The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1884-01-18

beauty and grandeur that its game, its
scenery and its wonders should be pre-
served, IL to accomplish it should in
yoke every power of government. 1t is
a high privilege to be permitted to pass
laws to protect a place Astounding with
ni6cence. No such boon is vouchsafed
to any other human power or authority
ave that Of the congress of the United
States and the legislature of the terri
tory of Wyoming. Such weighty re-
probabilities can not be lightly regard
ed or passed over. Want of space in
this paper only prevents such a discus
sion of what might be done by you upon
this subject. The principal difficulty
seems to be the great distance from the
park to where courts are held, to the
end that offenders might be punished,
not only with promptness, but with no
more than the ordinary expense. This
difficulty a be removed by you by the
passage of a law making it the duty Of
the judge Of the district in which the
park is situated to hold a term of court
in or near the same, between May and
September of each year. Also to pro-
vide for the election or appointment of
justices of the peace and ~constables, to
the end that violators of the law may
be apprehended at once and bound
over to await the action of the grand
jury.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
To prevent the frequent incursions of
Indians into the Territory, and the con-
sequent loss sustained by our citizens,
1 recommend that it be made the sub
ject of an early memorial to congress.
L respectfully submit that it it is hardly
fair to make extensive reservations of
public lands for Indian tribes, and then
allow them to escape therefrom, or to
go with permits (which is most fire.
quently the case) from Indian agents,
under the plea that the general govern
ment has not Appropriated sufficient to
maintain them on such reservations,
and hence they must be allowed to go
and prowl upon a few citizens, compar-
atively, who have to bear the total bur
then of keeping them alive, while good
people educate and civilize them II To
educate and ciyilize Indians, 1 agree,
are very proper things to do, II confess
it to be a little tedious) but as things
now appear, they will be accomplished,
provided the frontiersman succeeds in
saving enough cattle to make it profita-
BILE to attend the next roundup" l
would suggest that congress be request
ed in your memorial to at least divide
the expense of the work we are all 80
much interested in, as that of elevating
the American race. Congress should
force of the reasons with which the
subject is fraught, to make such appro-
priations, and to provide amply, by law,
for the protection of the property Of
our people from the ravages of Indians,
who dwell in favored spots on reserva-
tions they do not plow.
FIRE ARMS.
The Springfield rifles received son o
years ago from the general government
by the Territory, are stored ia the old
stone warehouse in this city, where
they have been for the past two years.
The building in which they are stored
is not suitable for their proper Tpreser-
walton. L recommend that an adequate
sum be appropriated for their care and
storage.
GAME.
The law for the protection of game
enacted by the last legislative assembly,
1 am gratifed to say, has proven very
beneficial in its results. But while
this is true, the killing of game for the
hides merely still goes n
A voluntary organization of private
citizens has been formed in the Terri
tory, and though It's labors have been
prosecuted at their own expense, yet 1t
has been a very valuable auxiliary to
the law. This law should be amended,
if weak in any particular, and it should
be enforced with great yigor.
1 recommend that your committee
confer with the gentlemen composing
the private organization before named,
to the end that the best possible means
may be devised to punish those who
kill for purposes other than those per-
mitted by statute.
SELECTION OF JURIEs.
1t is believed that the rule of our
statutes relating to the number of per-
emptory challenges in criminal cases,
gives to the defendant an undue advan-
tage in the selection of a trial jury.
Ny attention has been called to this by
some Of our judges, and other citizens
who have been close observers Of pass
ing events, and upon whose minds this
impression has been made. I respect
fully call your attention to the subject,
with the remark that 1t seems to me
that the rule of our law is entirely too
liberal to the defendant.
COMPILATION OF LAWS.
No subject. while here, will more
justly claim your candid and careful
consideration than that Of making prep
a~ration for the early compilation of the
laws Of the Territory. Nothing can be
of greater Importance to all public and
private interests than the certainty OF
laws which duty compels us to obey,
enforce and defend. Our statutes are
now found in the Compiled Laws of