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Show FEDERAL COURTS HAVE BUSY III JUDGES ORQANIZE BARGAIN DAY6 TO HELP CLEAR CALENDAR8 OF LIQUOR CA8E3 San Franciscoj Has Twenty-four Thou. sand Cases on Docket Which Havo Swamped Courts; Help Being Caltfd San rninslco. If anyone doubts that the Volstead act Is being enforced in San Franslco, desplto the fuel that ho can probably get a drink almost anywhere without much trouble, let him look nt tho cnlendars of tho fort oral courts of this district, whero LMOO prohibition cases are waiting trlul nnd moro piling up dally. The courts nro so congested Hint many offendors hnvo been arrested flvo and six times without having ni yet been brought to trial on tlio first chnrce. If all tlio defendants whoso cases nro now pending demand Jury trlnls, the calcndors of the coiTrts probably will bo elenred about tho tlmo the Liberty bond Issues mnturo, somowhero wny up In the 10 (O's. In numerous cases Judges Have held "bargain days," lo bolp In moving the biislnoss. They hnvo loft off light nil those offonders who woro on tho docket doc-ket and who changed their pleas from 'not guilty' to 'guilty,' thus climlnnt. lng tho Jury trlnl. Federal Judges aro not very pleased with tho stato of tho affairs, according to rumor. Ileforo Mr. Volstead maito the country unlawfully wet, flic federal cilurts woro dignified plncos, whero points of law worthy of high legal minds-wore Involved. Now, however, tho Judges- complain, moBt of tholr tlmo Is takon up with bootleg cases, nnd tho federal courts aro nothing incro nor less than police courts, after u fashion, with tho same shyster lawyers practicing In them as practice In tlio police courts. Tbo federal Judgcn, In most cases, would llko to hnvo the Volstead act amended so ns to turn over the run of prohibition cures to tho United States commissioners' courts for settlement. set-tlement. Muny a lawyer who used to strug ..I.. l.H.. ...t.ll llHH.tl. ...W.....t. ..MM.. HIV UIUU Willi Hilling i-uuuhl luui" tlco to muko a living, and not onouglt bruins to help It, Is now a "bootleg. gers' lawyer," obtaining oxcellont fees from defending bootleggora wheuovcr arrested. It Is estimated that the num-i num-i tier of lawyers practicing criminal law : tins Jumped "00 per cent since tho cuun-; cuun-; try was legislated dry. The lutest wrinkle of tho prohibition i enforcement agents Is to Invoko "abatement" proceedings, formerly i iisod In "red light" cases, ngalnst prop- erty owners. Prohibition agents, whon ; they find evidence of bootlegging, will formally serve notlco on tlio property owners thut If they contlnuo to rent to lawbreakers proceedings will bo In- i stltuted to closo their porperty for 1 one year, according to tho abutoment i law. |