Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-02
Dispensing with Jury Trials i'll Ger
al

Dispensing with Jury Trials i'll Ger
tain Cases.
Governor IIartranft has signed the bill
| passed at the last session of the Legislature,
to provide for the submission of civil cases
to the Court, and TO dispense with trial by
jury, whenever the parties to any suit may
| agree to that manner Of dispOsing of it.
We condcnsc the provisions of the act as
follows The first section provides that
in any case now pending or hereafter to be
| commenced, after issue is Joined, the par
ties thereto, excepting those acting upon a
Judiciary capacity, mag, by agreement,
dispense with trial by jury. and submit
the decision of such cases to the Court.
Such Court shall hear and determine the
same, the judgment subject to writ Of error
or appeal, at the option Of either party &c
| the suit. Section two says that decision
of the Court shall be in writing, and filed
in the Office Of prOthonotary as early as
practicable, not exceeding sixty days from
the termination OF the trial, and notice
thereof shall forthwith be given to the par
ties or their attorneys If no exception
shall be filed thereto within thirty days,
the court or the Judge who tried the case,
in vacation may, upon argument, order
judgment to be entered according 20 the
decision filed, or make such notifications
as in justice and right shall seem proper,
CY,n al tp ,,Ey
or appeal TO the Supreme Court. Section
three provides that such cases taken to the
Supreme Court by appeal, shall be heard
and determined therein, as in cases of aI-
peal i'll equity proceedings, and in case Il
new trial is ordered, it shall be proceeded
with before the same court i'll the manner
submit under this act shall be waiver of
trial by jury, and cases submitted under
the provisions Of this act shall be subject TO
the existing law as To costs, excepting no
jury fee shall be required for entering judg-
ment.
DEMOCRACY AND FINANCE.-The in
dividual who attempts to harmonize the
financial outgivings of Democratic Conyen-
tions in the different States, will either give
up the job speedily Or slowly 90 into lunacy.
In the Convention just he'd at Syracuse,
hard money, specie payment and honest
payment of the public dept were prominent
planks. In Ohio, Indiana, and other
Western 4snd Southern States, inaation.
paper payments, and reputation are the
most acceptable campaign war cries Tie
World says that the Democracy of New
Iork wait for the return Of these wander
inc sheep ito sound mind But the
black members Of tie true foldr show no
disposition to go back on their record. On
the contrary, the Cincinnati Enquirer says
that ''the Democratic party will show Itself
to be party of the people" by adopting
the heresies that the Democracy of Ohio
and Indiana uphold. That leader of West
eTn opinion says, moreover, that Demo-
Gratis nowhere favor National Banks, out
express the peoples demand for an in
crease Of the circulation medium Who
shall settle the policy Of the party when
these eminent leaders so vitally disagree ?
Everything is to be ieOpardized, and moth
ing gained b. voting with them. ItiS true,
as they say, that the financial question is
one Of the greatest issues Of the hour. All
the more reason is here, then, that a ma
tionai party should have a fixed basis of
principles on which to stand. If it has
none, its claim To- 4 national existence is
forfeited. To this position have the disor-
ganiZed Democracy come. 1t is no longer
worth the suilragcS Of men who respect
principle, and those who have property at
stake cannot afford to trust it. Its finan-
cial vagaries are pregnant with ruin. For
tunately business men and careful citizens
see the situation plainly. The Syracuse
Convention has adjourned without a word
pudiation. The party that is thus timid
in political action will find and deserve dis
graceful defeat at the polls. To falter in
this crisis is to invite destruction. - M,atfS'
JOuraul
The Black Hills are not so great after
all. Later reports are said to confirm the
opinion Of Professor Winchel, who examin-
ed them, that there was no valuable min
erals in that region. Colonel Grant, who
was with the expedition under instructions
TO report on the geology Of the region, saws