| Show J MATTERS I 1 r the omaha accald Ic mald madd has hag the following I 1 und under er da date to of washington april 24 the tho A r M F judiciary camm committee iette today to day decided to report as an amendment to rin mr Po poland lands bill a provision Gover ahk appoint a to make up gitry lists abst Q 1 these lists to be co compo sedof united states citizens least onos ones year jut jot jui the T territory priory and from this tills list lisl jurors lif alf drawn inkpen court also a bill authorizing each cir clr circuit ellit and district to appoint ati an official a halary salary y ot of dollars 1 per lay day jay 11 1 aria arid bili bill as recen recently tl V reported from the tile house judiciary chouse W CO qa ouse 90 0 ir jan fan a we the duty of selecting juries upon the U S judge his court I 1 and the U S marshal this amendment provides thattie do governor v arnor appoint a to makeup UP jury lists from W which 6 jurors a aru are re to be drawn by lot lot we vye eiju open cari court t t this might or might no not be a an n improvement me nt on t the pro of the util usi I 1 as reported rhe fhe 1 il 11 17 b bill g gives 1 1 01 ve the tle choosing closing of the jub fun iri irl sti into t wo lia ads ethe judge and the karsnal mar drue true ru ethe the clerk of tl the e court anak ing th three re persons bud but the elie I ili nert arlion of u oles oies em cle cie k K is a inere luere nere matter it to nothing the thu cherkas elerk clerk is the creature of the judge boing being appointed and aud removable by him and t therefore tid hid brefare could hardly be ex peu pau pecked ao choose any other jury than a lichas buchas would be in accordance me the bis his official creat the judge then and thu the marshal marshai would be the ther two persons who would decide who should mould constitutes constitute sti tute utes athe ithe ane jury two tv individuals la neither neit nelt lier iler of them thein chosen by the people neither of the ibe them maccen acceptable table tabie to toi the people as is tho two case in this district but both of them known to entertain virulent prejudices against the majority of thio thie people and therefore looked upon in the light enemies these two men are to choose chone the juries to try th thil e P D people ople opie borsuch or sueh such of them as might udd ude so BO unfortunate as to be arraigned before the Abe court what sorl sort of eutiva might bo be expected from swe awe bou hou out oui and su such sueh ch jurden judien they voula jo bil bli business sl no douht doubt they m might 1 ight indeed rush business ih through rough it tho lh courts cour bs att apt what kind of baine bu lne ine would quid jt it be and in iki what lafiner lmh ner ncr avoult it be done donet we forbear to mink pink anlin an inowe sw e i r jut just now there never sleven vm be a practical anaw answer i e i furnished to those questions furill further cpr je ference fe menco renco 60 to the marshai marshal as aa be is not an inviting 01 character to contemplate anny any way we may way say aay of the judge that as murmon things are now a trice mur ditmor mornion mormon nh hh honor refuses to natural ise and ou that account solely if it were in his hig power there 18 analogically every reason to apprehend that ho he would disfranchise every naturalized and every native american 11 mormon solely for the very same samo reason yet this poland roland bill proposes to put into the hands of this most proscriptive prescriptive judge this most pro prescriptive scrIp tite lite power of selecting jurors what hat is the inevitable inference plainly that his would select in every instance those who are not 61 mormon 11 those chose who are enemies to the mormons cormons Mor mons to sit as juries upon those who wilo are nor cormons mormons Mor mons 11 any one who wiio Is ia acquainted with the bitter prejudices of hla hib honor and of many of the non c mormons cormons Mor mons against the nulo morl mor ILIO 1711 1 mons mona would be perfectly sat satisfied istler t hat that ate arraignment of a mormon before such a court and such a jury would be buthe bethe the tho certain prelude and therefore tantamount to his conviction and sentence every person charged with crime is entitled to be bb tried before a jury of his peers not of his known enemies purposely chosen because they are such the stu studious exclusion of any class of fram the tho jury box arid and arld especially when one of that identical class or of religionists waon was way on trial would be such sueh a palpable violation of the spirit ot of the constitution as to well i cause a tremor of apprehension to creep cheep over every honorable citizen laio salo as to tho the influence of such sueh a dangerous precedent to edict enact a aw which would make such sueh a proscriptive choice of prejudiced and inimical jurors not only probable but morally certain would be almost if not q quite U as palpable ti a violation of th the spirit of the constitution these points the new york herald herard by no means very friendly to the cormons mormons Mor mons appears appears to see pretty early clearly hs as indicated in the following pasee pasco 0 from that paper of bf april 22 I 1 CONGRESS CONG RESS A ay if TUG THE molt MOIl MONS NS ethe the J judiciary elary clary committee Committe 6 haa hav re ported a bill to abolish the dual courts existing in utah and place the whole judicial authority in the united tates states 85 ml court dourt where whine it ought to be A serious step I 1 is 8 the proposed exclusion or of Io t grom from juries this looks very like impost imposing religious I 1 disabilities and if congress has the power to impose dis disabilities upon he be it abt tiie tile samme bamme riah right c t to rl any other oknox obnoxious dds sect bucl punishment M uch exercises of power are dangerous pree precedents events ind not to be lightly attempted if mormon jurors fall fail in their duty lot the tile la law w tu nish them but a law liw denying th them em equal rights with other citizens is ia a measure 0 proscription not in accord inee inge with the diberal liberal spirit of thi this centeny centen y we have no spice space now to notice the dual court question so go we hasten to say a word upon the proposed pos i ed amendment giving the governor the power to appoint commissioners miss missioners loners ners to choose lists from vach jurors are to be drawn this amendment gives one owe mau man not the choice of the people bu but t by mans mahs of them supposed ed to be to them the power to choose persons wiio who shall sa say bay y who shall be eligible to become j jurors brors the present governor has not acted in a manner to convince the people that he would choose as such com eom mi persons person as the peo plo pio would have confidence in though the final particular choice from this primary amary general choice by the commissioners would be made in court we are not yet informed whom by liy the great objection to both these provisions aa w regards the judge and marshal or the gubernat gubernatorial mial commission is that it puts out of the bands hands of the people or their representatives in ia any way all choice and abid voice 0 leg idd in the matter and it in many instances the juries so chosen would work inimically to the inhere interests ats of the people for it hardly be expected to be otherwise |
