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A FEDERAL BUILDING.Efforts to be Made to Hare aNew Federal District For the Panhandle.STEPHENS IN THE CITYGsngttssait Hera for Hie Purpose of Con* si.lt,ug With Hie People in Regardta HI: Proposed Bill,Thoro have been efforts made to Induce lh« representative from tbit district Washington to frame a bill in congress that has for Its object ihe creation of ■ new federal gUourt district In Uto Paobutdlo nod t, tho creel Ion of a new federal 1 bultdlUK In Amarillo. Two yars ago a committee, made op of some of rfie inosi prominent men tu this city, w*jr# dent to Fort Worth to confer with the congressional com tnlUeuwcn and to place before that bod}* for consideration, what Am 1| aril to considered her Just rights to n federal court.However, after several days closeting'’ the request was turned down os at Hist time the numbor of cases summoned before the feder nl court at Fort Worth from the Panhandle was not considered auf flclont evidence that the creation of a new district for the federal court In the Panhandle was necessary. One of the elitef obstnleos In the wo of (he project at Ihis time was iho fact thul a now district had Just I’erj created at Ban Angelo and If ,bla could tiavo hoc)} over ruled, would have ninile things oaslor for she domtnda of our reprercntalives, Conditions In the Panhandle Imvo changed woiulnrlully In two yoirs, our population haa: Increased «t a rapid rate nnd consequently the todoml court docket shows an !ur reuse In raves from the I’.uihsmll* country and our demands tto« are udcquuto to [he require meats of ITio congressional commit ten nnd with the ablo atnlsMnce nad cooperation of ro pres on tail vo elt laotts our dcnum da are to be given vans rmr demands are to he given a hour I up before the Wfiy third eonRrr h In Dccniber, A lilt I will he luirodtircd In the house hv Itpproimiitoilve Stevens for ihe crca tlou of the new district and Amarillo lies an excellent opportunity of piling hctaelf prominence by gulling busy. What we mptl do tint! do this with ihu least' delay possible, is to rail a nutsu mooting of out lending ntiions, members of the Con'imircil club, for tho purpose ot appointing a cointnlttt-o to cooperate with Congrexawttt B.tcvnaw and show that gentleman that wo are In tho harm-'*, working for iite pustiuge ofbis bill.
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The Weekly Herald
Amarillo, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 22, 1906
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