St. Tammany farmer., 1906-11-03
Amendments

Al a meeting of the Bar Associs
ton OF St. Tammany Parish, La.
the following amendments TO th
Constitution of the State of Lou
ls,sna, which are to be submitte'
to the voters of this State on th
9Th day of November, 1906. wer
unanimously endorsed, aud tn
citizens of this parish we're nr;.entI.
requested to support said amend
ments.
l. Act No. ~, proposing amend
ments TO Article 100 of the Con
st,tution of the State of Lonis,an.
of 1898, relative to district courts
and providing for an add,tiona
judge in the First judicial District
2. Act No. 1877. proposing
amendments to Articles 90, 30,
100, l06 and l3l, and the repeal
of Article los Of the Constitution
OF the State of Louisiana. relating
to the Judiciary Department, bet
ter known as the Court OF Appeals.
8. Act No. 2l6, being an amend.
ment to Article l0s of The Consti
tuition of the State of Louisiana.
Relative TO the Court of Appeals
amendment, the reasons advanced
by the Bar ASSOCIATION as to why
this amendment should be adopted
By the people are rather interest
ing, and are as follows:
The Court of Appeals is with US
10 stav. It Is . good court, and is
essentially q poor mans court,
because It has jurisdiction of all
appeals from the District Court
When the amount involved is more
than one hundred dollars and less
than two thousand dollars. 1t Is a
cheap court to appeal to, because
the cost OF an appeal cannot exceed
Eve dollars. 1t has met, s.ncc IL.
creation IN 1879, with favor, and
since its abolition a few pears ago
chaos and dissatisfaction have re
suited, and an appeal 10 the Circuit
Court of Appeals, as now consti
tuted, has been unsatisfactory to
iitigants ~ we'll AZ to attorneys.
The District Judges of this State
are required by law to hold con
,lnuous sessions of court in their
districts for ten months
in the year, and if they do this, 1t
has been shown by practical test
the past few years, that it is
impossible for them to act as Cir
cult Judges. When they do find
time to get away from their dis
trlcts TO hold Circuit Court, they
are compelled 10 hurry their delib-
erations, and they cannot give the
appeal case that consideration
which they should like to, and
which the litigauts and attorneys
have right to expect.
District Judges are paid nothing
for acting as Circuit Judges; they
are not even sworn in as Circuit
Judges, and you cannot expect
them to 60 to a grea, deal Of
trouble, when they receive nothing
for it.
Since The District Judges have
been assigned BY the Supreme
Court to act as Circuit Judges,
there has been . period of two and
, half years when no term OF the
Court of Appeals was held in
Washington Parish, which IS in
Ibis judicial district; the docket
became congested, and the attor
neys had to prepare q memorial to
The Supreme Court, showing the
of sffaire, and the Su.
preme Court bad to appoint two
special judges to go TO Washington
Parish and trv the cases which.
were on appeal. r
In this, st. Tammany Parist
At one time an interval of over "a
gear elapsed before the District
Judges who were assigned to this
parish to act as Judges Of the Court
Of Appeals were able to get away
from their districts aud hold = ees.
sion of the Court Of Appeals here,
md one of the cases which was
TO them at that time for
consideration was held nearly .
year, and the record vas then re.
turned to this Court without a