, 1889-07-25

legislature, but would cause at least
years delay, and the convention ought
to giant this now. The probate business
,alonei is more than one man can really
attend to. King county ought TO have
two judges.
MI Weir opposed the amendment. He
was afraid the salary was already so
Large as to scare the people with expense.
Section provides that amy other supe-
rior court can, and at the request of the
governor must, hold court in dis
tricts other than his own. Much of this
DELAY IN Busls Ess
Is the result of the death of the two
Judges named, and for the future by II
division of the districts there will be
three judges instead OF one to do the
work. The probate business may add
too much work to make It. possible for
section provides the adequate remedy.
Mr.. Stiles said there was another
source from which King county could
obtain relief fit should be found neces'
sary, and that was the provision for the
appointment of court commissioners.
As TO probate business, he gave nohcs
that he should move to amend the lat
ter by leaving the present probate
judges 10 serve until January next.
Mr.. Weisenburger said that at present
one Judge presided over the territory
which will hereafter be divided into
lnrfe OlStrlttS. ne lVnlttU s'uttS buSl-
ness will also be taken away, which Will
further relieve the superior Judges, so
one Judge would he enough, he thought
Mr.. Kinnesr said he had all along felt
that two judges were necessary for King
county, and only consented TO reporting
in favor of one on the ground that they
might rub along until the next lcgisla-
ture should give them another judge.
Mr.. Dunbar said that there was no
doubt that King county would get along
better with two judges than with one,
but IL this report Is to be opened up in
this way the farmers will require that
the other counties have increased IA
cilities He Thought King county could
get along under the new arrangement
with one judge and he should oppose
giving them any more.
Mr.. Hoyt said he favored the amend
ment because in the past the crminal
business of the county had been so great
as to almost exclude consideration of
civil cases. Ii Amounted to denial OF
Justice, and now, with the probate bust
ness added to the judges duties the
evil would he still greater. King county
would rather pay three .four,hs or four
fifths of the salary OF the judges and have
two, than to have only one and
have the state pay the, whole salary;
beyond point of justice. There should
be Judge for criminal cases ana one for
| civil cases. If commissioners were cm-
ployed they would have TO be paid, and
| that pay might as well go to a judge.
The salaries were fixed too high in the
article anyhow, and he should later on,
move TO reduce them, II no one else
did
MIR. Turner thought that II the door
was thus opened there would be flood
of applications that couldn't well be
denied. Originally the committee had
provided for two judges TO do the work
heretofore done by four judges, so
satisfied that twelve superior court
judges could do the work satisfactorily.
| 1t might press little harder on King
county for the present, but the legisia
ture could grant relief when their needs
become more apparent. All United
States business would soon be taken
away, and that would he Il great relief
SPOKANE COUNTY
had hardly If not Quite as much busi.
ness as King and would furnish hard
work for single Judge, but he was sat
isiod for the present to have only one,
though hc thought SPOKANE had as great
claim TO two ~ King. As to probate
business, that was largely routine busi-
ness and ex parte, and could bc easily
done by commissioners. Besides the
other Judges of the down Sound coun-
| ties could come in and help King county
| and hold three courts at once II neccs-
sary. ry.,v,,,,... n-...
court In Jefferson, san Juan and Clal-
lam would not sit more than about six
| teen weeks IN the year and the judge
| could be spared TO King county for at
least one-third to one.half of his time.
| Slr. Duric said that one of the adyan.
taGes they expected 10 derive from state
! organization was the having the judges
/ nt their plnpliAn and in ilnU1
from the outside. He opposed any sys.
TEN that gave them any judges not of
| THEIR owN SELECTION.
! Under this system the people of King
/ county would only have voice in one.
third or at best one-half Of the judges
| who would do the county business.
| The vote on Mr.. Durie's amendment
was, ayes q. The motion was declared
/ lost without counting the noes.
| Mr.. Bowen moved TO amend by pro-
| viding that the first election of superior
judges should be held at the election
held for the adoption of this constitu.
ton.
Mr.. Turner consented TO this amend
ment and IL was adopted.
On MIR. Bowcns proposition To further
| amend to make the balance OF the sec
tion conform, Mr.. Reed of Olympia
thought 1t unnecessary and Mr.. Weir
thought it was all right, but the vote
was lost
Mr.. Eshelmnn proposed to divide the
district formed by the union Of kittitas,
Yakima and Nlickitat and give one
judge TO Klickitat and ono to the other
two. KlicKitat has now more than 300
cases waiting on its docket, and in the
name of justice and right he asked fol
another judge. He thought Judge Tur.
ner would remember that during the
time he sat on the bench only one equity
case was tried.
Judge Turner's recollection differed
entirely from MIR. Eshelmans and Inc
said that nearly all the equity cases were
finished while he was on the bench. In
the language of the gentleman from
Adams tBuchanan), he could say from
his own experience on the bench that
the judge who got this district would
have IL soft snap"
Mr.. Buchanan called attention 20 the
fact that already twelve judges were
provided to do the work now being done
by four:
Mr.. Eshe!man called attention TO the
isolated position of kliekitat county and
its need of separatl Judge. He said the
county was practically lost torthe Other
counties because OF no railroad commli.
niGation.
Mr.. Dunbar recalled the Indian who
said he was not lost only
HIS wIGwAM WAS LOST.
lie was not sure whether Klickitat OF
Kittitas county was lost.
Mr.. Durie desired to move that fol
judicial purposes klickitat county be
attached to King county, Not seconded
Mr.. Buchanan said IT every county
was going to complain
The Chair-The gentleman has spoken
already on this motion.
Mr.. Buchanan-Tbe mover of the mo,
ton smoke twice and L supposcd lniphi