Tombstone epitaph., 1893-05-28
Grand Jury.

against the PRosPEcToE for taking all the law allows for printing the delin- quent tax list. It would have been equally as reasonable had this body have declared that the district court clerk was making exhorbitsnt charges for fees or that the district attorney was drawing an enormous salary for work performed. They take all that the law allows, no more and no less, while because the PRosPEcToR did take less than the law allowed, the grand jury found fault with it. We will never be guilty of such bit of philanthropy again. The law fixes tine kind oi type that shaii be used in printing the delinquent tax list. Here Is the law:
 For printing the delinquent. tax lists of the several counties of this ter ritory, the price shall not erceed seventy cents for the first insertion, and for each subsequent insertion shall not exceed fifty cents per inch or fraction thereof, to be set in Brevier single leaded.
 This work was performed strictly according to law with the exception that the type used was smaller than Brevier, and not larger, as the report of the grand jury alleges. The PRos- HECTOR had it within its power to swell this list 10 nearly double it's size, and collect from the county twice as much as it was paid and keep within the law.
 The grand jury was indeed hard up for political thunder when it took the word of an ex-printer who knows less about type than . hog does aboui heaven, and whose ideas. as embodied in the grand jury report, show con clusively that he knows nothing of the point system of interchangeable type bodies now in use throughout the world.
 Ii the PRosPEcToR had been guilty of any breach of law, or had any of the county officers been guilty of conduct not strictly according to law it was the duty of the grand jury 70 bring indictments against them and by so doing give to them the same oppor- tunity to confront their traducers that is accorded criminals accused of less heinous crimes.
 The grand jury has made public charges against some of the most honorable citizens of the county There is but one tribunal before whom they can be brought, that ef public opinion. All others were closed to them by the grand jury by its action The prosecution has closed. The PRosPEcToR is the court, the records are the witnesses and the people shall be the judges
 The late grand jury relieved Judge Sloan of great responsibility by de- ciding the title of Mir. McAllister to the office of supervisor. A point of law which has proved a stumbling block and racked the minds of learued men throughout the United States, has proved but a toy Tn a Coehise county grand jury room. The jury did not need to take the case under advise ment, as ordinary mortals do, or hear authorities quoted on s1ch a simple proposition.
 It is expected that Judge Sloan will, after reading the report of the grand jury in this evenings PRos- PEcroR, rush to the court house and mounting the judicial tripod. decide the McAllister msndamus Case in ac- cordance with this latest authority, for whether ne is a de jue officer or not he is a grand jury one, and there is no getting arouni it. The grand jury says in its report:
 ue eSiCeHcc IS III eHtCt tuat no proceedings were had by a comp-tent court Of jurisdiction to determine the eligibility Of Jas. P. McAlllster, etc.
 That settles it. Congress of the United States will never, after reading this report, judge of the eligibility of its own members. The legislature of the future great state of Arizona will net dare in the face of this declaration from Cochise, to unsest a member who may have been disqualified from acting as e Legislator. They must take the matter before "court of competent jurisdiction"
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