Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-02-19
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ton of 1000 and Elma a population
of 5000 a total population for Mon
tesano and Elma Of 1000 people.
2. More than 10000 people, or more
than fve-sevenths of the total pop
ulation of Chehalis county, reside with.
in four miles of the building in Abb
erdeen intended to be used for hold.
ing court.
3. More than 10000 people of Che.
halls county at present must travel
from twelve to forty-five miles to at
tend the sessions of court at the coun-
ty seat
Business from Grays Harbor.
4. The statistics taken from the
county records will show that in ex-
cess of three-fourths of all the court
business transacted in Chehalis coun-
ty has its origin on Grays Harbor.
S. The proposed bill will not in
any way injure the eastern part of
Chehalis county. There are two judg-
es of the superior court in Chehalis
county. and it is the purpose of the
bill that one of the judges shall sit
in Aberdeen and the other judge shall
sit at Montesano, the county seat. All
cases and other matters which should
be tried or disposed of at the county
seat, will be tried and disposed of at
the county seat as heretofore. All
cases which should of right be tried
or disposed of at Aberdeen, would
hereafter be tried and disposed of at
Aberdeen.
6. The saving to litigants, Jurors,
witnesses and attorneys by the pas
sage of the proposed bill would be
very large. without referring to the
added convenience.
Stop County Division Fight.
Z. The bill is not designed to open
up county removal or county divi-
sion fight; on the contrary. it is de.
signed to remedy an evil which has
existed in Chehalis county for a good
many years, and the bill, II passed,
would prevent and deter, more than
any other thing. any county division
or county removal fight.
8. The county of Chehalis now has
situate between the cities OF Hoquiam
and Aberdeen, county hospital build
ing, completed about two years ago,
which has never been used, and which
is continual expense to the county,
without any benefit being derived
therefrom. Such building could be
and is intended to be used for the
purpose of holding court in the city
of Aberdeen, and any necessary
changes that may have to be made
could be made at very little expense.
In fact, the saving to litigants, wit
nesses and jurors, by the holding Of
court in Aberdeen, annually, would
greatly offset any expense that the
county may be put to in making small
necessary changes. Aberdeen, Ho-
GUAM, Cosmopolis and the entire
western portion of the county, as well
as portion Of the eastern end of
the county, are in favor of this bill,
recognize it's merits, and believe that
the almost intolerable conditions here
tofore existing should be remedied.
9. Montesano pledged itself in writ
ing number Of years ago, at the
time the new court house was built,
to support bill of this character.
10. It has been said that the bill
establishes precedent in this state.
II it does, 1t Is good precedent. Sim
| liar bills have been passed in a great
many states Of the Unien. The leg
islature OF Minnesota passed an act
providing that sessions of the district
court of Ottertail county be, for the
convenience of litigants, held in the
city Of Perham, a place other than
the county seat. Again, the leglsla-
ture of Minnesota passed an act pro-
viding that sessions OF the district
court for Stearns county be held In
the city of Sank Center, place other
than the county seat. In fact, legis-
'atures Of the different states have
in the past always granted relief In
cases where relief was necessary, and
in cases similar to the case in point
Similar acts were passed and held
constitutional by the states Of Michi-
gan, Indiana, Kentucky Missouri, Ten
nessee, Iowa, Ohio and New York.