The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

eleven and a. half months on the bench each year-leaving Birmingham out or the calculation. With six months of court there kept in open session" teen and half months of Judicial Ia Dor each year.
 'Of courses 1t will be said: 'Nobods mpessbieyou '1 must a eet ns' heip @Gr Sy ds,ls F lng others in. If l should succeed in getting six months help from outside judges In the Northern District, and mus Keep in open session the court at Birmingham.-there would stiii re- main to me eleven and a half months on the bench. in other places in the mingham each year. No human being can stand the strain of holding court eleven and q half months in the year. IL could leave no time for any vacation however short, and practical " none for study and investigation ana necessary correspondence. The. Alabama Bar and people and certainly the American Congress. will not wish "a Judge of one of the courts. treated as mere beast of burden, to be driNen until he falls
 suppose. however. the judge of tho w" district courts does not get as much as six months outside help? What is he so do, That has happened In the past. ana T VIII in the future. Then the Judge. must take six months of "open court for Birmingham, from the time requlsit" for the other places. Mont IoN,'4'ia' hhnlSIoH, ftuntsNllle and rus caloosa ] will not elaborate. Every body can see the workings of the bill. when lS new Tn this one feature only.
 avery lawyer and certainly every Federat Judge in Alabama, sees the need Tor more judicial force in these sWo distrlcts and for more time at birmingham The number of criminal. common law and equity cases in the two districts. is nine hundred and sey- enty-tive cases, year. besides about one thousand bankruptcy cases a year With the volume of litigation therefrom which presses on the judge. Every body especially every lawyer. who thinks q moment. as to the days of judicial labor required to transact all this business, knows the pressing ne- eessity for more judicial force.
 T certainly will do anything in req son to help the Birmingham court. 1 brought the matter to the attention of the State Bar Association. and it rec commended an additional judge for both districts l told the Far there, that it to me whether there was an additional judge for both districts. or a separate judge For the Northern District. I went to Washington to appear before that bill: but was prevented from ap- bearing that day by threatened at tacks Of pneumonia. think every body knows that the Alabama deicgs tion united. had sufficient influence. with the case we had. to have gotten the permanent additional aid the Bar ana people asked TOT. The reasons WHy they were not united, it may not be proper for me to discuss. I am speak ing of it now only as a thing of the past. not criticising it.
 As We could not get the relief, so urgently hooded. we ought not to try. without any increase of Judicial force. to supply a, remedy for the benefit Of one place only in the two districts, which works hardly on other localities and Bars and upon judges who have earnestly and laboriously tried to do everything that mortal man. could do. to dispatch the business of~the two districts It is known to most law yers in the two districts. that I have never lost a day from sickness, or taken q vacation from the bench in nearly five years. They all know that my office Is often overwhelmed with correspondence; that I am often in my office by six in the morning. and fre- quentiy as late as one at night; and that for the accommodation of lawyers and litigants. have heard iu the last few years hundreds Of cases st night and frequently even at my home I feel that I can say. therefore. without d tinge of undue thought Of self that the present bill Is unjust.
 
 Country Roll Butter, FOG. per pound.
 8 cans Tomatoes, 25 cents.
 2 bottles Tomato ketchup, Ss cenfs.
 20 pounds Grnnuiated Sugar, st.
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