The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-17
ing qualified Judges" With, this am
endment the section was adopted.
septegenerians May BE Judges.

ing qualified Judges With this am
endment the section was adopted.
septegenerians May BE Judges.
Section four read:
Every judge of the supreme court
shall be at least thirty years of age
and shall before his election have been
a resident of the state for three years
An amendment and not over sew
enty years of aSe" was lost by a mar
row vote
The words cor territory we're in
serted after the word state" and the
section adopted.
Went Through With Whoop.
Section 3 reading as follows was
adopted without amendment:
The supreme court shall have orig
inal jurisdiction to issue writs Of man
damus, certiorari, prohibition, quo
warranto and habea5 corpus, and all
writs necessary or proper to the COM
plete exercise of its appellate jurisdic-
ton. In all other cases it shall have
appellate jurisdiction only. The SUI
preme court shall hold at least three
terms every year and shall sit at the
capital of the state.
Not Less Than Five judicial Dis
tricts.
Section 6 read:
The state shall be divided into five
judicial districts for each of which
one and not exceeding three judges
shall be chosen by the qualified cleo
tors thereof. The term of Office of the
district judges first elected and hold
ing Office under this constitution shall
be three years, and their successors
office for a term of six years. There
shall be held q district court in each
county at least twice in a year. Each
Judge of the district court shall be at
least thirty years of age and shall re-
side in the district for which he shall
be elected A district judge may hold
a district court in any county at the
request of d judge of the district court
thereof and upon the request of the
governor it shall be his duty to do so.
Any cause in the district court may be
tried by a Judge pro tempore, VINO
must be a member Of the bar agreed
upon by parties or their attorneys OF
record and who shall be sworn to try
the cause.
1t was amended to read "the state
shall be divided into not less than
five judicial districts"
The sentence, There shall be held a
district court in each county at least
twice a year" was stricken out. In
the last sentence the word civil was
inserted between the words any and
cause" With these changes Ghe sec
ton was adopted.
General Notes,
In discussing section 2 Colonel
Kaighn wanted a clause inserted pro-
viding that the judges be appointed by
the governor and the senate instead
of being elected by the people. 1t met
with scant consideration.
John Lu Taylor wanted it provided
that cities of 10000 inhabitants or over
should have criminal courts of their
own, independent of the district court
and that the judges of these courts
should receive the same amount OF
salary as the judges of the district
court.
MI Taylor also wanted the judici-
airy to be except out Of politics by
making it q law that two of the three
judges of the supreme court should be
of the dominant political party and
the other one of the other political
faith, and in case the number was in
creased to five. three of them to belong
to the dominant party and two to the
minority. Mr.. Taylor didn't explain
how this would work in case Of fire.
quent changes in the political com
plexion of the state and how it could
be made to harmoniZe with the judges
being appointed for a specific term.