The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-23
Objected to Views Expressed by Con-
gresham L%ittIeheId I'm an Ad-
dress ON the InsuIar Cases.
HIS REMARKS CUT SHORT
THOUGH SOME OF HIS UTTERANCEs
WERE APPLAJDED.
LittIeheId Accused of Attacking the
Supreme Court-Address by Prof.
w. Il. Rogers, of Indiana.

caused at tO-day's session OF the American
Bar Association by the address of Con-
gresham Charles T.. Littlefield. OF Maine,
on ''the insular cases" Mr.. Littlefield's adj
dress drew forth loud and long continued
applause and a motion was made 10 tender
him a vote Of thanks for il, but this was
declared out of order by the president on
the ground that the speaker is a member
OF the association. The view OF the paper
was not, however, universal with the men,
bers, for just before recess was taken
Adolph Moses, of Chicago, made a vigorous
protest against what he characterized as
IAN unwarranted attack upon the Supreme
Court Of the United States His remarks
were cut short by a point OF order. but his
words were greeted with applause in which
a considerable minority of the convention
joined.
The convention met at 10 o'clock and
President Wetmore at once Introduced
Charles l.. >Littlefield. OF Maine. These
cases, ne said referring to the insular
cases., considered in the manner In which
the results were reached, the incongruity
of the results and the variety OF incon-
sistent views expressed by the different
members of the court are without a
parallel i'm our judicial history. Taking. up
the first case. known as De Lima vs.. BID
well, and stating the opinion OF every
member of the Supreme Court on the
same, the speaker said Justice Brown dld
not announce the conclusion and judgment
of the court affirming the judgment OF the
court below, but rendered one OF his own
Referring to the opinions of Justices
White, Shiras and Mckenna In the same
case the speaker said: Technically speak
ing, there is no opinion OF the court 10
sustain the judgment. IL the Dooley case
(known as Dooley VS.. the United States) Is
.cOnfrOllPd nv the DOWneS case said
Mr.. Littlefeld, there would seem no good
reason why it should be decided. That IL
was raises the opinion that il would be
decided adversely to the government or that
there was a greater difference OF opinion
than usual with reference to it, Mr.. JUS
tice Gray is the only one who indicates ms
position i'm this case"
Mr.. Littlefeld considered the other cases
which had been passed upon, ana SAID IN
the unsettled condition OF the court IL was
result of those cases. His conclusion as TO
Porto Rico's status is, briefly: so FAR as
the operation of the Constitution was con-
cerned, this territory was TO all legal in
tents and purposes a part of the United
States. 1t matters not how the Constitution
reached the territory, so far as this case
was concerned, so long as ii was there.
Mr.. Littlefield next discussed the thir-
teenth amendment to the Constitution as fe
has been construed by the Supreme Court
in relation TO Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. He quoted the amendment and gave
a history of the case. Then he said, re-
ferring TO slavery as II existed In tho
United States: 9Th negro cannot be
driven out of the South. He Is vastly the
superior OF the Filipino physically. and
until the Philippines produce a Fred Doug
lass or a Booker T.. Washington he has
nothing to fear imam intellectual compari-
SON."
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Littleield's adj
| dress, reports OF the standing committees
were submitted without being read: Juris-
prudence and law reform; legal education
and admission to the bar; commercial law:
| international law: obituary and law report
ing: digesting. The commercial law COM
mittee i'm its report expressed dissatisfac-
ton with the new bankruptcy law, and de-
clares that IL has made strong efforts 10
secure amendments. but In vain. The COM
mittee is still OF opinion: l. That a bank
ruptcy law is wise and benefcient legisla-
ton: 2. that the ideal bankruptcy law 10
one that (al allows every honest debtor TO
legations upon the surrender or all MS
property; (b) gives. every creditor a COM
plated fraud on the part of the debtor, lc)
Furnishes all fraud on the part OF this
debtor or creditors will relentless sever
lily. 3. That our present bankruptcy law
trenchant amendment on the lines that
this association has approved. 4. That the
on commercial law for the ensuing year,
continue it's line OF work looking TO the
perfection or the bankruptcy.
At this poin. Mr.. Moses got the floor and
said: II wish 10 record my note Of dissent
20 the general applause which followed the
presentation of the insular cases by Mr..
f.ittIefeId. When the matter came to nv
attention I looked with a great deal or
pleasure TO the fact that he had chosen
OF this association. i regret 10 have
listened, not to "A piece OF information.
hut rather to what | consider an unwar,
the United States and. as a member OF this
association. | wish to raise my voice In
protest against the use OF this platform for
a purpose OF this kind. | remember TO have
read that when the celebrated case Of CO.
hen vs.. Virginia was decided by Chief Jus
tice Marshall he was burned In effAgy In the
city OF Baltimore. He was denounced In
every courthouse I'm Virginia, and Yet we
look upon that great decision as one or the
vindicatfons of the government. And that
is not the only Instance where denuncia-
ton has followed the action of the supreme
Court OF the United States. Those who be-
lieve with the majority have full confidence
IN the sober second thought OF the people or
the United States as TO the correctness OF
this great decision. IL has "A poliical aspect
and IL is but natural that all OF US free
Americans should take divergent views.
but / protest against the use OF this plat
form on the part OF any man however cap
able"
vania. interposed a point OF order, which
was sustained by the president, and recess
WAS taken until ; oci1eh ro-nisnt a..
IA ~ VI wv
American Bar Association met tonight
at the Tabor Grand Opera House. Hiram
+. Stevens. OF Minnesota. presided. Credit
for Office Study In Law Schools" was the
subject OF a paper by Harry Sanger Rich
ards. of the Iowa State University. It's
discussion was led by Prof. Honcutt. OF
Cornell.
READ BY PROF. ROGERS.
William Il. Rogers, dean Of the Law
School OF Indiana University. read a pa
PER on the subject lis Law a Field for
Woman's Work. Professor Rogers said
in part: The question is OF increasing
importance and will arise more frequently
within the next few years than ever be-
fore. IL II OF interest TO the bench and
bar because women are not only asking
for admission TO practice but are rapidly
entering our ranks and pracficing az our
bars. IL Is OF interest TO our law schools
because 10 AT least sixty-four Of our ~
schools women have applied and been adj
not only applied. but have entered and
studied and carried away honors and de-
grees. More than three hundred women
have been admitted TO practice law I'm the
United States within the last twenty-five
years. Not all these perhaps are prac-
ticing In courts. bat very many OF them
are. and the others. like many OF the men.
find IL more cOngenial and perhaps more
profitable TO conhne themselves 20 the
work of the office.
There were during the past year about
200 women In our law schools. The
growing sentiment among both men and
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