The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-02

ulNlue worship Will % WnoIly eliminated
from the religion of the future and legls-
lated altogether out of existence.
Revision of the Supreme Court Rules.
Putting forward the slow-going appealed
cases in the court of last resort has long
been desideratum which the bar of the
country has found itself unequal to coping
with. But il is believed to have been at
last measurably accomplished.
Before adjourning for the February
recess the United States supreme court made
an important change in the rules of practice
which is attracting great deal Of atten-
ton among lawyers throughout the coun-
try. Some of them appear to be somewhat
in doubt as to the reason for the change and
the ensuing results. In effect the
modification of the rules ordered by
the court is to require that each case
brought before the tribunal shall be docketed
within thirty days from the time the appeal
is taken from the lower court Unless some
very good reason shall entitle given case
to special order all appeals, citations and
writs of error are to be made returnable by
the lower court to the supreme court within
the prescribed period Of thirty days.
Whether the court may chance to be in
session or in vacation this rule is intended
to apply with equal force and effect. So
rigidly is it to be applied that unless each
case with ali records pertaining thereto
shall be docketed within the given specified
limit of thirty days they shall be subject to
dismissal. Many months have heretofore
been allowed to intervene between the tax
ing Of an appeal and docketing it upon the
supreme court records. Attorneys have been
in the habit Of availing themselves of this
privilege to defer cases when the principal
object in view was to secure a delay before
coming to a final decision.
When the electrocution case of Juriguro
was sent up from New York the attention
of the court was called to the ready faciIi-
ties for infinite and vexatious delays that
the court has afforded, and it was for the
especial purpose of meeting just such cases
that the new rule was framed, and
put in operation. Still it has been
made of sufficiently general application to
affect all cases coming before the court.
By precluding dilatory motions and OBJ
structiye tactics the rule will probably save
the court great deal of Tina that has here
tofore bsen occupied in hearing merely
dilatory motions. To that extent iu may
and probably will tend to reduce the great
Accommodations of the constantly leug hens
ing calendar. If it does that it will afford
an incalculab!e advantage to htigants who
really wish to reach final conclusions.
Undertaking to block Hills presidential
prospects with the use of his accummula-
lions of insurance money, which is said to
be Mr.. Bulke ely --latest device, only shows
the innate smallness and malice of tie man.
But Rulkeley hasn't enough influence even
in his own party to do any one much harm.
So Gov. Hill has little to fear from the
irate back-number's tsmpering with the
Connecticut democrats. They don't love
him particularly. They have no reason to.
Suffering the pangs Of loneliness for ten
days proved too much for a Dakota man.
So the 60-year~old widower looked up
buxom 45-year-old Yankton widow and
| engaged her for life contract in the role of
mother to his six children. With SO many
bowling youngsters around him his haste to
unload the responsibility is not so sur
pr.sing-