The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-20
A CRY.

Judge Conger was, by the grace of
President Arthur: suspended from Of
flee. During this time the Judge
has remained at his home in Vir-
ginia City, patiently waiting for
some definite action to be taken in
his case. A commission was APP
pointed and charged to proceed to
Bozeman to take evidence for and
against him. This duty has been
performed and all the testimony for
warded to the proper authorities at
Washington. In the meantime the
President and all his Cabinet who
could ride a government mule or had
passes upon railroads have been junk
citing around the country seeking re-
spite from the cares and anxieties
of office, leaving the Judge to
endure his own anxieties as best be
may. Frost and the autumn equinox
drove the members of the Govern
ment circus to their comfortable quar-
tiers at Washington. Each has had
time to run through the accumulated
business of his department. Cases
which have been brought up and in
which evidence has been taken since
Judge Conger's case was submitted to
the President, have been viewed by
the Executive eye and passed upon
by the Executive mind.
Still Judge Conger's hangs fire.
There is a hitch somewhere. The
President don't seem to see his way
clearly through it. On the one hand
there is a party clamoring for the
Judges removal, on the other
is a c%ar-scarred soldier,a tried patriot,
a sound lawyers man whose integrity
off OF on the bench cannot or has not
been successfully impeached. The
President sees an ~exacting crowd
upon the n side and q deeply
wronged man upon the other. He
hesitates to act, because he cannot
conciliate both. In this he betrays a
weakness "a moral cowardice unbe-
coming his exalted position.
In the meantime the legal business
of the first judicial district of the Ter
ritory is suffering. The two remain
ing judges are overworked aud find
it impossible to discharge all the du-
ties forced upon them and courts can
not be held y sufficient length to
enable them to pass upon all the
cases brought before them. Hence
the following cry of the people of
Bozeman to Judge Galbraith for help.
The petition speaks for itself, ard
comment upon it is unnecessary. A
copy of it should be sent to Presi-
dent Arthur:
To the Hon. W. j. Galbraith.:
S1R:-The undersigned members
Of the bar and citizens of Custer
county, Montana, would respectful
~ represent that, by reason of the
fact that there is 10 person as Judge
assigned TO the First Judicial Dis
trlct of Montana, and who can hold
a term of court therein, and that the
public interests are the interests of
private litigants urgently demand
that a term of the district court should
be held in and for said county in he
ensuing month of November or De-
cember; therefore we respectfully ask
that you will during either of said
months, when your other official du-
ties will permit, come to our county
and hold a term of said court of suf-
ficient duration to transact the bust
ness now pending therein.
All of which your petitioners re-
.spectfully submit.
We would further represent that
we are opposed TO a transfer of Custer
county from the First Judicial Dis
trict to any other District of the Ter
ritory. (Signed by 1872 leading citi-
zens.)