| Show OFFICIAL claiz perversions OF wile naw LAW tue tim grandeury grund grand yury jury fury of the third ili district court bourt for the P present fet iet terin term has lias fias been partly organized again lna in a manner that will give criminals whose attorn attorneys eis choose to take ad advantage vanta santa e orthe of the error a chance to escape the penalties of the law they nave have violated it Is not so far according colaw to jaw it will bo be in one sense sensa a pa packed ak ad grand jury citizens whom the law does not dot exclude have leen been heen rejected from t the he pan lel lei it has been so maui mani manipulated that only ay a certain class clasa of persons shall act citizens fully qualified by law and who were drawn to verve nerve rye as grand jurors were wert fet vet tet aside because of ions they entertained those opinions were in lil relation to a matter of religion the tho grand jury if completed not being a properly constituted body will wiil be illegal and its indictments indictment may be ob ejected it to and their validity be rightly tested before eforo the higher courts and this may become 0 one ont t more loophole added to the many through which real criminals nals may escape their juso just lesert deserts here nere isa question which duly duty qualified citizen of tho the united states were required to answer under patu jo yon believe that it is right for tor a in nan man xo fo have more tal tai than n one phollia buying ing and ind wife at one oue time tinie or to lve ive in the practice of cohabitation tion mth with moru theli one woman an at the same pame time I 1 I 1 in n tile the marriage J relation the changes were rung on 04 this thle question in various forms in order to ex clu deall mormons cormons Mor mons from the panel tho the th test imposed was not to make sure that indictments might be found against persons accused of violating ug tiie tile anti antl polygamy laev on sufficient i evidence av being ad adduced but to shut out of the grand jury persons persona holding a certain religious belief i Gentle gentie gentlemen alen rien were rejected who would be just as ready to bring in an indictment awal awai against list a polygamist on proper evid evidence euce ence a as against awal awat any other oher aliened ylo yio violator lator lafor of law jw a but this was waa not the c point dei sired to be established 6 mormons cormons Mor mons were to be excluded from the grand jury because they were 1131 mormons cormons Mor armons mons and this was yas the thu mett method iod lod adopted to accomplish the word wor of leouise course thisina this thid Inq upon the bellet belief of citizens was cupi supposed ased to be conducted under itnyer color of law T tile lie lle excuse forit tor for it Is ls tile nith fifth section of uie ule edmunds law which provides that id frn any prosecution for or ba bigamy g polygamy or unlawful cohabitation under auy any statute of the united states it shall bo be sufficient cause of challe chalie challenge ngi to any person drawn or summoned ay a juryman or tirsa that he or she slie nas has been living in th the practice of bigamy polygamy or unlawful with more than one woman 0 or second that he believes it right for n mantu fautu jiahe more than one iving lying living and wife at the same time or to live ilse ive in the practice of cohabiting alth more mora iun imn tun one woman i this section Is evidently designed tal exclude from a trial jury juny aheu a pe pd son Is charged witti elther either of the statutory offender of fence described there lil ili any juror who believes that such acts are ake right ob observe herve berve the language of the law in any for bigamy poly polygamy gaIny or uti ull unlawful lawful cohabitation under any statute ut of the Irn itei states it shall be sufficient clent banau cause for challenge etc Is this A case ot of prosecution under the laws of the united states N no it Is the paneling em ot of a grand graild jury to find dind out out it if there are causes for prosecution for any crimes under the laws of the territory as well weli as of the united states A pros prosecution in n the district cauro curioni corm comm bences with an arl indictment N ho 0 indictment no mid and the he exclusion A a juror who believes it right rifat lor tor a man to live with more than one otic ife or to cohabit with w fth more than one woman Is ia only to appy it in a for etther either of those of df fences how then clin thisbe law lawe r fully brought 0 t bear upon grand grani jurors who are io t inquire into charged changed so as tos to see delf deif if there is cause for prosecution and who are to all kinds of cases coy coV covering orino erino all the crimes in lil the calendar both bow against the fhe united states and against territory the of utah it should be noticed that the trose prose cutia attorney folio wing the exam q j rile 0 of governor murray und and the utah commissioners has a assumed fo t do dd a 3 little le legislation bulb knib dehls own adeloid accounts fita ile he has anje acted tutu P his IsOe question sOR son the lile term in the marri marriaga aa relation 11 this I 1 a saving clause for foi corrupt antii mormons cormons 1 l but it has no authority of law Cohabit cohabiting ilig lnore than one womanly woman is the status 4 tory offense offence of nence fence and aud belief in this 19 une one of the grounds of challenge chaiten challen geto goto to a triai mit juror in the marriage relation does not appear in iti the statute tat utes its addition pen perverts erts the law bot both 14 in la language A q ua b and intent and its use luse can have halve for its object only onix the of the licentious it is this undue eagerness coshel to shei shelter a cert certain llin itin class and ind aexie ty to deprive the fhe mormons cormons Mor mons of their lawful and constitutional rights which block the wheel of justice and brin bring our federal courts into contempt T the he law mv his been overstepped over stepped and stretch ed and twisted out of its natural shape continually by those thosa whose d duty t it t is to admi administer berphe the law in aued our district uT strIct courts the object is wrong aud and failure is iq usually the results neither courts nor public prosecutors ought to have any animus against a class clasa or sec see 0 tion of the community i they should seek to 16 perform their duty against all kinds of criminals not select for tor their sped spee special tal tai efforts a certain of alleged offenders and exer exercise cise cige official powers to their special advantage the the new CUR chief jus tich tieh to the skies aso aff though his course in sustaining n the challenges of the prosecuting attorney was something new and original in utah this is all nonsense theace thin thing has been done before time timo and again it was just as lawless then thell a as s it itis Is now it was quite luite ds as much dl an error under jud judge ge hunter as it is under judge zang the latter so far is only f following ol lowing the terni Feral pernicious clous cious example of dlf flip th former but it remains to be seen what whal he will do under circumstanced that hie have arisen in consequence of mis lis ils mista mistake e these require serious chious consideration consider ilion thuy they are as follows i today to day there are art eleven elevon grand jura jur ors only and the box that contained nam Sito be drawn is exhausted yesterday berda so many jurors who were qualified by fl d by law to servy servo were unlawfully 11 that only ten tea were accepted I 1 lour our names only remained in ane nox box this th morning two of them were excused edone adonis one onis is absent from the territory abd andone one m was wag wa accepted an attachment has ble bre b een en issued for one moro more juror who I 1 v ho if he be passes muster will make twelve s ohp total rhe the tho law lav requires fifteen to constitute the grand jury the question ii ja where ard are the remaining three to come com efrom from by what kind of new hocus will the panel be completed wu wc must roust wait alq see possibly rossi bly the new chiedi justice will deor do or endorse something inal and then the or oran organ an of extrajudicial liia illa measures as well weli as of officious clous cious officials s wll wil perhaps lind find a real foundation for its praises tho tha greater rr eater eaten the erro error erron and the fouer fouler the wrong the aliw 10 louder j or aro are its laudations laudat ions lons provided the gmo Mor mons molls are aro the invidious of the departure from right |
