The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-04

whom he excerpts. You know every law
yer has clients {Cries of ooh, have we,
Wish we had, and renewed merriment.)
But the people forget that the Judges are
chosen from lawyers, n / can't believe
that it is not more than a very small
percentage who entertain these senti-
ments against us, and | will say that a
great bulk of those in the actual pro-
fession live up to profess the sentiments
of honor and responsibility which / have
mentioned. All l can say is live up to
your high calling, for there is none
higher" Cloud applause.)
When Justice Collins resumed his seat
Justice, who smiled and shook his head.
| but the lawyers wouldn't heed and ratified
their glasses, elapped their hands. ana
made a nice din. The Chief Justice finally
"When YOU committee did me the
honor to invite me / imposed the condi-
ton that | should not be called on. 1
want to ask the bar If this is not a breacn
| of an executory contract? However. there
| are three things l wish to say. The hrsl
10. | thank you for the honor OF beng
invited to participate at your dinner.
The second is, | congratulate you on the
flourishing condition of your bar asso-
citation. for it tends to unite you all anu
| tends TO make one live up to the response
| thank you for furnishing the bench OF
| this State with members, and particularly
| the last one. whom we admire ana esteem.
Now this is my informal response TO your
1 Call. t0iSdl
Justice w. w. Goodrich was next IN
| troduced to speak for the bench OF New
York.
| .sare an internal incubus. Cloud laugh
| teri OF course that doesn't relate, TO
those who have preceded or VIII IolioM
me. / suppose | must earn my olnne
and make a speech. l feel like him VINO
went to Hades and read the inscriptlon,
Leave hope behind G~aughter.) We
are not unfamiliar with New Jersey we
- - 49, Lo1D mo x-nrrr IL XUG a M ne
decision of your courts. particularly WIFI
those of the equity judges. lRenewed
laughter.) Now I am drifting from my
topic, but l am like the fellow na aart IN IN
break the news to Mrs. O'Ffaherty that
her husband had been killed by dynamite;
After Mr.. Fitzpatrick told her the sad
news the widow asked where her nus,
/ band was, and Mr.. Fitzpatrick replied
that his head was in one lot, his legs in
another and his arms in a third and ms
body in a fourth, to which Mrs.
o'Flaherty replied: 'Begorra, that's Moike
all over Cloud laughter.) And, gentle
men, that will be my case. L am reminded
of an eccentric judge who dipped INTO
side at a political meeting. 1t was "a
| Democratic one, 1 am happy to say, Tor
I am a Republican. 0aughter.) Well,
this Judge, whom 1 will call Blank, was
shouted What's the matter with Judge
Blank?' But before the customary
answer, He's all right could be given a
little gamin up in the gallery yelled, 'Eod
only knows GMuch %laughter.) You see
I am sticking to my toast and that recalis
another story. When the false news OF
Mark Twain's death reached US some
weeks ago one of my friends cabled to
Florence asking for news and Mark him
self replied Report of my death much
| exaggerated loud laughter) Lord
Eldon. you know. gave three rules for the
+ guidance of judges, and one was to give
lengthy reasons so that the defeated
party might know whether he might APP
peal. | suppose that's what Jop sala;
1Iproarious aughter and everyone looked
at Mr.. Justice Job III. Lippincott, VINO
Joined in the fun.) And another rule was
to lay down A rule of law to save a SUD
| seauent examination by other judges.
daughter. and his time the justices felt
the shaft
Il am surprised. at the attendance here
and l want to say that some day New
York viii take in Hudson county and
| perhaps Newark. (Laughter.) II you ever
come to New York Wen welcome you
with bloody hands to an inhospltable
| building cloud laughter.)
"All right said Mr.. Fiavel MCGEE.
land when you come again to Jersey
City We'll blow you off ~
Foster M. voorhees,. President OF the
Senate. Acting Governor" as the blanks
at Trenton describe him, was called to
speak and he humorously said in opening
| that peculiar state of things existed IN
! New Jersey. There was no Governor ana
| no President of the Senate and he didn't
precisely know where he was at. He
wasn't sure. he said, whether ne was
Acting Governor, but he knew that ne
was a member of the bar. After some
remarks on the high standing OF New
Jerseys Justices the Acting Governor pro-
duced a type written speech WHICH Frank
Bergen was scheduled to denver on
What shall we do with the bar! ana
read it in the absence of Mr.. Bergen.
"Some years ago, when l began to sit
up and notice things among legal lnIants;
AT:x--,- n;rac4 aGifinnE of lXfS 60nTAl0e0
| about all the genral laws of New Jersey.
1t was not a bad book either in substance
or form, as law books>go. Its size was not
alarming, because it occupied about w GU
bic inches of space, binding and all, and
it was ont very ponderous, for 1t weighed
only 81 ounces avoirdupois. A young man
could study law in those days with Some
hope of mastering its alphabet. A lew
wears later the people We're persuaded 70
amend the Constitution. They adopted
tWenty-three amendments, sixteen. of
Legislature to pass laws. Among the con-
sequences, we find 7T2 cubic sinches OF gen
eraI laws, weighing 1888 ounces avolrdu,
pois, besides the index. You and l ana
our clients and our fellow citizens may
get in trouble if we fail to understand all
these laws, and should omit to comply
with some occult provision of this great
mass of Jurisprudence; but II l shouso ASK
understand the contents of these bulky
volumes 1 fear they would give no answer
but a pleasant smile.
sIet US insist that&the work of the com
missioners appointed by the Governor to
revise parts of our statute law shall be
adopted by the Legislature. / am willing
to go still further and insist that the law
of frequent application on many familiar
subjects, now concealed in more than 1900
dusty volumes, be expressed in clear.
strong English and in the form of
statutes. | do not dislike anyone enough
to urge him to devote his energies with
much enthusiasm to the cause of law re-
form. The work is laboriouS and unprof-
table. but. as Rip Van Wrinkle said when
he saw his wife working at the wash tub,
somebody must do it,
Mr.. James N. Clifford, of the New York
bar. responded for rs the Bar 5Degenerat-
ing?' and in an able speech attacked the
New York code and the Greater New
york charter. He didn't know much
about it, he said, and he hadn't seen a
awyer who did. 1t contained $50 pages,
and. as a New York judge said, it meant
litigation for the bar of New York for
the next one hundred years.
Good thing for you, some one shouted
and there was much laughter.
Senator William M. Johnson, responded
for wisdom for Bergen County, and
in the course of his speech said: Your
chairman has nominated for Governor
Foster M. Voorhees,. [ now launch Bill
| Daly's boom. Laughter.) When first l
| ran across Hudson county it was when
a member from Bayonne asked me to
| opposed it and wanted to know what
| business a hayseed Senator had to in
| troduce a bill from Hudson, and every day
| afterwards my small boy used to- say to
me: Papa, has Bill Daily been calling you
a Hayseed Senator again Cloud laugh