COMPENSATION OF JUDGES PRO TEM.
Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, returned Mr. Kirkpatrick's bill [H. R. 228] to amend the third section of the act of May 15,1861, relative to the disability of Circuit Judges to hold court and discharge the duties of their office, and for the appointment of Judges pro tem. to hold court during such disability, recommending that it be laid on the table.
The Speaker would have repressed debate under the reported motion to lay the bill on the table, but it was indulged by unanimous consent, and Messrs. Offutt, Wilson of Ripley, Glasgow, Rumsey, Buskirk, Woollen and Miller participating therein.
On motion of Mr. Cowgill, the bill was recommitted, with instructions to deprive the original incapacitated judges of their salaries in cases where their courts have been held by judges pro tem. for six months.
