Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-31
ID EDITION.
A TALK TO LAWYERS.
Justice Brown Addresses the Bar
Association.
THE RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT.
Exciting Scene in a Chicago
Court.
THE RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT.
seen Els AT INDIANAPOLIS.

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Aug. 31.-The Amer
lean Bar Association was this morning ad-
dressed by Justice Henry b. Brown of the
United States Supreme Court. The fact
that this distinguished jurist was to speak
drew a good sized audience that greeted the
Justice with applause.
Justice Browns Remarks.
Legislation can do much to improve the
relations between employees and employer,
and to palliate the evils Of the present sit
uation. 1t may fix the number Of hours Of
a legal days work, provided that payment
be made at certain stated periods. protect
the life and health OF the workinsman
against accidents or diseases arising from
i'll constructed machinery, badly ventilated
rooms. defective appliances or dangerous
occupations, and may limit or prohibit alto
gether the labor Of women and children in
employments injurious to their health or
beyond their strength. 1t may go deeper
still. Bearing in mind that the most grfer-
GUS cause for complaint lies in monopolies
and combinations. it may by constitutional
amendment, IL necessary, forbid the charter
Of business corporations for any other pur-
poses than those of mining, manufactur-
ing. insurance or transportation especially
for farming or trading purposes, or Il afhck-
ing in any manner in the necessaries CT
life. With the aid Of the judicial power it
may put an end to combinations having for
their OBJECT the control ana monopoly OF
particular articles Of manufacture OF may
accomplish the same purpose by authoriz-
ing such articles to be placed temporarily
upon the free list.
1T may put a stop to the vicious system
of building railways and other public works
through construction companies organized
by the directors Of the road in their own
interest. to whom all the bonds and all the
available stock is turned over, and equip
ping the same through car trust certificates
also issued to the directors, who thus re-
tain to themselves title to the rolling stock
"a most cunningly devised scheme, by
which the stockholders and creditors are
first defrauded for the benefit of the bond
holders. and the bondholders are thus de-
fra uded for the benefit Of the directors By
the election Of competent and fearless ex-
ecutive officers the people may do much to
secure the management of corporations for
the benefit Of the stockholders and the pub
lie, and may throttle those corporate Frank
ensteins. which. created by the legislature,
will and paralyze the arm of their creators
Upon the other hand, II is equally its duty
to protect the laboring man. whether union
or non-union. In his right to work for whom
and at such wages as he pleases, and to
secure his person against violence. In pro-
tecting the public against the tyranny Of
capital II Is equally incumbent upon the
legislature to guard 1t against the tyranny
Of labor"
committee representing the National
Real Estate Association appeared before
the bar association and urged the desira-
bflfty OF a federal law governing real estate
transactions. The real estate men desire
uniformity in conveyancing.