I wish to point out certain other conditions that obtain in my district and in the adjoining district of New York. Some years ago this House refused to appropriate money for the purpose of having the Supreme Court of the State of New York. in New York City. to take care of naturalization cases. The United States district court judges on both sides of the river. in Brooklyn and New York. have one day and sometimes two days given over exclusively to the consideration of naturalization cases. Why should not the State of New York. through its tribunal. the Supreme Court of the State of New York. share with the United States district courts the carrying on of these naturalization cases? If you will reinstate that appropriation. you will thereby relieve many of the duties of the United States district courts now given over to naturalization cases. But politics dictated the policy. Our supreme court was robbed of its jurisdiction by your hamstringing it. by your refusal to continue appropriations to the various county clerks and court clerks in Brooklyn and in various New York City counties to enable them to carry on the fine naturalization work that they were doing for many years. I do not say this with absolute certainty. but I am sure that if you will give that money back you will relieve to a great extent much of the work that now devolves upon these Federal judges in Brooklyn and New York. Also. if you will repeal the Overman Act. which ousts State courts of jurisdiction where publicutility corporations are involved. you will do much to relieve the situation.
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