Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-08-07
The Hum ehreys Irvestigation.

The Hu" phreys Investigation.
QUESTIONS y BE JUDGE WANTS HIS WIT
lHssEs TO ANswBR.
The cna1 imam or the special House cera-
mittee Lving IN charge the investigation
OF uds Humphreys, has received rretn him
the 10 lowing:
MT, Chci,YHnr Please PROFOUND these oues-
1o R 70 witnesses VINO may be called.
Hon. W. W. Warren
I. Has not the administration OF Judge
humphreys been conducted without favor
TO those denominated his personal friends?
2 However abrupt his manner may have
appeared has not the same style been used to
8. Has not the manner been more OF q pos
Tive character than an abrupt Que?
=. III he is given to what might be termed
lectures, have they not been OF concllla-
tore nature until his rulings had been Sc
verely antagOnized by counsel? And then
have they been OF sharper character tnan
would be crawn forth BY the action OF coun-
sci?
5. In all the alleged controversies or order
ings has he ever attempted TO enforce any
oroer by depriving any member of body by
freedom?
6. Has he not often announced to the bar
| that there must be a cooperation between
bench and bar to expedite business?
| 7. Has he not often asserted the dignity
| and consequence OF the bar, that the al
ADMINISTRATION Of Justice might be brought to
s. Has he not often-if not aiways-caIIed
the attention OF the bar To the necessity OF
OBSERVING the strtctest parliamentary rule
TO take seat when called to order, aud that
as the presiding officer or his court he was
only enforcing that ruler
9. Whatever quantity OF liquors Ii may oe
said he has i'm bibed, has he mol always been
able TO appear in his seat upon the bench at
the hour appointed 10 meet, and to cOptinue
there, IL an uninterrupted session, in hot OF
cold weather, until the patience Of witnesses,
parties. offieers Of the court, counsel. by
ISLANDERS, aud all were exhausted and claimed
recreation?
court been began al the hour of nine IN tbs
morning and continued to the hour OF six or
seven in the afternoon, with but frequently
twenty miDut ties recess?
IL. Has Tot this phy steal capacity OF the
judge been uninterruptedly exhibitet since
October, 1870; and is bis physical strecg
In appearance, this day impaired?
IL. Has ne not, IN addition TO this, pro-
posed Ia bold your court, for the accommo.
cation OF suitors, oy g3slighh And 10 this
proposition was there not objection by Off
GERS and counsel srd or one or tyo o.cs.
sions almost an open reosllion?
II. To avoid the holding OF the May term
heated months, did not the majority of the
bar association induce the Court In General
Term to adopt the rule which limits that
term To the third Saturday in July, except
10 finish pending trial?
10. In order To finish pending trial, begun
In July, 1915, and TO accommodate parties
ana counsel VINO lived ID brOOKiyQ ana IN
this place, and TO take evidence 10 Massa-
chusetts, did not the Judge continue that
term Of the court till In August, with all
patience TO counsel, jurors and others?
IA. Have you not known the judge to sit In
cases on the equity, common law, and adoni-
rally sides of the court, In the same day2
Is. Has this not been done because there
was business In each branch OF the court
which parties and counsel were anxious
should be given attention to?
16. Have you not known causes to be sub
United al O'Clock in the afternoon, and the
opinion written ready to be delivered by IL
O'Clock next morning, which 1t is said were
pretty well written?
II. How have the judges opinions and dis
senting opinions Jared when taken TO the
court of last resort, either in General Term
or the Supreme Court of the United States?
Is May not lawyers. having clients in liti-
CATION with each other, associate together
and even have business relations with each
without compromising the rights of their
elents In any respect, or without just
49, Do not judges and lawyers, everywhere,
associate together; and may not Judges and
LAWYERS De personally Intimate without sus-
plciOn OF bias or just cause OF complaint?
20. Are not some lawyers more personally
intimate with each other than with others,
and are not these same lawyers often IN an
Il. May not these lawyers who are thus
personally friendly, and who represent diff
ferent clients, borrow money of each other
Without compromising the rights OF their
clients?
q. May not judge borrow OF those law
yeIs woo have IL, without being under any
more Obligations TO adhere to the one from
whom he has borrowed than the lawyer who
has borrowed Of his antagonist?
q. Do not ali professions and trades Dor
row of each other?
q. Are not judge and lawyer Of the sans
trade and profession!
25. Isit lot a business transaction between
traders when they borrow OF each other?
70. Is q judge 10 have No business rela.
tOEs-Or If he has them, may he not have
| them with lawyers Or IL he TO have no
| r. endly relations? IL he mas any, may he
| not have them With lawyers?