline clin e particularly ticul arly as to times of peace each and the spirit and methods of civil government his unfortunate dispatches to washington have incensed the public bile I 1 mind infald and have earned for NM him the tho nickname e of Bandit till sheridan which in all probability will attach to him to the end of his eife it is really unfortunate to them that these two great men great I 1 in 13 their specialties should be led or impelled impeded to tarn tain ish lah et fair fame after having achieved such brilliant reputations as they did in the war but their subsequent course is an indubitable proof that a man may be very great in one thing yel yet not in all ali that it by no means follows that a man who 1 is 1 a great in the he arts of war is necessarily great in in the arts of peace but on the contrary that a man may stand on the highest pinnacle of distinction in one department of public activity yet may be actually without any intrinsic fitness for public prominence in another and very different department SOME OF THE RESULTS tim tin famous tichborne trial by law expenses not only impaired the value of or the tichborne estate probably efty per cent and im aured the claimant in durance vile with oakum picking for his occupation but proved the ruin of his counsel dr kenealy who became sa so incensed at the course the trial took that he be fell to abusing the judges his brother counsel etc until the tile bar threw him out of its ita ranks the following paragraphs concerning him will be read with interest the althe unfortunate dr kenealy disappointed and heartbroken heart boken by the loss of the tichborne case started a newspaper called the engh ien jen gishman the object of shiell which appears to have been to hold hoid up to eternal infamy the judges lawyers witnesses every one in that memorable trial who had at anytime any time stood in his way the fate he invited has quickly overtaken him he was wall first degraded from the court to which he belonged and now he has been declared to be unfit to be longer a member of the english bar ana his name to le be eras erased id from the roll it is a sentence of complete social degradation as well as professional disgrace the london times speaks of him as a distinguished scholar an accomplished linguista graceful writer of english verse and holding his position at the bar until the orton trial by genuine merit that was too great t trial for him and his conduct then and after wards has left him no claim for sympathy ry jy jy 11 missouri democrat i dr kenealy the tichborne claimants lawyer furnishes a lively illustration of how much faster a man can slide down hill than he can climb up hels he Is the same bame kenealy we believe who was the friend of the witty and scholarly maginn and as a young man gave great promise of literary ability after a |