Arizona silver belt., 1886-05-29
EULIcK ys, aoARD or INSANE AsTLUM
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 The actior of Governor Zulick in the renewal of the Insane Asylum Directors has been the subject of con siderable discussion, and yet but few persons have famiharized themselves with the subject while opinions from different standpoints have been freely expressed orally and in print, Rls political opponents charge that few seem to understand the movmg mo- tive that led to the dismissals. They say the Governor is a politician &C., lively looking to political preferment, and is laboring under the impression that to be popular he must be aggreS- slvely Democratic, and therefore to be apparently so it became his duty to remove persons holding position by virtue of a Republican Governor and in that desire he found able coadju- tors in the persons of hls secretary and assistant secretary of the Terri. tory whose zeal in making out a case against the Directors seemed to have excelled that ot the Governor wheH so outran discretion as to meet witE but little favor from members even of bis own party,
 The charges, however, were specif- cally made against Directors Hatch, Lincoln and Stewart of malieasanee in office by the Honorary Board of Directors, of which the Governor is a member, and took cogniEance of and assuming jurisdictlon proceeded to try said commissioners for alleged offences under section twenty-five of the act establishing the Insane Asy- lun It is as follows:
 "The Governor of the Territory, the Chief Justice of the Territorial Su- preme Court, the Secretary of the Ter rltOry, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the County Physician of Maricopa County shall ex-oficio, constitute an Honorary Board of Di- teStors for said Insane Asylum. The duties of said Honorary Board shall be to inspect said Insane Asylum, to investigate the books, accounts and doings of the Board of Directors and of all the officers of said Asylum at least once year, and to make report thereof, together with such sugges- tions as they may deem proper to the Governor of the Territry on or be- fore January lst, of each year.
 Whlle it was pio2 per for the Honora. " Board to inspect and ID gestigate and suggest, it does not follow that the Governor can sit as a court and try persons for offenses cri ninal Tn thssF nature and for the h'aring of VA ~ is otherwise provided for by law. "
 The Governor in ths instance acted in dual capacity-5uror (inquisitor) and judge, but happily for the ac. cused they are rot bound to submit to his judgment. They have simply to refuse to surren fer the office, leaving it to the new appointees to take fur thsr action before 8 judicial tribunal to dispossess them.
 The respondents, Hatch, Lincoln and Stewa.C, through their attorneys, denied the right of the Governor to hear and try the questions at issue, and being overruled by the Governor and assuming jurisdiction he pro ceeded and did try the case and ad. judging the defendants guilty as charged, removed them and appointed others to hll the vacancies thus crea, ted. The respondents during the ''trial' specifically denied the truth oi each and every allegation, not one .oi which was established by the Cover, nor, otherwise than by the report oi the Honorary Board which did not bear the solemn impress of an oath and winch essential was also notably absent from the charges and specl6ca, tions, prepared by Governor Zulick and were made the basis of the trIal The animus of the Governor, in thi, matter, is Shown by the fact that the charges and specifications had beer prepared by the Governor before the report of the Honorary Board had been completed or signed, which gives coloring to the belief that the report was made to conform to the charges As this matter, it is said, will become the subject of judicial investigation ii is well to withhold opinions for or against the action of the Governor nntil the matter Is finally determined
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 A Washington dispatch of May l7tb, says: 1t is now considered improba, ble that the state department will con-