The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
WANTS A NEW JUDGE
MONTGOMERY EAR ASSOCIATION
 HAS A MEETING.
ResoiutiOn Adopted Urging Congress to Provide Separate Federal Dis- trfefs for~Alabama to Re-
 Iieve Judge Jones.

The Montgomery Bar Association at a yReiGi sRnitsd saes smaeesinE called yesterday in the declared that there is an Imperative ne- cessity for an additional judge of the Middle and Northern Federal Districts way of relief Is to create an additional judge for both districts, who shall re- side in the Northern District and who snalI sri nave concurrent powers with Judge
 This step was taken in response to a similar resolution adopted a few weeks summer by the Alabama Bar Associa- tion. A committee from the Montgom- cry Bar Association was appointed to pear before the Congressional Commit tee. The Committee was appointed by Ghalrman Ren1amin P Crum as follows: mon, Horace Stringfeliow and Warren
 A large number of practitioners as- reom aiseuss ssatss tSs pTopa Court man and Gustave F. Mertins secretary. coare fos Snes %sse Sf aaS hs No Nntfd ern Districts of Alabama was called in- to the meeting. Judge Jones said there Ness Was no hs douSt t that the volume of bust any one man could properly attend to. He did not favor the bill of Congress- man osear S,sfr,u TItdSrEood to create sep eral district, as this would work a hardship on other North Alabama law a yeafs coming t1 Montgomsry to get for the Northern District or to have an additional a judge with concurrent ju- tricts.
 Judge Jones explained details of the present system of courts in Alabama tional judge.
 W. L. Martin then introduced the fol- lowing resolution. which was adopted
 "Resoived. by the Bar of Montgom- cry County, That there is an imperative necessity for the creation of another ness of the Northsrn and Middle Dis tricts of Alabama.
 Resolved, That the volume of busi- ness. civil, criminal and in bankruptcy spatch it, and that the only practicable plan of relief is to create an additional Judge for both districts who shall re- Judge having equal powers in both dis tricts. By such an agreement In our opinion, the business of the two dis tricts can be despatched without in1us- tico either to the present Judge of the two districts. or tothe additional Judge who may hereafter be appointed.
 Resolved, That we regard the effort the V Sorthern Diarict or @ from nt other CT district, as unwise and impracticable. and are satisfied that the attempt to procure relief in that way will result engagement, as we know from the pro- ceedings of the several bars-Sheffield Huntsville. Decatur, Talladega, and other places i1, in tEe Morshern District sition of the bar In both districts and could not be put into a law. We do not deem 1t just pr fair either to the present Judge of the two districts or to the litigants in a great part of the Northern District, to attempt to create a district out of the territory adJa- cent to Birmingham. leaving litgants ern Districts without the services of their Judge for a large part of the time each year and compelling them to take ions sct bnsiness snd in dhsmpers S while that inconvenience and cost would not be entailed upon litigants adjacent to Bir- mingham.
 of the State ought to make known their wishes in this matter to their Representatives, and not put the bur den upon them of attempting to devise wishes of the bar We. therefore, heartily endorse the resolution adopted by the State Bar Association, recom- tatives the creation of an additional Judge for both districts as the best and more practicable plan for relieving the congestion of the docket of the two
 "ResoIved, further. That the secre- tary of this meeting send copy of these resolutions to the members of the Bar of the two districts and to our Senators and Representatives in Con- gress."
 Members of the committee express confidence that the additional Judge will be secured during this term of