The Portland daily press., 1894-02-15

| tftJtNHcHe'sN'N'N
| the lunqs. After sickness of weeks, by
the aid of Lung Kuro, got better right
off. 1t will be my medicine in the fu-
ture." MRS. W.T.. SARGENT, East Sum
mer ST., Lakeport, N. H.
Regular price, SO c.::5 times the quantity $i.
Frye, ex-Speaker Reed, Chief Justice
Peters.
Governor Cleaves
| was introduced and was very cor
daily received He said that as COM
| mander-in- chief of the military forces of
| the state he wished to assure those
present that there was no danger of a
conflict between the military and civil
| authorities of the state. (Laughter.) AT
the last session of the Legislature a law
was passed allowing in case of tumult,
| that any Judge of the Supreme court
may call out the military forces,
although the Constitution provides that
| the Governor shall command the militia.
| Naughter) l had some hesitation about
oiSuluS ebu0 OllI, anu COuSulUCN uhC
| judiciary committee. They said that if
| anyone was to be shot of course would
prefer it should be a judge rather than
| myself. (Laughter.) So 7 compromised
the matter by arranging that the court
should call the troops out and | should
command them afterwards. Governor
Cleaves closed his brief remarks by ex-
pressing his pleasure that the bench and
bar were SO cordially affiliated.
Judge Nathan Webb.
was next introduced as one who had won
the regard and affection, confidence and
esteem of all who knew him, and
especially of his associates on the bench
and in the bar. :.
Judge Webb was received with loud
cheers as he arose, saying: I know no
prouder reward for man than to win
the confidence of those who know him
best, those before whom he daily comes
in and goes out. (Applause.)
Regrets have been expressed that we
have no representative nere OF the Federal
Supreme court. But [ am the chief
justice of the District court of Maine,
and I have no associate or superior. My
friend of the Circuit court here (Judge
Putnam) may not sit in my court.
although I may sit in his daughter J
"
the APPELLATE court can overrule him.
So we are even in that respect.
(Laughter.) ~ 5
Judge Webb referred happily to Presi-
dent Libby's address of the afternoon,
and to the attitude of the bar towards
the reforms proposed; and closed by
speaking of George Evans, whom he re-
mem bered as "A presence inspiring.
impressive, attractive. No eulogy of
Geoger Evans can be excessive. As a
man he was such that it will be long be-
fore we shall look upon his like again. !"
cloud applause.)
After kindly reference to "our own in
comparable chief Justice" which were
received with applause. President Libby
introduced
Judge L. A. Emery.
Speaking of the men of the bar, the
speaker claimed that they did more in
behalf of personal liberty, individual
freedom and the pursuit of happiness
than any other order Of men. Demos
themes as soldier fed ignominiously
from the field of battle, while
Demosthenes the lawyer saved the
liberties of Greece. Who remembers
Shaftesbury as Lord Chancellor? but
who forgets Shaftesbury the author of
faction that desires to oppIess the people,
I find faction that desires to suppress
the lawyers 1t was not until the
lawyers came to New England that she
was liberated from theocracy. | find in
these later days an organization which
processes to be the friend of labor, but
really tends to, oppress it by proscrib-
ing lawyers. 1t may be yet that we
must look to the lawyers to vindlcate
personal liberty, liberty of contract, and
the right Of every man to earn his bread,
Judge Haskell,
of Portland. introduced as the resident
Justice of the Supreme court, expressed
his pleasure at being present at this
representative gathering of the bar of
Maine He recalled the changes of the
thirty years since he had come to the
bar. The elder Eessenden was then at
his labors. His son, the Senator, Judge
Shepley, the elder Woodman, Judge
Howard, Mr.. Bradbury, and a score of
others were then in practice. The men of
the bar associations today seem to be
young men; but yet it contains as much
capacity and ability as it ever did. Our
REPRESENTATION in Congress is almost en-
tirely from the bar.
Judge Haskell told good story of an
incident in his court down east the other
day. The attorney for the state being
absent. the judge. appointed local
lawyer, whereupon one of the jurors
arose and said:
1.-The jury only want little advice
this term, and we would like instead of
that man, another man, Mr.. K"
who is that juryman?" said the judge
to the clerk.
"Mr. B, in the town of K" replied the
clerk. ss
"Mr. B. of K. is excused for the re-
mainder of the term," said the judge.
AS the crestfallen juror walked out he
was heard to say: "By thunder, didn't
think the Reed rules had got down
here"
Judge p. WisweIl
was presented as the youger man of the
judicial family and was very cordially
received. He spoke briefly of the pleasure
and value of esuch meetings, and ex-
pressed the hope that they would con-
tinue.
Judge Henry c. Peabody,
much applauded as he arose, referred
to the collateral inheritance law, as