Show the WATCHED to emery on saturday Ereal nf at p april ad 1650 R highly indeed battering nattering natt ering crowdy the great inclemency of the evening a ambled at the court home I th city end on motion joseph stanford wa chairman and S orth eq secretary whereupon the chairman in a few pertinent ra mark explained the object ot the meeting to beetow upon eur diabin gleit ex governor emery testimonial of approval and esteem on tho part of he citizen citi ien of ogden but that the would be more justly abet forth ia tho addre of the citizens committee through it chair raan the lion R K williams whom ho now bad the pleasure of introducing whereupon the committee by ita chairman delivered ing addrece ad drese it become my pleasant duty for and abie committee and alio citizen of ogden to present tojiu and chain bearing thi inscription presented to hon G W emery by citizens of ogden utah regardless of party april ara 1880 it is not because of tho pecuniary value of thie present though it be of fine gold that you MI prise it but rather because it peaks this peoples approval and of your biao and just churro aa tho executive of thie ten story for the last four tears and that a vast majority without distinction of political affiliation or religious sentiment bear most kind remembrance of your impartial and just administration and that the citi zone of ogden especially nizo in you and sagacious public the civo northern countice count iee of this territory cover an area of some five thousand square now in rapid state of development with an already large and increasing population and many populous towns and among those our own prosper ou city of ogden now ibe second in population end commercial importance in the territory by a peculiar ional and territorial ici elation the courts of the third judicial Dix trici to which these counties belonged and our only legal tribunal of general eat at salt lake city more than one hundred and twenty miles from its northern boundary your penetration and love of justice caused you to do all in your power to rid the people of these countie of tine heavy burden and grog injustice and over serious b stacle and imposing protestations joa alint inn of the quarter yearly derme of thie court should be held at ogden thie was the entering wadge to more enlightened legislation and aided by your potent influence R law was enacted at the last of our legislative assembly by which the rich Morgan Weber box elder and cache were led a of the first judi ciak to have their leal bainee bu inee transacted at such place within eaid lib division a or might designate and aming your lust executive acts you appointed eaid court to be held at ogden semiannually it is because of your keen appreciation of existing eals and your determined course to vindicate the aco lee and to do tho greatest iford to the largest numbers and while true to the federal government you have ever been in the lull sense of the term the peopled governor that you today to day occupy such an exalted place in their affect bione tione and thie high regard efte determined them to make you a more enduring memorial of their esteem alian mere eulogies and hence they now you with this evidence of their gratitude and esteem and in your to private life you will regard it as unalloyed by expectation of future claim or hope of reward but receive it in the true spirit of thie liable inscription that you may long live to appreciate both the present and the spirit that prompted its bestowal with a kind remembrance of its donors is the sincere wish and desire of this larce audience to anich ex governor emery in a few pertinent and eloquent remark replied substantially as follows i mr chairman ladlis ani galow I have not the to express on this occasion tho deep emotions of my heart at this kinu manifestation on your part toward me as a neighbor and public servant now retired to private life I to thu territory five since an entire stranger but hove watched solicitude and of the boxt and promises of the future your territory ha great of prosperity and wealth its soil is exceedingly productive in all the and many of tho luxuries of life its mineral capacities are very great and now being developed which will soon etith among the leading mineral region of the country the baach range of mountain runa some five hundred miles through thu territory and already several important im t and profitable mineral camps havo been esteb I know of no reason why atio fluttering prope cui now o near your city hould not develop a rich mineral deposit in thil range within tt few ot you winch would greatly the bitic of aastha aas the roa r oa oi abi ft i inah ina h fi tu i ait ai antl buc in sword the great development of your people and territory for he list vo cwi aft bin unarmed anci n to the eion that band without a parallel on the continent when I anro found thai your nhounh whon in to ilia condition of and from cation td tn arl and M wa th dibut u nit tun citizen of salt lako city consisting of all of political opinion and religious and in eluding the most eminent lawyer both and mormon men merchant mechanic wl laborer by memorial Lidd tho governor bad legislative bay to adopt tho california criminal code in lieu of the then ta tutee and by their influence did procure it enactment and thil deemed to give great nuli faction to the people and particularly to the gentile portion and their leading and prominent men and WM cot only enmond but highly eulogized at the time by the proa of the territory without exception although anoe aa defect have ben discovered in it I hare been abbed for ll 11 approval by gome of ile then advocates if any cri ever wae perfect and evee the oldest stale after more than a century of experience till find defects def ecta hence each essaion of their legislature finds some defect to remedy and will eo long a they ahall continue to havo sessions of the peoples represent tivai among the exiling evil X found that the people of rich morgan cache box elder and weber wore burdened with long travels and great in carrying on their litigation at salt lake city and that when after thie heavy and weary traveling they bad reached the court ita calendar was crowded with the mining and other import ant and tedious litigation which wae constantly ing up around the city that the people of choie remote regions were sub elect lect greater delays vexatious vexations and expense I ew your prosperous city rapidly advancing in population wealth and commercial importance with an enterprising people and favorably located at the junction of the great central pacific cens aral utah and utah northern kail roads become tho second city in the territory and promising at no far distant day to dispute tor the commercial palm with the capital city of salt lake and I felt it but juet to you one of the four term of fie district court held annually for the third judicial district it ie true because of the exhaustion of the jury liet before your term began it did not in reality amount to a full term as under tho peculiar congressional system here names are selected in january each year and we can have no jurors outside of this list go when this list ie exhausted the coarts can hive no juries until another one is selected but your committee giai so well expressed it this waa the entering wedge to your present permanent ey etera I felt that to detach these five counties from the salt luke district where the docket wa eo crowded and put them first dietrict where there was but n email amount of litigation wae an act of justice to boj and true public policy I gave my entire influence to lecure the of laih a law through the legislative aasem and with approved the enactment and your commit tco eaid among my very executive acte I by proclamation appointed your city aa the place to bold the Ditri ct court for eaid five counties and gave you two of the four tarnia to be held annually and now having share of the list of jury men annually to be elected you will have a complete court machinery and I anticipate that you and the people of those counties will find your litigation much cheapened and that your iceal business busi nees will be done with much less delay and harrael har raes ment and that while thie general benefit will be felt no doubt your city will find other and peculiar benefit ae it will notoriety bring to you many stronger and enable you to form commercial tie and increase your trade Cili ione of oden although I ahall ever most highly thie beautiful watch and chain and ahall I draw it forth of ite kind do norand the moet abreo aate I have had with your people yet the spirit with which it la bestowed a manifested that beautiful and roost agreeable in i still more dear to me for the approval of hie acts by hie con to every conscientious public man is the highest reward he can receive then I can in conclusion only eay I thank you all individually and collectively for this on during memento of your kind approval of my administration and personal regard for me t many of the crowd then came up to the rostrum and inspected the beautiful present and pent como timo in social and agreeable intercourse with the distinguished guest and the meeting was adjourned sine du the night express that left beaton at 10 p night fo new york via springfield was partially wrecked by he caving of an embankment nobody was injured euri |