On Monday. May 19. we will have 611 prohibition cases and 97 other criminal cases on calendar in court roou 331. Recently the naturalization service in New York County was reorganized. and since May 12. .1924. nearly all naturalization cases are heard by the United States district court judges of the southern district of New York. This has added considerably to the work of the judges of this court. I recently wrote to ir. Charles l. Weiser. deputy clerk of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. to ascertain the volume of naturalization work of this court. Mr. Weiser replied to me as follows: Final hearings in naturalization are conducted once a week and the calendars are Increasing in length as the months progress. Since talking with you on Saturday It has developed that the local bureau of liaturalizationi contemplates confining naturalization activities at this point to United States courts. which will mean naturalization calendars of 400 cases each finalhearing day. The demand this will Impose on the time of the judiciary is apparent. It hs always been possible to keep the naturalization calendars precisely up 1o (late in this court. whereas in the State courts In this county and Kings they are a year and two years. respectively. in arrears. Wi lt our present complement of judge.. under the conditions the contemihlated changes will bring about. this court will sooi reach the condition of chaos which now obtains in the several State courts.
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