Show A QUARTETTE committees RAVINGS UNDER the provisions 0 of f the the bill grand j julles juries axles in utah are empowered I 1 to inspect prisons and public records taia thiis la a provision against which we vie have heard no objection hrom from any quarter mien iier but latterly a custom has been established of appointing committees to do the work which the law requires of the body it is a question not yet authoritatively decided who aber a grand jury required bylaw to perform certain duties can dele gate the powers bestowed on the whole panel to a part of their antim number it ia 18 argued that if a committee corn mi t can inspect prisons and public records a committee can also find an indictment we do net view it exactly in that light because the law expressly stat cahow r many pan af pf a grand jury joust be agreed in order to frame an indictment st sti I 1 there are reasons on the side at aide e of f those who maintain that thao ole oie grand jury should be present during th the tho a inspections required bylaw by law but whatever ver opinions mikae may be entertained ion on that point there can be no question in any thoughtful mind that if a committee can legally make the inspection the grandeury gran grand djury jury or at least a majority of lot its members must accept and endorse the report of sueh euch comin it tee in order to make it valid and official A report of a committee forming only a minority ota eta of a grand jury is not a report of that biddy jaddy it can prop properly erlys therefore bave have no standing dlug ding in court the committee should report to the grand faa fai iury jury ry t hat that body ody through its foreman folgman should report to the court however we have a singular genius on the bench ot of the judicial district at the present lime and on saturday last 11 he gravely accepted a report from a of we the grand j jury uy which had bad just closed is session a placed it on file as an official document this is another piece of stupidity city added to the already crowded list of ners lers blunders rhe the committee referred to consisted on of jour four persons their report is in no sense the report of or the tho grand jury A majority of its members dissented from the document altogether firstly because it is principally a misstatement ent of fact second secondly ly because it is mainly a repetition of gossip without real evidence to su sustain stalla stalia it and thirdly because it contains suggestions rei rel re i commendations and strictures entirely out of the province of a grand jury to make makey much less of acom committee of their hu number niber it has never been accepted by the grand jury and is therefore unofficial in addition to being in many respects untrue this document is now being foisted upon the public as the report of the grand jury of the ThIrd Dis i brict court for the february term terni hid and is to be published as such in sections the title is a misnomer the paper Is nothing adre than a mess of gossip of a slanderous nature cooked up by four persons who have shown as great a lack oi of good sense bense in this proceeding as of a desire to misrepresent facts in im order to obtain a little cheap notoriety their names are archie arehie gown 3 useph swe Sw well at V zulmer and N 0 boatman the first part of their little ro roi 1 1 i mance is an attack on certain jus juse 4 tices cices of the peace who are accused odthe of the terrible crimes of punishing offenders in cases of assault and battery aud and petit larceny instead of committing them for trial in the district court it is evident from the phraseology employed in this arraignment that the quartette committee have been beed listening to the yarns of persons who have hate grievances against these justices such buch individuals may be found in al almost every precinct where the magis magist 1 is active in administering the law jaw against its violators now ii it is pretty well known that until the passage of the penal code a little more than two years ago the justices of tha the peace peace had juris diction of those cases named in int the report of the quartette and that it was only through an interpolation tio of in the act in re relation littion to justices of the peace passed at the same time and which the legislature hurriedly accepted in order ithe bill from fron veto that the justices were unintentionally tio nally deprived of the power ta punish tho the simplest case of petit larceny or of dommon common assault the combined action of the two laws in this respect was not understood or not admitted until a ruling of t ho the district court was obtained therefore until that ruling the justices continued to exercise the powers they had wielded for years and this power has haa been restored to 0 them by act of the assembly at its latest session now what is the reason for all this pother and fustian these terrible J have actually imposed small nines flies for petty of fences under the impression that they were exercising the legitimate functions of their office and they are now berated by the quartette who request that some bome some action may be taken to punish them for their misdeeds and this is the kind hind of document that judge schaeffer receives and places on file in the third district courtl an unofficial worthless ebullition of paltry sl spleen ileen the object of which isalo ito sto make a sensation stir up stil strife f anu n a bring into brief prominence the names of four obscure persons who are anxious tor lor fame A i ei it i wonderful P promised r am leeda as they proceed with the further th chapters apters of their novelette tej tei if the first i a sample bampie 0 o f what is to ito follow i they will only succeed dh making C themselves a laughing stock for the public but it should be distinctly understood that the so called report rep ortia Is invalid and is dapo 0 ano more force torce orce and effect than the prattle prattie of four small witted 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