Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-02-15
presume that Con eress in passing on this

presume that Congress in passing on THU
subject, will provide all reasonable ant
proper safeguards to secure honest and com
petent jurors, whose verdicts will command
confidence, and be guarantee of equal pro
| lection to all good and law abiding citizens
and at the same time make it understood thai
crime cannot be committed with impunity.
| / have before said that while the laws Gre
atng the several territories have generally
contained uniform provisions in respest to
the judiciary, yet Congress has occasionally
varied these provisions In minor details, as
the circumstances of the territory effected
| seemed to demand, and in creating the terri
tory of Utah, Congress evidently thought that
circumstances there might require judicial
remedies not necessary in other territories,
for by section 8 of the act creating that ter
ritory it is provided that a writ of error may
be brought from the decision Of any judge OF
the territory to the supreme court of the
United States upon any writ of habeas corpus
involving the question Of personal freedom,
provision never inserted in any other ter
ritorial act, except that creating the territory
of New Mexico. This extraordinary provis-
ION shows that Congress intended to mould
the organic law to the peculiar necessities of
the territory, and the legislation which now
recommend, is in full harmony with the
l am advised that the United States Courts
in Utah have been greatly embarrassed by the
action of the territorial legislature in confer
ring criminal juristion, and the powers to is
sue writs of habeas corpus on probate courts
created by Congress, but complaint is made
That persons SO have been discharged IN that
way by the probate courts.
cannot doubt that Congress will agree
with me that such state of things ought OF
longer to be tolerated, and no ASS of persons
anyw here should he allowed to treat the laws
OF the United States with open defiance and
contempt.
Apprehenslons are entertained that if Con-
gress adJourn without any action upon this
SUBJECT, turbulence and disorder will follow.
rendering military interference necessary, a
result should greatly depreciate, and in
view Of this and other considerations, | ear
nestly recommend that Congress at the pres.
ent session, pass some act which will enable
the district courts Of Utah to- proceed. with
independence and efficiency ia the admins
tration Of law and justice.
(Signed) U. S. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. II, 1873.
The President sent the following nomina-
tan to the Senate to-day; Lieutenant COM
mander Thomas F. Kane to be commander in
the navy.
Supervisor Perry has written letter to the
commissioner of internal revenue in refer
ence to the intimations that the troops are to
be withdrawn from the South, in which he
says tina. the removal of all troops from
North Carolina and Georgia would be great
misfortune to the revenue service. The SUI
pervisor has parties out constantly breaking
up illicit distileries. and this service he SAYS
cannot be performed successfully without the
aid of an armed force. One soldier is worth
half Il dozen armed men in citizens dress.
The commissioner will represent the matter
to the President and Secretary of War.
The-President has signed the act amenda-
tory of the bankrupt act.