New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-22
FROM BENCH AND BAR.
GATHERED FROM LAWYERS AND AMONG
THE COURTS


The summer season IL the favorte time for meet
,oSs Of the Bar Association IN many States Inc
Ohl, Bar Association held It's meeting on Wednes-
div Thursday and Friday OF last week. The mem
bers 81 the American BAR Associat received LAST
week encouragement OF the meeting OF tha' oo'y -
bc held NJ Saratoga on Angus, %. % and y The
meetings ~ the association are held IN alternate
wears a. Saratoga and AZ some larsr o1sS NJ
at the S.,rltoga meeting Ex-Jgdge Ihoinass w, W.
Cooley he present pTeslsnl G 'n broSSont th.
ntri =" i',ered AZ the Slratoge meet
~ REPORTS VIII be submitted by several standing
committees and by special cominhtreS SpPro,"a aS
d, rent mem n,rte,sed irreeiv within a few years
and IL is now the most influential ASSOCIATION u
lawyers Ia the country
some light IS thrown the judicial utterances
~ Judge Grosscup. OF Chicago. by expressions CON
fained IN the address which he delivered at Gales
burg. H.. ON Memorial Day Of the pres'rr year
The great railway strike at Chicago had not 'heh
been thought Of. but Judge Grosscrp took a. ms
prnci,al theme the relations OF proparty and labor.
Read In connection with his charge 10 the United
states Grand jury at Chicago three weeks ago the
Memorial Day address shows how far the vigorous
language addressed 10 The Grand Jurors Was tue
result OF long contempn lion on the evils oil over
orranizatlou either among laborers ~ employers.
f. th. oal.sburr address Judge Grosscup refers
10 the Growth OF combinations AMI organizations
among men OF wealth and also among ahoretS' Az Az
shows The wrongs ~ ne pres, ~. ~ W in he
remedy FOR the evils. which ne deplotrS' y III ~.
limitation u the right 10 organIhS rs SSrnorai.
b. time that We should debatr WnS.m, Will, n,I,,ii
and All other conSolliateI IaUhse , - ,r,..
unl holdings should not be- denied eNS'pt III ~.
necessary agencies without I.'' I'm, ,bai ~.
should review / think. the general policy grown UP
III 1n' ,,'e etrv lawful project The license thus
extended has done more than ANYTHING r.Sr 10 %,
uterai. the individual from our Industrial ne anu
49, hrlng on the tyranny which consolidated power
always exercises" lie believes mat the coh,rs,
Tor m. liberty OF the individual from the oppression
Of organized bodies Is scarcely iesS li,,ioa % '''''
the struggle against slavery thirty years ago
TN. ante, work accomplished In the committee
,,r,s ~ Albany has been effective In eNpedltny the
work Of the Constitutional Convention. ana re-
ports ON many important questions We're o''e'''
last week when the committees are ready 10 re-
mort there Will be- much discussion In the CONVENTION
irself bu, work may advance much more '"Pi.'
than in the last two months. Some complaints
have h.en heard In various parts Of the state that
the Convention has done no work. The committees
have however. dgested The mass OF resoiut'ohS
and petitions prrseatcd 70 tnr rh. Gon.t
tuition viii soon begin. cons tNa'iNe Sihhr' -
been shown to many propositions put |nr puh, w.,
pose Of some OF the leading members 10 see"ir we
abolition OF the superior ana common I'e'' a.,
OF this city may meet opposition among those ,p
Object To radical changes The arguments on po."
sides OF this question are 50 strong thdt we IN
mitt.e must have found II difficult 10 reacn , "a HT
clsion Some votes may De lost 70 Inc ~, aSonton
when 1t is submitted to The people, ny ,nc a,o I,,'
81 the amendment dpoH-niHb '"' '"f''
courts.
.r,, r,eu.rcs ~ the Bar in the State and Fed
oral Goy.rnment" was the subject OF an address
recently delivered by Josiah IL. BENTON IT, Oh poS-
ton before the Southern New Hampshire hA' ~
c,o,lon The speaker took pains to collect stats
tics to Illustrate his subject 1t appears from the
n,,,ras collected by him that the proportion oil INV
x4rs 10 the male popula zion. has constantly IN
cr.ased I'm 1850 the proportion was III VA All" !"
lsSo II was I'm 3es The number OF lawyers III III,
state Legislatures has always IN New ~ tbs
Ieost been greater than their proportion Oh t ti,e
,,,'n,,iation would warrant In Maine there mas
iasn ON the average one lawyer TOT edcH va IT,
bers in Vermont and Rhoee as uu.nrrshIre one i'm
twelve: In Connecticut ana NeW-hahpa,,a'te' oP ,ba
sixteen and Massachusetts, one u. ,trce t-s-
entire number OF United states nvao and Z S29 OF
OiS out of 3.l22 have been laWyrrS, Az Tan
III. II Ssg Representatives In congress INV 80,
,nen,hcrs Of the bar or the twenty-four fresur'l.s
~ the United States nineteen nave pe'ii -
-, oa,, ~ tho twenty-three Nce-lresldehtS anu
2S of the 232 Cabinet ofncers nav - -, aascartain
of the bar. Mr. Benton mas pee" Sk- uavernors of
W. So and Territories or these. 90 have oeen
LAWYERS II thus appears that althousn ''.e -,
yers have Leen only IN tvV OF ' nv PSgh eyrcutiye
have occupied nearly nun vi INV "o'
and Legislative offices -
The conviction and sentence Of Ho"eh Thomas' an
Erollsh solicitor in the Contra Criminal court on
Iondon has led the English law papers TO give
,.ad .srnlng TO credulOus persons In the United
a,a,.s who may be asked 10 advance money for me
,urnose Of prosecuting imaginary claims 10 English
as,atss The Towney estates case was one OF the
,ew schemes OF the kind In which litigation was
actually begun. In that case one action begun oS
,ha c.atmsnt was dismissed as frivolous and the
other was stayed by the House OF Lords as veNa-
,,ous Colonel Jamts Frasyer Jacques who. It
90. s,,d had served In the American Army, was
the agent In the United States OF the camans. and