Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-06-30

though the legislature is made the
sole judge as to whether these separate
districts require more than one law
judge, he gives this act as one of his
reasons for preventing the bill be-
coming Il law. The insinccrity of
Governor Hoyt in this part Of his
message is manifest when we remem-
Der a few facts. Crawford county has
population of 6S,604 Erie, 1861,
while Northampton has 1896, less
than two thousand more than Craw-
ford and more than four thousand less
than Erie, and yet the legislature at
its last session passed a special act
giving Northampton county an Adj
ditional Law Judge, which act Cover
nor Hoyt approved and promptly APP
pointed General Reeder one of the
pets of the Republican party to the
new judgeship thus created. Now if
it was so clear that Northampton
county with population of hut TO-
3l6 needed an Additional Law Judge
that it was necessary to rush through
a special act for that purpose, it can
not be 80 clear that Crawford and
Erie with their population do not
need more judicial help that the Gov
ernor should make the increase rea-
son for vetoing a general apportion-
ment bill required by the constitution.
Whenever county constituting sep
arate district increases in population
and business to that extent that one
law judge cannot do all the business
as rapidly as it should be done there
is no remedy but to give such a county
an Additional Law Judge-the dis
trict cannot be decreased in size as
may be done with district composed
of several small counties. In every
instance where such increase is neces.
sary, the work for two Judges will be
light at first No county from having
oaly work sufficient for one Judge
ever increased at once to having tuL
,rork for two Judges BY the consti.
tuition the legislature is made the sole
Judge Of the necessity for such in.
crease.
But the Governor objects generally
to the increase of Judges provided for
by the bill. As an argument against
T il he states that the number of Judge:
in Pennsylvania exceeds the whsle
number of judges in all the Federal
/ Courts of the United States, and that
the salaries paid judges in Pennsylva
MIA exceed the salaries paid all the
judges in the Federal Government BY
more than 100000 per annum. Ii
would have been equally true, equally
sensible and pertinent, if he had said
that the number of judges in the little
county of Philadelphia exceeded tho
number of judges in the great terrific
ry of Ethiopia, and that the salaries
paid in Philadelphia far exceeded the
amount of judicial salaries paid in
Ethiopia. The Federal courts have
Jurisdiction over but a few questions
aud a few kind of cases while the
State courts have to deal with al
questions, both criminal and civil
The number of causes tried annually
in the courts of Pennsylvania nc
doubt far exceed the whole number ot
cases tried in all the federal courts
The Governor says that when this
legislature met there were seventy.
seven law judges in Pennsylvania and
that this bill makes eighty-six, an in
crease of nine. This is not honest oI
candid. There was an increase oI
tieo the additional law Judge in
Northampton and a second Orphans
Court judge in Allegheny, made by
special acts which the Governor APP
proved before the passage of this bill
so the actual increase made by thi:
bill was only seven instead Of nine
The new constitution having made 9
population of 10000 inhabitants the
basis of a judicial district. if the ap.
portionment does not give more judges
| than ono IN everv 40 600 IL cannot hf