The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-31

and sharp, he is apt. like all highly con-
Lawyers should be familiar with the best
| works of English and American literature.
sary. to the requirement of legal prlnci-
pies, hut they are necessary to their enuncia-
/ tion BY such acuulrements he can IL
illuminate questions OF. fact and law before
Judge Blair wound up with story Of
stunning complaint. She he said,
took bundle Of tracts ana went into the
Sosd do where fSe sns ost ho9sPt S5a She She
saw a shabbily dressed gentle
man clinging to a lamppost, and She handz
and then handed 1t back sayng.-'.No,
! thank you m am. I'm married" The tract;
said the speaker. said abide with me-"
Mr. Mr.. William H H. ceorbin followed to talk
| about Investigation, a subject which he
| other man in the State. He said that
/ Investigation was the spirit OF the age.
That was seen in scientific and profession
] business to investigate facts; he has
| a better nose and facilities for doing So.
definition on Of an 'r investgation. It was not
| judicial trial, because It has not a
framed issue. Its theory is that the, Legis-
| inquiry of the mischief of the law which
requires correction He pointed out the
Of the investigation. Private affairs
4 must not be touched.
He created much amusement by re-
| lating some amusing experiences of the
| election investigation, and one of these
was when he examined an election Off
Ger and asked him # he saa ever ,a had % on
man replied, "Sure Oi had. sor. All kinds
going why wouldn't I?'
Then there was a Mrs. O'Rourke of
/ I2,u1n Sryia Vh0Sa husband
the registry list. asked her where her
husband was. Pat GOD, rest his soul: has
been did seven years was her frank
M NJ. corbin finished by defending the
method of investigation as the only way
TO find out information to direct the Leg
| islature in its effort to correct abuses.
THE. judiciary in the Constitution, =
allotted to Mr.. Charles D. Thompson,
SPEAKER SPEAKER touch touched s the right Chord when
he complained of the absence of day
CALI in the Supreme Court. He made
Court nfWef Of 4 Appeals ei and opposed m the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution in
reference to the judiciary.
Mr.. Thompson dived into the history
of the Court of Errors to show its
| growth In 1S45 Chancellor Halstead
Chief Justice Hornblower and Justices
| White, Nevius, Elmer and Whitehead
organized the court. The population then
was 100000. Today it is l6I0,OO0. From
| is45 to July. lS4S the record showed 200
| pages. ana there We're 70 cases III. error
! This state of things. Mr. Thompson COM
pared with the number Of causes and the
| days the Court sat in 1894 and 1895. For
the three terms in 1894 there We're l76
causes on the list, 124 heard and the
| Court sat 40 days For the same period
in 1895 there were 1S5 causes on the list,
131 heard and SO days
TT is suggested,'' said Mr.. Thompson,
that we should get rid of the lay judges
| in the Court of Errors and have instead
the. Supreme. Court with the Chancellor
! and four Vice Chancellors. The result
of having the Vice Chancellors in the
new court weuld mean thst every lawyer yer
to have the benefit of that gentleman's
| views
Thompson alluding to the annoying
! experience in the absence of a day CALI :
| of having ones case put off at the end of
The term for. the next, when we shvald
| 1t is a shame that New Jersey can't have
! what exists. in United States Courts.
What is the result?" ne asked "There
were II cases on the list at the last term.
In four days l6 were argued, y on briefs
and 6 missed. 1t is not right that we
! interests on brief. Cloud appiause.) It
IS time we. had an Independent court
that the Court of Errors have heard 1sl
cases in So days. two cases a day, it is
impossible that they can carry the ar ar
| mand that we be heard before the Court
and argue our cases"
Mr.. Thompson gave as an Illustration
city Water Company, where three hours
| were allotted TO seven counsel in Which
to present their views.
eve owe it to our clients to get a
hearing and I say it is not right that
| their cases should be submitted on brief"
Great applause.)
| The Lawyer in Public. Life made an
admirable address. He said inter alia:-
"The physician, the, minister, the pro-
! times popular, for a while, but for stead
fast devotion to any one class the peo-
pie cling to the lawyers. or at least the
| lawyers cling to the people, and this is
because the rights of the people are 50
interviewer with the law, and the lawyer
IS by training SO o. adapted elal ed to to secure @ TOR 70
governmental agencies these rights, that
it is impossible for the lawyer not to
in public life The epa ProfeiIsfon SIC o 9f the he
sure we read in Moore''s Utopia there
We're to be no lawyers, but no communi-
T e9ad exS odag u wa a Ht
out lawyers, and the Utopian period is
as much OF a dream as ever. There
| never was revolution; never blow for
/ kingly prerogrative; opposition to tyran-
ny and oppression of the people but the
lawyers were the leaders, agitators and
i pioneers in the work (Cheers.)
| '.Cicero in the Forum and Senate of
Rome. DemOSther1es arousing Athens; (;
the lawyers of England leading the peo-
| pie against the tyranny of the kings
i were but the forerunners of the lawyers
of this country, in establishing true civil
liberty under republican form of gov
ssThe The eloquence of an Otis fred John
| Adams and brought out the burning
| words of a Henry to unite in one COM
| mon cause for liberty the colonies of
America, resulting in the foundation. of
a new nation, under a written constitu-
i ton, the first of its kind comprehensive
ly and permanently defining the political
and civil rights of the people, loud
Mr.. Otto Grouse was down to talk
of the Bar Association, but he was de-
tanned in the Burger murder trial. There
Iwere loud calls for Fuller Black
and MCGEE" but as the hour was late
4 these gentlemen shook their heads.
81 adjourn this dinner for one year
said President Collins, and then a rush
was made for coats. CT the Dinner Com
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Flavel Nc
Gee, Albert c. WALL William M. Klink
and Chas. w. Fuller, many pretty things
were said because of the arrangements.
and it was truly described as the best
dinner held yet.
IOKE WAS NOT TO BLAME.