The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-01-04
THE WESTERN JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT Of MARYLAND
Light On Congressman G. A. Pearre's
Efforts to Establish New District.
1T WILL BE OF UNTOLD BENEFIT.
The Proposed Law May Be Amended
to Include WestVirginia and PENN
syIvania Counties Lying Adjacent
TO Maryland.


extended over several years past,
sessions Of the United States Dis
trict and Circuit Courts will be
held in Cumberland in the future.
In 1892 Gen William NJ. Nc
Kaig, who was then representing
the Sixth District in Congress, sue
ceeded in securing the passage of
a bill providing for the holding of
sessions of the United States Court
at Cumberland on the second Mon
day of May and the dEst Monday Of
September in every year. Imme-
diately after he was elected to Con
gress Congressman Pearre began
his effort to have Judge Morris
hold sessions of the United States
Court at Cumberland, as provided
by this act, but found the Judge
lOath to do it for reasons which APP
peared to be satisfactory to him,
and also found that the Depart
ment of Justice and the Treasury
Department would not take any
interest in the matter until Judge
Morris showed favorable attitude.
Congressman Pearre continued to
present the matter to Judge Morris
from various points Of view, and
also urged Attorney-General
Moody, who is a personal friend of
the congressman, with whom ne
lived in the same house in Wash.
lngton for two years and with
whom he served two sessions in
Congress, to issue the necessary
orders for the holding of the court
and the furnishing of the court
room and other office rooms con
nected Herewith in the public
building which now graces the city
of Cumberland, an appropriation
OF $4,000 for which having been
secured by Hon. William M. Nc
Kaig and that amount doubled by
Congressman Pearre, after he was
elected to represent the Sixth Dis
trict in the Congress of the United
States.
Recently, through the persistent
efforts of Congressman Pearre,
both Judge Morris and Attorney.
General Moody have agreed that
the act of 1892 shall be complied
with in letter and in spirit. Fol-
lowing the usual practice in such
cases Judge Morris made a request
OF Mr.. William Pearre, the post
master at Cumberland, to make
a requisition upon the Treasury
Department for the necessary furn-
ishings for the court room and
other Offices required for the hold
ing of the sessions of the United
States Court, which furnishings
are now being made in the public
building at Cumberland prepare
tory to holding sessions of the
United States Court III Cumber-
land on the second Monday of May
next and not in February, as stat
ed by one of the local papers.
Seeing what he feared was a GER
tain aversion upon the part of
Judge Morris to leave Baltimore
and hold sessions of court in Cum
berland, and knowing that the
Fourth Judicial Circuit comprising
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
and the two Carolinas, was the
only circuit in the United States
which had less than three circuit
judges, Con gres man Pearre
thoughtit would be wise to intro
duce a bill dividing the Federal
Judicial District of Maryland into
two districts the Easternand West
ern. Whileitis a far cry, as Con
gresham Pearre says, between the
introduction Of a bill and its pass
age by both Houses and its sigma
ture by the President, yet in view
OF the fact that he is member of
the committee on the judiciary, he
feels most hopeful of securing a
favorable report upon the bill and
its passage by both Houses. He
feels that it is only just that Mary
land should have as much consider
alton in matters of this sort as the