Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-07-08
JUDGE COCHRAN
TELLS The FACTS
About Movement To Get Federal
Court At Lexmgton-Not iah
ned To Eliminate Richmond

III
A meeting Of number Of citlzems a ael,s
will be held this afternoon 70 o,,id oUh
s;dar M what action, Richmond, snoult
% taIe in regard to the establsnmMeh' M,.
sf A federal court at Lexington: m,
W.,feld " Bennett, U. S. Comm1sssiSn,, sp'.u,
w" has ,ece;ved a letter from Federai
IT, Trana nos A M. ]. Cochran, detalhng Sne
SLus stO,,s With regard to his recommends,
s.epo raoardinp Lexington. MANY
uons .;t1ens feel that the move 70
LOCAL court at Lexington woulo
,mean @ eventually the disconunuah.se g
meam ,,+ hare. or at least transferral of
" sarae S mart Of the, business done
here to Lexington. y is also "a py a.
aJ ont that with courts mere anu ,,+ ~
frankfort there is no nee9 tor ICES Sy
ha;ng established at Lexington, u Ieoe
~ y Sovernrnent. is hunting for e PiaSe
S sSerd q Few hundred Thousand oolS
ors " for which there can be no pos
s;hle & adequate return to anyone. lsr.,,.
spls d@e . Xochran's letter" gives the
facts sus as before him. in the folllo follloWYYiRgg WING
le''sf' Sser % Maysyille, Ky, q
ae 5th July, 1919.
w. C. Bennett, Esq, ! +f' ''-'- -
have received. telegram IRON
yourself and others protesung asa.nn so,,
the removal Of the Federal Cours ~ !, ~, =,
Richmond. There is no moVeIMEmS Wtin+ s Is
foot to effect such removal, VIA. at q
nending is this. Senator otaney af "e
the beginning of the present sesslos w. ~
Snngress % introduced a bill in the pen.
0 &c fo establish Lexington as a, place
az ~ holding court in addition to the slN
oiraadv ~ existing. At the same C9n, N,
o. o.rassoan Cantrill introduced Dill
=, The House establishing sWinches-i
Tor as an additional place.
last week / obtained a wire from
tho ATTORNEY General requesting my
views Vic on the Senate Bill. He mace
WV ie~ ,.eo,,est as to the House Bill. bu'
~ ~. ren,est as to the Senate Bill,
necessarily brought up the HOUSE
Bill-for manifestly both Lexington
and Winchester coud not have a co4r..
IL was questionable whether eithel
should have. Before expressing my
self / desired to bring representatives
Of Lexington and Winchester toogether
tn see if it was not possible to harmo-
nize them by one or the other giving
wav I fixed last Thursday for them
to come here and notified Mr.. Wigglns
of the Richmond bar, of the meeting
and had Mr.. Menzies through Luclen
.Burnam, to call attention to it so that
any representative of Richmond might
he present and be heard on the ques-
ton of whether there should be
court at either place.
The meeting was held. Inc mat,
ter of which place should be selected
was left to me and decided IN favor
of Lexington for the reasons which
then expressed. I also concluded to
write the Attorney General fayoring
the Senate Bill.
The only possible way in which the
establishment of court at Lexington
can effect the civil business at Rich
mond is in case where both sides
would prefer to have a case at Lex
ington rather than Richmond. 1t is
so affected now by both sides prefer.
ring Covington or Frankfort. And
all other places will be affected in
like manner. In no other manner
can the civil business at Richmond be
affected by the establishment Of a
court at Lexington.
There is a real demand for a place
of holding court in the body of the
district, which is readily accessible to
all parts thereof. / have met that
demand occasionally in the past in
going to Lexington and Winchester to
hear cases and questions in cases.
1t is possible also that the criminal
business at Richmond will be some
what affected also, but the exact ex-
tent to which it will be I can, not say.
AS at present advised l am not in
clined to favor taking to Lexington
any criminal business which would
otherwise go tn Richmond.
/ have written you thus fully so that
you may advise your citizens as to
just what is in contemplation and the
probable effect of the establishment
of a court at Lexington. i desired
some representative of your city at
the meeting held on Thursday. AS
soon as it was determined on ]
promptly gave notice of it as stated.
Sincerely yours,
A. M. T. Cochran.