, 1900-05-01
M|SREPRESENTS
THE CHEYENNE TRIBUNE IS
ONCE MORE CAUGHT IN
THE ACT.
United States Jurors Better Paid in
Wyoming Than Most Other States
Senator Warren Secured Advance
in 1S92-IIis Present Bill to Get
Better Pay for Commissioners.

Better Pay for Commissioners.
The Cheyenne Tribune in its Sun
day morning ISSUE published a letter
purporting to be from one F. B. Shell
don of Atlantic City, Wyo.. dated on
April 24th, in which an attempt is made
to criticise Senator Warren with refer
ence to the compensation allowed jur-
ors in the federal courts in Wyoming.
The article states:
A Washington dispatch tells us that
Mr.. Warren has introduced a bill re-
ducing the mileage Of the victims who
are so unfortunate as to be drafted to
serve as United States jurors in Wyo-
ming and some other of the western
states. Should the bill become a law,
the said victims will hereafter get Is
cents for each mile travelled by stage
and 3 cents for each mile Travelled by
railway.
The publication of the article with
fiaring headlines shows that the Tri-
bune desires to falsely represent the
action Of Senator Warren in his con-
nection. Even Senator Warren's po-
litical enemies know that during his
entire public career he has always en-
deav0red to secure the best and most
friendly concessions possible for the
people of Wyoming, and he has been
untiring in his efforts to secure bet
ter compensation for jurors and wit
nesses in attendance upon federal
courts.
At the time Wyoming was admitted
as a state, under the provisions of Sec
ton 49, of the revised statute of the
United States, the fees of jurors and
witnesses amounted to but 5 cents a
mile from their place of residence to
the court and return In addition TO
this jurors received a per diem COM
pensatiOn from the time they left home
until their return, and during their at
tendance at court. While this mileage
fee has proven fairly satisfactory to the
ehSb'lh olut'S IL WI hNu 5lCdI hulu-
ship TO the newer states in the west,
where Jurors and witnesses were COM
PEELED to pay 10 to u cents a mile for
stage travel. Senator Warren's atten-
ton was called to this md he prepared
and secured the passage of a bill
through congress providing that jur-
ors and witnesses in the states Of Wy
oming, Washington, Montana, Ore
gon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Cal
~ifornia, and in the territories of New
Mexico, Arizona and Utah, should re-
ceive 10 cents a mile for each mile ac-
tually travelled over any stage line or
by private conveyance. thereby ~increas-
ing the compensation 10 cents a mile.
While Mr.. Sheldon might be excused
for, being misled by a fake dispatch
from Washington, there is no excuse
for the Tribune, and only a desire to
m%isrepresent could have caused the
Tribune to adopt, with such enthusi-
assn, the misrepresentation therein
contained. Any court official in Chey-
enne would have been glad to have
called its attention to the law passed
in 1892, and the fact that this law has
been in operation since hat time simp-
ly illustrates the ridiculous position
they now occupy.
At the time of the passage of the
bill above referred to increasing the
fees of witnesses and jurors, it was i'm
possible to secure the passage of IN
act increasing the fees of witnesses be-
fore United States commissioners I'M
der similar circumstances, and the bill
which has been introduced by Senator
Warren at this session is t. increase
the fees of witnesses in attendance be-
fore commissioners, so they shall re-
ceive for stage travel, or travel by pri-
vate conveyance, Is cents a mile also.
We have no fault to find with that
portion of Mr.. Sheldon's letter giving
his views as to the ~inadequacy of the
present compensation of jurors and
witnesses before the federal courts.
~ do "Nll us lut plCsNul
delegation in Washington from this
state, would be glad to have the fees
and compensation of jurors raised to a
higher figure so that attendance of jur-
ors in each case would be fully COM
pensated for, but the concession secur-
ed by Senator Warren in advancing the
fees of jurors and also of witnesses in
Wyoming over stage lines and from
places off the railroad to 10 cents as
against 5 cents, which is paid in 36
states Of the union, is one which is gen.
orally appreciated by the witnesses and
Jurors Of this state.-Sun-Leader.
Miss Florence Newman, who has been
a great sufferer from muscular rheu-
matism, says Chamberlain's Pain Balm