The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-10

criminal and bankrupt business. to re, auire one thousand days of judicial labor to dispatch tho business whicn
 yearly finds its way a.re eo a,vises vhs pi equal. iy between two judges eacn wouia ieto to five hundred days of judicial Work S tS
 keep up with the ysarIlSS yalS Wear out an iron man. It is more to the interesit dit of bar and people, than Of the inai. viduai who occupies the bench, that
 he should have reasonable opportunity
 Being assured by our representatives before the Judiciary Committee9 hiaao to
 its report that 1t tYase was imPeSsi fPbe Various Bar Committees which were olganizsSu n aSl to work to that end. ceased their eIa
 forts for the present. me It,,raIlu co more impressed with the needs or tneir m ta mediate court. sought remedy Ss aSs themselves alone, overlooking the neeus us district and the whole of the midaie district, and recently procured the in | troduction of bills in the House and
 fSsyorably almost Immediately. before lawyers and other interested had op. portunity to be heard. Most Of the pars
 as soon as they K know nTotsst %Ra' Tas They had no hearing before the Senate ae com
 mittee, and did not know that a sena{e Bill on the subject would be taken tp uP
 ,he anu R2omse and was passed in spite of inc protests of both the judges Of the United States Courts and oL many members of different bars The onIy nroposition which seems to have been considered on the passage of that piiI was whether Birmingham needed court
 for six of mSntas SsnRnr hst diyisio1 needs more time; but certainly other iocatI ties have rights to be considered. IS 1t right to require the judges or the h ta hn1 in the year in this one district, witn- out regard to the needs of the middle district. and all other places m the northern district except Birmingham. Taking in the computation six months for open court at Birmingham and ex- cluding the bankruptcy cases there,
 this same judge IS p,aees aeeied in the north ern' and also at Montgomery. in tf" middle district. in all of which con. bined, he has to deal with twenty-seveh inal cases. 270 bankruptcy cases; and also organize eight grand Juries. when absent from Birmingham. he can not shut off business which pours in on nm from that division, and to be attended to in chambers, during the time which
 should justly go to the other places; Considering only the law, equity and criminal business, and leaving out or the calculation bankruptcy matters, ana also the business of the southern di- vision of the northern district Wnich esh
 
 the judge be absent from that place, 1t Is very safe to say that 1t would re- ouire over 400 days of court at Mont gomery Tuscaloosa. Anniston and Huntsville to give them service com mensurate with their needs. From whence may we expect this aid? Judges Shelby Toulmin and Boarman, have each given of their spare time of late years to help in the northern district After discharginR their enormous du- ties elsewhere, they have been able to give the 247 days of judicial labor dur ing the past four years, or little over two months year As far as the State
 Rar Association can learn, there is no room to hope for greater aid in the
 future from the designation of judges from other States. Nearly all the
 judges have all they can attend to m
 their own districts, and some Of them
 are at times disabled by sickness.
 Judge Jones, after holding court SIX
 months at Birmingham can not be ex
 pected to actually sit on the bench oyer
 four months more in each year; Tn t1ss
 four places outside of Birmingham. IT
 he devoted four months to MontEnmerry'
 Tuscaloosa. ,Anniston and HuntsviiItf5i
 to say nothing of the time requlreu
 for Investigation, study and defisiI93n d,sI3n
 of matters submitted while actualIg
 on the bench at Birminehaln as wei Wst as
 in the other places, he will pc alihoSl
 increasingly at work during the, whole
 year and with that amount or lIooF
 at these four places, outside or PIT
 mingham he would still necd elsht
 months of court to meet theT wants