The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-03
Business there is more

court to court Business there is more
The Vice Chancellor explained the great
| increase of business in the Court or
| Chancery by saying that it was largely
| due to the liberal legislature which passed
corporation laws, these helped to .,s support or
yers and equity judges LaughhterD a 3 tel
! Modern business transactions, His Honor
| more work in the Equity Courts. Old
| methods wouldn't do. 1t would make a
schoolboy laugh TO read questions IN
Halstead Green or Zabriskie. When the
| Vice Chancellor said that even the Su-
preme Court dealt with few questions OF
law, there was q shout OF 5,,l iaugn5ierf in IN
1 which Justices Dixon, Collins and LIP
| pincott Joined, this was repeated when
Mr.. Pitney quietly remarked that the eases
before the supreme court h, were aT nosl,s bs
| acts were a fruitful field of litigation in
| volving little Blackstone.
| are more complex than in Court OF Law
| because of the nature OF modern trans
actions. While man might pc hfst rs,
your watch. Naughter9 He might IN
derstand the principles governing the
watchs works but as to liking 1t he Would
make a bungle of it. (Renewed laugnter.l
But you can't do away with the Equity
Courts, or mix the two as they do in
| New York 1t will be sad day for New
!
the Supreme Court alone. AS for the
| Court of Errors and Appeals you can do
what you like with it,, for it is as AMI
Dodd used to say AS bad as bad can pc.
| loud laughter) Alter and amend the
Court of Errors, but let the Court of
Chancery and Supreme Court alone. Now,
| gentlemen, If l say anything more you
will think I am like the old lady in the
/ church who kept talking all the time, and
| 1 will close with many thanks for the
honor done to me by inviting me to address
| YOU" (Great cheering and the guests
stood up and answered the usual question
about Mr.. Pitney being all right)
| Judge. W; ]. Gaynor responded to the
Ns Sd a tbe ana udca bdr
| tenn of New Jersey, and pointed out how
different was the practice in New York,
where judge sat on the Equity bench
one term and on the Law bench another.
He had only words of high praise, ne
said. for the criminal procedure in New
Jersey, for wasn't Jersey justice familiar
| term throughout the United States? Judge
Gaynor then proceeded to give the District
Attorney of New York a quiet dig. it oc-
| CURED in these words
when criminal is arrested in New
Jersey your District Attorney at once pro-
ceeds to try him. He doesn't issue his
| tory of the mans past crimes to infane
| the public, nor does he give daily inter-
| views during the course of the trial con-
cerning new evidences of the prisoners
bad record in order that the jury should
be Influenced. Should such thing hap
| pen in New Jersey, l have not the slight
| est doubt that the trial judge would at
! once stop the case right there. Such con-
/ duct is wrong. Unless man be tried by
/ fair means he should go free"
Judge Gaynor criticised the new judi.
cial system in New York and remarked
| that it was defective In this that there
were too many Appellate Judges, too
many appeal cases and too few trial
Judges. the result being constant work
| from October to July and during vaca-
tion even Closing an effective and able
speech, he advised young lawyers to
throw away parchments and read his
| tory: be men first and lawyers after
wards
THE Court of Last Resort was ably
| responded to by Mr.. Joseph J. Coult.
change in the Court of Errors and APP
peals was that the Justices of the Su-
preme Court, after disposing of the busi-
ness at the circuits, sitting, as they are
frequently required to do. in the trial of
important cases in the Oyer, hearing and
determining the applications for writs
the errors of inferior tribunals, and de-
termining and reviewing the cases of
which this court has original or appellate
Jurisdiction, have little time to devote to
weart's topic, and he -.set the table on
a roar with his salIies and stories.
Mr.. John A. Nugent gave some CHEEKY
"reminiscences to the. toast of "The
Listener on His Feet
Consolida 4aaoI tion w was MI NJ w al9
was in line with the absorbing question of
the day and the year expansion.
"Our experiences in Jersey CITY, said
Mr.. Edwards, lis the same with the rest
of Hudson county. Our city is growing.
it is the sixteenth in the Union now, and
not by expansion but by agreement with
would be the. seventh. (Cheers.) 1t would
| then have population of 100000 and
would onlv be exceeded hv New Vo~'s-
| CChjcago, St. Louis and Baltimore. Here
we. have thirteen municipalities weiued
| together one large city, two fair sized.
and grading down to small towns and
| agant county government By very sim
ple methods we could take in all these
municipalities, of course by the consent
"In the first place. continued Mr.. Ed
wards. 1--WE would do away with that
county government (Applause), which
slightest direct responsibility to the people
and with no review. (Applause) We
| could with consolidation have one set of
| officials controlling the government. We
as for the adjustment of taxes through
out the municipalities that would simply
mean matter Of bookkeeping at the City
Hall. The tax rate in Jersey City is SIS
a head. and in the balance of the county
it is SIS. Jersey City's burdens would be
cut down and we could have a charter
governing all the county instead of differ
ent laws for each municipality, as at
present. (Applause.)
Mr.. Edwards pointed out the danger of
locking up in the breasts of one or two
men the knowledge of these municipal
laws. Today. he said. only sour or five
members of the bar knew the laws affect
ing Jersey. The present system of
complex laws meant much work to the
municipal lawyer. If consolidation were
ACCOMPLISHED it would mean a simplifca-
ton of the legal questions. AS for tax
apportionments that was easy matter.
at is the duty" said Mr.. Edwards in
closing ''for every lawyer to discuss this
matter and ascertain its advantages. If
the bar is a unit on the subject Jersey
City will be the seventh city of the
Union. and then we can carry out the
motto we read on her escutcheon, Let
Jersey Prosper" cloud cheers.)
This closed delightful dinner. Many
nice things were deservedly said of the
manner and style in which the dinner
was prepared and served by Messrs Ham
blen & Son. The hall was brilliantly
decorated and presented a charming ap-
pearance with the tasteful arrangements
of national flags.
rYppeccMEM,S COMING STAn