The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-24

Issues-Meeting of the American Bar
Association.
SARATOGA. y. Y, July 24.-The sec
ond and third days Of the annual meet
ing of the American Bar association
find number of prominent jurists in
attendance that We're not present at the
opening. Wednesday.
The full text Of the annual address Of
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, the president,
has been put in print, and entered upon
the records Of the association. 1t is
considered one of the ablest papers ever
read before the convention, and is of
national interest.
The address began with summary
Of the new legislation of the year in the
various states The most important
act Of the year. it is said was the new
Massa achusetts law which provides that
the employer as well as the emplOye
shall be punished for breach Of con-
tract and that the employer shall not
a member of any labor organization as
a condition of employment.
Judge Cooley also commended the
New York law against hazing in col
leges and the Georgia law against
lynching. There had been, he said,
less sumptuary legislation than usual
during the year
Judge Cooley then proceeded to dis
cnssion of The Year in it's Constitu
tiOnal Aspects; the Lawyer as Teach
er and Leader" He considered at
length the COXey crusade, the spread of
lynching and the Pullman boycOt, all
Of which he thought raised questions
which indicated the necessity for re-
viewing the wisdom of the national in
StitutiOnS.
The Ccxey Crusade.
Speaking of the COXey movement, he
said that the Constitution contemplated
no such method Of influencing congress,
and that it was fraught with mischiev-
Gus possibilities.
OF lynching the address said: NO
section can longer reproash any other; !;
lynchings have, during the year, been
numerous north and south and west, in
cases where murder and sometimes
when only an invasion of property
rights was charged" The growth of
this spirit, Judge Cody thought, was a
subtle encouragemento of anarchy, such
as resulted in the murder of CarnOt.
The speaker reviewed the Pullman
boycott. condemning its indiscriminate
injury of outside interests.
Governor Altgeld Riddled.
Alluding to the contention of Cover
ner Altgeld, of Illinois, that the presi-
dent had no right to send federal troops
into the state until asked to do so,
Judge Cooley said: No doctrine ex-
actly like this had before been ad-
vanced. We cannot admit that the
position taken is even plausible. 1t
had no warrant whatever ir, r,+rs-%deral
Constitution, which. -on the contrary. is
distinctly against IT.
IF the views of the Governor were
excepted as sound, the mails might be
stopped a Chicago. interstate commerce
broken up and the United States courts
refused service. unless the Governor.
when disorder was dominant. saw fit to
suppress it or call upon the president to
do so.
There is one class Of strike" Judge
Cooley said. that can never be settled
by arbitration. That is the svmpa-
thetic strike" He did not favor com
pulsory arbitration.
In conclusion. the address said:
"Perhaps some attention may be given
to the question whether the administra-
ton of discretionary punishments to
strikers, as for contempt to court. when
the acts punished were but trespasses
upon the possession of a receiver, is not
being pushed to an extreme that is a
little startling.