Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-12
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
THE NEW GEORGIA JUDICIAL
DISTRICTS.
Is or Are2-Cabinet RumOrs-MOre
PatrOnage-The Drummer Lobby
Florida Ofices-The Cotton Tax
Chalmers Very Much SOured-Va-
rIOus Capital Topics.

| WASHINGTON, May Representative Ste
phens has introduced a bill in the House, Of
| which the following is the text, emitting the
verbiage: The counties Of Hancock, Warren,
Glasscock, McDufie. Columbia and Richmond,
now embraced in the limits of the Southern
Federal Judicial district of the State of Geor-
| gis, be transferred from the Southern dis
trict to the Northern district For the
purpose Of holding the terms of court at
proper localities, the Northern Judicial dis
trict shall be divided into two, known respect
lively as the western division and eastern divis-
| ion of said district The counties of Morgan,
| Greene, Hancock. Warren, Glssscock, McDuf-
| fe Columbia, Richmond, Lincoln. Wilkes
| Teliaferro Oglethorpe. Oconee Madison Ell
eastern Division Of said district aud all the
/ other counties in said northern district as now
| constituted, shall form the western division Of
said district. There shall be held at the city of
| Augusta. in the eastern division of said north
| ern district. two terms of the District and Cir
| cult Courts in each and every year. one
in May and the other the first Monday
| in November of each year. All civil
| suits not of a local nature must be
brought in the western or eastern division of
| the district in which the defendant or defend
| ants reside; but if there are two or more de-
| PENDANTS, some residing in the western division
| and others in the eastern. the action may be
brought in either of the divisions Ia which any
| one of the defendants resides. When the de-
| fendant Is a nonresident of either division,
| action may be brought in that division wherein
| the defendant may be found. Causes removed
| from anv of the courts of the State of Georgia
| to the ircuit Court of the United States shall
| be removed to the Circuit Court in the
division In which said State court Is held.
| All prosecutions for crimes or offenses here
after committed in either of the said divisions
shall be cogniZahle within such dvision and
| all prosecutions for crimes or offenSeS hereto
| fore committed within either of said counties
| taken as aforesaid from the Southern district,
or committed in the Southern district as here
| tofore constituted, shall be commenced and
proceeded with as if this act had not been
| passed Civil actions or proceedings now pend
ing at Savannah. in the Southern district in
which parties residing in the counties by this
act transferred to the Northern district are in
| terested, may be transferred, by the consent of
all the parties, to the proper courts in the
| Northern district as herein provided; and in
case of such transfer, all papers and
| files therein. with copies of all iourGRl
entries, shall be transferred to the Deputy
Clerks office of the court to which they are
| transferred, and the same shall be proceeded
W tn in all respects as though the case was
originally brought therein. All grand and petit
jurors summoned for service in each division
shall be residents of such division.
This act shall be in force from and after the
first day of August. 1882; and all acts and parts
| of acts inconsistent Herewith are hereby re-
peaed.
Mr.. stephens lnLonuS TO push GnlS DILL ana TRY
| to secure its passage at the present session.
| The bill has been referred to the Judiciary
Committee of the House. In this advanced
stage of the session it is doubtful if the meas
ure can be gotten through both houses. 1t is
in fact doubtful if 1t will pass the House at the
present session. but Mr.. Stephens will do what
| he can in furthering 1t on its passage.
THE COTTON TAX
Secretary Folger has sent to the Senate a
statement in regard to the cotton tax collected
from 1863 to 1858 The tax was collected on
raw cotton held or owned by the producer or
purchaser, in many instances in places far re-
mote from the place Of production. 1t is now
| impossible to tell where the cotton was grown
on which tax to the amount of 1857, ,943 was
collected in the State of New York or on which
taxes were collected in any other State in which
cotton is not produced. Nor is it certain that
all of the cotton on which tax was collected in
Alabama, or any cotton growing State, was
produced in that State. II the tax had not
already been paid it was levied on the cotton
wherever found, and. under regulations, it
could not be shipped in bond from one point to
another before the payment of the tax. The
total amount of tax collected on raw cotton, as
SUCH from the time the tax was first imposed. TO
the time it was repealed, was $6S, orr 38S &c. The
following statement shows in what States and
Territories this amount was collected: