The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-20
REDISTRICT.

~ The HERALD is not at all hopeful OF
Success in the matter of securing 8
fourth Federal judge for This Territory
Similar requests have been denied SO
often that Encouragement is but
natural, and hope exceedingly vapory.
Thers has never existed time when
there should not have been four judges
the demand for the extra justice is no
greater now than at any time during
the past twenty years, and there Is no
more Necessity for him now than there
was generation ago. Other Terri
tories appeals for relief have been
listened to and granted, but our re-
quests have been persisi entity ignored,
though our necessities were greater
than those of any other dependency.
This is Utah, and the studied policy of
Congress aud the government has been
to misuse, abuse, and Cypress this Ter
ritory. There may have come change
over the sentiments and purposes of the
powers that be, and that change may
result in granting the relief in
this matter that has so persistently
been asked for. We sincerely
hope Q, and trust the Legislature, the
bar, the press and the people will ali do
all in their power to induce the appoint
ment of fourth Judge.
Meantime, the Legislature ought not
t9 count on success, but rather on
failure, and should prepare for the lat
ter. This can be done by a recasting
OF eSjudicial districts so as to more
evenly apportion the labor among the
threejudges. As shown in these COL
umns the other morning, the dyes of
the First and Third Districts are sadly
oreFworked. Labor as diligently as
theg may, and much harder than il is
possible for judges TO work in justice to
themselves aud the litigants, they
0znuot keep even with their calendar.
The Judge of the Second District is en-
Elpyed only portion of his time. He
cGnld, without any extraordinary exer
sSn. dispose of third more cases than
Is5E go before him. 1t is suggested that
mach relief would come from attach
ing two counties--Juab and sanpete-
now in the First District, to the Second.
and requiring the judge of the latter
to hold terms of court alternately in
Beaver and Nephi, rs the First District
Judge does is Ogden and Provo. The
proposed transfer would also prove of
great convenience to the litigantS of the
counties named, and help them in
financial sense. Parties from Ssnpete
are compelled to pass through Nephi TO
reach the court at Provo, and it would
be cheaper and easier for such parties
10 go to their county seat than to that
pf VlRh County. A very considerable
proportion OF the litigation in the
southern portion of the Second District
lrises in the Tintics of Juab, and to
rand this over to the Sece I'D District
you'd enable the judge of the First to
Eeep somewhere within hearing dist
ut6= vi ILlc u6hO VI Las OhAOn0h1s INV
he least hardship would be inflicted
ipon anybody by this change; on the
contrary, it would be relief, an ac-
,ommodation and an Improvement all
,ound. Inquiry develops the fact that
Sephi is well prepared to accommodate
he court, her court house being large
4 nough for. all purposes required. The
natter should receive the careful con-
liberation of the Assembly, and in our
pinion the suggested change ought to
emade. If a fourth judge shall be
ecdFed. there will necessarily be d
edis.ricting, when the counties of San
etc and Juab can be returned, and
iEh the others now comprising the
5uthern half of the First District com
ose4he Fourth.