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judge* have laborious dutic* to perform and matter* 



i- Ull.l inuirnitiulr submitted t" tin-in 



Thc\ luiM- ti> hold court in tin: 



pci-iive* circuits. The, 



the second tlin-c, 



i lie fourth live, tlio liflh nix, the sixth 



\Cllth tlllVC, till' eighth hCVCll, 1111(1 till! 



Ill .-.cM-ral lit' tlic Stall.-, tln-rc urc two 

 I ill MIIIIC three. Most of I; 



re, have to travel a good deal and to be away 

 the larger part of the time "ii > .\pcnse. 



made lor their appointment, 



. .lii'L'e.- Dillon uud McCreary, of the 

 . iivuit, have ivMLfiicd i>n account of the salary 



,il. ISoth were men of the highest Staild- 



I aliility and ahlu jiuL'cs. The tonner is in 



fork and* the latter in Kaiisa> 'ity. lloth arc 



I in practice, and undoubtedly have' an income 



inn. h lanri r than the salary of u circ-uit judge. Judge 



Lowell, <>f tho first circuit, lias also resigned and rc- 



Miuicd practice ill lio.-toii. He was also an able judge. 



d not resign perhaps on account of the small 



salary, a> at the time of his resignation ho is undcr- 



ii have licen iii independent circumstances, but 



.'iihtcdly felt that ho was entitlfcd to a respite 



from heavy work. 



t of ( 'undress passed March 3, 1887, provision 

 ..ide for the appointment of a second circuit 

 judire iii the second circuit. coni]ioscd df the States of 

 nt, New York, and Connecticut, and swn there- 

 utter the Hon. V.. Henry Lacoiiihe was appointed to 

 the place, lie qualified and entered upon the duties 

 of his otlice in .June of that year, so that now there is 



r and a. junior circuit judge in that circuit. 

 /)/'.-/,;,/ .l<i,l,/<*. -The judiciary act of September, 



'vidcd for thirteen district courts, with ajudge 

 in each dUtriet, and fixed the salaries of the judges 

 at IP n 1 1 *^'i to $1,800. These districts have been m- 



. in number, so that now there are fifty-eight. 



laricsof these judges have also been increased. 

 present time one of these judges receives $5,- 



ic * I. "ioo, eleven $4,000 each, and the remain- 



ty-ftve $3,500 each. The one receiving $5,000 

 is .hid '.re Hoffman, of San Francisco. The one re- 

 ceiving *t.">00 is Judge Billings, of New Orleans. 

 The eleven receiving $4,000 are Judges Blodgctt of 

 Chi'-au'o. Norrisof Baltimore, Nelson of Boston,^Nixon 

 of Trenton. liroun of New York, Benedict of Brook- 

 Ivn. Coxe of Utica, Sage of Cincinnati, Butler of 

 Philadelphia, Acheson of Pittsburg, and Koss of Los 

 Antreles. 



judges usually work only in their respective 

 districts, bur in many of these districts court is now 

 held in two different places, and in spine of them in 

 three, so that these judges also are obliged to be away 

 frmn home con>idcrably on expense. These judges, 



holding district court, also hold circuit court 

 in the absence of the circuit judge, and in some of 

 the circuits do perhaps as much or more of the cir- 

 cuit work than the circuit judge does, as in some of 

 the circuits it is not possible for the circuit judge to 

 get into each district more than twice a year, and then 

 not for a long time. 



In addition to the foregoing salaries, all of these 



judges are now allowed to retire after ten years of 



anil after reaching the age of seventy years, 



U|H>H the salary they have been receiving, and to 



draw it as long as they live. 



There arc now nine Federal judges living who 

 have retired and are receiving their salary. Justice 

 Stroiiir. of the Supreme Court : Circuit Judife Drum- 

 iimnd ; l>i>trict Judges Krskinc, 1 5 ry an, and Treat; 

 Judges Lor'niir and Drake, of the Court of Claims; 

 and Judges Wylic and Me Arthur, of the Supreme 

 Court of the District of Columbia. 



