Weekly journal-miner., 1917-01-03
TWO JUDICIAL DISTRICTS FOR
 ARIZONA
BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE BY ASH RST PROVIDES FOR ANOTHER FEDERAL JUDGE.

IS 10 me divided into two Fedora
 judicial districts-northern and south
 ern-with all the fat jobs that are ap
 purtenant thereto. For instance ther,
 will be two Federal judges, two Unit
 ed States marshals, two clerks of tn,
 court ad finitum, ad nauseam, where
 there IS now only one of each. Int
 counties of Apache, Navajo, Coco
 nino, Mohave, Yavapai and Maricop;
 will comprise the northern district
 and Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise
 Greenlee, Graham, Gila and Pinal tho
 southern district.
 The provisions of the bill, which i.
 now in the hands of the judiciary
 committee of the senate, arc as fol
 lows:
 Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United
 States of America in congress as, sembled, That all that portion of the State of Arizona which includes the counties of Apache, Navajo, Coconino
 Mohave, Yavapai and Maricopa is hereby detached from the judicial district of Arizona and made separ- ate 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, Cochise, Greenlee, Graham, Gila and Pinal shall hereafter be the southern dis trict of Arizona
 Sec. 2 That the district judge of the judicial district of Arizona as heretofore constituted 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 district court in said judicial district of Ari- zona ss heretofore constituted and in office at the time this Act takes effect shall be ,be clerk of the district court for the southern district of Arizona as hereby constituted until his sue cessor shall be appointed and quail fed. Tine district attorney, assistant district attorneys, marshals' deputy marshals, deputy clerks, and referees in bankruptcy resident in said north ern judicial district of Arizona as con stituted by this act shal continue in office and continue to be such officers in such northern district until the ex- piration 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 ap- point 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 district courts of the United States, and who shall, as to all business and proceedings arising in said northern judicial district as hereby constituted or transferred thereto, succeed to and possess the same powers and perform the same duties within the said northern judi cial district as are now possessed by and performed by the district judge | for the district of Arizona.
 Sec. 1. That the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall ap- | point a marshal and district attorney 1 for the said southern judicial district | of Arizona as hereby constituted, | who shall, within their respective jurisdictions, possess and exercise all | the powers conferred by existing law :. upon the marshals and district attor- neys of the United States, respect lively.
 Sec. ;. That the office of marshal and district attorney in each of said districts, deputy marshals and assist ant 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 consti- tuted by this act, shall be filled in the manner provided by law. The sal aries, pay, fees, and allowances of the judges, district attorneys, marshals. and other officers in said districts, un- til changed by law, shall be the same, respectively, as now fixed by law for such officers in the judicial district of Arizona as heretofore constituted.
 Sec. G. That all causes and pro- of every name and nature, except criminal, now pending in the court of the judicial district of Ari- ,ona as heretofore constituted, where ; of the courts of the southern judicial .