Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-02-18
From the Painesvile Press-J. r. FRENCH, Editor.
Another JudRe.

We notice by the Legislative proceedings
published in the Columbus papers that Mr..
KRUM has introduced Bill providing for an ad.
ditional Common Pleas Judge in this Sub-divi-
sion, which consists of the counties of Ashtabu.
la, Geauga and Lake. The Bill has been re-
ierred to a Select Committee, of Messrs. Krum,
Clapp, and Hitchcock. Perhaps right here it
may be well to give the people of Lake county
snatch of history, not distanlly connected
with this very proposition.
One day, early in the session of last winter
Senator CALDWELL came to US with the tidings
that he had carried through the Senate Bill
providing for an additional Judge in this dis
tric, and asked US to see little to the bill when
it should come before the House. Frankly we
told the gentleman, that such project haf nev-
er been broached in Lake County, that the peo-
pie of that county had expressed no desire for
such Legislation, that l did not believe it need
ed-and until conviBced of its necessity should
give the measure no support.
Soon after received Petitions for the pass
age of the Bill, from three Of the Attornies Of
the county. which presented to the House, as
also one or two remonstrances- received nu.
merous letters in regard to the proposition, most
of them urging the defeat of the Bill, and ad-
Vising that an additional Judge was totally un-
called for. From the FIRST had but one opin-
ion, which was, that so far as Lake was con-
e'rned the proposition Of an additional Judge
and the multiplication of the Courts, were the
last things desired or needed by the people
But before any action was reached by the
House. several well informed citizens of Asbta-
bula county, and men whom then supposed to
be gentlemen Of integrity, and regardful Of the
interests OF the county (aud ssme of whom
have since learned to be such) wrote me, setting
forth the pressing need Of such additional Judi.
cial force in that county-snd suggesting that
even il not needed in Lake, it was hardly hon.
Orabis or neighbOry for the Representative Of
one county of the District to stand 10 the way
OF the passage Of Legislation so imperativey
demanded by another section of the same. To
this statement and argument / Of course yield.
ed-and gave my voice and vote for the Bill.
But the lawyer friends of the measure attribut-
ed its defeat to my lukeWarmness-and hence
the violent personal warfare of the Senatorial
struggle last fall. That warfare upon us, aside
from the three or four aspirants was confined
to the La'Uyers-and was by the way of show
ing their almighty power in political dispensa-
tions
We are satisfied now, that in Asbtabula even
there Is no pressing need Of this additional tsx
Of el'bOe upon the people Of the State. AL
ready, 10 oue Of the Southern subdivisions of
this District there IS an extra Judge aud If
bslP is needed in AShtabula. let this man, whose
services heleng TO the entire District, come ID
and give them month or tSo of work. So
tsr as Lake and Geauga are concerned, there is
not half enough work for the present Judge.
OF sOnrSe We do not mean to say that all
who favor this ere aetuated by selGshnsss. Mr..
Keum We have do doubt introduced the Bill ia
good faith--dhd some Of the uames announced