New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-06
THE NEW-JkRSEY COrRTS.

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| The lawyers of New-Jersey seem to have n
the Court of Errors and Appeals as at present
constituted should no longer be permitted to
obstruct the administration of justice in that
| State. The suggestions submitted by the Essex
| County Bar Association to the Constitutional
| Commission in session at Newark YESTERDAY
agree on this point with the amendments pro-.
! posed by the Camden Bar, and eminent lawyers
! from various parts of the State coincide in the
| opinion that the Chancellor and Justices of the
| supreme Court are not employing their powers
| to the best purpose when reviewing their own
decisions. Such practice would be sufficiently
anomalous and absurd if the Court were not
{ so glutted with business that it is practically
unable to give any adequate study to the
grave questions which come before il for iudg-
ment But when judges have no time to read
testimony and allow lawyers no time to COM
ment upon it, and when elaborate decisions
are based upon a supposed state of facts which
| IN reality have no existence, the matter as
sumes the proportions of judicial scandal.
| The LAY element" too, seems to command
as little respect among the lawyers as it does
among the people. 1t is pleasant in theory to
contemplate body of broad-minded men of
affairs sitting beside body of learned iurists
|
! toward literal and technical strictness hy n
consideration of the higher equities involved
But even if ii is granted that legal training and
practice encouragean unduly strenuous insistance
upon the letter to the prejudice of the spirit,
this professional narrowness Of Judgment should
! he connteracted or supplemented by minds
which are recognized as having more COM
! prehensive grasp, and winch can be trusted TO
| take larger and freer views AS a matter of
! fact, however, recent Governors have not
| taken pains to select laymen whose opinions
on any subject would be liable to prove n
! wholesome corrective to those of the Chief
Justice or Chancellor. On the contrary the
! Governors, or the vulpine officials who govern
! the Governors have been careful to hunt I'M
! lay judges who know nothing about law, ana
not much more about anything else. Alto
gether the New-Jersey Court of Errors and
Appeals is a good thing to abolish and make
over again out of entirely different material.
1t does not seem premature to say the Solid South
has begun TO split.
DIR. Hamilton says of the President: Z" have no
doubt whatever of his ultimate recovery" That is
n pretty satisfactory certificate for the attending
surgeons. as well as a solid foundation for a Ma
tlOnal thanksgiving.
Hartmann has left us, but O'Dynamite Rosa stll
fingers. His departure would be hailed with GEM
Inc enthusiasm.
1t is openly charged by one section of the Irish
party that Rosa. Grove and company have been
| misusng the contributions made to them for the
liberation of Ireland, and are claiming to have in
vested them in various blowng-up projects in order
TO account for the disappearance of the money
The Grove wing make similar charges against
their accusers. The charges of both factions NAV
be false. but the fact that they are made ought 70
! npn NNh nsaf lo -.
that they are wasting hard earned money by devot.
ing il To the susienance of lot of Quarreng lond
monthed persons who are abont the enemies
Ireland has ever had. We have not the slightest
idea, however that they Will take this view of it.
Mr.. George c. Gorham will discover presently that
this is unfavorable time for persistent SIAN
deIer of the President thrust himself forward "a
q candidate for Republican favor A wise course
for HIM TO follow is to shrink from the public gaze
iol at least n year.
The Democrats of the Second Congressional Dis
trict in Maine have declined latly TO follow ex-
Governor Garcelons advice aud coalesce with the
Greenhackers. They have had enough of Garcelon
ana Fusion This seems to show that even
Democrat may learn something.
Pocketbookwater is going to have Literary
Bureau. He should bear in mind that the later
name for Tilden's concern of that kind was Min
h compoop Bureau.
1t will be still hunt of the Democracy in this
State well in Ohio but there will be no barrel
here. nv ''''
curious illustration of the Inconsistency of the
Temperance agitators is furnished i'm the Second
Congressional District of Maine The Republicans
have nominated for Senator Frye's seat ex Governor
Dingley. of whom Neal Dow saws: There is no
man in the country more widely known as "A true
and tried prohibitionist than Governor Dingey.
All his life he has been that not from selfish con
sderatlons, from hope of Office. hut from "a settled
convection that The liquor traffic is n great public
and social mischief, inevitably tending To poverty
pauperlsm and crime, aud that the State is i'm dirty
bound TO protect itself from its influences and re-
suits. He was n staunch friend of the poicv of
prohibition in Maine in those early DAVIS when IL
had hard struggle TO keep its ground against the
nerce assaults OF interest appetite and passion sun
ported by wealth and social position and the IN
nuence that those lend To any side or any cause
right or wrong That they espOuse. Governor Ding
ley from his oneia position and from the iniluen-
tai press that no has long controlled has had many
opportunities of lending the help of strong hand
20 the cause OF temperance and prohibition and 10
mas always been prompt 10 avail himself OF the,,,
rs no one knows personally better than do An
lndorsenent like that from the chief apo,fle of
temperance would seem 30 be sufficient 20 secure for
MI. Ingley the solid support of he Tonperance
party. Instead OF doing il, however they have
nominated a candidate OF their OWN ard ara ,I,n
cratic party.
1t shoald be said of the Glorious Democracy that