The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
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supreme court and hold court until
the overburdened docket was relieved
Judges Legislated Out Of Office.
The eight judges who will be 1egis-
lated out of office by the senate bill
| If it is finally approved in its present
form are:
Judge W. A. jackson of Atchison.
Second district; Judge c. A. Smart OF
Judge w. c. Harris Of Coffey county.
Fifth district: Judge A. T. Ayres.
Chautauqua county, Thirteenth dis
trict; Judge e. c. Clark Of Labette.
Of Rocks county, Thirty-fourth dis
trict, and Judge o. Raines Of Jackson
| county, Thirty-sixth district.
Senator Troutman today advised
members Of the senate to write to
| judges in their respective districts ask
| ing for advice as to the time and num-
Der Of terms of court that will be
necessary in the various counties OF
the state in case the new judicial map
| is drawn as now outlined.
cit will be necessary" said he, III
the two bills now in the legislatures
hands, are finally passed. to pass a
third law fixing the terms OF court
in the various districts. In order to
do that expeditiously in the short time
that will be left after final action Is
taken on the apportionment bill, 1t
will be necessary to have all possible
information ready in our hands
$500 q Year Pensions.
The eight judges knocked out by
the senate bill will be virtually put on
pensions OF $500 year for the re-
were elected and will still be able to
devote themselves to their profession
al practice. The peculiar provisions
of the state constitution permit the
legislature to reduce the salary to
500 while not being empowered to
suspend the salaries altogether.
The four senators voting against
| the apportionment bill were Kinds OF
Labette, Price Of Greenwood Wag-
gener Of Atchison and Wilson Of JET
Districts In Bill.
Following is the apportionment Of
the twenty-six judicial districts pro-
posed in the committee bill:
First-Leavenworth and Jefferson
Standardization Doniphan. Brown
and Nemaha counties.
| Tnird.-Shawnee and Wabaunsee
Fourti-wyandotte county.
Fifth-Johnson. Miami and Linn
counties.
and Usage counties:
Seventh - Bourbon, Allen and
Woodson counties.
Eighth-Crawford county.
Ninth-Cherokee and Labette coun-
Tenth-Marshall. jackson. Riley
and Pottawatomie counties.
Eleventh-Lyon. Marion. Chase and
twelfth Republic, Washington.
Cloud, Clay and Geary counties.
1 Thirteenth Greenwood. Butler and
Cowley counties.
Elk counties.
! Fifteenth-Montgome and Chau-
tauQua counties.
Sixteenth-Phillips, Smith, Jewell.
Rocks, Osborne and Mitchell counties
| Seyenteenth-Ottaw Saline, Dick
inson, Lincoln and Morris counties.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. county.
Nineteenth-Reno. Mcpherson and
Harvey counties.
Twentieth-Pawnee, Edwards, Stat
ford. Barton and Rice counties.
Twenty first-Pratt, Kingman, Bar
Der, Harper and Sumner counties.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Rawlins,
Decatur. Norton. Sherman: Thomas
Twenty-third Wallace. Logan.
Cove, Trego, Ellis, Russell and Ellis
worth counties.
Twenty-fourth- Greeley. wichita.
man counties.
} Twenty fifth-Stanton. Grant. Has
kell, Gray, Hamilton, Kearny. Finney,
, Twen+v-si~th- $500 M..a.
Clark. KioWa ana Comancha counties
The nresent arranremenf ~ iufii-
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dorff. 40.392 population.
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