Show THE DISTRICT COURT tun tim present term or of the district Court for this third judicial J 1 district brict commenced on the ath bof dof of march and was adjourned on fhe the he same day until the alie nira first monday in april that being the gh oth day thereof a week from dvis lifo monday ri day next the judge himself says that there is ag a greab great reat reaf deal of business berbr before his court this thi term and that thab some flome of the cases are very important ones the term of court was known and it is reasonable to suppose tb that the part parties les ies litigant linigan t whose cas cases es vere wele on the docket or who expected their cases eases to ha be there tilene would be ready to 0 o answer to the same in some sort on the opening of court but the court was opened and closed a the sa same lne ine day mry and adjourned for four weeks a whole month why 13 this extraordinary dilatory action talt tait taken gen len what was vas the cause of this delay this thia interregnum of sour four weeks in the transaction of judicial business if there was so much important business before the court why was all of it postponed for a month NTo nobody body professes to know the reason the chief justice himself hints that etwas it was to give him time for the consideration of important cases already argued and stud submitted they must have llave been cases argued and submitted the previous term and he had had the time between the two terms for their consideration think of an english judge on assize business with ten or r twenty times the population looking to him for justice that mckean has holding court for a day and then tilen adjourning it for a mouth did chief justice cockburn do any such a thing in the complex unprecedented pre ce dented cemented and almost interminable tichborne case caso case the consideration of important cases submitted th then en cannot be accepted as a valid reason what other can there be the general opinion seems to be that the court coult was adjourned to give congress time to legislate specially for utah think again of an english judge adjourning court to give parliament time to legislate specially and proscriptively script ively for scotland or wale waie 9 for instance I 1 what an unlikely thing it may be that tho the chief justice will hold court when he reopens re opens opeus it on ylo Ifo monday liday week and consider cases on the docket he signifies that he shall hear equity cases for in them ho he can laet lat att latt t more independently d and do more largely as ho he p pleases ho he may also try to lesen hollisters Hol listers fearful roll of on tha the lager side of the docket why hotl not wo we know his honor is anxious to do his duty as a district judge for he tells us he is but the misfortune seems to be that he cannot get at it and when he thinks he is getting along along swimmingly bingly down comes cornea a U S supreme court ourt decision destroying all his work completely spoiling his lit leaving him in ina lna a perfect judicial labyrinth completely bewildered wil dered ignorant alike of where he is and of the whereabouts of the litigant public it may be thab that his honor has become sick of utah and of judicial udica business here and that congress alling failing to legislate to his satisfaction concerning utah lie he will continue to open erland and adjourn court taking the business thereof exceedingly easy until june when we believe his term of office expires of course he mayor may not be re appointed buthus but as he is considered by some people i not so poor a man as home other sopie popie p ople opie imagine it balsi quite possible that he will be glad to retire from the perplexities and inextricable embar rass ments of public office to private life and enjoy his ollum cum so far as the fortune he bas saved from his salary is concerned though it may be his opium sih siw so far as his judicial record in utah is concerned for it cannot be seriously urged by either his friends or his foes or the india fere berenb nt portion of the public that his official record here has been a very brilliant success in any regard or in any possible sense of the term |