The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-23
Judges and LAWYERS in Ac-
cord on the Bar ASSo-
ciation'S Dinner.
OTTO cROUsE'S SPARKLING WIT.
Governor Albeit Says Hes Not the
State, and Ex-Governor Bedle
Tells Conference Room
Secrets.

the ornaments OF the bench and the lead
ing legal lights Of the county sat down to
the tables aud proceeded to consider the
eases" before them. Not single de-
murrer was filed to George De Revere's
menu and Justices Knapp and Dixon, as
branch Of the Supreme Court, denied an
application by doc" McCrea for writ
OF certiorarf TO review the proceedings
this morning. The tables were adorned
with potted palms and the chandeliers
were entwined with smilax, which made
one think of red tape. The menu card
consisted OF sheets OF heavy parchment
l paper ruled in imitation OF legal cap and
abound together with q strip of blue rib
bop secured with the golden seal OF the
y association. after the manner Of certi-
fed document.
AT the head table sat Mr., Otto Grouse,
/ the presiding genius of the feast with
St5overnor Albeit, Ex-Governor Bedle,
uustices Knapp and Dixon, William II.
Norbin, Willard Fisk, Col. Charles w.
Fuller and Prosecutor Winfield near him,
Ehile among the other tables we're Coun-
Eellors Flayel MCGEE, William Muirheid,
Names B. Vredenburgh, Joseph ID. Bedle,
:. D. Bedle, N; 4. Rosegbsrg; ex7Judge
\ Garretson. Asa Dickinson.C. ID. Thompson,
George A. Aeaney. Assemblyman Potts,
Fred Frambach, Mungo Currie. Judge
Douglass, w. S Z. See, George Holmes,
William Cudlipp, William Midlege, II,
Y. Condict, Gilbert Collins, John w.
semblyman Daily, Joha Mabon, Abel
l. Smith. Charles Parker, of Newark;
ex-Judge Blair, Spencer Weart, William
r. Barricklo. Charles z. Carrick. James
Erwin. John Keller. john Bacot, George
McEwan, William A. Lewis. John En-
Judge Vanck, Clarence Linn, James
Fielder, Gilbert Collins, Washing
ton Williams. Thomas J. Noonan,
Corporation Attorney Hudspeth, Corpora
tion Counsel Edwards, William G. Bum
Stea lanes ass NSrsahrGp aca Kent ster3s ms
Grath, James Manning, John Olendorf,
Isaac Romaine. Alderman Salinger, ex-
Judge Seymour, Isaac Taylor, Henry
Traphagen, II. NJ. T.. Beekman.
II. w. Winfield and r. J. Wor-
tendyke.
THE FLOW OF WIT AND HUMoR.
When the menu had been summed up,
Otto Grouse proceeded to charge the jury
of speakers. Mr.. Grouse demonstrated
the fact that he is a humorist of the first
rank He bubbled over with excellent
wit, and he served up his humor wiz a
piquant sauce which was exceedingly az
pslsJgef In speaking of the great Record
maker of the association, he said that
upon recent occasion, when informed
that 1T was twins, "the Record maker de-
GlArcQ. hodFSUS. OOctOF. LulS lS duQSOu
county; can't we have reeountP
The FIRST toast, III etat G. est moi"-'T
have done the State some service and
they know Twas responded to by Gov
ernor Albeit. The Governor said that
he had studied considerably over the
toast and had even gotten his friend. the
Prosecutor, TO pronounce IL for him. As
well as he could make it out it meant,
1.-The State. that's me-" However true
that might have been. he said, OF the
famous old monarch VINO uttered 1t, 1t
was unfortunately not true In bis case.
II he wanted law passed he had to call
upon the Senate and Assembly to make
IT for him and then he was not safe, for
there was the Court OF Errors ana APP
peals to come in and say whether it was
good or bad law. So he could not say,
s.The State; that's me-"
Chancellor McGill was called upon to
talk about "Ten Thousand Year, He
did not know, he said, whether the toas
meant $4,000 or 10000, but judging z
from some of the allowances he was
asked to make by the lawyers he should
judge IL was pounds. He did not under
stand why he should be asked to respon d
TO that sentiment unless it was that Q
was called upon to make more allow
ances than any other man in the State.
EX-GOVERNOR BEDLR's "REMINISCENCES.
In replying TO the toast, is the bench
as high as It looks" ex-governor Bedle
got in quiet little dig on Judge Dixon.
He said that when he was nominated for
Governor in 1874 and retained his seat on
the bench. Judge Dixon, then practie-
ing lawyer in this city made an eloquent
speech in which he spoke of dragging in
the mire of politics the ermine of the ex-
alted bench Of the Supreme Court. Some
time afterward Dixon himself came TO be
a Judge, was nominated for Governor.
but retained his seat on the bench and is
there yet.
.But the ernnine didn't drag much in
the mire, did it, Judges" asked the ex-
Governor, turning to Judge Dixon.
Ex-Governor Bedle's speech was full of
humors "reminiscences of his life on
the bench. and he told an amusing story
of how one day when the judges were in
conference one of the worthies delivered
a weighty disquisition on the case under
consideration, ana wound up by saying
"For these reasons vote 10 Affirm"
whereupon another legal luminary
promptly replied, ''and | vote TO reverse
for the same reasons"
MR.. WINFIELD ON CRANKs.
Up to this time, between the humor OF
the speakers and the wit of Mr.. Grouse,
the guests had been kept in continuous
state of laughter. When the Prosecutor
arose t., respond to "Cranks" he asked
them to be serious for awhile, ana then
went on to say that he fully recognized
the sagacity of the gentlemen having
charge of the banquet in assigning him
to that toast.
when look around these tables" he
continued. ''and into the honest faces of
SO many Of my friends, there is no deny
ing that the subject of this toast is ap-
pallingly near. A man whose official
duties bring him into contact with MEM
bers of the bar, who practice on the Grim
inal side of tine court. is very apt to ac-
Quire a profound and comprehensive
Knowledge of eranks- the crank is a
human being who Is afflicted with an idea
TO which he attaches an importance
which, in the opinion Of contemporane-
GUS humanity, is entirely out of proper
tion to its real value.
LET me illustrate / have now in my
minds eye, ii not in my visual organ, u
gentleman whom we all admire and
whose professional life has honored the
bar OF this county. He is noted for his
,nodesty, his learning and his varied ac-
ouirements. Yet his most eloquent ora
liens aud fiery declamations nave been
Inspired by the notion T. at copious inn
bibltion OF fluid 10Y courtesy called Pas
sale water), impregnated with sludge
acid. sewerage. aud pusrescent bodies of
domestic animals, Is highly conducive TO
health and longevity
II see others, not single ones. but trip
lets, who jointly and severally have. hoid
aud possess and enjoy the notion that
certain high Official. VINO is generally re-
Earded by oil who know bin as = peren-