The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
WANT CHATHAM ONE CIRCUIT.
COMMITTEE TO GO TO ATLANTA TO
URGE THE BILL.

Savannah Lawyers All Want the
Change Made, and Five of Them
VIII Go Up to Talk to the LegisIa-
tors on the Subject-Committee APP
pointed to Draw Resolutions in
Favor of the MeasuPe-The Atlanta
Committee VIII Leave the City To-
night and Get Right to Work
A committee of Savannah lawyers will
leave the city tonight for Atlanta, where
they go to look after the interests of Chat
ham county in the matter of having the
county made a separate superior court
circuit.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the superior court for the morning yester-
day a meeting of the members of the Sa-
vannah bar was held in the superior court
room, and organization was had by the Sc
Testing of Mr.. ]. R. Saussy as chairman,
and Mr.. r. P. RaveneI as secretary.
The object of the meeting was to consid-
er the matter of the bill now pending in the
legislature to make Chatham county
separate superior court circuit, cutting off
the country counties, Bryan, Liberty, Eff
fingham and Mcintosh, and throwing them
into separate circuit.
There was little discussion of the mat
ter. All of the lawyers were apparently
of one mind. A motion was made that
committee be appointed to so to Atlanta
to work among the legislators in the inter
ests of the measure, and to urge its pas
sage The motion was unanimously adop-
ted. The committee appointed for that
purpose is as follows: Messrs Pope Bar
row, T. S. Morgan, Jr., H. E. Wilson, w.
l. Gignilliat, and r. NJ. Hitch.
The Legislature will be in session only
short time now, and the work of the
| committee must be done quickly. In or
der, however, to give the committee full
| backing and authority it was decided up
on motion to appoint a committee for the
| purpose of drawing resolution in favor of
the passage of the bill making a separate
circuit of Chatham. This committee is
composed of Messrs. R. r. Richards, Hen
ry McAlpn and T. p. Ravenel. 1t will
report back TO a meeting of the bar to be
! held in the superior court room this aft
ernoon at O'clock. The resolutions will
then be passed and placed in the hands
of the committee which viii take the
train for Atlanta tonight, and arrive
! there tomorrow morning.
Another committee was appointed for
the purpose of soliciting subscriptions
among the members of the bar to defray
the expenses of the committee, which is
to make the trip TO Atlanta. This COM
m!ttee also, will make a report at this
afternoons meeting.
The committee will have only a short
| time for its work The legislature will
adjourn about the middle of next week,
and it will require four or five days at
| least to get the measure through. All of
them however, are workers, and they will
oct in n 1rcpI1vp 1sayof I no
subject in short order
IT is believed that there is a good OPP
portunity to get this legislation through
at the present session. There have been
few occasions on which it could be bet
ter shown that there is a necessity fol
making Chatham a separate circuit than
now. The call of the civil docket on the
opening of the December term yester-
day was perhaps the best evidence of this
The assignment list showed that for the
time allowed for civil cases during the
! December term there had to be assigned
! an average of five cases each day, an
| amount of business which it is clearly i'm
possible to dispose of within that time
When the call of the docket was nearing
an end Judge Falligant simply told the
attorneys to take any day that would suit
| their case up.
Judge Falligant has been to Atlanta in
behalf of the measure and the representa-,
! tives there are working for it. The coun>
| try counties have realized the necessity
| for it, and they also are clamoring for
| change In view of all the circumstances
! there would seem to be no reason why the
desired change in the circuit should not
| be made now.