The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-05
UNITED STATES COURT
Report of the Findings Next
Step in the Larkin Case.
THERE'S LITTLE BUSINESS
At Present Before the Federal Court.
The Building Has Recently
Been Given Thoro ugh
Overhauling.

ed States court, yesterday deposited in
the big vault the last of the tran
scribed testimony taken in the famous
Larkin case. The testimony arrived
from Harvard, Conn, having been sent
to that city for the signature of wit
ness DR.. Crothers, who left this city
as soon as he had given his testimony
| and before it was transcribed by the
stenographer. The package was adj
dressed to Judge Henry N. Blake, and
the express company carried it at the
value of $1,000. 1t has been the bail
ifs duty to take care of the tran
scribed testimony, and when he plac-
ed the doctors testimony in the vault
yesterday he said, with sigh, THAT
winds up my part in the Larkin case"
The several volumes of testimony are
still in the hands of Judge Blake, mas
ter in chancery, and when he comes to
Butte again he will file it with Clerk
Sproule of the court. The next step
will be the appointment by Judge
Knowles of some one to make re-
port of the findings, and this person
will no doubt be Judge Blake.
The federal court in this city is about
found anywhere. A few weeks ago it
was a busy hive. There was the Lar
kin hearing, the aconda-Colusa-Par-
rot case, which promised to be long
drawn out, besides there were several
legal documents filed every day. The
hearings before Special Masters Cln-
ton and Blake came to an end, and
then quiet in those quarters reigned.
Only an occasional petition in bank
ruptcy found it's way into the clerks
office. So, while the time was oppor-
tune, H. l.. Frank, owner of the build
ing, set to work gang of painters,
who gave the rooms a thorough over
hauling. Deputy Clerk Drake is kill
ing time by transcrbing records of
final entry, and while he is thus en-
gagged Bailiff Bateman plays solitaire
with the crib deck and reads the works
of the popular authors.
Even petitions in bankruptcy are
slow to come in, which fact is a pleas
ing reflection of the general condition
of affairs in the commercial world.
1t is generally regarded as a pretty
easy thing to go into bankruptcy, and
the wonder has been expressed that
more have not taken advantage of the
gracious act of congress, which, by
the way, will be a subject of debate at
the next session of congress. 1t is
argued in many quarters that the act
has served the purpose for which it
was originally intended and that it is
time to repeal it. At the conference
of referees in bankruptcy recently held
in Chicago. amendments and changes
in the law were discussed. Practical
operation of the law during the past
year has suggested to the wise ones
a number of important changes. The
referees will submit a draft embody-
ing the radical changes, and this will
meets.
Frank H. Mortimer, a clerk of the
federal court in a southern district,
who attended the Chicago conference,
has this to say about some important
matters which came under. his obser-
walton:
''The convention of referees in bank
ruptcy was for the purpose of dis
cussing a number of amendments and
changes which the practical opera ton
of year developed. These amend
ments will be presented to congress
as soon as it meets. and they are now
being prepared by special committee
which is to report to a sub-Comm:t-
tee.
THE members of the convention Were
very much disguised with the treat
ment accorded them by the Chicago
newspapers. The papers, every one of
them, totally misrepresented the facts
They came out with the announcement
that the convention of referees in
bankruptcy were unanimously in favor
of repeating the bankruptcy law This
was nothing more or less than utter
rot, and nothing of the Kind ever en-
cred the heads of those present or
If it did. they said nothing about it.
1t is true that certain judge present
was invited to address the body, and
made some statements advocating in
termittent periods of the enforcement
of the bankruptcy laws. That they
should be in force one year and net IN
the next, etc. This was utterly alb
surd, and not the slightest consdera-
ton was given it. yet the papers the
next morning came out with the an
nouncement that we Endorsed the par
tvs views and We're in favor of re-
pealing the law.
There are quite mum or of changes
which are to be made,"F said Mr.. Nor
timer, land some important ones. but
OF course they will nos go into effect
until congress adds them as amend
me: is &c tie exist ,s laws"