The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-16
Fewer Judges With More Work
and Better Pay.
The state Bar SSoriaiien 10 In.
iroduce Bill Rearrangins the
Judicial lireuitS, reducing
Their Number from Thirty
to Twenty-Five. With
5000 Il Year.

state lar OclatiOn, has cauei a
meeting at the executive CONN lttee
, OF the ASSOCIATION for To day To con.
slider a ter which Is of great inter.
| ct t. every lawyer in the safe the
Encouragement OF the judicial circuits
IN such manner - To permit the
work TO b. done ny fewer Judges but
with better salaries than those they
now Ell ry.
! This matter has long been under
consideration and on u former coca.
sion reached the point OF legislative
action, a ill having been prepar. a
and Introduced which would hive
accomplished The eni which IL now
'ught. bn: owing To The lateness OF
The 81 ssion no action was taken. The
Dill has i's origin in The general coun-
cil OF The bar associa, on held two
years ago and which was ccmposed of
member from each Judicial circuit.
a committee If three Was appointed
to lnves igate the subiec, ami draft a
bill. Tbs eommitt.e c"n>is ed Of w.
&. Marshall of ST. LOUIS, R T. Riley
of HarrisOnville. and f. Sc.rritt of
Kansas City. Facts were sought for
carefully, and figures prepared which
showed number of days during
which the circuit court Was in session
IN each county of the state, and the
average lime occupied in this way
during the three preceding years was
also asc' rtaIne in order to fix, if pos
slbie, the average amount ni litigation
which might be expected under orli-
nary circumstances, AMI what amount
OF time could ordinarily be given bv
circuit JUICE for the transaction OF
his Judicial business. The committee
reported m favor of reorg ,nizing the
circuits in the following order, and
reducing the number of juiiciI cir
cuts from thirty, the present number
to TWENTY-FIVE.
The First judicial circuit to be COM |
posed of the tollowing counties
Cooper, Morgan, Moniteau, Cole.
Mi'l-r, Usage and Maries.
Second Judicial Circut-Howard,
Boom, Galloway, Auirain, Mon gom- /
cry, Line In and Pike.
Third Judicial Circuit Monroe,
Rails. Marion, Shelby, Knox and
Lewis.
Fourth Judicial Circuit-Randolph.
Macon, Adair, Schuyler, Scotland
and Clark.
Fifth Judicial Decentralization,
Linn. Livingston, Caldwell and Car
roll.
Sixth Judicial Circuit-Sullivsn,
Putnam, Mercer, Grumpy, Harrison,
Davies and Gentry.
Seventh julio ii Circuit-Wortb,
Noia way, Andrew, Holt and Arch.
is n
Eighth Judic al Circuit - Buch-
anan.
Ninth Judicial Circuit-D. Kalb, i
Clinton Platte, Clay and Ray. {
Tenth Judi ial Circuit = jackson. |,
Eleventh Judicial Circuit = Lafay. i
atte, Johns and Saline. &
Twelfth Judicial CIrcuit-Pettis,
Benton, Hickory and 1t. Clair. I
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit-Cass, 8
Bates and Henry. $
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Yer. '
non, Cedar. Dade md Barton. 4
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit-Jasper.
Lawrence, Barry, McDorald and Q
\ ewtoD. v
Six eenth Judicial Circui,-Greeno, o
Christian, fancy and St"pe. q
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit f
Camden, Dallas. Polk, Lace le, Web. L
.ter, Wright, Douglas and Clark. o
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit-Pu- 5
aski. Phelps, Crawford, Dent, Texas, p
Shannon, Howell and Oregon. q
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Car. a
er, Ripley. Butler, Sto lizard, Scott. '
Mississippi. New Madrid, Pemiscot
md Duncan. :,
Twentieth Judicial Circuit-Jeffer- o
ION, Washington, Iron. st. Francois, G
Ste. Genevieve, Perry, Madison. D
Wayne and BolliDger. I,
Twenty-first Judicial Circuit Gas r.
,onade, Franklin. St. Louis, Warren 8,
md st. Charles. N
Twenty second judicial Circuit O
lily OF st. Louis. e.
One important feature of this meth. il
ID of rearranging the circuits lies in
he fact that existing modes of rail-
cad communication have been care
ully considered, and if the bill c,
'ecOmes law the judges will be able +,
0 go from any point in their circuit u
o any other point by single night. e
ide. % -
The salary of circuit judges at the 50
resent time Ia go 900 and o. ha Laa