Officials Back Dell's Efforts On Redisricting By JACK B. MACKAY ST. PAUL tf! - Officers of state and district bar associations, district judges, prominent attorneys and Gov. Freeman Wednesday rallied to the support of Chief Justice Roger Dell of the Minnesota Supreme Court after a lawmaker charged the chief justice had been "lobbying" for a judicial redis-tricting bill. Gov, Freeman had written a letter to the chief justice asking him, as the chief judicial officer of the state, "to work closely with the Legislature'' and also to "advise the legislative committees on this problem." Voters In liit fill's election adopted an amendment to the state constitution making it mandatory that the 19 judicial districts of the state be reorganized so as to eliminate "single" judge districts. The Senate passed a bill providing for 10 judicial districts: the House bill called for 14 judicial districts. Rep. Arthur Ogle of Man-kato charged in the House that Judge Dell had "gone too far" in trying to get passage of the Senate version. It was disclosed today that Gov. Freeman sent copies of his letter some time ago to House Speaker A. I. Johnson of Benson, Sen. Thomas P. Welch of Buffalo, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Rep. Lawrence Yetka cf Cloquet, head of the House Judiciary Committee. Coming to the defame of Judgt Dell today were Judge Robert Seines of Glenwood, president of the Minnesota District Judges Assn.; Sidney Gislason of New Ulm, former president of the State Bar Assn. and a former district judge; Philip Neville, president of the Hennepin County Bar Assn.; John B. Burke, president of the Minnesota State Bar Assn.: former Chief Justice Henry Gallagher of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Judge Walter Rogosheske of Little Falls and Judge John A. Weeks of Minneapolis, chairman and member, respectively, of the judges' association 19-member legislative committee. "The district judges of Minnesota are overwhelmingly back of Chief Justice Dell in his effort to provide an equitable and economical plan to redistrict the 19 judicial districts," Judge Seines said, "by reducing the number to 10 and using the present judges. The plan meets the purpose of the recent amendment to the constitution. "While It means an additional work load for many of the district judges, we are more than pleased to assume this extra burden so that the congested condition of the calendars in various districts will be alleviated and trials of law suits expedited without additional expense." Burke, speaking as an individual said he is confident "the public is deeply appreciative of the efforts of Judge Dell in his endeavor to present a fair and equitable re organization plan, Both Judge Rogosheske and Weeks said that the legislative committee was solidly behind Judge Dell for his advice and help. Differences between the House end Senate bills are expected to be ironed out in a conference committee. .