The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-04-09
ADDITIONAL JUDGE FOR U. $. COURT
 0F ARIZONA
Carl Hayden Appears Before Judiciary House Committee in Support of Prompt Enactment of this
 Measure

Washington, April S.-The hearing before the House Committee on the Judiciary on the bill to provide an ad- ditional District Judge for the United States Court in Arizona have just been printed. In the course of his argument in support of the prompt enactment of this measure Congress man Carl Hayden said:
 "The population of Arizona has doubled in the past 10 years, and the State is the fifth in area in the Union, yet neither the number of people nor the size of the state are vital factors. The demand for an additional Feder- al judge for the district of Arizona is primarily based upon the volume of business pending before the United States court, which is so great that no single judge, however able, could pos sibly keep his worK up to date, even with the assistance of such other Fed eral judges as are from time to time temporarily assigned to assist him. There have been occasions when two outside judges were holding court in Arizona in addition to our own judge, yet all three of them were unable to make any appreciable reduction in the number of cases awaiting trial. In the last Congress this committee favorably reported 70 the House bill providing for am additional Federal judge in Arizona The bill was placed upon the calendar for unanimous con- sent, and a Member of Congress from Indiana objected to it's consideration. When I afterwards inquired of him as to why he did so, the gentleman said 1 that the State of Indiana, with pop ulation fo 3,000,00o, had but one Fed eral judge and he could see no possi- l 'ble reason why a three or. four hum l dred thousand people in Arizona
 would require the services of two | judges.
 I then explained to him, as I want 1 to make clear to the members of this
 committee, how different the actual
 conditions are iir AeIzona and Indiana or any other of the states in the east
 where all the land has passed into pri
 vate ownership. Seventy-fve pei
 cent of the area or Arizona is to-day
 under the control of the Federal Gov
 ernment. On July I, 1919, there were 20,714,7S5 acres of vacant public lan(
 in my state. Congress has made it {
 crime to fence the public domain, an( !
 utes affecting it, which cause issues
 to~arist. that can only be determined
 in the Federal court.
 Ten tribes of Indians, numberin.
 over 44,500 souls, reside in Arizona and 2O,714,7S5 acres Of land has beel
 set aside for their benefit. As ward z. of the Government, the rights of thes'
 Indians must be protected by the Fed eral court.
 Forest reserves to the extent o
 12<O76,6S9 acres have been created il E Arizona In keeping with the polio, of conservation, trespassing upon national forest has been made crim triable before the Federal judge. , Under the reclamation law $19,24S , 199 has been expenoed up to June 3( , 1919, in the construction of the Sal , River and Yuma irrigation projects i f Arizona all of which was to be repai
 by the water users. There is nov pending before the Federal court
 suit to determine whether the Unite States can collect several million do
 lars of this money.
 But I have not recited all of tn
 Federal activities in my State, whic
 inevitably increase the business bc
 fore the United States court. Tn
 Republic of Mexico bounds Arizon } on the south, and a poorly guarded il l ternational line encourages smugglin : and violation of the immigration law 5 Such cases, together with person 9 charged with shipping arms and an t intuition into Mexico in violation ( s the proclamation of the Presiden t take up much of the time of the Fe' s eral court.
 ,. It goes without saying that the Fe' f eral court in Arizona has assumed il j. full share of the general increase s the the number of cases arising unde !. the food and drug act, the antinarc : tic law, the enforcement of prohit :, tion, the amendments to interstat n commerce acts, and numerous othe l. laws recently enacted by Congres }, The prompt and proper enforcemei r of these new laws is usually the req S on advanced for the appointment t additional judges in other states, bl n I hope that I have convinced the mer
 bers of this committee that the situ }, tion in Arizona is in class by itse r. and that the need for relief is real ar It urgent.