Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-07-15
ADDITIONAL FEDERAL
 JUDGE FOR ARIZONA

"t'SihhhS VIII, b' S', oNiy" if' IN House Committee on the Judiciary has favorably reported the Ashurst bill
 providing for an additional Fedora, Judge for the District of Arizona
 When the bill was under considera, tion by the Judiciary Committee Con- gressman Carl Hayden of Arizona anC James R. Dunseath of Tucson, who was MT. Hayden's opponent on the Republican ticket at the last election appeared and urged it's passage. The following extract from the hearings contains the substance of their re- marks:
 Mir. Hayden. You will note, Mr. Chairman, that this bill passed the Senate on May 2, 1921, being, I be- heve, the fourth time it has passed that body in this identical form. The same bill was also favorably reported to the House by the Committee on the Judiciary in the last Congress. The measure provides for the appointment of an additional judge for the district of Arizona, and does not authorize the appointment of an additional United States marshal or district at- torney or an additional clerk. Their work will be done by deputies.
 There is present this morning MT. James R. Dunseath, of Tucson, Ariz., a distinguished member of the bar of that State, who is very familiar with conditions in that judicial district, and I shall be pleased if the committee will hear him briefly in support of this bill. ...'..-
 MT. Dunseath said in part: Mir. Chairman and gentlemen of the com mittee, I appreciate this opportunity for the simple reason that we have been laboring for probably six or eight years under difficulties in carrying on the. business of the Federal court in Arizona without any chance of getting the matters cleaned up at the end of the term. Judge Sawtelle has been working to my personal know ledge, as earnestly as any man could work. He is now engaged in the trial of many cases of great importance not only to the litigants, but also of importance to the Government.
 Judge Sawtelle hears cases involv- ing matters pertaining to the Govern ment forest reserves, the public lands, litigations where patents have been received by persons in the States, and for some reason or other the Govern ment has attacked them. This re- uuires considerable time and patience. The fact that we have so many for eign corporations doing business Tn that State also means that all those cases that might originate in the State courts are immediately transferred in- to the Federal courts, because they think they can get better results and because they think they can probably get a better hearing on the merits, and the litigants who are plaintiffs desire to have the cases tried before the Federal courts. ..
 s MT. Hayden concluded the discus sion by saying: am aware, MT. Chairman, that the committee is be- ing requested to increase the nnmDer of judges all over the United States' owing to the large amount of legis- lat;on that has been passed by Con- press increasing the jurisdiction. or Federal courts. That applies to Ar1- zona as to the prohibition law, the interstate commerce law, the hours or service act, the safety appliance act' tbe Harrison narcotic act, and all the other laws enacted in recent years. We have the same proportion of sucn increased Federal court business as elsewhere in the United States; ana m addition to that there is a peculiar condition in Arizona which does nov exist anywhere else in this country:
 I remember talking at one time with a Congressman from Indiana who stated that with some 3,O00,OO0 people in that State they had but one Fed, eral judge. He could not understand why in the State of Arizona with less than a half million people we should require an additional United states iudpe. However, in the State of ln- diana there are no public lands or forest reserves or Indian reservations or reclamation projects. In Arizona there are 2O,OOO,OOO acres of public lands going to patent about which ilt, igation arises which must be settled in the Federal court.
 We have over 13,00Q,O00 acres III national forest reserves and every trespass case goes directly to the req, eoo eral court. We have over 2O,OoO,OoO acres of Indian reservations, all ot which is within the jurisdiction or the Federal court, because every in- dian is a ward of the Government. In addition to that the United States has invested over $1s,OOo,O0o in reclama- tion projects in Arizona and there are suits pending in the United states courts involving the reclamation fund
 Over 400 miles of our State adJoins the Mexican border, from which arises customs cases and violations of the ..4:o- l,w Tn addition there