| Show THE ATTACK ON THE GOVERNOR it le is a matter of history that as early gm july 21 1890 governor thomas wrote to the judiciary committee of the senate urging the passage of 0 a bill granting nig two additional judges to utah in his hia letter he be set forth the need ned of more judges and suggested that the law should authorize toe the legislative assembly to create two add additional districts this he said was necessary to relieve the salt lake and ogden districts and would grant relief to the other districts the governor further said eaid that in his opinion six judges were needed deeded to meet the public demands the matter was fully discussed L in the public prest at the time the s bar so association of salt lake city interested itself in the matter t and prepared the d draft raft of a f bill which embraced other sub r ejects than the granting of ad judges it is probable that thai but for sucu huou complication the relief aeu lur lor would have been granted the attempt to saddle the blame lor for the A district la dilemma upon governor thomas in the light of all the fact would avem to be inspired by ignorance or malice perhaps both in some was oases not only has lie he bs be esou his official and personal per influence to enlarge the tiu preme bouch bench here bore but be nun nas recently been deprived 01 the power to assign J judges b bj act ci of congress the act aci providing tor or the creation orea tiou of a fourth district matt id bait approved february 11 1892 says among other things bilings that as soon an ali may bu be alter after the execution of the power conferred by section one of this sat the supreme court of said territory dakil assign quo one judge to each of ow dis trios aud and shall ahall have power trum time lime to time to change such as olg Igo ment ament aud and to provide tur fur co casion of uis disability ability or absence in such buch oases case according 10 toe practice now authorized iced by law 11 II I it is IB thus thua shown that for more then than a year he has hag had aoth ifie to do with the matter at all it is JB further charged that he was responsible to a great extent if not wholly lor for the loose aud and negligent manner aiji i a which the business of that dotrice tans been carried on this thie is 10 SUO aleo wholly untrue it was waa depre denied and certified to the governor by bj in on each occasion when it was sought to hold court at mil wad fold that there was nothing to do in the district that therefore all the court bed bad to do was to convene and adjourn ad this thia could so aa well be performed at wilford milford as aa at beaver it would bate been avery a very ung ungraceful raful per jace fotea ance for the executive to have ignored the certificate of one of the judiciary as aa to batterr peculiarly within the purview of the latter il ii might nave have been something considerably worse than that anyway the governor did not do so BO and in doing as ae he be did was wag clearly not to blame I 1 in a the midst of partisanship let us ua at least be truthful even it if we cannot always be friendly the controversy that has grown out of the recent costly experience of litigants witnesses etc in the beaver district will not have utterly failed in benefit if it shall ahall be successful in establishing what the law lav clearly intends and common sense indicates iod loatee that the judge shall ahall reside in his hia pietr ot |
