The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-27
COLONEL OuLnBRsONa BILL.

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State to Federal courts and Tho jurisdiction
Of United States Circuit courts In our afl'
clio yesterday morning We confined ourselves
to tho removal Of cases from State
10 Federal courts, Our remarks
were limited and eonfped, owing
10 want Of space and were necessarily
unfinished and but little more than sugges'
tive, The other branch Of tho bill y rs 10 The
Jurisdiction of Federal courts, This cues
lion IL 10 some eAtebt embraced " tho per-
view OF the other branch, and the consdera-
ton We must give II Ia limited. The main
object, rs We understand II, 10 bo' reached
that ID sought 10 DO reached In the bill, lsns
to the Jurisdiction Of Commissioner courla'
In Federal Circuit courts, two understood the
law correctly, when ease ID tried Il Is tried
under the statute law Of the State In which
the court sta, so Mr rs II can be applied
Under the statute lpw Of ToXNs Justice Of
The Peace Ia magistrate with Jurisdiction rs
Justice oflhn Pence 10 try certain defined
class Of caics finally md In u certain other
class Of cases no sta only rs m examining
court, Asan examining court magistrate
must demand bail In all caaes-lhat ID to 'ny,
Justice Of tho Ponce must, A Judge Of the
Supreme court or orlho Court Of Appcas,
or of a District, or Of n County court Is u
magistrate, but only one Of those Judges can
naally discharge IN accused poraonln u eap'
tal cnse, on examination trial, 4 cpmmk'
slonor Of the United StOtos IA u Il Federal
court whit mngslmOis toa State court. lie
can only examine rs 10 the lhcts In q criminal
accusation, and llx the amount of bond the
accused must give for his appearance before
n Federal court. The question Il, Why should
not Commissioner be given jurisdiction TO
determine finally eases that mc under the
law only msdcmcsnors of tho llghtcst kinds,
Ms Justiccs oftho Peace are empowered under
the State Hw? Again, why Is II that Com
mlsioncrs are empowered TO send cases That
come DcloIo lU'lll lbI hulHlN"N'' W. ''H'W
nj the greatest distance orr ltise fact of
but recent date in this city, that rsoneS
from Wheeler county, moro than three hun
bred miles distant, were required to come to
Dallas to answer charges, when they could Just
Ms vol have gone to Graham, n point much
nearer than Dallas. " is also Mct that
persons have been arrested on warrants in
Fort Worth, thirty miles west Of Dallas,
where regularly commissioned United
States Commissioner resides, and brought to
Dallas for examination before Com
missioner in Dallas. Why is it
that prisoner should not be car
ried before the nearest commissioners
Why should man, accused of an nfrOction
of United States laws, be carried away from
his homc; from where his friends live from
where his witnesses are to answer to charge
before n United States Commissioner where
he could more easily be carried before the
nearest United States Commissioner?
But month or so ago,
We had the fact painfully presented
to US right here in Dallas ola Deputy United
States Marshal going of to distance Of two
or three hundred miles to make arrests on
blank warrants issued by n Commissioner
living in Dallas. These blank warrants were
to the said Commissioner here in
Dallas, and they were for the arrest of par
ties whose names were not known and whose
guilt was only supposed at. Is this not all
Iii time that the United States
Attorney oft district Captain Fred w.
Miner, and the Judge of the Court, Hon. A.
Z. Mccormick, refused to countenancc any
such proceedings and put.the seal of their
condemnation upon them by their vigorous
actions to the contrary but every district has
not Miner for attorney, nor n Mccormick
for Judge. The evil exists, and the woe is
that IL has countenance in so many courts.
Fees seem to be what too many officials are
looking after. The bill in question proposes
to scotch that venomous snake, and we think,
with the people NJ large, that it should be
more than scotched-that it should be stran-
gled as the hydra-headod reptile of old was.
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