The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24
COGKERILL'S LETTER
Timely Matters Discussed by One
Oh the Inside,
A MAN OF MUCH ROMANCE
How Some People Live-Rieh Widows in
Demand-Well-Paid Lawyers
Other News.

Other News
For The SUNDAY HERALD-Copyrighte
The feeble minded Albany legislature
seems to have cut the iugular of David
Bennett Hill In his person as presiden-
tial candidate, and left him slightly demon
silzed by the wayside. Perhaps Mr.. Hill
should not have been held responsible for
the conduct OF the Democratic legislature,
but the fact that he took such lively per-
sonal interest in securing Democratic
majority in both bran ches is laid up against
him now that his creation has turned out so
badly. This legislature, with its Huckle-
berry bills ard other fruits Of vicious legis
lauon, has given the Democracy a severe
setback. This is unfortunate from party
standpoint, as Governor Flowers $4,000
majority last fall indicated that the New
York Democracy was in good trim for the
presidential campaign. So far as Mr.
Cleveland is concerned the work of the
New York legislature has been a godsend
70 his boom Ii has served to cast add
tional odium upon the Snap convention of
MIR. Hill, and in every way has worked 10
the advantage of Mr.. Cleveland. This goes
20 show that Madame Good Luck continues
TO walk by the side of Grover and protect
him even when the storms Of fate howl
around him most pjtilessly and threaten to
blow him to Kingdom Come. But, as in
Rhode Island and New Jersey, the DEM
ocracy Of New York is not in satisfactory
condition, and suggests the folly Of taking
z man from this state to be the Democratic
standard bearer. 1t will be quite necas-
sary for the Democratic candidate to carry
the state If he would be elected, a1d l find
no unbiased politicians in these parts VINO
believe that either Hui or Cleveland can do
it. Notwithstanding Mr.. Flowers big ma
jorlty That good western man. whom
we hear so much about should keep his
best foot forward and listen for the order
TO advance and take charge OF the empat-
tied Democratic hosts. Still, it looks like
Cleveland, and the coed western man will
probably have to wait another four years.
He is used to il, and won't mind it much, /
hope-especially if he happens to be Mr..
William Steele Holman or Bill Morrison or
Springer or Palmer.
wELL-PAID LAWYERS.
Senator Carlisle's fee of S25, 900, which
he is to receive in the Pres on-Beal case,
decided in the court of appeals ct Frank
fort, KY, the other day recalled to New
YORK lawyer some of the large fees that
have been paid TO attorneys. From him l
gathered these facts; Judge Brown, of
Memphis, also in 8 Kentucky case, re-
ceiyed fee of $50, 600. This was the case
of j. r, Brown against Alexander Tinsley,
and was contested by the people Of Muh-
lenbery county, KY, to avoid the payment
of county bonds 10 the amount of S400, 600
with accrued interest, issued in 1869, in aid
of the Eiizsbethtown a. Psducah railroad
COMPANY. The whole amount involved in
the suit was something over s., 000, 600.
The case in which Senator Carlisle won his
big fee made the heirs Of Robert Wickliffe
richer TO the extent of 1920, 600. General
Draper, OF New Jersey, is married to one
of these heirs and it was as the represen-
tatives Of Mrs. Draper that Senator Car
Isle came into the case and his fee comes
entirely from her portion of the estate.
am told that the Senator did not even make
an exhaustive study of the case, but made
his argument at Frankfort from briefs
filed by the attorneys for other heirs
To do this required his presence in
Franklin five days, and this is said to have
been all the time he had TO devote to the
case, so that mis- big earnings were as much
per day as a member of Congress receives
for year of heavy brain flag for his coun-
try and the old fag-not counting perquis-
ties. But Senator Carlisle is not the only
statesman who has made good-slzed fee
in a law case. The decision of the United
States supreme court was handed down
something over a year ago in the Fiske will
case against the Cornell University. In
this case the university lost 81, 100, 600 and
the law firm of Bacon & Hill is said to have
received $500, 900 as their honorarium from
4heaG cft,l hGTr - ir1f II
firm is none other than
SENATOR DAVID BENNETT HILL,
now, or until lately, a candidate for Presi.
dent Bacon instituted this suit eight OF
ten years ago, when he was practicing Law
with Hill in Elmira, and he used to say Il
he won the case he and his partner would
have all the money they wanted for the resi-
of their lives. His one ambition was tC
own a newspaper in New York, and he
declared that it was his intention
when he got the own news
paper il New York.
As Mr. Bacon has not appeared here upor
the journalistic scene, and as 1t is under
stood that his law firm has received the bis
fee, the presumption is that he hal
changed his mind 10 regard 10 the news.
paper The fee which John E. Parsons
the New York lawyer, received for organ
izing the sugar trust is believed to be tht
largest ever paid to one New York attor.
new. The amount was S400, 000-the sam,
sum received by Messrs. Hill and Bacon II
the Fiske case And yet, Notwithstanding
this large fee, it did not take the court,
long. once they got at it, to destroy the an
the able and high-priced lawyer had reared
Mr. Parsons is getting along well in years
but he continues to retain his close resem