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I have absolute confidence . Without If I might be allowed to spend a going into all the details . I will take few moments upon the system in the one of the most important ones , which City of New Orleans , I would say that

in dollars and I believe that that judiciary system , cents to the amount which will be insofar as it provides a system for saved to the people of this State by jail delivery for this parish , insofar as the change in the expenses for sal - lit provides for clearing the dockets aries of judges , viz . , the change by of the superior criminal courts , so that which the grand jury is reduced from

s reduced from they can devote their time to major sixteen to twelve persons . If you will felonies , instead of to minor onts , is calculate the reduction of four grand an absolutely periect one . Not only jurors for two terms per annum of has the trial of minor offenses been the fifty - eight parishes of the State .

transferred from the criminal district and if you remember there are fifty court to a lower court , which has been seven parishes in which the grand

specially provided for the purpose , wit jury sits twice a year , and one parish the district attorney of this parish . only the parish of Cameron - - where who has been clamoring for additional they sit once , you will . by a help , has been granted an addition . nl very short calculation , see that the assistant , and I believe that the ina saving in that matter alone , if you chinery for the enforcement of the assume that the mileage of each grand criminal laws in the parish of Orledils juror is $ 10 per term , would be a sav

possible . Insofar as the civil Courts ing of over $ 15 , 000 a year , in the mat are concerned , in the country we have ter of grand jurors alone . This , how had the immense improvement , to my ever , is trifling when compared with min , of abolishing that anachronism ,

ven - ' term of court , " and of substitutins tirely the cost of petit jurors in mis - ja system befitting the end of the ninet demeanors . You have saved the ios1 teenth century ; a system by wnich of seven out of twelve jurors in petis the different courts shall remain open felonies . You have saved jail fees . beien montiis in the year without any cause of the fact that the judges will interruption , and which requires the be able to clear the jails by quicktir ! judge to go from parish to parislas trials . I have heard it stated that l public business requires him to . . the total expenses of the judicial syS and to attend to business as it arises . tem was is slated by the gentleman I believe that when this changed Sys wbo preceded me , $ 330 . 000 per annum ; tem shall have been completed , it will but I have heard others , in whose be within the power of the legis a ' re judgment I have great confidence . I to further diminish the expense thereof state that the figures which Wreby providing 10 producirl . and which justified this district judges , after the system sh 11 ! statement , were inaccurate and en - have been tried , and the amount of tirely too small : that the figures would business conducted in the cou reach nearly J ) or 960 ) 10 ) . I have perfecus aspertained . heard it computed that the cost of Now , as to the circuit judg . s , which trying a man for a betty of us will have been abolished in the country . To average $ 71 per case , but this item my mind the system which has been will . under the new System ) , be

adopted not only possesses more clus . duced to $ 15 or $ 20 . Now , what is ticity than the old one , but answer the use of taiking of the small sav - perfectly every condition of the prol ing in the salary of judge ' s when we ' lem , giving , as it does , to the people have an equivalent amount in the of this State a fair appellate court pay of grand jurors and when we for the trial of cases involving save an intinitely larger amount in the amounts between $ 110 u

0 . I fees pay of petit jurors , And outside of a great deal of difficience in apir ) . h all ot that . I do not s how you can ing this subject , and I should not have separate the State from hrPeopit , felt at liberty to do so if it were still And besides savins nolity to the pub - under discussion , but this mattr 148 lie treasury We sat to the peopie passed beyond any deliberative Sluge . of the State the money and time when this is our

This is our Constitution to - day ; the they wasted during attendance upon Constitution of every man who has grand juris at the parish Seats , wait

sat in tinis assembly , and I believe tha : ing for a case to be called ; 20 : 19 we all have the right to criticise it . home , and being summond artii

and SCUly to try and find out when an indictment is found , and

and to point out to others whut W dancing attendance upon the distniet believe to be the good poinis 111 it , court until the cast is tried . All

and I say to you , my fellow duzti ' s , these delays are done away with , and

that I believe that the systim of ap I say to you , gentlemen , that the sav

pellate ( ourts provided thole is $ 11 ing effected by this judiliary Systen

perior to the one now existing and I will not be appreciated by the people

say that for this reason : I believe of this State until the system shall in the first place , from an intimnote be put in actual operation .

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