The sun., 1895-03-31
WHY SHOULD doFF APPOINT ATTENDANTS


WHY SHOULD GoFF APPOINT ATTEyDANrs2
Judge Cowing went over the few specific COM
knocked the bottom out of them. He continued: :
Lar. am s9rry-l see II is rumor. ! notice tho
everything counts before a committee. hearsay
and rumor, just as much Ms legal evidence. I
HePe in n.s hs court up
usually try to stick pretty well to legal rules
and legal evidence. and think it is re better
mors that l have heard about everybody.
and, and all w the newspaper scandal. 1t is not
Now let us see about these court attendants
They are tho black sheep who seem to be tho
any assurance of Il favorable result il you
Ghpc the work to the one man who wants II
rs that he would
heard that the first appointment he made in
this court was tina. OF a man who had been un-
bond had been torfeted On The HT' @th of SoYem
Der. after tho learned Recorder had been elected,
only giving IT as romor; but suppose that it was
Mr.. Rainss--well. you swear to 1t only as a
Judge Cpwing-Yes. sir. have heard that
such was the case. Suppose such thing as that
was true. what would you think about giving
power to man to appoint all his court attend
ants from thut same category? Be that as it
this court. noticed. and for that we are most
exceedingly thankful, that tho learned Re-
Of the judges Of this een
For that we feel very grateful. notice he
as rohns eonr 9 ssy ssiMs M ths eks
sheep and he is Tammany Hall man. lie says
nothing against him; he takes pains 10 say to
your committee that he hasn't n word 10 say
against him. only that he thinks that the system
Is wrong and ought to be changed. and these
Iammany fellows.they all ought To be hung or
having ANYTHING do wi IA thar Ia n terr
bly, demoralizing thing. That is for you to pass
upon.
GoFFs DEMAND FOR RULES
Now. want to say something about this
Nrst meeting. because II has been alluded to,
and tho doors have been opened. We kind OF
ing, In which the Judges met face to face and
spoke their condolences. but we found very soon
s@Is to and 20
stated s A he & invited us TO his room, think, after
there: We were his guests We were under
,, his domain, under his roof so to speak. and we
aoTn ss,S e o,, the question Of patronage. iis
I'VE ought TO have written rules" Nv The
way. way. there has been good deal OF talk about
oi ProcedIrs full Of written rules for this ise
w we ,h pave rules enough; ordinarily. TO conduct
aron.r S 5ne business OF tn, court in an orderly
said. Ne will make some more rules" and we
sald we VIII uniform these men" We didn't
uniform the men because we didn't want To
put them TO tho expense OF $50 or 500 and
then have the Legislature throw them ali ont
inside or twenty-four hours SO ths only
decentralization that has been going on
10 what you have made for us. some
OF them knew that they would have to CO. and
Others said; perhaps il the Recorder gets his
hill through we will all CO." We haven't paid
much attention to the uniforms. We thought
that proper time would come when this little
unpleasantness would be disposed Of and then
~nok, we would have these men uniformed. as they
good thing. Before Recorder GoT came here
had ruled that indictments were court records.
and should be kept in the court, but the Dis
gled with the court and the offices were so
found they were put in the possession of the
District Attorney. That is So In Kings county
to-day. and you gentlemen know whether il is
SO In your own counties or not. When an In
dIctinent is presented "A record of IL i entered
IN the tlerk's minute book; the name of ;Ae
person Indicted the nature of the crime. and all
that Is entered. We have adopted a different
rule, ana let us see how politics can come into
tho new rule. We may have to renovate that
We have indictments drawn in duplicate; we
have the original indictment in court and a copy
Is given to tie District Attorney. Therefore IL
we should get Il District Attorney who happened
10 he politician and who wanted to use Ills Of
hce FOR political purposes, ] don't know why he
couln not use u cupy us well as anything else TO
nourihh In persons face, and he wouldn't
know whether II was a signed indictment of IL o
GraNd Jury or any one else. but We all agreed