The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-05-24

AIRY of $500 and each OF the associate JUS
sss Gn own
chief Justice and the associate justices shall
ha a
asK ss
state. The court shalt appoint it's own
clerks and may remove them at pleasure.
Nothing could be palmer than that.
We quote three of the proposed
amendments, TX, x and XII:
AMENDMENT TX.
The judicial power shall be vested in
i%ste &c eo s IN district courts and in
shall have original jurisdiction for all
civil cases where the amount in suit OK
interest. In criminal cases and in ali pro-
bate matters their Jurisdiction shall be
diction in civil suits from Justices 81 the
peace, II the amount In dispute exceeds ten
pssse sss s
SisS the e soe sassa ns
Office for the term Of two years, and their
compensation shall be fixed by law. Their |
one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest.
subject to an appeal to the district court
in al cases whore the amount in dispute
Jurisdiction as shall be conferred bv law
Of the aa.rct tho
right to grant such orders and do such acts
az may be deemed necessary for the furth-
GRANGE OF the administration of justice. In
specified and determined: ' ~
(Strike out article 75.)
AMENDMENT X
shall receive a salary Of 81, oo6 per annnm num-.
court shall each receive a salary Of Sc, 500
per per, a a.,nn payable quarterly on their
AMENDMENT XII.
Each OF tho districts judges shall receive
= salary to be fixed by law, which, except
nth in the parish Of Orleans, shall not be less
bis snd which %hioh .R ayrn not S Se
Ct office. He must be citizen o2ihe United nit
snd ha ever rs The age Of
law therein for the space of two years
next preceding his election The j1dges
Of the district courts shall hold their Office
In the parish Of Orleans tho annual sal
airy Of the district judges shall not exceed
nve thousand dollars, to be paid above
(strike out article sl)
1. If you have read tho three forcgo-
ing amendments carefully you have
seen that there is no provision in the
lNth or NI1th proposed amendment
touching the cases that may be pend
ing ON the civil docket of the parish
courts, unless they arc to be transferred
to the justices of the peace &c ,1ecessitute
Tet. 1t is Il question of some import
ance and we ask, What is to become
of them?
2. The salaries of the judges should
be fixed. What has been the custom,
is no part of the business of to-day
The people require ut this time Ger
tainty in all financial matters. If the
judges are to be paid either r., 900, or
$4,000, say so.
3. Article IS having been stricken
out and amendment IN substituted for
it, in all seriousness what becomes of
the Supreme Court? They can have
no successors, for the amendment does
not prescribe mode either by appoint
inent or election requires no qualitica-
lions or citizenship, and fixes no quo
rum. It may be contended that as
now organized it will continue with
out term. That will be extraordinary
hair-splitting, but in these days of
wonders We may not be surprised at
anything. But If the entire omission
Of all the essentials of an office in the
new, and the unqualified striking of
them out of tho old article, does not
abrogate the law and abolish the office,
then we must admit that we have
read law to little purpose and studied
the science of government to no adj
vantage.
4. The Xth amendment discovers the
haste of their preparation in providing
a fat salary for q court that had been !