Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-08
fish s1ch acts of his personal unworthiness as have come to our knowledge
Q. g. District Judge for the Western Dis

We publish elsewhere, in to-day's issue, the proceedings in the U. S. Senate concerning, and the remarks of Hon. R. w. Johnson in advoca- cy'of, the creation of a separate judgeship for the western district of Arkansas. The bill dis cussed provides also for the holding of two terms of the U. s. circuit court in the eastern district, each year. It also provides for the payment of salary of twenty-five hundred dollars to the judge of the western district.
 This is matter of much interest to the cltl- zens of the State at large and particularly to the people of the western district. The mem- bers of the bar generally, who feel the necessity of such a change, will hail the passage of this bill with great satisfaction.
 With only one term of the circuit court of the United States, non-residents are driven to the State tribunals, for they will not carry their year, they may be delayed for years. This in consequence throws the entire burden ot foreign litigation upon our State courts, and thus increases enormously the expenses of hold Ing and sustaining those tfiDunaiS.
 The United States court for the western dis trict extends its jurisdiction over the entire h. dian country, embracing region of territory one and half times larger than the State Of Arkansas It can hardly be expected that one judge can perform the amount of service re- qured of him under the existing law. It is not just that so much labor should be thrown upon one individual, and that individual most often, be ripe in his profession, must be advanced ill years.
 Therefore, it is with pleasure we see MT. Johnson making an effort to obtain from the national government that justice due to our State, and particularly to our western citizens, who live adjacent to the country inhabited by the Indian tribes. He obtained a favorable re- port from the committee of the judiciary, when every other bill of that class, and according to Senator Toombs' statement there were many, were rejected.
 The western court is partly in its nature a territorial court, embracny in it's jurisdiction all that region of country upon the western con- fines of Arkansas occupied b. the Indian tribes Yet the U. s. judge, residing at Little Rock, is compelled, not only to hear and determine all claims aud offences within the broad limits of ArkaDsas, but all arising in that vast region of territory belonging to the U. s. government and inhabited by the remnants of most ol the great tribes who have fled before civilization.
 For the court of the western district of Ar kansas, which has this extensive jurisdiction, there should be separate judge. It is hot, properly speaking, court of Arkansas. It is in reality court established to try causes origi hating n the Indian country Its establish ment for that purpose at Van Buren was mat ter of necessity. Policy anl good sense dictated that we should Lot establish court in the h. dian territory. while man could not get justice there. An intelligent, impartial jury could not be had It is therefore not right that the labors of this territorial court should be thrown upon the hands of the judge of the cas- tern district of Arkansas. l. is due 10 the State to the judge and the western people, that anolh- er judge be given us.
 We trust that the efforts of Senator Johnson in the Senate, in this behalf, may prove sue cesslul.