The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-14
JURORS.

Representative Thurman, of Uta
County, introduced in the House, o
Wednesday, a bill to provide ''for tn
selection and payment ofjurors." TIL
measure is of such Importance that W
publish it in full:
SECTION BE 1t enacted By the Gore,
nor and LeqisIatiUe Assembly of the Terri
toSV of Utah, That, III the month OF Jan
uary in each year, the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court in each Judicial district, ant
the Probate Judge of the county II
which the District Court is next to o'
held, shall, in addition to the number
of jurors already provided for. by law
alternately select the name OF male
citizen of the United States possessing
the qualifications required by law, and
as selected. the name and residence OF
each shall be entered upon the
list until the same shall con-
tain two hundred names, when the
same shall be duly certified by such
GleFk and Probate Judge. The said list
shall be fled in the Office of the Clerk OF
such district, and duplicate copy shall
be made and certified by such officers
and fled in the Office of said Probate
Judge.
SEC. 1.-The Clerk of the District
Court shall write the name OF each per
son upon said list so returned and filed
IN his Office upon separate slip OF
paper as nearlyS as practicable OF the
same size and form, and all such slips
shall, by the Clerk in open court, be
placed in a covered box separate and
distinct from the box containing the
names already provided for by law; and
shall be thoroughly mixed and mingled.
SEC. 3.-The box containing the
names of Jurors heretofore pro-
vided for by law shall be
legibIy marked in a distinguishing man
ner, and for all purposes shall be known
and designated as the original box,
and the box containing the names of
the jurors provided for in this act shall
be legibly marked in distinguishing
manner. and for all purposes shall be
known and designated as the supple
mental box.
SEC. Whenever in the proceedings
of the District Court all the names of
tbe jurors in the original box shall have
been duly and regularly drawn and said
box shall have become completely ex-
Aausted, if necessary for the purposes
of any trial or term of court, the
Omitted States Marshal or his deputy
shall proceed to fairly draw by lot from
the supplemental box such number of
names as may have been previously Or
deTed by the judge, or as may
be necessary for the trial pend
ing. Provided that if at any time
IN the regular proceedings of the
court the names of the jurors should
all be drawn from the supplemental
box, and said box become exhausted, |
1t shall be the duty of the judge to
direct the District Clerk and the Pro-
bate Judge to proceed at once and |
alternately select the name of a quail |
led male citizen as heretofore provided |
until the listshall contain the number !
ordered by the judge
SEC 5-JuroTS summoned to attend !
the District Courts of this Territory as |
provided in this act and in the act of |
Congress entitled An Act in Relation T
to Courts and Judicial Officers in the
Territory of Utah." approved June ed,
1874, shall be paid the sum of two dol
lars per day for each days actual at
tendance, and twelve cents per mile one
way for the distance necessarily trav-
eled from the place of summons to the
place of holding court.
SEC. 6-The District Clerk and the
Probate Judge. for their services under
this act, shall receive such compensa-
ton as is already allowed for similar
service under existing laws.
Sac. 7.-All acts, or parts of acts, in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed. io
The object of the above bill will be
plain to all. 1t is to put a stop to the
open venire business, by which the
courts, through malicious, prejudiced
and vindictive officers, are able to COM
nit gross outrages in legal form and in
the name of justice. No man with any
sense or justice left will say that the
open venire system should be continued
in The light of its abuse as lately shown.
With it in operation it is possible for
the Marshal to convict an enemy or
aequit a friend at will; to make a ,
farce of jury trials and a mock t
cry of justice. Just what he {
Ian and viii do was de- {
only last month, when he ! I
selected jury for the trial of person, 7
md brazenly admitted that he had been e
careful to get no one whowas a member
oi the sect to which the defendant be- 2
onged; the men chosen frankly con- t
essed that they we're prejudiced against 4
he accused, and that their sympathies b
we're with the prosecution. 1t was a n
ury carefully selected to convict, and C
he verdict showed that the Marshal n
new his men. 1t is to put stop to b
UGH shameless proceedings in the name d
f justice that Mr.. Thurman's bill was |;
Irawn, and for the same reason it [
hould be promptly passed and sent to p
he Governor. 1t will bring a wall from t.
His Excellency, the United States At c.
orney, the Federal Marshal, and per- Il
APPS from the Chief Justice himself, b
ut neither of those officials can pre- d
eDt an argument against it, and the n
oYernor dare not kill it with his ahsn- ! "