As Judge Arthur J. Tuttle. of Michigan. has said: We have diversity of citizenship on every hand. Moreover. the border line affords temptation for all kinds of smugglersliquor. drugs. and Immigrantsthus creating a heavy burden of criminal cases. In fact. the number of criminal cases has reached such a height that It has been necessary to crowd the civil cases almost entirely out. the number of the former commenced in the eastern district in 1925 being 1.447. while the latter numbered only 633. It would not have been possible to hear even.this number of civil cases were It not that a competent referee and master In chancery has been devoting his entire time to the handling of cases In which the parties agree to divide the cost of such method.
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