The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-01-04

them with less population and the
other with slightly more popula-
ton than the state of Maryland.
These three states are each DIVIDED
into two districts and Congressman
Pearre thinks that Maryland is en-
titled to the same right, and that
her people are entitled to the same
facilities to maintain and defend
their legal rights.
Under the present situation he
says a man who commits some
trihing violation of the Internal
Revenue Laws of the United States
in Garrett or Allegany counties
for instance, is first arrested by a
Deputy United States marshal,
taken before a United States Com
missioner and required to give
bond. He is then indicted by the
United States grand jury at Balti-
more, and if he has any defense
and desires to defend the suit, he
is compelled to employ a lawyer
in Garrett or Allegany county, pay
his own expenses and the expenses
OF the witnesses i'll Baltimore city
for several days in order to make
his proper defense. This will net
him cost before he finishes with
it Of several hundred dollars and
in fact almost amounts to a denial
Of justice. Congressman Pearre
says that he has, therefore, intro
duced his bill putting Garrett, AL.
legany Washington, Frederick,
Carroll, Montgomery and Howard
counties into the Western Judicial
District and the remaining coun-
ties of Maryland into the Eastern
Judicial District, believing there
by that conditions will more nearly
conform to justice and right and
to the public convenience, and will
be more in line with the protest
made by the colonists against Great
Britain as to her judiciary system.
wherein they complained that they
were taken long distances away
from their homes and neighbors to
be tried and that this was a griev-
anCe which the King should cor
rect.
Congressman Pearre says that if,
the Judiciary Committee, ofwhich
he it member, considers the ter
ritory comprised in the Western
Judicial District is not large en-
ough it would be wise to amend
his bill 50 as to include Somerset
county in Pennsylvania and, per
haps, Bedford, and also to COM
prise Grant, Mineral and Hamp-
shire counties in West Virginia,
within the Western District, tax
ing these counties from the respec-
tive judicial circuits of Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia. and
hereby adding to the counties,
who, in order to &C into the Unit
ed States Courts, must in Pennsyl-
vania go as far as Harrisburg or
in West Virginia certainly as far
as Martinsburg, to prosecute or
defend their rights in the Federal
Courts.
To the objection suggested by
certain Baltimore lawyers that the
business in the District of Mary
land is not large enough to Justify
the expenses which arises from a
OF the district, or, indeed,
from those added counties from
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
would be necessary, if any answer
were required, and that the same
objection would be answered bv
the statement that large numbers
OF people i'll MARYLAND are now pre-
vented from going into the FEEDER
al Courts because suits have to be
instituted in Baltimore city, at a
distance ranging from 100 to 25o
miles from the residences of the
parties interested and the expenses
are so large therefore as to be pro-
hibitive. The Congressman be
lieves that with a district court
at Cumberland the
business in the Federal Courts
would grow rapidly, becau the
people who have busin. IS in the
Federal Courts could convenient
ly bring their suits, employ coun-
sci and pursue their litigation with
out such enormous expense.