Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-01
WAS ONE OF THREE
But He Held the Trumps in
the Game.
JUDGE GoGGIN SURPRISES CHICAGO

OIllOhOO.
He summarily Disposes of the Fair sun
day Closing Case in Way That Makes
the Attorneys Feel Sad-His Two Coad-
tutors Fired. While He Runs the Ma
chine II himself and the Fair stays Open
Unprecedented DoinEs.
CHICAGO, Supt. 1-"What'll he do nexts"
Is the question asked by attorneys when
discussing the eX raordnary course taken
by Judge Gogg in the Worlds fair Sun
day case. When the Worlds fair directory
was in favor of having the fair gates open
on Sunday-having been thereunto Incl.
ted by the press and certain of the public
both OF which urged that 20 close .he
doors on on the first day of the week
would deprive hundreds of thousands of
workingmen of the privilege of seeing the
fair-the Sabbatarians went into the
United States court and fought omen
gates so etfectually that they got an in
junction restraining the directors from
opening the same
Origin of the Clingman Case.
At the same time one Clingman went
into Judge STEMS court and obtained an
other order restraining TIE directory from
closing tine gates on Sunday, on the plea
that the park was for the people and the
Legislature had no right to give anybody
the privilege of closing it on that day.
This point referred only to the park-the
grounds Another decision from the
United States court with Chief Justice
Fuller presiding dissolved the Sabbartarian
injunction, and the gates were thrown open
on Sunday, with the result that there were
no big crowds in attendance, and that open
gates, compared with the great promises.
were practically failure
Directory Gets Into Trouble.
So the directory closed the gates, and
presto, was in peck of tro BILE For the
Clingman injunction was still in force al
Judge Stein fined several of the directory
for contempt of court. Leg~l proceedings
were then begun to dissolve the Ciingman
injunction and an application for dssolu-
ton was made before Judge Goggin.
He refused to hear arguments unless two
other judges were obtained to sit zen
branc" with him. After some difficulty
they were obtained judges Brentano and
Dunno consenting to sit, and one of them
unpacking his gripsack, having prepared
TO go away on vacation.
An Exciting Scene in Court
Yesterday the decision was to be made,
and the rumor was abroad that it would
close the fair. The court room was fill of
attorneys and they had all the entertain
ment they wanted. For they saw a Judge
sitting en- banc with two others obtained
at his own request deliberately kick
(metaphorically) his associates off the
bench and enter an order thai
will defeat the whole object
If h. L.,
had agreed tnat the fair should be closed
and had written an opinion Goggin's
first words on opening court were to that
effect, but" ne added, al haven't any. 1t
is needless to say that their opinions
are against me. We don't agree"
The BrentanO-Dunne Decision Read.
Goggin was inclined at first not to hear
the opinion prepared by Brentano and
Dunno, but he permitted it to be read, and
then delivered rambling discourse the
point OF winch was that English common
law was bad code for these mo@ern times
To set aside the injunction, he said would
cause the people of this state to lose conf
dence in the judiciary. Ex-Judge Moran,
counsel for the fair, and the other lawyers
present stood aghast at the remarkable
performance. They all declared Goggin's
action undignified and disgracefuI.
Proposes to Do the wagginc?
Then Moran rose and gave the history of
the connection with the case of Judges
Brentano anC Dunno, as it is given in the
foregoing, and added: Now, / under
stand that the judge of this court says:
Gentlemen. you are associated with me.
If you have agreed with me. all right if
not, all wrong In other words, the tail of
the court proposes to wag the dog" Judge
Goggin remarked that he didn't think he
was the tail of the court, but at any rate
he would do all the wagging. Then Judge
Moran begged the court not to set such
disgraceful and discourteous example 10y
overriding the majority of the cour..
Judge Goggin merely remarked that the
case would be continued for sixty days.