Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-01-19
BILL CREATES
NEW JUDICIAL
DISTRICT, 74TH
Representative Pat Dunn Introduces Bin
Reorganizing 18th judicial District and
Creating 74th District-Means New
District Judge.

Representative Pat Dunn has intro.
ducsd u bill in the Legislature which bro
,idcs for the reorganization of tie Tvcn.
~ Eighth judicial district. for the crca
tlo. of the Seventy fourth judicial dis.
trict anu for the appointment Of a dis
ltrict Judge for the Seventy. fourth district.
and for a new district attornry for lie
T~wcnty-eighth judicial district. II TIL
bill j. made a law il means that Judge
". Is. Hopkins remains with the Twcnt;.
eighth district, a Judge 10 h. named for
the new district. which include Cameron
county, while District Attorney John /.
klcibcr. who resides in Brownsville,
would be- the district attorney Tor the
new district.
The new judicial district would include
WIilac.,. Cameron. Hidalgo and Starr
counties. while the Twcnty-cighth district
would comprise Nucc-s. Klcbcre. Jim
Wells. Brooks. Duval and Jim Hogg
counties. For the old judicial district
Judge Hopkins would H. the holdover
judge. while an appointment would have
To he made in the new district. The
court term in Cameron county under the
new district would be- from twenty to
thirty weeks, which would be q great
factor in clearing the dockcts in this
county. which have l.c"mc greatly over.
crowded.
Lawyers of Cameron and all the Dor.
der counties are greatly interested in this
new judicial district. believing il TO liz
the only means BY which the dockets i'm
the courts of these counties can he kept
up 10 any reasonable extent. The dockets
of Cameron IIidalco and Starr counties
especially have been crowded. the length
of time occupied hv court being too short
Ia permit Of the proper attention 10 the
cases set for trial.
y bill has also been presented i'm the
senate providing for q rcdiStrictinC of
the senatorial district. introduced bv Sen.
afor johnson Of Hall county. In this
bill the division of the district follows:
District Ma. 21.-Wilson, Atascosa. DE
Witt, karnes, tioliad. Victoria. Calhoun.
Ecfngio. Bee Live Oak. McMullen. Jim
Wells. NueceS. klcberg, San Patricio and
Arkansas.
District No. aS.-Tvalde. Medina Frio.
Zavala. Maverick. Dimmitt Webb. Duval
Iapata Brooks. Jim Hogc, Willacy. Cam.
cron. Hidalgo. Starr and LaSallr.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
II j. also expected hat the new con
2ressional rcdistrirting bill will possibly
take Nueces count from the fifteenth to
a new district. Texas now has sixteen
congressman from as many districts and
two conercsSmcn-at large. The present
plans are To rediStrict the state into eich.
teen districts and such q bill would be-
come effective in 1917.
\ bill Ia include tn counties from San
Antonio to Nucces. inclusive. in 4 new
district. has been proposed.
PAT DUNN COUNTY.
The bill providing for the creation IT
4 county from Duval and Brooks IL be-
known as Lanham from this district has
been introduced in the house and next
Tuesday. January -. has been set as the
date for the public hearing.
AT the last session Of the legislature A
bill authorizing the formation of such
a county was passed and signed bv the
governor. Efforts Ia district the county
as proposed were vigorously a~>>ailcl in
the courts by MANY prominent residents
of the county and finally the controversy
was settled for the time NJ least when
the court held that the bill creating the
county was unconstitutional and i'm this
decision Judge Hopkins was upheld.
IL il known that MANY residents Of the
county will appear before the senate and
house committees in opposition Ia the
bill. contcndinc that there il no necessity
for its creation.