Year: 1872

The following letter from Hon. Frank
Morey, has been sent to us with request to
publish. 1t discusses a subject that has in
terested the people OF North Louisiana ever
since the adoption of the State constitutio


WASHINGTON, December %, 1872.
Hon. 0. H. Brewster, State Senator New Orleans


Louisiana:


DEAR SIR have a suggestion to make
to YOU, and to all the Senators and members
Of the House Of Representatives. in view of
the fact that the election Of United States
Senator is soon to be made and of the fact
that you will each and every one be called
upon to select some one whose influence in
Congress will be great for the veal OF woe
of North Louisiana interests especially as
well as of the State at large.


As you we'll know, it is matter of vital
interest to the people Of North Louisiana
that they should have proper United States
court facilities. These viii be given in the
event that the bill now before the United
States Senate, which passed the House
last session, ceeding a United States Dis
trict Court for the northern part Of the
State, becomes a law.


Petitions for the establishment of this
court, signed by hundreds if not thousands
of people in the northern portion Of tahe
State, have been forwarded to Congress
asking for the passage of this bill. 1t is a
well known fact that the admiralty bust
ness and the business growing out Of the
fact that New Orleans is the great CONNER
cial centre of the Southwest is sufficient to
occupy tile whole time of the term of the
one court now in existence in Louisiana,
and to keep up crowded docket, to say
nothing OF the numerous cases growing out
OF intractiOns of the internal revcnue laws,
OF the postotfice laws, and Of intractions of
the laws passed by Congress to enforce the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution.


The limited facilities afforded litigants
now amount in brief to a practical denial
OF justice to those citizens, more especially
those OF limited means, parties to a civil or
criminal suit who reside in the northern and
northwestern portions Of the State.


l would appeal to yor, and to all of the
members of both bOuses of the General
Assembly, but more especially to those who
represent the northern and northwestern
portions Of the State, to give your support
to no one for the position of United States
Senator who is not in favor Of advocating
this measure Of justice toward North Lou
isiana.


l trust and believe you will take firm
and unyielding position III this matter.


Ny duty to the people whom | have the
honor to represent impels Inc to advise this
course, because II has recently come to my
knowledge that efforts have been, and are
still being made to defeat this bill by par
ties in New Orleans, and for the most selfish
purposes.


Letters have been received by a promi-
nent member Of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee from attorneys, officials and others,
who have direct personal interest in com
polling litigants to go before the court in
New Orleans with their cases. 1t is within
my personal knowledge that some of these
letters misrepresent the facts Of the situa-
ton, The influence of which speak being
secretly exerted during the last days of the
Forty-frst Congress, defeated the measure
in question, which had in that Congress- as
in this, passed the House by an almost
unanimous vote having been reported then,
as now, favorabIy by a unanimous vote of
the House judiciary Committee, who, upon
q thorough examination of the matter, did
not entertain doubt of the justice and pro-
priety Of the measure.


Urusting that you will lay this matter be-
fore %ug friends at all early day,


am yours truly,


FRANK NORFE.