The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-06
Congressman HeIvering Offers
Bill to Amend Federal Statute.
Would Divide Kansas Into
Three Judicial Districts.
HOLD SESSIONS IN SIX TOWNS
Money Saved Would Pay Extra
Expense, He Says.
He Asks $4,000 for POstOffice
at Junction City.

Washington, D. C, Jan. "a bill
has been introduced in the house by
Congressman Guy-T. delivering to
amend the statutes for the holding of
federal court in Kansas. BY the terms
of the measure the state will be divid-
ed into three divisions and court will
be held in six cities.
The first division shall include the
territory embraced on the first day of
July 1910, in the counties of Atchi-
son Brown, Chase. Cheyenne, Clay
Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan,
Douglas, Ellis, Franklin, Geary, Cove,
Graham, jackson, Jefferson, Jewell,
Johnson, Leavenworth Lincoln, Lo-
gan. Lyon, Marion, Marshall, Mitchell,
Morris, Nemaha, Norton, Usage, Os-
borne, Ottawa, Phillips, Pottawatomie,
Rawlins, Republic, Riley, Rocks,
Russell Saline. Shawnee, Sheridan,
sherman, Smith, Thomas. Trego. Wa
baunsee, Wallace, Washington and
Wvandotte. Terms of the district
court for the first division shall be
held at Leavenworth on the second
Monday in October; at Topeka on the
second Monday in April; at Kansas
CITY on the second Monday in Janu-
. d
and at Salina on the second Monday
in May.
The second division shall include
the counties of Barber Barton, But
Ter. Clark. Comanche, Cowley, Ed
wards, Ellsworth. Finney, Ford,
Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Har-
per, Harvey, Hodgeman, Haskell,
/ Kingman, Kiowa, Kearny, Lane. Nc
! Pherson, Morton, Meade, Ness, Pratt,
Pawnee, Reno, Rice, Rush, scott
Sedgwick. Stafford, Stevens, Seward,
Sumner, Stanton and Wichita. Terms
of the court for the second division
| shall be held at Wichita on the sec
| ond Mondays in March and Septem-
/ Der.
! The Third Division.
/ The third division shall include the
counties of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon,
@ Cherokee, Coffey. Chautauqua, Craw-
ford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn
l Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson
vision shall be held at Fort Scott on
the first Monday in May and the sec
| ond Monday in November.
The bill provides further that the
! clerk of the district court shall APP
! point three deputies, one of whom
shall reside and keep his office at
Fort Scott, one at Wichita, and the
other at Salina, and the marshal shall
appoint a deputy who shall RESIDE
and keep his office at Fort Scott.
l..
Salina be designated as one of the
places for holding federal court a
great expense would be saved TO law
Vers Iitigants and others in the far
western part of Kansas who now must
travel 200 or more miles to the near
est court town in eastern Kansas In
fact. he says. these expenses as are
now incurred would more than pay
for the maintenance of a court at Sa-
lima.
Another bill presented by Mr.. Helv-
ering directs the secretary of the
treasury to pay the total sum of 81. 592
to four Kansans owning farms ad-
jacent to Fort Riley who suffered
losses by reasons of a fire started at
the fort in 1908 while a battery of fed
eral field artillery was engaged in
target practice. The rire spread from
the northern boundary of the fort
reservation to the nearby farms, de-
stroying corn in cribs orchards hay
in stacks. fences. etc. The bene-
ficiaries Of the bill are V. E. scherm-
erhorn. damages S6.250; f. c. Galley,
S192; G. w Campbell, SIG, and Mr..
Hudspeth, $1S4.
Other measures introduced by the
Fifth Kansas district representative
follow: Bill to extend the pension
laws to persons who served 80 days or
more in the military telegraph corps
of the army during the civil war; bill
to pension the survivors of the Eight
eenth and Nineteenth Kansas United
State volunteer cavalry who served in
the Indian wars of 1867, 1868 and
1869; bill appropriating the sum OF
) $4,000 for the purchase of a site and
the erection of a postoffice building al
junction City, Kan.
In the event that there is to be q
public building appropriation bill re-
ported at this session Mr.. delivering
has been assured by the chairman
having to do with this legislation thai
the Junction City item will be IN
cluded.
: Among the kansans invited by Pres.
? ident and Mrs Wilson to attend a re
ception at the White House next Fri.
5 day evening to meet the Pan-Americar
delegates are Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie:
Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. John Connolly
l Mr. and Mrs. G.. Helvering, Mr.. ant
= Mrs. Shouse. Mr.. and Mrs. Phil 2
Campbell, Miss Campbell, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Ayers.