It should be said also that all these appointments 

 are for life or during good behavior, and that in that 



the terms of the Federal judtfes diller from 



nd perhaps all, of those of the judges of our 

 iirts. 



For purposes of comparison and at some trouble I 



have ascertained the amount of salaries paid to the 



judges of the courts of Kn/land and twiiiu: of her col- 

 onies, unit to the judges of tho courts in the State* cf 

 this country where the salary equals or excotdn the 

 lowest amount paid to our Federal district judges, 

 which I give below. 



In KiiL'land the Lord Chancellor receive* a salary 

 of 1 0,000, t,),,. lords ,,(' uppeal in ordinary ' 

 each. In the Supreme Court of Judicature, "the mas- 

 ter of the rolls receive-, iM,ooo, mid the lords justice* 

 5,000 each. In the. High Court of Justice, the jus- 

 tices receive i;.',. I each. Ill tin Ot,, , if, I',, lieh, the 



Lord Chief Justice of Kn^'land i. 00, and 



the justices, fourteen in number. .".,O(M each. In 

 the Probate and Admiralty Courts and the Court of 

 Arches, the judges receive ..">,<<. MI each. In the city 

 courts of London, in tho Lord Mayor's Court, the 

 judges receive 3,500 each. In the'cit\ of London 

 Court. '2,400 each, and in the county cou ts in the 

 neighborhood of the metropolis, 1,500 each. 



Tho measure was approved by the President 

 on Feb. 21. 



International Copyright. On Dec. 3, 1890, 

 the House passed an international copyright bill. 

 Among the provisions was a prohibition against 

 the importation of copyrighted books, except 

 two copies for use on special permission to the 

 importer from the owner of the copyright in 

 this country. There was also a provision against 

 importing more than two copies of any maga- 

 zine or newspaper. In the Senate the House bill 

 was amended in some respects, the most impor- 

 tant changes being on these two points. The 

 Senate amendments provided for the importa- 

 tion of foreign-made books, like other articles, 

 on the payment of duty, and also provided for 

 the importation of foreign periodicals. The bill 

 as amended passed the Senate Feb. 18, 1891. A 

 conference committee was appointed, and after 

 some delay and discussion an agreement was 

 reached and a report made, March 2, in favor of 

 the bill in the following form, the House accept- 

 ing the less important Senate amendments and 

 a compromise being reached on the more impor- 

 tant ones : 



II' it enacted, etc., That section 4952 of the Revised 

 Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as 

 to read as follows : 



" SEC. 4952. The author, inventor, designer, or pro- 

 prietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musi- 

 cal composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph 

 or negative thereof, or of a painting, draw imr. diromo, 

 statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to 

 be perfected as works of the tine arts, and the exec- 

 utors, administrators, or assigns of any such ]>erson 

 shall, upon complying with the provisions of this 

 chapter, have the solo liberty of printing, reprinting, 

 publishing, completing, copying, exeeutinir, finishing, 

 and veiidiiiir the same; and', in the case of dramatic 

 composition, of publicly performing or representing 

 it or causing it to be performed or represented by 

 others; and authors or their assigns shall have ex- 

 clusive ri^ht to dramati/e and translate any of their 

 works for which copyright shall have been obtained 

 under the iaws of the I'nited States." 



SEC. 2. That section 4:<.M of the Revised Statutes 

 be. and tht' same is hereby, amended so as to read as 

 follows: 



SKC. l'J">t. The author, inventor, or designer, if 

 he be still living, or his widow cr children, if ho bo 

 dead, shall have the same exclusive right continued 

 for the further term of fourteen years up.':: recording 

 the title of the work or description of the article so 

 secured a second time, and complying with all o'her 

 regulations in regard to original copyrights, within 

 six months be ton- the expiration of the first term; 

 and such persons shall, within two month:; from tho 



