Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-04-14
BILL PASSES SENATE BY FINAL
VOTE OF a. TO 21-SouTH-
ERNERs OPPOSE.
FOR FEDERAL COURT RELIEF
Bill Also Provides for Annual Fall
Conference of Senior Circuit Judges
at Washington With Chief
Justice.

Washington.-The bill to provide a
score more of federal judges, advo-
Gated as a measure to relieve conges-
tion in federal courts and opposed as
political patronage pork barrel" was
passed by the senate and sent to con-
ference with the house.
Twenty-three more federal district
judges, distributed throughout the
country, and one more Judge for the
Fourth Circuit are provided by the
senate bill, as against % district
judges under the original bill passed
by the house last December.
The senate vote on final passage
was "A to 21, with party lines broken.
Eight democrats-Senators Ashurst,
Arizona; Fletcher, Florida; Hitchcock,
Nebraska Myers, Montana; Pomer-
enc Ohio; Trammell, Florida; Walsh.
Massachusetts,. and Walsh, Montana
voted with 36 republicans for the
measure.
The opposition included eight re.
publicans and 13 democrats, the re-
publicans being Senators Borah, Ida
ho; Capper, Kansas; France, Mary
land Ladd, North Dakota; LaFollette,
Wisconsin; McNary, Oregon; Norris,
Nebraska, and Townsend, Michigan.
The democratic opponents were
Senators Broussard, louisiana; Cara
way Arkansas; Dial, South Carolina:
Harris, Georgia.; Harrison, Mississip-
pi; Kendrcik, Wyoming; King, Utah.
0verman, North Carolina; Sheppard.
tiexas; Shields, Tennessee: Stanley,
Kentucky; Underwood, Alabama, and
Williams, Mississippi.
The pork barrel" and '1og rolling
charges, made onenly on the floor by
democratic opponents of the bill AMI
denied as vehemently by it's support
ers, were followed by some open ma
nuevers and kaleidoscope vote chang
ing during the dozen roll calls on
amendments. The bill finally contain
ed provisions for four more district
judges than recommended by the sen.
ate judiciary committee. These in
clude one each for New Jersey, New
Mexico, the Western Missouri district
and the Southern Florida district.
Provision for the additional New
Jersey Judge. under an amendment by
Senator Frelinguysen, republican, of
New Jersey, was inserted, 25 to one,
but later stricken out on motion of
Senator King, democrat, Utah, by a
rising vote. Finally it was reinserted,
59 to %.
AS passed by the senate, the dis
tribution of the 23 additional district
judges would be as follows:
Two each for Massachusetts and the
southern district of New York, and
one each for the Eastern New York
district, Eastern Pennsylvania, West
ern Pennsylvania, Northern Texas,
Eastern Michigan, Northern Ohio,
Northern Illinois, Minnesota, Eastern
Missouri Western Missouri, Eastern
Oklahoma, Montana, Northern Califor-
mia, Southern California, Arizona,
Georgia. New Jersey, New Mexico and
Southern Florida.
The bill provides for an annual fall
conference of senior circuit judges at
Washington with the chief justice and
attorney general of the United States.
to make comprehensive survey Of
judicial business of the country and
make bench assignments. 1t provides
also for assignment by the chief JUS
tice OF judges to districts where there
is congestion or where the public in.
terests generally require such assign
ment.