The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-21
NEW COST BILL
lND0RSED BY BAR
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tions favoring the bill by tho Vinita
bar, were read and the following
I resolution was unanimously adopted
whereas. there has been introduced In
the house ~ representatives. st Washing
entitled To amend section lOl ~ chan.
ter OF the judicial code. which was on
Aesss; -, 1885,; referred 10 The commit
printed in and By tho 10" terms ms oi witch
~. H. rs proposed th9i The state OF Okla,
judicial districts 20 be known AZ Inc
nnrthern. eastern and western districts.
the northern district ~ which II Is mo
braced on the first day ~ July, igsi. in
the counties Of Craig Greek Delaware.
Garfield, Kay, Mayes. Nobio, Nowata,
Okmulgee, Usage. Ottawa, Pawnee. Payne
Rogers, Tulsa and Washington, and
whereas. u is proposed In and by tho
| terms and provisions ~ tho hill aforesaid
that tho terms ~ the proposed new federal
district court tor the said northern dis.
| first Monday In February. az Enid on
| the frat Monday In May. AZ Tulsa on the
tirst Monday ia octobel and Rt viriW on
the first Monday In December IN each
/ year but that the clerk OF the district
court for he said proposed new northern
the city Of Tulsa, and,
Whsteas ne members OF The various
| therein have This day met rgrsunnt I'''to ,o
notice. call and Invitation at the city OF
Tulsa with the object and Tor the purpose
congress and Of taking such action as may
/ be advisable In regard to the passage "
| the subject matter thereo, full considefa
/ tion. and.
Dockrts Are Overwhelmed.
! Whereas, II has been made to con.
cluFivcly appear that tho dockets ot the
respective courts 81 the present eastern
snd western federal districts NJ the state
Of oklahoma are overwhelmed and that
the litigation TO which the Judge ~ the
eastern distrio, IN pratlculer iT required
I AZ he . 14 ma
culisr questions with reference tp the
titles 70 the lands Of the various former
Indian Territory and their usaEes and
custons, with which its boundaries are
| practically coterminus as we'll as those
arising out Of the contentious over the
construction to be given the various
treaties with those tribes and nations Is
second In volume and Importance with
other district in the United states than
the southern district Of Ecw York by res-
son Of tho enormous value of those lands
resources, and that the duties OF the
Judge q that district are thus Impossible
as the Judge ut tho federal court OF that
New cou-. nni- Alternative.
Whereas. 1t is tho deliberate Wow and
conclusive Judgment OF the ~ unbrrs Of
the bar In active practice in th' eouhlics
, aforesaid. so here assembled, that ~ no
other means than by the creation of the
said proposed new, northern iednai iudl.
can adequate relief be afforded from OK
isting conditions, nov, thcrcfuF be II
, Resolved by the members uf the bar
: Of the counties aforesaid, IN this meeting
for that purpose 70 assembled, that W
urge upon all OF the representatives. Tn
, congress and particularly those from the
, state Of okla homa, both in the house and
in the benate. the passage Of the bill
aforesaid and its enactment into law, and
that copies Of this resolution be forwarded
to each of the members OF the house OF
representatives from the state Of Okla
lhomA and TO each OF the senators from
! that state with the request that they b.
Isubmitted as memorials to both houses OF
congress by them and that our attitude
In that regard be thus brought to the at
T ltention Of their respective committees OF
p 1.-THE judiciary. as well as the nation al
4 largo and b. II further
! No Criticism OF Judges.
E Resolved, that we unanimously eN
4 press herein our deep sense OF spprecia
! ton Of the devotion TO their duty whirt
has been shown by the present incun
bents OF the bench Of both the present
. eastern and western federal Judicial dis
, trcts Hon. Robert l. Williams and Hon
John n. Cotteral, and that we urge upoI
all Of our fellow citiZens that In thi
q memorial no criticism Ia intended upoi
= either Of them With reference to the con
, duet OF the business Of their rcspsctiv
courts. but that this action on our par
is, In fact in remonsttance that they shal