Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-28
DALLAS.
Executive Committee of Texas
Press Association.
DATE OF MEETING CHANGED.
Meeting or tho Bar Assoclation-Take
Action Upon the Charges Pre-
ferred Against Hon. A.
p. Mccormick.
Special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 27-The executive
committee of the Texas press association
met to-day in the parlors of the Grand
Windsor hotel, for the purpose of changing
the time of holding the annual meeting,
which had been fixed for May 81 at San
Antonio, so as TO enable them to send dele
gates to the National press association,
which is to meet in San Francisco May II.
The following gentlemen of the committee
were present to-day: J. +. Mitchell pres
ident Greenville Banner; F. B. Robinson,
secretary, Huntsville Item; A. G. Sour
lock, Cleburne Chronicle; z. B. Whifkey,
West Times; r. c. Johnson, Galveston OPP
era Glass. The time for holding the meet
ing was changed to April 1921.
The Dallas bar association met at 10 a.
m in Judge fuckers courtroom and held a
lengthy session. A committee was ap-
pointed to draft resolutions expressive of
the sentiments Of the association upon the
charges preferred against Hon A. Z. Nc
Cormick, judge of the United States dis
trlct court for the Northern district of
Texas. The following resolutions were re-
ported by the committee and adopted, with
only one dissenting vote:
Whereas, charges rejecting injuriously
upon the personal and official character of
Hon. A. P. Mccormick have been for
warded to Washington and there filed
against him in order to defeat his confrma-
ton as judge of the II. P. court for this cir
cult, to which he has lately been appointed;
and,
whereas, knowing these charges are
false and have been maliciously preferred
against him; and,
Whereas, we who are his friends and
neighbors desire to renew our expressions
of confidence in his integrity as man and
his purity as judge; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the bar association of
the city of Dallas, without regard to politi-
cal principles or party affiliations, that we
dcnounce as wholly false IN every particu-
lar the charges that have been preferred
against the official interigrity of or per-
sonal probity of the Hon. \. p Mccormick
judge of the United States district court
for the Northern district of Texas.
-. That he is a man without fear, and
above reproach, worthy Of any honor that
may be bestowed upon him, or of any Office
to which he may be called
80. That while we earnestly and cordi-
ally urge the confirmation of Judge McCor-
mick as judge of the circuit bench we de-
noUnce as false the imputation upon the bar
of this district that they desire his promo
ton because of any wish upon their part
for his removal from the district bench
~. That these resolutions be forwarded
to Hon. Richard Coke, United States sena-
tor, and Hon. D. 3. CulberSon, chairman of
the committee on judiciary of the house of
representatives, with the request that they
be at once placed before the proper court,
and that they urge the speedy confirmation
of Judge Mccormick TO the position to
which he has been appointed.
John P. WHITEHEAD,
JAMES ". BROWN,
ROBERT B. SEAY,
IN. L. CRAWFORD,
"W. w. LEAKE,
CHARLES FRED TUCKER"
They also appointed a committee to as
sist Col. w. /. Crawford, recently elected
floater to draft bill to put the judiciary
amendment into operation A committee
was also appointed to consider the estab-
lishment of a criminal district court at
Dallas and report action at called meet
ing.
A resolution was offered that our repre-
sentatives in the legislature be requested
to present bill for the abolition of deeds
of trust on real estate as security for debt,
and that all mortgage liens or other security
liens be foreclosed through the courts, and
that after sales on such executions or under
such foreclosure that the equity of redemp-
ton for one year be allowed the debtor. 1t
was referred TO a special committee who
are TO report at a called meeting to be held
next Saturday.