Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-25

Colonel Wright and have noticed amt>ng his almost unlimited library the several la st ''re- visions of the laws," and have noticed that he had upon the occasion of each rtvision caused copy to be ''torn to pieces" and in tsrleaved and then rebound, making 2 book as large as "a Dutch Bible, B for the purposs } of noting changes These interleavi1lgs were availed of to note from year to year the changes in the laws, so that by the time new revision" was ordered these leaves of writing paper to note changes were welt filled and the printed part was really mere 'mis- leader"
 I was once In the Colonel's office whera & client came in and asked him what the laws of another State were as to vending goo is or selling by samples and the laws of debt and credit, to which theColonel replied: w hy m y dear sir, it takes more midnight oil than have to keep up with the laws of Connecti- cut, for they change and alter so rapidly. I am obliged to extend my studies beyond reason. For instance, look at this interleaved book and see the alterations in the laws which I have noted. Aud who knows when he has got through, for many times, instead of repeating an old statute and pas- sing 8 new one, the legislature snys that all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this law are hereby repealed, and wao is ca pablo of sitting down and determining to what ex- tent such a repeating clause reaches into the body of the whole book of ststutes? Besides, as we have nearly forty States aud they are all doing the same thing. there is no lawyer living who can guide merchant or a manu- facturer in his business through the Stat tes."
 Now, Mr. Editor, what is the remedy? So far as my experiences go, Tn life of over sixty years, have but one line of sugges- tions to make as Q new departure. First, let the legislature appoint committee of five, three lawyers and two laymen, (having no reference to political pap, or of puffed up GpraokiOo'1 Uuhn dufv if GhRll he fO a new statute book based upon the constitu- ton of the United States and the State of Connecticut, and assume that these two in struments are all they have as guides for the making of 8 set of statute laws except their experiences as members of the human fam fly and as lawyers, manufacturers and mer- chants, no one class of which are capable Of writing laws for the whole. True, they would have the statute laws of all creation to refer to, and Webster's dictionary and varl- ous encyclopedias at their command, and could avail of them much or little as they pleased. Besides, allow them to employ stem ographer and type writer. and give them one or two years, or not more than one, to digest 8 system of laws which will tend to protect and elevate the people and not degrade them with paltry and demoralzing punishments, and thereby raise the standard of "protec- tion to life. liberty and propertY' to the highest point attainable. And then repeal all old laws and enact this new book, so as to compel all suits pending, no matter what, to come under the new code of laws for final adjudication or for dismissal, according to their respective cases.
 Depend upon it, Mir. Editor, no other mode will clear up the fog now resting upon the statutes of all the States and no other mode will accomplish the desired end, and my word for it, when such 8 statute book should be published other States would follow suit in harmony and business would be more even,
 and ore ater harrFlnON @ States would prevail and the law would make itself known to all men. MORRIS