The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-01-28

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$7kiys tive Coyle to create an
IN an Orphans Court for this
7asii- - --s------lh hiFAGsA county, having reached,
- >;,--5.s;- and over-stepped, the
prescribed figure Of
$4,000 population. The bill Of course has
its friends, but among the legal fraternity it
numbers its most influential enemies, because
- separate court which would take away
from certain practitioners AZ the bar much Of
their lucrative business in the shape Of audits
and other fat appointments, is mos likely to
be much favored by members Of the profes
sion, and especially the more favored or pet
ted ones who now bask in the sunshine of the
smiles Of the present judiciary. For instance
if such a court is established the Judge APP
pointed and to be elected would audit and
settle mosto of the dCGedeuts' estt as and thus
save to them the cost Of auditors fees, and
would received his pay from the state treasury
In this particular an Orphans Court would
be popular with the masses, but in Others il
would be extremely unpopular, in view OF the
chances that another salHried man would be
foisted on us and we might draw such a
one in election lottery who wsuld be arbi-
trary and prove in time that we had better
have ''borne the ills we have than fly to those
we know not Of" But by far the greatest
opposition to the creation of the court comes
from those who do not like any one Of the
few persons VINO would be likely to be ap-
pointed to the judgeship. | do not care to
mention names but already there are two
prominent Democratic lawyers, residents Of
the county seat, who are respectively making
great efforts to convince the Governor to
select them, and as only one judge is to get
there the fight between the two will soon
wax warm. One of these worthless has had
the Orphans Court judge bee in his bonnet
for number of years while the others am
biton for some office, that of judge preferred,
is his ruling passion, The former has ished
out Of its resting place an old petition which
for two years has been laid aside as unfnish-
ed business and is now brought forward and
busted preparatory to be Of service again.
DOUBTFUL ISSUE.
But it is the overweaning desire of this
applicant to convince the Governor that he
alone should be thought of in the selection,
that has made the passage Of the bill a matter
of great doubt. In fact it is a matter almost
of certainty that the weight of iuAaulce will
go against its passage because the defeat of
the bill appears to be the most graceful way
and delicate way of knocking out this par
ticular and, to many, unsavory candidate
1t is, therefore, fruitless to argue thai having
over 10000 population, the county win have
to have the court and the bill will surely
pass, when it is an undisputed fact that two
years ago the same condition Of affairs ex
listed and the bill was allowed to die in its
infancy of membraueous Group OF other
puerile poison, superinduced by the inuoc-
uous desuetude into which the Judge making
law makers allowed themselves to fall into,
on account of the opposition engendered by
the unpopularity Of certain politicians who
conceived the idea that they, and only they,
were fit to adiudiCate in matters pertaining to
this particular court So, too, now the bill
may be allowed to sleep the sleep that knows
no waking, just as soon as it shall become
hHpdlNhb AAleA bAAN VI NAtAltA ol Allt GuAGl
manipulators for the Governors favor may
get the coveted plum. Taking the matter
all in all, think there will be no new court
established Tor this county at this session Of
the Legislature and, along with a host Of
others, l shall be heartily glad Of it, because
with three judges now in commission we
have enough and there is absolutely no use
for another. Besides it may be that Halle,
the new county, may be established, and
then our population will not reach the
necessary 10000, because the three Union
townships, along with Ryan, Rain and
Kline, will be taken away from rs, never to
return, and make part Of the new territory
which will have Hazleton for its county seat.
CARDS ARE DEALT, THE PLAY is on.
Yesterday the big deal which made the in
dicted Contractor Taylor and Architect Beebe
free and unsullied men, though they yester-
day stood before the people as almost self
confessed criminals, was consummated. One
lawyer took in $500, two others were
squeezed down to fees OF only $500 each, q
thought they brought out all the charges
against the accused men and made it possible
to present Ihem) lady stenographer gets
S94O, about 500 of which will be her own
(and glad Of it many arel, few alleged ex-
perts take in 1920, and the county is salved
down with S1A9sl.7s, less than one half of
what Taylor was surcharged with as having
scooped iu OF the $4,000 paid in by Taylor
and Beebe $4Ols22 goes for fees aud ex-
penses, not counting the fees of Commission
ers private counsel who are still to get in
their work ON the fund, and thus this little
by play at dealing out justice goes on. AIT.
Taylor will now arise from his sick bed aud
laugh real old-iashioned gufAw-and the
statnta az tle Go6desr Of T,sti.s ,,;l tat-. q.