Washington County News | 1926-06-17 | Page 2 | House Favors More Judges

House Favors More Judges Washington. A bill to authorize appointment ap-pointment of additional federal judges J in nine states was passed by the house and sent to the senate. i vote was 215 to 97. The states at- I fected are New York, Connecticut, ! Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Caro-lina, Michigan, South Dakota, Iowa and California. Vigorous opposition to the measure was voiced by Democratic Demo-cratic members from New York City, who objected to the five additional district dis-trict judges and one justice of the cir- J cuit court of appeals to be given their state. The . prohibition issue was raised by several representatives, who maintained that the docket congestion, resulting in the demand for new judges, judg-es, was caused by petty cases which belonged in police courts. Chairman Graham of the judiciary committee admitted ad-mitted that prohibition was the main cause of the legislation, but urged enactment en-actment of the bill, declaring that, un-der un-der the present conditions it was impossible im-possible to transact court business in certain sections.