New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-06

MEMORIAL or MILES TAYLOR, CHRISTIAN RosELTUs,
AND THfRrY-faUR OTHER MEMBERS OF THE NEW
ORLEANS BAR, PLB THE REPEAb OF AN ACT TO
BETTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DISTRICT COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN He STATE OF
LOUISIANA.
To the Senate Representatives. Of the United
States America in Congress assembled:
The memorial of the undersigned, menbers Of
the bar of the circuit and district courts OF the
United States In the State of Louisiana, respect
fully represents: That in their opinion the public
interest requires that the act of Congress entitled
an act for the better organization Of the district
court OF the United States within the State of Lou
isiana," approved March 3, 1S49, should now be
repealed.
BY reference to the returns made to the Depart
ment of the Interior with respect to the courts Of
the western district created by that act, it will be
found, as your menorialists are informed and be-
lieve that un,ler the organization of the court In
that district as provided for in the act, almost no
suits we're brought, and there was nothing deserv-
ing the name Of Judicial business at either of the
places designated in the act where courts were to
be held and your me moriaisits do not doubt that
the further continuance OF the division q the STATE
the effect of practically depriving the citizens Of
the other States Of the UHion OF the privilege OF
enforcing the rights they may have against the IN
nabitants of tha district through the agency of the
JUDICIAL power of the United States.
The city Of New Orleans is the great business
cenlre OF the State of louisiana and 1t IS the only
point where the citizens of other States can con-
venently make arrangements for carrying on any
business they may have which requires the inter-
venuon Of the courts OK the United States, and at
tend % It IN its progresss and your memoriafists
a 1meseioIe respectfully re commend that it may be
| made the place where tn sessions Of the United
states courts for Louisiana snail be held for the
| future. - - ~ -H- -
| Your memorialsts furthes take the liberty to
suggest that the business Of The United States dis
trct court will be greatly ncrsased and the labor
imposed on the district Judge "a New Orleans will
be greatly augmented if the act IN question be re-
peaied, and the change spoken Of be made in its
organization in Louisiana, smd that in such an
event it would be eminentlyr right and proper to
largely increase the salary attacked to that office.
| Such an increase can be made without any aug
mentation in the aggregate of the judicial salaries
paid in Louisiana by adding to the salary of the
judge presiding in the district court in New Or
leans the amount of the salary now attached by
law to the office of judge of the western district
Miles Taylor. G. Roselius. j. s. Whitaker, J. @.
A. Fellows, William II. Hunt, W. T. Denegre,
Carleton Hunt, Sullivan. Laliings & Hughes, Jro.
Z. Goodloe, Edward Briggs, Thomas J. Durant,
n. N. Cohen, 7. Gilmore. 4. NJ Buchanan, saml.
H. TORY, j. N. Lea, E. w. Huntington, r. H.
Shannon A. L. Tissot, ]. ]. r. blanchard, Daniel
W. Adams, Sheldon & Pardee, P. H. Morgan, John
H. New, formerly U. s. district attorney, western
district j W. B. Kountz Edw. Phillips. Henderson
A. Morse, Field & Shackleford,. w. H. Robinson,
Charles B. Singleton, J.. w. Har die, Geo. W. Chris
ty, Henry J. Leovy, Cbas. NJ. Emerson, John A..
Grow, D. Augustin.
New Orleans, %, 1865.