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bil Joined. with Congressman ALBERT GORE in the investigation of “wee WIth! BE ngepection which. was;-being:eanduste: ME LET TO DIRECTOR he1-52 WH «: vesnvinie ona indicated that the Judge desired to him concerning a& caso vending tefore his court. When SA revorted to Judge DA‘1:St office the Judge appeared to be ina cordial ‘and rather Joking mood, After a short conversati the case, the gent started to leave and th Judge mctioned for. him to keep his seat and indicated he wanted to talk to hima little *\" While longer. Judge DAVIES then indicated that he had been advised that the FBI had been checking on th courts docket concerning delinquent case &nd cases which the court had not haridled, and he asked if the FBI had “a him. He * stated that he felt he had always hendled criminal c&ésesthat were handlec by the FBI fairly exreditiouasly. Although he indicated th wa. the statements in a Joking manner, it was obvious to “ent iil that he was curious concerning the reason for the checking ‘o. Present during this n was Assistant U. S. Attorni a DICK JOHNSON, Nashville. Aco: filial 03 Judge DAVIES that the 7 check was macé purely as an adminisurative measure for this office and & check had not been made of the entire docket but of our cases and to determine the numer o: cases which had reached tHe stage or vrosecu- tion. He was further &sdvised that there wes no political motive whatso- ever in the checkin: of the docket and it was only done on the instrucs tions of the SAC. Mr. JOHNSON then interrupted-and expluined that he h had been adware that the *BI had teen checking the docket &nd that we had checked a number of files and records in his office in connection ,in-the« Memphis WOLLLoqseeipene was apparently satisfied by Insnectors outof Washington, Judge DAVIE with. this explanation. I would like to point this out to &dvise the Eureaw of the. ~~ Sensitiveness of the situation. I have been ‘&dvised that the recommen-. dation for a Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee has been approveé by the House Judictary Committee, and in all probability a Judge will be appointed on a permanent basis in the Middle District of Tennessee by: summer. In view of this and the possibility of relief in the Middle .\y District of Tennessee, it is recommended that no contact be had with the Department concerning relief or the assignment of visiting Judges at this time. I would 1lkke to point out that Judge BOYD, Western Judicial District of Tennessee, advised me recently that he had teen contacted |. by the Cireuit Court in Cincinnati and requested to spend a portion of “his time on the bench in the Middle District of Tennessee. He advised the Circuit Court that the vressure of his business in the vgstern District of Tennessee was a full-time job, and that he would only sacrifice the current condition of his own docket to sit on the bench for Judge DAVIES while Judge DAVIES was vacationing in Florida, and he did not feel that #e it was right for him to make this sacrifice, -26