Conditions indicate that instead of there being a slackening days when over 20 admiralty suits have been commenced and from 10 up of business. there will be a greater Increase this year than in preto 15 bankruptcy petitions filed. vious years. In addition to the regular proceeding referred to. there The following statement of business In 1906 makes an interesting are many special matters. such as habeas corpus. and many applications comparison : in special matters not in regular cases. Proceedings .?ommeced Cases The naturalization work Is limited because of the fact that the Admiralty ------------------------------------------------- 185 judges can not devote more time for hearing naturalization proceedLaw and equity ------------------------------------------- 126 ings. If more time. a half day each week. could be given to this Bankruptcy ----------------------------------------------- 256 part of the work. it would be possible to double the number of appliCriminal cases ---------------------------------------------s 74 Civil United States ---------------------------------------- 14 tions filed. thus relieving the situation. As it is. applications are of necessity refused. to the great inconvenience of those desiring citiTotal ------------------------------------------------ (655 zenship. In 1911 the total number of cases commenced was 1.009. It was The three judges are constantly occupied. one of the three takes ex deenied necessary at that time to have two judges. thus increasing the ca- parte work. motions. and naturalizations. On Mondays he may have pscity of the court by 100 per cent. Furthermore. in 1906 the judge of a bankruptcy case to hear or may be able to devote his time to deciding this district devoted a great deal of his time to criminal trials In the south- matters already submitted or cases tried before him. being interrupted ern district of New York. In 1920 the business had more than doubled by the presentation of orders for the appointment of receivers and for the figures given in 1911. and in 1f21 it had more than trebled 1911. various other applications. On Tuesday morning the naturalization After Judge Veeder was appointed. the judges arranged schedules of calendar of from 300 to 600 cases has to be attende dto. Wednesday assignments so that one judge for a period of two months did the trial is generalmotion day with a calendar .f some 50 or more motions. work. such as admiralty. law and equity. and criminal cases. while the There are motions in equity. law. and admiralty. as well as various other judge would take the motion calendars. occupying practically the miscellaneous applications and habeas corpus proceedings. This takes whole of Wednesday and Friday afternoons of each week. and the nat- the whole morning. going on often into the afternoon. Many of the uralization calendar. which took up the whole of Thursday morning. motions are sharply contested and need study and research. On In this way the judge would have Monday. Tuesday. and half of Thursday the judge Is again occupied with naturalization. practically Wednesday. Thursday. and Friday to use for the purpose of attending for the whole morning. On Friday morning there are from 40 to 60 to the ex parte business and for the purpose of going over testinony motions in bankruptcy.
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