Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-02-12

made perpetual. This proceeding is not.a tine n,
turo OF check
Again, Sir, ii is said--The two Judges sttio,;
together, and differing in opinion, will stop the bn-
shess oil the court had rather suppose, Mr.
Speaker, that the circumstance of the Judges dill,
iering In opinion, would be calculated 10 haste,,
the business. The docket will be called and the
cases tried, OF course, unless they be continued !,
.ho'ion' and as upon division Of opinion betwe, a
the Judges, the motion to continue would fall the
cause would be tried Whereas, if the motion had
Deeh sustained, the cause would haze been CON-
uhued. The same remark is applicable TO all in
,erioeutory motions. Besides, Sir, 1 have never
heard that any serious Inconvenience OH tbis
ground, was experienced in the old District Sys
,ein. The argument, in my judgment, is entitled
to no weight.
Again, it is said-The evils complained of viii
De increased by the adoption of the proposed Sys-
TEN; In this, that under it, party NAV be caliea
from one extreme of the State to the other TO Iii.
gate Chancery se,--Whereas under the or
i,fing System, they will meet at some interlned-
ate point. N4A
NIT But tor one such, there viii be huntreds
not involving party without the limits of the
county, III which the suit is brought. Now. Sir
should the your object to accommodate A few
sraggling CASES. or to accommodate the great mass
oil cases occurring in the State Your ans,yo-
WIZ he full answer to this objection
AGAIN; 1t Is said-If nine or ten Cbancerv
Courls ne an evil, their increase to hundred ana
'eh wiz De an increase OF the evil in arithmetcal
proportion. This is mere sophism II ass,,m,s
as ITS basis, that the Chancery Courts are in them
selves an evil-whereas, the complaints are NOT a
eainst the Conrts themselves, as such butoga;ns,
their particular organizations Properly orsan;zeS
they are blessing, but organized as thew are a,
present, must think them a curse 10 the land ~
Again; it is said, when you come to ballot s,S
Judges to fill up the place of this bill, YOU will; be
under the necessity Of selecting, in some of fhe
present incumbents of Office unfit persons, while
1t IS your obvious duty to select fit and able ner.
sons. L answer, we are under no consti,utionaI
necessity OF selecting any of these old worn
out servants of the public. If such were the
case, 1T might be turned into an argument =.
gainst the constitutionality of this bill We ma,,
DO IL, or not do it, as may think fit. That we
snail select mt persons, implies nothing more than
That we shall select the fittest which the circnm
stances OF the OCCASION will justify. NV own y.
pinion IS, however imebcile from age some Of tben
may be, the present incumbents of Office are tba
httest persons to be selected on this occasion Jf
we select them, we shall have but one new iudga
10 elect and the additional expense will be tritiin,
DIR. Speaker, have not yet noticed MANY '' ob,,
Jecuons, urged by gentlemen against this hin
which had noted for comment; but having aIrea-
dy Gespassed the limits had prescribed to mvseIf
VIII leave them to the discretion of other gentle,
men, friendly to the bill, who are entitled to the
grathcation they seek on this occasion-tbat ofbes
ing heard in support of il. -