The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
F I'VE ADDITIONAL FEDERAL JUD ES RE | ! M M [ N } [ ]
Dockets Of Southern District Of New York Are ESpe-
 CialIy Crowded


 WASHINGTON, Sept, 2S.-Five ad- ditional federal judges are needed to expeditiously handle the business of the federal courts throughout the country, in the opinion of the con presided over by Chief Justice Taft, which adjourned today after five sessions.
 Through the reports of the cir crit judges, supplemented by those from the district judges and the att torney general, the conference gained comprehensive view of the con ditions prevailing in the federal courts. It also arranged for the transfer of judges from one cir cult to another for the coming year. where judges are needed for crowded doekets.
 The conference found that the cir cult courts of appeals were, in gem eral up with their dockets and dis posing of business in a satisfactory way without any substantial delay and that except in one circuit there was no need for additional force. It found the new act increasing num- Der of district judges, passed in 1922 had not had full opportunity for effective operation because of the necessary time taken in filing the new judgeships, three of which still remain vacant. It was able to con clude, however, that on the whole the new act was working well and that in every district except the southern district of New York, and the northern district of Georgia, the prospect was that in the course of a year or two the courts would catch up with their dockets through the use of judges from other districts and from other circuits, and that un- less there was a great increase in business, the present force could thereafter keep the dockets reason- ably clear.
 Now York Docket Crowded.
 In the southern district of New York, it appeared to the conference, that in spite of the fact that dis trict judges from California, Kan sas, Nebraska, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey and other states had been of cases on the docket continued to increase The northern district ot Georgia was, in the opinion of the conference, in an equally unsatisfac- tory condition. The conference reached the conclusion that the only method of effectively conquering the arrears in these two districts was ap- pointment of one additional district judge in the northern district of Georgia, and two in the southern dis trict of New York.
 Considerable time was taken in the consideration of recommendations to the district courts for local rules In the expedition of business, one sub ject relating to abuses by the con tinuance of these by consent of counsel, another to undue delays in criminal cases growing out of the protracted examination of jurors on their qualifications to serve and 8 third relating to the importance of eliminating from the dockets of the district courts the dead cases. In each of these cases the conference formulated remedy for the evil, and urged the adoption of rules by each district court to bring about re- form.
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 Want More For Eighth. H
 The conference reached the con | clusion that there should be two additional circuit judges authorized by Congress to serve in the Eighth circuit, which now has four. Until the death of Judge Garland there had been five circuit judges in that cir cult, but as he was originally ap- pointed to the commerce court, the vacancy caused by his death cannot be filled.