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Show lllttllT lOUUTS OK AI'ITII. Tub Flfty.fi rslCongnis whldi closed Its doort on the Itli Inst, hit uuwed one bill which gives universal satisfaction to the people of tlieUnlledBlalea. This t the bill for the establishment of circuit cir-cuit courts of aipsal, to relieve the press of business) which to lairdenathe United Htatee rluirerue CourU It Is, probably, tbe most Imjortant enact mrnt connected wltli the history of tbe federal Judiciary which ever emanate ema-nate 1 from Congress. This law pru-vldea pru-vldea for an lulertnedjata court which will have final Juilsdlctlon In a largo numberof caset. It waa passed without with-out any reference to tarty politics. Democrats vied wrth Ilepuhllivins aud vice versa, to make the bill trfect Federal courts, wherever they liave Jurlsdktlou, are referml to thu Htate courts. It maybe that a centralising Idea Is taking hold of the jople, and that the outcome of It It to look to aome imperial centre for relief In all caset of trcublo. The law Is entitled: "X bill to establish es-tablish circuit courts of appeal and to define and regulate I n certain ntaea the Jurisdiction of the courts of tbo United flutes, and for other purposes." Bee-Hon Bee-Hon t, of the bill provides for Iho ap-lulutmeut ap-lulutmeut of an additional circuit Judge In each circuit, by the 1'resl. dent of the United Hlatee, this Judge to he on tho aauio footing at tho exist-lug exist-lug circuit Judge. Htctlon S, provide for the establish, ntcntof a Circuit Court of Appcala In each Judicial Circuit, tills court to consist of threo Judge, two of whom velll constitute a quorum. Thla court it emiowered to prescribe Its u u form ind style of seal, alsj Its processes and procedure, aa In the case of the U. H. Huprente Court. It will have a mar hall and clerk, with salaries of J.',5W and tVM per year respectively, rlsctlou 3. provides for what Judgra ire authorlted to alt lu this court of appeals. And It demands that a term shall In hell annually In each of the nine Judicial ilrculta of the United Slates. Hectlon 4, provlJea that all appeals by writ of error or otherwlso frum dls trlct courts shall only Usui jt to re. view In the Hupreme Court of the United Htaui or In the Circuit Court of Apials hereby established, Hectlon 0, defines what caj.es can Iw takuu direct to the Hupremo Court. It rovls as follows: Sec a. Tlist apiwalt or writs or error may be taken f nun thu district courts or from IlKotUtlng circuit nurtsdlrert lo Ilia supremo court In tint f illowlng oaten In any raui In whl h the Jurisdiction of Iho court is In Istuii In such esses Ihe iiue.lloii of Jililsdklloit atone shall he t ertlfte.1 to tin supremo court from Iho court below for d) Islou, rnun tlio final seuteiuvs and doorw s lu prlto cases. Ineusustif tHiuTlotloii of a cspUalor otherwl-e Inramons crime. I it auy tuto that hivolt et His eoiitlrito lion or applloallon ot Hit Oouillliillon of the United Nlsles. Iiianyuisolu which Hie constitution alitvofauvU of the Uulted Btutot or Ihe validity or ormstructloii of any Iresty msdft tinjtr Itt autliorlly Is drawn In quest lull. In any rasa In which tbecnnstltutinn nrlawdfaMtate la elalmaJ to be III onn traventlon of the Constitution of the t'nlled duties. Nothing In this art shall enVl Hit Jurisdiction Juris-diction of Hie topremt court In eaet ip-pesle.1 ip-pesle.1 fnml Iho hljhost court of a HUle northeeonslmctlou of the sulntes providing pro-viding for review of such esses. Hectlon 0 dtrlnea In what respect the court can exercise It anpollate Juris diction, anl In how far Its final decision deci-sion extends. Heillon 7 regulates procedure for taking cases from the lower courla to the circuit Court of A p-a Is. Section 8 define lb pty of inirshtli, and section 0 their duties. There are In all fifteen sections In the bill. It reads as If It were a very l-erfect document, and will no doubt provo a ln to Iho nation at large. Under lit provltlont, the President has the appointment ot nine persons for circuit court Judge. It It to be hoped he will exercise hlsusualcautlon, and that hi will select men of ability, Integrity and Impartiality. Doubtless numbers of ex Congressmen, political hacks and party liartiltes, will ba seeking seek-ing theao places. Tbs President, by all means, should Ignore these poeple. Their minds are dwarfed and their Judgment to distorted from long contact con-tact and manipulation In parly lltlcs, and In IsMies raised by private Inter etta that they would not, nor could not, mike good Judges. And It mutt be remembered that this new court It In a measure a court of final apal. |