New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-19
JURISPRUDENCE DTNNER
ADDRESSES BY JUSTICES RUMsEY AND
sTOVER. AND EX-JUDGE DAILY
AND OTHERS

The Society OF Medical Jurisprudence held It's
sixteenth annual dinner last evening at the Wal
dorf-Astoria The attendance was composed main
". OF course OF doctors and lawyers many eminent
members Of both professions being present. The
dinner was held in the beautiful Astor Gallery. and
$ b. Livingston presided. on his right sat JUS
tice William Rumscy OF the Appellate Division OF
the Supreme Court. Ex-Justice Joseph T. DAILY sat
his left and others at the guests table included
Justice Martin l.. Slower Professor Isaac +. Rus
SELL William A. burlington. Flavel MCGEE and
Or Theodore X. Tuthill. Among others present
were John Sabine Smith Charles Buckley Hubboll
Dr. Robert il Murray. Professor Charles l.
Hughes John De Witt Warner James p. Foster.
Dr. Edward + Brush L. Latin Kellogg stephen
G. Baldwin and Alfred l.. Oumen John G. Car
Isle ex-Secretary Of the Treasury was TO he pres
ent but was suddenly called out Of town. The
Rev Or. Donald Sage Mackay detained by
illness
Justice william Rumsey spoke on The JUDI
ciary." The theme OF his speech was the great I'M
provement In these days in the treatment which me
accused person received In State trials In the Ola
days he said It used be the theory that the man
WAS nothing and the Government everything that
the individual was entitled to no protection when
he was attacked by the Government. This state OF
things was due 20 tho theory Of king by divine
right" II was summed up in the statement OF
Louis XIV when ne said. "Thestate-it is l."
The change in the treatment OF the defendant in
Justice Rumsey said and since then the Anglo
Saxon theory had developed that the protection OF
the Individual was everything and that no fancled
necessity OF the Government should be permitted 10
harm the individual. The elder notion. said Justice
Rurnsey prevailed on the Continent to-day. In the
year 1894 ne continued. young soldier had Deen
accused In France OF most disreputable crime
that in the OF things he could not have com
mitted he had been convicted and sentenced 10
degradation and confinement on a barren island
and the whole weight OF public opinion in France
opposed any attempt at revision OF the case De-
cause OF fancied necessity OF the Army. and TO-
dav the election OF President of France turned on
that question.
Justice Rumsey proceeded 70 point out the grave
abuses that existed in expert testimony and urged
that no physician. AZ least, should consent TO ac-
cent a fee or retainer for giving expert test-
mony
Justice Slower spoke on The Jury" He de-
clared that while there had been proposition from
some quarters TO abolish the Jury system the fact
remained that the jury mad long protected inc
court and lent power and effect 70 the DEGREES Oh
the court and that nobody had ever been able 70
propose a better substitute.
Professor Russell. OF the New-York University
Law School. spoke on Law In Precept aho Z a.
tire He said that he especially regretted the
absence OF the Rev. DIT Mackay, because ne
Thought somebody ought TO say grace nut tndl
upon his mentioning his feelings 20 justice o.onr
the latter had replied. LAS there is no clergyman
present 20 say grace let US thank Cod" professor
Pnsseii Creafed a good deal OF significant Laughter
~, referring 10 some legal officials VINO have had
time to 20 into society frequently aho uIaan
plenty Of champagne and ENJOY an me sO9u LI,33'
~ life while the calendar was crowded ana chOheN
Ofber speakers included ex-Judges pay. VIZ
spoke on Equity and Law Fiavel Al'}Ieo r Viii
who spoke TO THE Physician and "lham -
Purrlngton.