The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-01-28
ERENsBURG, Pa
a Fuig Court at JohnstoWn.

BY our mem Der, Mr.. Rose, and which has
already passed the House. correcting legal
difficulties in the District Court Bill" )" and
conferrins unlimited civil Jurisdiction upon
that court.
We believe the people Of Cambria county.
without distinction Of party or locality, will
chserfully acquissce in this new concession
to the growth and business interests OF Johns
town. II cases under 5000 may legally be
tried there, surely any greater amount may
be and when legal court exists, why may
it not try titles to land as we'll as titles to
money. Even the north Of Cambria county
should be satisfied with Mr.. Roses bill.
There is the same practical common sense
existing in Johnstown as elsewhere, and that
practical common sense men there will view
this bill with favor we cannot doubt. 1t is
moro than asked for by those who first pro-
posed the District Court project. II enables
every man in Southern Cam bria, who pro-
secutes or defends in the sessions or who
has any civil suits for money or for the title
to his land, to have trisl by jury st bis
own door.
That there are msn in Johnstown who
will not be Satisfied with this bill is to be
expected. One man who sses visions of a
iudgeship floating before him is not sats-
fed. a brace of others who expect to be
associates are not satisfied. Another, who
EhaL fret uncon stitutional bill, is
HUMORJ never could be satisfied
EASES OF THE lid not emanate from his
Another still would not
DISEASES CAFE bill WAS in poetry. and
OF !, or ''book- let" Spec
= .,,u,,, long the public square
NOR and Bad Tai while others Will oppose
TEN to healtbwas prepared and offered
oH '1ie who was generally supported
N Fiddle and north Of the county
whereas if Capt. Woodruff had been elected,
and proposed the same bill. (and he could
not have proposed better one for Johns
town. the same men would have favored it.
We trust nevertheless that this bill will be
passed into law and fairly tested. Ii this
should be done We predict general satisfac-
ton.
the JohBstown Tribune. which calls the bill
=, cure difficulties and give Johnstown full
curt, a "swindle." For this it gives, four
Lsavy reasons:
lst. 1T takes the power for erer more
from our people, and places it in the hands
of the Ebsnsburg Ring" The for ever mole
is good; as if any act of Assembly may not
be repealed at any tim-!
%. 1t removes all the Offices to Etens-
burg" What nonsense! The Johnstown
prothonotary end Juhnstown sherff-both
excellent mon and competent cfficers-sit
At that place precisely as they did ever since
the organization Of the District Court
Sd. 1T was introduced without comforting
with our citizens in regard 10 it," All!
there's the rub. The editor Of the Tribune
was not consulted May not the represent
ative Of Cambria county introduce bill for
the good of the whole county, and for Johns
town in particular, without consulting every
politician or every "ring" in JUhnstown or
Ebensburg? Why Johnstown and Ebens-
burg both together do not make one third of
the county. and Mr.. Rose represents the
whole county! The farmers in the town
ships have just the same rights as the law
ysrs aud merchants in the towns.
4th. at is cover for what is to come
after. which will be bill for the payment
of the new jail" What the new Jail has to
do with this it requires the optics Of the
Tribune to see Cambria county will pay
for her public buildings without "bill.''-
If the Tribune means repudiation. be will
find no decent man in Johnstown, or any
where else, to coincide with him. And yet
il is hard to see what else ne can mean.
We observe another bill which has passed
first Ieading--in q town meeting-prepared
By d. Mclaughlin, Esq, being the same as
one voted down by the judiciary Committee
on former occasion because of its unconsti~
,utionaIity. II it ever could pass. it would
not take Gen. Potts loug to bowl it down, as
lie did the same erudite gentleman.
.'Let US have peace" and let the common
sense of the people put All ond to this eter-
nal quackery and agitation about the District
Court at Johnstowu.
Here is the bill referred to and we ask for
it a careful pOrusaI by all our readers
Sac. /. Be il enacted by the Senate aud
House of Representative of tho Common
wealth of Pennsy ylvania in General Assembly
met, and il is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, and it is hereby declared TO be the
true intent aud meaning OF the act to which
this is supplement That it shall be lawful
for the Judges of the Court of Co ommon Pleas
of the county of Cambria, and the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county OF
Cambria, as the said Courts or shall be es-
tablshed aud organized under aud in pursu
auce of the Constitution and laws of the Com
NOW ealth, TO sit in the borough of Johnstown,
in said county, and there hold four terms or
ssssions OF the said Courts in each year, wit
The weeks commencing On tho frat Monday OF
april, July, October and January, and to ad
iourn the said session of said Courts as and