The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-14
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REMARKS OF NM. WILSON OF IOWA.

Mr.. WILSON, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported hack, with amendment an
act Is. No. S9) to amend the act of March 3,
1867, entitled can act to amend the judiciary
system of the United States"
The amendments were read as follows:
First amendment:
Strike out .'the districts of Ohio and Ken
lucky shall constitute the seventh circuit: the
districts Of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota shall constitute the eighth circuit;
the districts of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and
Iowa shall constitute the ninth circuit;" and
insert "the districts of Ohio, Kentucky and
Michigan shall constitute the seventh circuit;
theidistricts of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin
shall constitute the eighth circuit; the districts
of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas shall
constitute the ninth circuit
Second amendment:
Strike out, in the same section, "except in
district Of Iowa, in which the circuit court
the second Tuesday in May and November of
each year, at which times and places terms of
the district court shall be holden: Provided,
This act shall not interfere with the terms of
said district court now provided by law for said
district"
Third amendment:
In the following clause strike out the part in
brackets, and insert the word October in the
place of 'April:' That all actions, suits, pros.
ecutions, causes, pleas, process and other pro.
ceedings relative to any cause, civil or criminal,
which might have been brought and could
have been originally equitable in circuit
court, now pending in or returnable to the
several district courts of Texas, Florida, Wis.
consin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas, acting o.
circuit courts, Tor so empowered to act, ] on the
1otA ,o| nvs1 i'll I. \
declared to be, respectively, transferred, return
able and continued to the several circuit courts
constituted by this act, to be holden within the
said districts, respectively .ifs
Mr.. WASHBURNE. This is an important
matter, and would suggest to the gentleman
that he will postpone its consideration for. q
limited time
Mr.. WILSON. Iprefer to say what have
to say now, and then have no objection to
postponing the matter as
Mr.. Speaker, intend to demand the prev
ious question on the third reading Of this bill
but before doing SO wish to submit few re-
marks in explanation of the bill and amend.
ments. 5s ta7
The object of the bill il to correct she pres.
ent most unjust organization of the Judicial cir
cults of the United States, and to 80 organize
, them that, IS far as practicable, all parts Of
the country may recoive tneir uue proportion
of the benefits arising from the present judicial
system. "A reconstruction Of the system is not
proposed. but simply fair equitable adjust
ment Of the circuits, SO that, whether the sys-
TEN he perfect or imperfect, all sections shall
share alike in such advantages as to it may be
long. That Congress should take some action
in this regard, thinkiwill not be questioned
| by any one, certainly by no one who has given
the subject even the slightest degree of thought
and examination.
The principal feature Of the bill is that which
sdds to the States now embraced in the extra
ordinarily large circuit Of Judge Swsyne, the
States Of Kentucky, Missouri. Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesots and Kansas and then divides the
whole into three circuits The population Of
these States 10, according to the last census, Is