The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-30
u. s COURT AT WICHITA.
The Committees Favorable Report and
the Text OF the Bill.

bill as made by Mr.. Buchanan of New
Jersey.
Following the report we give the full
text Of Mr. Peters bill as recommended
by the house Judiciary committee. Mr..
Buchanan submitted:
The committee on the Judiciary, to
whom was referred house bill 9488, to
fix the times and places for holding the
federal courts IN the district OF Kansas,
submit the following report:
Regular terms of the United States
| district and circuit courts In the district
Of Kansas are now held at Topeka and
| LeavenwoTth, and one having criminal
| jurisdiction over offenses committed In
| the Indian territory at Wichita, Kan.
! The passage of the Oklahoma bill viii
! take from the latter court most of its
! business. Wichita is 1862 miles from
Topeka, and over 200 miles from
! Leavenworth House bill No 94SS
provides that terms of the district and
circuit courts be held at Wichita for
cases where the defendants live IN coun-
/ ties that are more conveniently located
| for attendance upon courts at said place.
! Litigants residing in the counties named
in the second district are distant from
! Topeka, the nearest point to them at
which courts are now held, at least 125
miles, and IN many of the counties over
800 miles,
The state is 400 miles from east to
west, and Leavenworth is situated on
! the east line Of the state, and Topeka but
| fifty-seven miles from the east line. The
counties by this bill made tributary to
! Wichita are in the southwest portion Of
the state. and have a population Of 49,
| 000 people. A government building cost
ing about 5000, 900 has just been COM
! pleted at Wichita with ample court IA
cilities In view Of these facts your com
mittee think that terms of court for the
trial of all cases arising in the counties
named in the bill should be regularly
held at Wichita, and therefore recon-
mend the passage of the bill.
a BILL
To fix the time and place for holding
the federal courts in the state Of Kansas.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House Of Represen
tatives Of the United States Of America in Con-
gress Assembled,
That the judicial district of Kansas is
hereby divided into two divisions, which
shall be known, respectively, as the first
division and the second division of the
district of Kansas. The second division
shall include the counties of Cowley,
Butler, Harvey, Mcpherson, Rice, Els
worth, Barton, Rush, Ness, Lane, Scott,
Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearney,
Finney, Garfield, Hodgeman, Pawnee,
Stafford, Reno, Kingman, Pratt, Kiowa,
Edwards, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Grant,
Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Seward,
Meade. Clark, Comanche, Harper, Bar
Der and Sumner, and a term Of the cir
cult and district courts for said district
shall be held therein at the city of
Wichita on the first Monday Of March
and the first Monday Of September of
each year. The remaining counties EN-
braced in the district Of Kansas shall
constitute the first division thereof, and
the terms Of the circuit and district court
for said district shall be held therein at
time and places now prescribed by law.
Sec. 2. That all OffenSes hereafter COM
mitted in either Of said divisions shall be
cOgnizable and indictable within the
division where committed, and all grand
and petit jurors summoned for service
in each division shall be inhabitants
thereof. All Offenses heretofore COM
mitted within said district shall be prose-
cuted and tried as if this act had not
passed.
Sec. 8. That all civil suits not of a
local character, which shall hereafter be
brought in the district or circuit courts
Of the United States for the district of
Kansas, in either of said divisions,
against a single defendant, or where all
the defendants reside in the same divi-
sion of said district, shall be brought in
the division in which the defendant or
defendants reside, but if there are two or
more defendants residing in different
divisions such suit may be brought in
either of said divisions, may be served
and executed in either or both of the di-
visions.
Sec. 4. That the clerks of
the. circuit and district courts
for said district shall each appoint a
deputy clerk at the city Of Wichita, each
of whom shall, in the absence of the
clerk, exercise all the powers and per-
form all the duties of clerk within the
division for which he shall be appointed:
Provided, That the appointment of such
deputies shall be approved by the court
for which they shall be, respectively, /
appointed, and may be annulled by such
court at pleasure And the clerk shall
be responsible for the official acts and
neglects of all such deputies.
Sec. ). That all civil suits and pro-
ceedings now pending in the circuit or
district court of said district of Kansas, |
and which would. if instituted after the
passage of this act, be required to be
brought in the second division of said
district, may be transferred, by consent /
of all the parties, TO said second division
of said district, and there be disposed of /
in the same manner and with ike effect
as If the same had been there instituted /
And all process, writs. and TecOgnizances /
relating to such suits and proceedings so /
transferred shall be considered as be- !
longing to the term of the court in the sec /
ond division of said district in the same |
manner and with like effect as if they /
had been issued or taken in reference !
thereto originally.
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the woman sufragists a terrific blast, /
and correctly encompasses the whole !
proposition when he says that they do /
not desire to defend and uphold woman /
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