New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-17
THE JUDICIAL BILL PASSED.
A ropCIpTp sPFTCH BY SENATOR DAWES MD A
pporR,CIrD ONE BY SENATOR MORGAN--MR
HILL MOVES TO AMEND.


. ropc1p1r SPEECH BY SENATOR DAWES AND A
PpoTRAclrD ONE BY SENATOR MoRGAN--MR
HILL MOVES TO AMEND.
lRY TELEGRAPH TO THE TPTBUNE.l
WASHINGTON June 1G.-It was expected that
tto debate in the Senate today upon the Judicial
bin would be exceedingly lively and important.
Senator Dawes made the only set speech from the
RepubGcan side of the chamber. He attacked forcl-
blv and effectively the section which provides
new system for drawing jurors for Federal Courts.
Nv Dawes made the objection to-day that the pres
emf scheme proposes TO repeal system for drawing
inrors which has been found by experience to work
with eminent satisfaction in many parts of
tbe country and to substitute for it
scheme which many of its supporters admit to be
defective and only partial remedy for the alleged
abuses with which few judicial districts are al
ilicted.
The speech Of Senator Dawes was so effective
that Senator Hill who followed him, announced
his determination to move an amendment to meet
the objection named. a promise which he fulfilled
later in the day. Senator Hill in the course OF his
speech admitted that the present scheme was IN
decent and "execrable" and it could only be JUS
titled upon the ground that it would mitigate GER
tain abuses which were still more execrabe.
He said that in his own State, by law
framed and passed by q Republican LeCis-
lature, and approved by a Republican State
Executive the system of drawing jurors for the
State courts still in operation had given entire sat
isfacton. This system had been made use OF by
the Federal judiciary until 1872, when the judges
of the United States Courts had ordered that il be
discontinued in their courts. and had ordered the
United States Marshal to select jurors himself from
the body of the citizens. The Marshal under this
authority was wholly irresponsible and he literally
hacked the Federal Jury boxes with jurors who
would be Ineligible TO sit upon juries in State
Courts Senator Hill was in very concllIatory
mood and read long extract from
een"tor CoSknrs speectof Saturday, for the pUr
pose of saying that he most heartily Endorsed all
that was contained in 1t.
A brief colloQuy took place between Senator
Conkling and Senator Hill with regard to the de-
fective remedy which the latter proposed for more
defective system. Senator COnkllng several times
suggested that the remedy might be perfected and
shorn of the evils which the Senator from Georgia
admitted that it contained, if the latter would de-
clare his independence and vote in accordance with
his Judgment, and not according to the fiat of the
senator Morgan madea speech of two or three hours
IN length towhich not single Senator or either side
paid the slightest attention. Democratic Senators
submitted in Impotence to the IOng-Wlnded, nleah-
ingless Grafton and commented among themselves
in uncomplmcntary terms upon the unwlsdOn OF
the Senator from Alabama in thus consuming time
with no possibility of any, good result;
Nncn inc Dill was IcPOI ttu ilVi, III ~
of the Whole TO the Senate, Mr. Wallace, OF the
Caucus Advisory Committee moved 10 amend tne
political section by adding a provision which
excepted the War and Navy Departments from the
operation Of the section. The motion was carried
without division.
Senator Hin then moved to amend the section
relating to the drawing of Jurors by striking out
certain limitation, leaving the section IN such
way that by its provisions the judges # the Federal
Courts NAV at their option make use of the State
machinery for drawing jurors. This was adopted
The bill was then passed by strict party vote. ,
The tone of remark among the Democrats lndi-
Gates determination TO adjourn Immediately after
tie veto which the President is expected TO admin
lister to the Judicial Appropriation bill, without
passing another bill in Its place Should this course
be taken, the adjournment is likely to occur before
flat the Honorable congressman Will not get far
from Washington before they will be recalled in
eXtra slssnn agaln by the President.