The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-30
LAWYERS MEET TODAY
TwENTY-EIGHTH CONVENTION OF
 HAIR ASSOCIATION.
Annual Address on "Fourfeenth Amend ment" by Judge Judd of Teu- nessee-Wfll Discuss
 Additional Judge.

l The twenty eighth annual meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association will be called to order in the hall of
 the House of Representatives at the l State capitol at 10 o'clock this morning | by the president. Hon. Thomas R, l Roulhac of Birmingham.
 Many prominent members of the bar | from over the State arrived in Mont.
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 the history of the association.
 The program for the meeting this | year has been arranged with great care | and 1t Is said to be one of unusual eN. | celleqce. The address of the President | will be the first paper read before the | morning. after which the order of | business for today will be hsNfollows' Report of the Central Council. Report of the Treasurer.
 Report of the Executive Conlmittee. Report of the Committee on Juris- prudence and Law Reform by the
 Paper by Hon, w. L, Cha of | the Lawyer"
 ettc on "Aiabamas New Corporation
 haW; Nnnual address, by Hod John w.
 Judd Of Tennessee on The Fourteenth
  | tion."
 Report of the Committee on Judicial | A administration and Remedial Proce- | Evans of Clayton. Report of the Committee on Legal | Education and Admission to the Bar, | caloosa.
 Report of committee on Correspond | ence by the Chairman, Hon. F. G.. Bromberg, of Mobile.
 l The feature of to,iay's session will be Nashville. the annual orator of this
 of Tennessee and a speaker of unusual vited to hear this address.
 from m Nashville Nash w Wednesday M night. ac,
 companied by Mrs. Judd. Thay are
 the guests of MT and Mrs George w. Jones at their home on Sayre Street. association and a number of other well known members of the association ar
 rived in the city yesterday; Among
 the meeting of lawyers arc the fol-
 lowing: Hon. F c. Bromberg of Mo
 bil. Hon. g. D, Wsakley of Birmingham.
 Judge A H Alston of Clayton and Hon. w, L.. Chambers of Washington, D. c.
 At this meeting of the Bar Associa-
 steps to secure another Federal Judge for Alabama.
 Yesterday Judge Thomas c; Jones of
 lowing letter to President Roulhac Of
 the association:
 % Alaba%a As state NHSinac sar Association, sEden. Montgomery, Ala:
 Dear Sir-The ensuing session of
 the State Bar Association, seems proper occasion for asking you to in- vite the attention of that body, in order that an effeetual remedy may be ap- piled, to the condition of the civil
 tricts of Alabama, which. in very many instances. amounts almost to denial of justice.
 Courts are now required by law to
 be held in these districts twice a year at Montgomery Birmingham, Hunts vile, Anniston and Tuscaloosa. The ! same person Is judge of both districts. The result Is that each district Is with out a resident judge about half of each year, which, of itself entails great in- convenience and delay, and consldera- evil is very small one compared with | the delay in dispatching civil business l Ia. the two districts.
 Not taking into account the crimi-
 nal docket, or the heavy bankrupt | business there is in these different places, as Is known to many members
 of the Bar, greater number of cases
 year. If he held court every working | day in the year. and there were more
 working days in the year than there
 District. has been kindly giving his
 spare time each year to holding courts
 in the Northern District. This year.
 Huntsville. that might give the time.
 which would otherwise be spent there, | to trial of the civil docket at Birming- ham. The result of these combined | labors, however. has not kept down the | docket, and new civil business accu- | mulates much faster than the old busi- ness Is disposed of.
 l Both Circuit Judge Shelby and my
 situation as far as possible. not only by
 his consent to aid in these two districts.
 but have endeavored to secure the ser | vice of other judges. These generally | have all the work they can do at home | or in serving upon the Court of Ap- Judges are disabled by sickness: and none of them are available for much l work in the Northern District, and then | only systematically. Besides, while these Judges are men of character and i learning. they are not always familiar with our State laws and procedure. fore those who are familiar with State Legislation and practice; There Is no hope of relief by securing the assign
 ment of other judges.
 "As this matter is one of vast im- portance to the citizens in both these
 districts. which include within their
 borders all the State except eleven counties and whatever change Is made would inevitably affect both districts, 1t seems to mo that the State Bar Asso- citation, rather than the local bars. Is the best body to take steps to provide a remedy.
 dockets in the two districts, and the localities where the courts are required to be held, 1t Is impossible, although another judge is provided. to make any fair division of the work in the two districts by geographical metes and bounds. 1, therefore, suggest this plan, which wlli have my hearty support, as the most just and practicable solution: Let the State Bar Association memOr- ialize our Senators and Representative fin Congress to pass bill to provide for the appointment of an additional judge for the two districts, the new judge to have the same power as the persent judge in both districts. Con- gress has already so provided, for com ditions less urgent than those of which we complain, in several districts. Be- sides affording a more equitable d. vision of the labor between the judges, this plan would always give both dis trIcts a judge, in event the resident judge in either was disqualified, dis abled, or out of the State
 The inconveniences entailed upon | litigants when q judge leaves the dis | trict, even temporarily, has been so | impressed upon my mind by practical | experience, that with the exception of | two short intervals of time, involving |