The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-12
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every sentence. "Morc Anon COM
mpnccg, by saying, "l have been some
what amused, Indeed, | may say conils.
cd, etc., From the mannerand style OF
his article, we would Judge that he was
considerably confused, or else very ig-
u0rant of language and Of .idctd. For
he says, In speaking of the acts of the
fourteenth legislature, "The fourteenth
says, any and every man, who holds
an audited claim against the county
register your claim, stand aside ANA
wait for special taxation. The county
holds u just claim against you ana y
and we hold the same against The
county. The fourteenth says, stand
aside, Tom, Dick and Harry, with your
claim and you don't settle your taxes
by next Monday, etc., etc."
Now, Mr.. Editor, the man who at
tempts to enlighten the people on any
subject, much less one Of such IMPORT
ance us the wholesale condemning of
the acts of the fourteenth legislature,
should certainly be well informed HIM
scT. But | presume that any man
who would use the pronoun "T after
the proposition against ought to be eX-
cusable for any false and ignorant as
sertions he may make. There Is not
word of truth in his statement The
fourteenth said no such thing. ! sup
pose the complainer has reference
to "an act to authorize the several
counties of this state to raise means to
pay their present Indebtedness, APP
proved May /, 1874. If he did, he GER
tainly exhibits total ignorance of the
law, or II willful Misrepresentation OF
it, for il reads "That any county in
this state which may have an out
standing Indebtedness of five hundred
or more dollars, at the date of the pass
age of this act, the county court of such
county man. Ivy an ORDER" etc. Not
shat. (See laws, page 1879, of the gem
eral laws, passed by the fourteenth leg
islature). So, it is clearly perceivable
to any Intelligent mind, that it is OPP
tionary with each county court in this
state whether they avail themselves of
the law or not. The members
of each county court in this
state are the financial agents of
their respective counties, and are, by
the law itself made solely responsible
for its adoption or rejection. If More
Anonu had read the law, or had he had
the capacity to have understood 1t
when read, he might have saved him
self from his "cOntusiOn," and the eX-
position of his ignorance. 1t is not my
province to attack or defend the action
of our county court in making the
order, but to correct the false impress
sion made by "More Anon" Know
ing our county court to be composed of
honest and intelligent men, ] presume
they did what they thought to be to
the best financial interests of their
county.
"More Anonn again says, "Again
the fourteenth says 10 two district
Judges, we can't convict you of NAL
feasance or incompetency, but we will
take every county except one in each,
out of your district, and you two gen.
ties, and draw n salary of thirty-fve
hundred dollars, and the two district
attorneys can get each twelve hundred
dollars annually" Here again, "More
Anon" exhibits spirit of ignorance
and fault-finding, which is too con-
temptible for democratic paper to
publish, or even for me to notice,
were it not that many, who have read
"More Anon's" grumblings, do not un-
derstand the facts of the case. pre-
sumo here again that "More Anon"
had reference to Judges Chambers and
Cooper. The first of these judges had
charges of impeachment preferred by
the thirteenth, but not tried by that
body. He was tried by the senate of
the fourteenth" and, for want of the
two-thrds vote, he was not convicted,
but all believed him to be a corrupt
man; at least n majority thought him
unfit to be Judge. The second, Judge
Cooper, had charges of address pre-
ferred against him by the fourteenth"
but for the want of the constitutional
number of two-thirds of both houses
of the legislature sustaining the charges,
he was not and could not then be de-
prived of his Office. The senate was
almost unanimous in sustaining the
charges against him, but in the house,
although very large majority voted
to remove him, we failed for want of
the constitutional number of two
thirds. The constitution provides but
two modes of removing u Judge from
office, and they arc by address or i'm
peachment; and should these fail,
there is no other mode known to the
constitution of depriving him of his
office and salary. Should the legisla-
ture fail to relieve down-trodden and
an an outraged people of a judge
whom large majority of both
houses of the legislature believe to be
corrupt and incompetent partisan
Judges, by one or the other of these
modes, how, under the heavens, l
ask, can IT grant relief to people,
who, on suppliant knees, with uplifted
hands ask for it, unless it is by taking
them from his district and placing
them in another to which they want
to go, and which is willing to receive
them? All the members from Cooper's
district voted to sustain the charges
against him, except the member from
Orange county, who voted against sus-
tanning them, and who was willing
that Cooper might remain as judge in
his county. All the other members
from his judicial district asked, yea,
begged for relief. | don't think it
could be IN the heart of any honest
democrat to have seen and heard the
members from Houston and Angelina
counties appeal for relief, and then re-
fuse to grant it. Now, as to these two
judges and their two district attorneys
drawing each. So, 800 and 81 200 annu-
ally, is very thin, to say the least of it.
Every intelligent lawyer, and might
add, man, knows that these judges
would have remained judges and been
entitled to their salaries, had we
taken all their counties from them !;
for, as / stated before, there are
but two constitutional modes
of removing or depriving district
Judges of their offices and salaries.
When these fail, to destroy their dis
trict would not deprive them Of their
office and salary, which is fixed by the
constitution, and not left to the caprice
of legislators. All the counties be-
longing to these two judges districts
asked relief, except the ones left
them. Had these two counties asked
relief from these two judges (whom
believe should have been removed), /,
for one, would gladly have given it,
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