Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-16
The FREE LANCE


The circuit court of Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, has just established a precedent
with regard to the reinstatement of at
torneys disbarred from practice for good
and sufficient cause. 1t appears that in
February. 1899 V. Fl. Burke. a practicing
attorney. was disbarred on a sustained
charge of misconduct in that. while act
ing as agent of a common pleas judge he
extorted considerable sum of money
from a person whom he threatened to
name as correspondent in divorce
action.
Burke was reinstated upon a state
ment filed with the circuit court in which
he acknowledged his wrongful act and
expressed regret and contrition therefore.
The statement was backed by petition
from members of the bar setting out that
they would be entirely satisfied to have
Burke reinstated The committee which
prosecuted him made similar state
ment, and the court granted the petition,
which was made possible by an act of
the last Legislature. The ground taken
by the court was that as Mr.. Burke had
been punished enough and gave promise
of future upright and useful life, he
was entitled to another chance. AS evil
dence that reformation had been effect
ed, which was the chief purpose of the
disbarment, the court said:
His conduct throughout has been that
Of manlness and that of integrity and
that of truthfulness. His conduct since
the disbarment so far as we have been
able to observe him has been without
blemish. We know of nothing so far as
we can observe or have observed, that
lie has done or said, either in act or in
language, that would show that he has
presented to the court or members of the
bar any resentful spirit. And we fur
Their know of no reason why in this case
the punishment has not reached the
point it was intended to reach when it
was inflicted.
Another feature of the reinstate-
! ment was that it was granted with
out his restoring any portion of the
money wrongfuly obtained, the court
stating that 1T is utterly impossible for
him to do it, and he has done. in our
| Judgment, all that he can do in present
| ing this matter to the court.
One of the judges strongly dissented
from the reinstatement, but the action
stands, and forms an interesting and
important precedent.
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Did you ever notice a little girl, 10 or
II years old, short of skirt cross a
| muddy street. wearing an air of import
ance and hiking" with her right hand
| the corner of her outer garment? If you
| haven't, you can scarcely have paid
| much attention to street scenes. 1t
would require a psychological explana-
ton to detail the reasons which move
these tiny persons to go through such
ludicrous Vancouver. but they go
through it, and they will continue to go
| through it so long as the feminine re-
| mains eternal
To begin with. the dresses of these
little girls end usually at their knees, and
| their knees are so far from the pave
ment as to make it impossible for the
| skirt to trail within less than a linear
foot of the dust and dirt of the side
walk But this consideration has nc
weight with the little women. They have
noted that their elder sisters and other
women of their acquaintance invariably
elevate the skift when crOssing-and Sc
they follow, not always consciously, the
example.
The practice is Unborn and as ineradi-
cable as it ia amusing. BY no stretch
of imagination could one picture the
short gowns coming in contact with the
roadway. But the children don't stoI
to analyze. They Just lift the skirt
gravely cross the street. and as gravely
lower the garment. Next time YOU See
little girl going to school. watch hel
movements when she comes to a corner