| Show COURTS FOR COUNTIES f I 1 IN izz another part of to days NEWS win wih bo be found a letter from chief justice mckean to the clerk of the third district court con eon concerning berning holding cour courts ts in and for folt counties it appears that the clerk invited I 1 his Is honors attention td the aw a and nii nil to the a atio nor bof the Salt sait bake Lake 1 county court app appropriating r means for the holding of court in aud and andhor for tills this county the clerk desiring ins instructions in the premises gem from llis ills his 1113 honor chief 3 justice ustice mckean in ianswer answer as everybody expected he would declines to hold hola a court la IA andhor P for tills county of course he gives his big reasons apons re The they yamin aae are in this letter to the clerk of his own J i district court which letter is aaa ian 1 a very lvery 1 petty pretty 1 bit of special pleading I 1 the judge c complains that thiis thesis the first time that lany lani any ans county jn the territory has done dolie such sueh I 1 a thing tiling that is nothing whatever ever to the tile purpose it is not relevant if the chief justice had done aone his duty and held district court a ac cording to law and dispatched business with reasonable prompt ness the county court might not nob have done anything of the kind now simply because there would have been no special necessity for it but knowing chab chat his honor had hada a constitutional indisposition to fo hald district court now that the vf U S supreme court has required in ir ed t him lim to hold it county court probably thought it would render him every everty possible assistance and hold out to him oyer eyer every y possible inducement to do his du duty ty and if possible take from orom film him every excuse fur not doing it it is doubtful if ever over before this district llad had such a wont work judge as liis ills honor is his great ernp complaint laina the complaint of tile the forty five the complaint om pAint of the twenty six law lawyers ers the complaint of the ring has been that court could not be held because of defective legislation after the engelbrecht and the snow decisions had settled the question about defective legislation the tiie county C court ourt might have expected that his honor ax would ouid hold his district court without any more hit bit hitching phing but aidt ho fc so the Judge opened ened cou COL court himself refusing the aid of U S or territorial officers and find closed it himself without given reason the county court then thought though Wt it time to act acl the judge now gives ferrea son why lie he suspended the present term of his district court because his head is full of important casos cases that hae have been submitted poor overworked fel oel fellow wo we are arc sorry very sorry for foi nim him with his cranium full of wool no we mean ponderous rulings and decisions pertaining to the district court lie he cannot possibly think of holding either that court or a court for a county ho he has too much work on his hands already that is the reason now no why he tie dont hold district courland Cour tand why lie he cant take advant advantage age dge of the liberal libed I 1 action of the eol eow county anty court and hold court forthe for the county dishonor his honor further says ays there aie three or four hundred cases on the calendar the tile more reason renson why by he lie should hold courts for the counties or any way lie he legally can and dispose of those cases he says the united states are a party in some of those cases that is nothing to the matter nobody asks him to try U S cases in a bourt for fot a county he lse says there are violations of the r revenue evenue laws what if there were 1 they tiey are U S cases and tilse cases lia lra havo have v 0 nothing to doi dolth dol do aith tb a court for the cott county rity rits oi or tile ilio terri bilal work in a district court TK courts for a county would ouid be for of fences against tho the territorial laws jaws committed in the county if there are none no no of those on the docket doa et of course there is no necessity fon for his honor holding court for a county but he does not give this as a reason for ills his refusal if tile the six kix days in each district term give insufficient time to dispose or afu ofu U S cases that is a matter for congress to act upon but we do not hear that congress has been informed of this impediment the judge probably never thought 0 of it before his honor says the term of the district court is pending of course it asand themay ciocon ho conducts things lie lic always will have a term pending from now till dooms day for one term will pend till another takes up the wondrous tale |
