The border vidette., 1916-12-30
WOULD DIVIDE ARIZONA.
Senator Ashurst Introduces Bill to
 Make Two Districts.

| makG wO JUSTICES.
 1 Senator Henry F. Ashurst has
 introduced the following bill,
 which was read twice and refer red to the committee on the
 Judiciary:
 Be it enacted by the Senate
 and House of Representatives of 1 the United States of America in l Congress assem bled, That all | that portion of the State of Ari- zona which includes the counties of Apache. Navajo, Coconino, l Mohave Yavapai, and Maricopa is hereby detached from the judicial district of Arizona and made a separate judicial district, and shall be called the northern district of Arizona" and all that portion of the State of Arizona which includes the counties of Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, Co., chise, Greenlee. Grahm, Gila. and Pinal shall hereafter be the southern district of Arizona. Sec. ?. That the district J udRe of the judicial district of Ariz- ona as heretofore conStitu ted and in office at the time this Act takes effect shall be the district judge for the southern district of Arizona as constituted by this Act. That the clerk of the dis trict court in said judicial dis trict of Arizona as heretofore constituted and in office at the time this Act takes effect shall be the clerk of the district court for the southern district of Ariz ona as hereby constituted until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. The district at torney, assis tant district at torneys, marshal, deputy mar, shals, deputy clerks, and re- ferees in bankruptcy resident in said northern judicial district of Arizona as constituted by this Act shall continue in office and continue to be such officers in such northern district until the expiration Of their respective terms of office as heretofore fixed by law or until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified.
 Sec. 3. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a district judge for the northern judicial district of Arizona, who shall possess and exercise all the powers conferred by existing law upon the judges of the dis trict courts of the United States, and who shall, as to all business and proceedings arising in said northern judicial district as here by constituted or transferred thereto, succeed to and possess the same powers and perform the same duties within the said northern judicial district as are now possessed by and performed by the district judge for the dis trict of Arizona.
 Sec. f. That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint marshal and district attorney for the said southern judicial district of Ari- zona as hereby constituted who shall, within their respective jurisdictions, possess and ex- ercise all the powers conferred by existing law upon the mar shals and district attorneys of the United States, respectively.
 Sec. g. That the office of marshal and district attorney in each cf safe districts, deputy marshals and assistant district attorneys, and all other offices authorized by law and made necessary by the creation of said two districts and the provisions of this Act, and all vacancies created thereby in either of said districts, as constituted by this Act. shall be filled in the manner provided by law. The salaries, pay. fees, and allowances of the judges, district attorneys, mar shals, and othe' officers in, said districts, until changed by law, shall be the same. respectively, as now fixed. by law for such officers in the judicial district of A rizOna as heretofore cOnSti tut-