Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-17
TRIBUTE PAID
TO JAY P LEE
Legal Paternity Adopts Reso-
buttons Of Respect.
ALWAYS PLAYED FAIR

Kindness, Courtesy and Generosity
Marked His Practice Toward
Opponents.
Judges Lindsay and Clancy, sitting as
one court in department No. l OF the as
trict body, listened this morning to the
resolutions framed by a committee OF the
members Of the bar on the death OF Az
torney Jay p. Lee, which occurred In TINS
city about ten days ago, ana concurreu
in their adoption. The esoi4tlons Were
presented by Judge William H. DeWltt
and after being read and ordered to be-
come a part of the records OF the court
Attorney George A Clark paid the MEM
DRY of the deceased that glowing tribute
which the life of the dead attorney mef-
tied. The resolutions were as follows:
MAY 1t please the court: Your hOnors
have Entrusted to us the privilege of sug-
costing, as a permanent record of this
court, an expression by the ember or
this bar of their sorrow in the loss of our
friend and brother Jay P. Lee, n an
opinion as to his personal and profess
sional character.
MAY We SuO1Il1L In OAA ~S SAH>
sentiments from the hearts of the law
yers of Butte and ask that they be enroll
ed as an order of this court.
Jay P. Lee came to this bar only seven
months ago as an man. He
came to us from that bar which drew it's
inspiration from those great Michigan
Judges, Cooley, Christiancy and Camp
bell. The goodness and greatness of those
men left their mark upon Lee, and they
were manifest in his daily walk and con-
~versatiOn. Lee was a lawyer n a law
yer-man. He was learned in his profess
sion, which in itself is but an ordinary
tribute; and, furthermore, he wa learned
in and q lover of all of it's high ideals. No
lawyer has come to this state, who in so
short a time, so endeared himself to his
professional brothers. Lee never did a
mean thing. He fought his fight for his
clients, but he always played fair. He
practiced TOWARD his lawyer opponents
above all, that attribute of character
which st. Paul calls 'Epieikeia,' and
which Matthew Arnold beautifully trans
lates as sweet r~easonableness.'
"Lee exempliied the maxims of the
Justinian Code ~&
ITO live honorably. to injure no one.
n to render to every man his DUE"
ut is not all a lawyers life to try cases
and win verdicts. From the first syllable
of recorded time the. lawyers have been
(and until earth's book is closed they will
be) the conservators of the morality OF
the people with whom they live. For
two thousand years, while r~eligionists
lave insisted and too often by drastic
methods that human beings should be-
lieve something, the lawyers ave never
ceased to labor to make men do that
which makes for righteousness The
law has never taken. a backward step. It
was better in Rome tina it was in
0~o1~~ r ,-.o- oAA- W.T.
than it was under King John. It was bet
ter under the American constitution than
1t was under King George. 1t is better
on every today than 1t was on each yes
terday. Mr.. Lee was a high-minded rep
r~esentative of this high-minded profess
sion. His life is his monument. Now
that his lips are closed we put into his
mouth the words of the Latin poet:
I have raised unto myself a monu-
ment more enduring than copper, and
1oftier than the pyramids royal pile; a
monument, which the eroding shower
the vainly struggling gale, the eternal
procession of years and the fight of time
cannot Destroy
"Mr Lee acted in his life the senti.
ments of the prayer which DIR. Sam
Johnston wrote upon commencing the
study of law a prayer which should be
written upon every students Blackstone
which should be inscribed upon ever,
coue' ana Whlch VI trust Is craven upOr
the heart of every lawyer:
Almighty God, the giver of wisdom
without whose help resolutions are vain
without whose blessings study is ineffec.
tual: enably me, if it be thy will, to at.
tain such knowledge as may qualify M
to direct the doubtful, and instruct the
Ignorant; to prevent wrong and termin.
ate contentious: and grant that I may
use hat knowledge which l shall affair
to thy glory and my own salvation, fol
Jesus Christ's sake, Amen
Your committee respectfully NOV,
that the above expressions be adopted a.
q memorial to our friend Jay P. Lee.
civilian H. DEWITT.
wv. Y. PEMBERTON,
GEO. A. CLARK,
y. ]. NOTATION,
&C. r. KELLY"
Mr.. Clark spoke as follows:
May it please you honors; gentlemen
of the bar:
while I sorrow at this occasion I new
ertheless welcome the opportunity it af
fords me Of expressing my humble, per
sonal tribute to the memory of brothe
Lee.
when a few short months ago he frs
came to this community he was to me, a
to all of you, an entire stranger. And yet
during the brief period he was permitte,
to dwell among us I learned to know hin
80 we'll that it seemed as if I had enioye,
MS acquaintance and friendship Gurin,
my whole life. There are some men VIII
are the essence of f~rankness, candor an,
genlaHty, who are so filled with the mil
OF human kindness that to have know
them for the shortest period, for a day o
an nOur even. seems like having know
them for ones lifetime, and brother lie
waC C11eh q