New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-24
A MERITORIOUS BILL PASSED.
PROVIDING FOR AN INCREASE OF THE SALARIES
OF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGES


OF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGES
Washington. Feb. &c ispeciaD-The hill providing
Increase of the salaries Of United States District
Judges sent to the White House today for the
Presidents signature. Among the important measures
that have passed Congress at this session. this is OF
the mertoriOus The very fact that the necessi
ties of the District Judges have been long dsregarded
is the cearest Indication that body they
scrupulously refrain from any attempt to induce or
control the action of Congress They are all of them,
men Of large personal influence all have had much
experience in public life; many OF them have been
members Of the House OF representatives,; some Cab
met officers and concerted action on their part to pre-
sent their necessities and their just claim for relief
would doubt, long ago have secured the t1finG In
crease of salary provided in tho bill Again and again
the Senate passed the bill which proposed TO relieve them
from domestic anxiety while in the performance Of
from high duties 10 the public. The President Of
the United States had twice made this the subject Of
special reference in his principal message 10 Congress
The National Bar Association and the bar associations
OF the several states had again and again appealed to
Congress in behalf Of these elevated judicial officers,
who are worse paid than many Of the clerks collectors
and bureau officials whose labor requires not m0iety
Of the learning thought and responsibility which dc
volve upon the Judges 1t is singular anomaly that
the clerk Of the District Court has today compensation
permitted him equal to that of the judge The United
States Marshal may have nearly twice as much
multitude Of other officials whose duties are merely
ministerial have compensation far ample than the
Judges.
When one compares the compensation awarded by
other nations 10 judges Of equivalent and even IN
feror iurisdcton the mallne>s Of the salary gwen
10 iGges in this country becomes source almost OF
notification Forty five Of the District Judges OF the
United states receive $500 each. The English
Master Of the Rolls receives 100000 and the LORD
Justices SO 900 each yet the duties of these Eng
Ush Judges and the they Try, are not more I'M
portant than those Of the District Judges when stthg
for equity purposes, they constantly 10. IN the
English High Court OF Justice the Justices receive
100000 each and yet the duties which those ele-
waited ,nnctionaries perform practically the same
as those Of the District Judges when sitting at IA" III
the Circuit or District Court The fourteen Justices
Of the Oueen's Bench in England receive S3O0OO each
and the JudgeS Of the Admiralty Court receive the
same and yet our District Judges who have exclusive
original jurisdiction in admiralty ana VINO 40 inc
worl, Of the Queens Bench besides, were pNd the
psltrv sum Of 80 900 In the city courts OF Lohuoh
aud the Lord Mayors Courts the Judges receive 81 LOW
each. and even the County Judges IN the rui3 us
tic, in the neighborhOOd Of the metropolis receive
$500 But this is not all. The DISTRICT JUICES al
most of the districts especially the forty-hVe men
toned try nearly all the business penang III to
Circuit As VOL a. the District Court. me new Dli
proposes 10 give them $1,000 Ih9uesI III. LII
surely There i doubt that Inc IIe''uo"' wan