Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 55, Number 141, 4 August 1886 — HANDS OFF! [ARTICLE]

HANDS OFF!

LEAVE THE SUPREME COURT ALO9E. Now Xot the Time to Act— Protests ol' the Tress— The Xew As-siult-Kto. I BDLT. The Red Bluff SenTtnW prononnces the • :hief Justice Morrison cowardly. i. \-.!V, r:-.!r. ABD KOXKT. The Santa Cruz Sentinel avows that the Legishituri- is wasting timeaod money in entert.air.ir. .Justi.es sf the supreme Court. PUBHISG a BAD PBOPOBITIOH. If the Justices named are to be removed „,• ground ol disability, at Judge Terry's . m, why not have the Legislature also ler the case of Governor Stoneman, who:. ! ' declares to be an imbecile? — S««*a Rota Rqnib Till. PBOBABLE OCTCOJW. ■ That the present charge made by David B. l\rry against the Judges of the Supreme Coor is rath( i a p ivel mode of proceeding, linno can and that it will meet about the same fate as Governor Stoneman's attempt to reorganize the Supreme Court is very probable. — Oakland Times. "pOBITIOH O» r.\:r.-MiNi)i:n proi'i.i: The Los Aogeles Herald observes that Chief Justice Harris m will r;-c ivc- ;: great ileal of sympathy ius a result of the very brusque assault made upon him by Judge Terry. '" His ailment resullcil from no irregular habits of life or vicious indul--88, and merits the forbearance of all fair-iiiiiideil people." DEHORALIZtIfa THE Wllol.K MACHI.VERV OK GOVERNMENT. The Nevada City Hira'd says that the enemies of the Supreme Court "have Bought ' ■ demoralize the whole machinery oi Government, and they have almost succeeded. They have employed chicanery. corruption, Intimidation ami all the \r.\-v means employed by ba.^e men to accomplish base purposes." ANAEI'MV AMI CONFCBIOK. This whole Supreme Court business is very serious. It shows how near thi> State i- approaching anarchy and confusion which will arise from the uncertainty ot judicial proceedings. When a Court does not Buil a prominent man in its rulings. the means of upsetting the Court are very easy. There seems to be no bed-rock foundation to our Courts. — Grait Valley I". .1 : A PXBBOK&L ' OKTSST. The enemies of *!ie Supreme Court, on nal grounds, are determined upon its destruction. As the plot develops itself il becomes m jr«> apparent that all the warnings uttered during the past few years by the honest press and the honest public men of the State, regarding the power of monopolies and their dangerous attitude toward the people, and the people's liberties, have not been without cause, — Via ula City Herald. A PBOTBST. The Santa Rosa Republican, referring b the assaults "i\ the Supreme Court, Bays ot Judge Terry: He will no longer dictate . binary terms to parlies and conventions ; be cannot control Governors; he appears \" be do longer able to control himBelf. The fall is great, but his party— whichever it is — profits thereby, and the State is so much relieved. Be always fought the Bi publican party. The Democratic party will be wise to leave him entirely to himself. "COWABDLY ATTAi K." David 8. Terry, who married Sarah AlIhea Hill, has petitioned the Legislature to remove Chief Justice Robert F. Morrison from the Supreme Bench of California. The reasons for this high-handed outrage o. the will of the people and the dignity of the State of California are set forth by Terry in charges of tnoonipetency. We rise to ask, was this matter a part of the business of the extra Bession, as set forth in the Governor's proclamation? — Red Bluff Sentinel. SHOULD HAVE BEES BURKED ON Slc.llT. The idea of snch a roan as Dave Terry going before the Legislature and making —in b charges against Justices Morrison and Sharpstein is farcial in the extreme, and ii the Legislature is so foolish :us to retire those Judges on such grounds, the members thereof will richly earn the contempt of cvi rv li- nn .-t man In the State. Instead of app lintinjj a committee to investigate the nonsensical charges which have been made by Terry, costing thousands of dollars to do the same, they .should have thrown them into the tire. — Neeada <.'iti/ Transcript. BROSSL7 i>i r::ivM>. The people of California were grossly deceived by the smart schemers at the bottom ol this ini;:ati<in movement, and as the scales fall from their eyes and they begin to understand the hidden purposes id its leaders, they are justly indignant at the deception. While a large majority of them favor v just system of irrigation where necessary, they do not favor the reorganization of our Supreme.Conrt <>i any amendment to our Constitution or laws placing the nonnavigalile waters of the State in the power of an unconscionable monopoly. Petaluma < ■ WASTING TIMK AND MONEY. The legislators at Sacramento are wasting their time and the people's money by s< riously entertaining the charges of David Terry against two Justices of the Supreme Court. The evident animosity of the charge is not commendable, and it ought to be squelched for that, if for no otber reason. Everybody who lias kept posted on the Sharon case will believe that it the Court. Instead of denying, had granted Terry's motion to dismiss the defendants appeal in. in Judge Sullivan's order granting large counsel tees and alimony, the Legislature would never have beard of these charges. li is i.ot the business of Legislatures to in personal spites and animosities. and we think the people of the State would have heartily approved their representatives in Sacramento if Judge Terry's charges had beet) kicked out of doors as dily and unceremoniously as parliamentary procedure would permit. The Legislature has do authority to act opon the charges at this session. Tbe Constitution declares that at a special session the Legislature " shall have no power to legislate on any subjects other than those sp< . lfietl in the proclamation " calling it together. The Governor's proclamation convening tbe special session does not contain anything that ran be construed as applying to such action as Judge Terry's charges ild make necessary .—Sa • Sentinel. MOST P.EMOKSI'I I -. They seem to forget that the parties who engage in the business >_>i creating Courts to make law to order may at the nest turn ot the wheel be obliged to staod to their defenses. But the notion that " after us the deluge" is in some quarters more widely prevalent than is generally supposed. * : ''- But the Court must in the nature of things, decide either ■gainst the one or the other powerful suitors who appear at its bar. If it is ou every occasion to be reoiganized out of existence by the defeated, there will be an end to law and justice on the Pacific coast. Of all the attacss on the Court the last was the most remorseless. There is something shockingly repulsive in the idea of calling up a Judge on the charge that his health is poor — thus placing a man in the attitude of a criminal, because of I visitation which may have been the result ot a too e:ir;:e.-t devotion tn his public duties. Chid Justice Chase limped around on crutches for years in the Capitol at Washington, partially paralyzed, but no one thought of hauling him up for trial on the ground that lie was incapacitated. Justice Hunt, of the Supreme Court of the United States, waa for many jean an invalid, but he was not even placed on the retired list and pensioned, is the law permits, till he iiad reached the full age of seventy, in a young State like California, which has so many questions pc:idimr, forbearance equally great cannot probably be exhibited. But if any of our Judges "are not as competent for their work now as when they were elected, there is a decent, civilized and Christian method of dealing with a condition of that kind. There should certainly 1m? kind treatment for the public servant who baa worn himself out in the discharge of his duties, and not brutal outrage, as if lie were a malefactor and a criminal. The Assembly has reflected no credit on itself in what it has alre.idy done in this matter. It certainly d tea not represent the benevolent feelings of the State at large. But when it is but too apparent that it instituted its harsh pro'-eeding.- from purely sinister motives, the case acainst it becomes still worse. The wonder is that any body of men could be found in the State so lost to decency as to summon Judges before it to plead by reason of the illness and suffering which they may have had to endure. If there is any relief needed for the State in the premises, it will be found in a humane and civilized manner by the new Legislature, whicb. will soon convene. — 5. F. Bulletin.