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Show LEGISLATIYE: PROCEEDINGS. The House. -Friday, January 22. The substitute bill, H. F. No. 9, for the selection and payment of jurors, having been made a special order of the day, was taken up. West moved an amendment to Bection 9, proposing that litigants in civil cases shall deposit all the court expenses beforehand. be-forehand. Thurman argued against the amendment amend-ment and it was los. : The bill was read for the third time and put upon its passage. McLaughlin announced that hia vote would be cast against the bill, and brief! v stated his reasons. The Poland law pro-1 pro-1 vided for the selection and pay of jurors, and this bill was an attempt to amend an act of Congress. To supply a deficiency the District Courts had issued open venires, ve-nires, and in doing so they exercised a perfect per-fect right. Two hundred names were enough ; if not, why? The fault, if any, existed with the Probate Judges in drawing draw-ing names of those, whom they knew would be disqualified as jurors. He claimed the Probate Judges did not do their duty. There are citizens here who, on being examined as to their qualifications qualifica-tions as jurors, stated that thev would not convict a man charged with violating the Edmunds law, no matter how conclusive con-clusive was the evidence. He did not propose to vote on any measure that sought to obstruct the enforcement of the United States laws in Utah. . Thurman said that Congress laid down the pattern for selecting- jurors, and that mode, is followed to-day. Congress had made no provision- for supplying a deficiency, de-ficiency, and that this Legislature had the right to supply this contingency that had been overlooked by Congress. Shall we say that men shall be rejected as jurors by the Probate Judge and District Court Clerk on account of their belief? Shall we. refer to the Edmunds law only, without questioning the constitutionality of it? Must we look to the.United States cases all the while, in trying Territorial cases? He believed the open venire system sys-tem had been abused in Territorial, to say nothing of United States cases. To protect pro-tect the people and give every one an equal chance before his peers was his reason for advocating the passage of the bill, Let us have men selected by the District Clerk and Probate Judge because they are known. A motion was then mads that the bill be passed, and a vote was taken. Twen-tv-one voted in favor of the passage of the bill, and Mcl&ughin voted no. The House then adjourned until Monday Mon-day at 2 p. m. |