Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-15
DEPORTATION TRIALS TOCOST
 TAXPAYERS IF COUNTY GREAT !.
 SUM IN NECESSARY EXPENSES
Seventeen Jurors Professionally Seated Box Have Already Entailed Expenditure of $460O and Sheriffs Are Securing County for Panel of 400 Taesmen in
 Hope of Securing First Jury

TOMBSTONE, Feb. 14.-Tn watch ing. during the hours when .the de- portation cases are before the court, the steady procession of talesmen to the stand; in listening to their brief examination. rarely taking longer than two or three minutes. and in watching, again, the steady process sion from the stand to the office of the county clerk aud thence to that of the county treasurer, the casual spectator at what promises to be one of the greatest legal actions in his tory of American jurisprudence is i'm pressed by one fact above all others that of expense. And the unceasing flow of money from the treasure chest of the county has its source not in those who are active partici- pants in the trials, but in the entire body polite of the county, each mem Der of which must count the cost in the rate of taxes levied against him and in the surcharges which the mag nitude of the present actions de mands
 The machinery of the law, like every type of machinery that has it's handspring in human action, calls for the one universal lubricant-money ey Unlike almost every other type, that lubricant must come from direct as- sessments upon the taxpayer, and must incontrovertibly have its de- terrent effect upon those public pro jects aside from the administration of the law which are also dependent for their initiation and completion upon the state of the public purse.
 But the disbursements which oc. cur actually before the eyes of the visitor are only part of the total outflow of money made necessary by the deportation cases. The unseen machinery of the law - that part which includes cogs made up of the attaches of the sheriff's office, of the county attorneys office, of all the various departments of county government which directly or indi- rectly, must be called upon to assist in the prosecution of the cases, creates another demand and de mand which is accompanied by con- current slackening of performance in the duties which ordinarily make up the daily routine of those depart ments. When, for instance, the force of deputy sheriffs is scattered throughout the country searching for jurors who may have long since left the state, the routine of policing the county suffers necessarily. When the force of the county attorneys office is engaged in such a trial as that now pending here, it's activities in other cases and in other lines are at least hamDered if they are not held up altogether. And so down the line. until to the actual cost of the prose cution must be added that contingent cost which. while it is invisible. must yet be counted and paid in the final reckoning
 In the three panels which have been drawn and disposed of in one case. that of H. F.. Wootton, who is the first of the 210 defendants to be tried, 800 names have been listed The disbursements to talesmen, ac- cording to Guy Welsh, county treas ureS amount already to more than S4600 At first glance this may not seem large. alloting, as 1t does, about $5 to each prospective juryman for travelling expenses and payment at the rate of 8 day. but when it Is considered that that of those 800 men only about 400 have actually re- ported to the court, and that the num- Der of those who did not report was cut almost in half again by exemp- tions granted by the court within a short time of the opening of the ses- sion when they were to appear, the question e. cost takes another angle. | and what might have seemed q req. sonable expenditure at first glance becomes an almost exorbitant dis bursement when examined carefully.
 Looking at the problem. again, | from the angle of results actually ac- complished, the expenditure Of that $4600 has resulted in putting only F men on the jury, when 24 are re- quisite. and this in the face of the fact that as the case continues here is becoming apparent an increasing lack of desire on the part of prospec- tive jurymen to serve, the expense to the county assumes gigantic pro- portions. A fourth panel, containing 400 names, has been prepared, with little hope on either side that the jury will be completed from among those