The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-06-21
SYSTEM OF THE UNITEl
STATES.
Remarks Of Mr.. Wilson.

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The speaker proceeded, as the regular or
der Of business, to call the committees for
reports, commencing with the Committee on
the Judiciary.
Mr.. Wilson, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported back, with amendments,
an act Is. No. S9) to amend the act Of March
8, 1857, entitled "An act supplementary to
the act entitled An act to amend the Judi.
CARY 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 offndiana, Michigan, Wiscon.
sin. and Minnesota shall constitute the eighth
circuit, the districts of Illinois, Missouri,
Kansas, and Iowa shall constitute the ninth
circuit !" and insert 1.-THE districts Of Ohio,
Kentucky, and Michigan shall constitute
the seventh circuit the districts 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
the district of Iowa, in which the circuit
court shall be holden at the capital of the
State on the second Tuesday in May and
November of each year, at which times and
places terms of the district court shall be
holden Propided, This act shall not inter-
fere with the terms of said district court now
provided by law for said district"
Third amendment:
In the following clauses strike out the part
in brackets, and insert the word ''October''
in the place Of "April :" THAT all actions,
suits, prosecutions. causes, pleas, process,
and other proceedings relative to any cause,
civil or criminal. (which might have been
brought and could have been originally cog
nizable in circuit court, now pending in or
returnable to the several district courts of
Texas, Florida, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa,
and Kansas, acting as circuit courts, for so
empowered to act, on the lst day of April
next, shall be, and are hereby declared to
be, respectively, transferred, returnable, and
continued to the several circuit courts con-
stituted by this act, to be holden within the
said districts, respectively
Mr.. Washburne. This is an important
matter, and would suggest to the gentle
man that he will postpone its consideration
for limited time
Mr.. Wilson. 1 prefer to say what have
to say now, and then have no objection to
postponing the matter.
Mr.. Speaker, I intend to demand the pre-.
vious question on the third reading Of this
bill, but before doing so, I wish to submit a
few remarks in explanation of the bill and
amendments.
The object ofthe bill is to correct the pres
ent most unjust organization Of the judicial
circuits of the United States, and to so or
ganize them that, as far as practicable, all
parts of the country may receive their due
proportion of the benefits arising from the
present judicial system. A reconstruction
ofthe system is not proposed, but simply q
fair and equitable adjustment of the circuits,
so that, whether the system be perfect or
imperfect, all sections shall share alike in
such advantages as to it may belong. That
Congress should take some action in this
regard, | think will not be questioned by
any one, certainly by no one who has given
the subject even the slightes. degree Of
thought and examination.
The principal feature Of the bin Is that
which adds to the States now embraced il,
the extraordinarily large circuit of Judge
Swayne, the States Of Kentucky, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas,
and then divides the whole into three circuits.
The population of these States is, according