The Nome nugget., 1901-08-16

was high time that the attorneys o1 Nome had sufficient respect for them. selves tO ask the president to remove Judge Moves. He had probably as little occasion as any one to find fault with Judge Moves, but if he was per. mitted to remain three years longer on the bench conditions would grow even worse than they were now.
 'Ihe gravest question that can con- front people," he said, ''is that of the judicial administration of law speedily and in accordance with the rules of practice"
 Judge Thompson said he voiced the sentiments of nineteen-twentieths of the members of the bar and the people of the district.
 Judge ChaS. Johnson said he favored the resolution as read. It was the duty of the bar to say to the appointive power, why they wished him to. act, Better be fair, honest and candid with the president and thea attorney gen. eral, y. he said, .'thau to make use of a subterfuge. Judge Brown, of the First division, had said that, he would resign rather than be transferred to Nome, and Judge Wickersham, he had been reliably informed, had no intep. tiOn of holding court in Nome He did not believe that the president could find any man who would be ass enough to come here and hold court for 60 days or until Judge Moves came back. as had been suggested. The reasons why Judge Moves should he removed and the grounds therefor had been stated dignlfiedly and in a.truthful manner.
 Remarks were also made by. Attor- neys 14omen, Clark, Rustgard and Hog gatt along the above lines.l
 The resolution was then put and the petition adopted, and the. following subscribed their names to it:
 w. T. Hume. Chas. $. Johnson, Jas. k. Fenton, Key Pittman, M. l.. Sul- livan, A. w. Elastic, Porter J. COstOn, S. C. H0ughtOn. k. R. Beeman, Ira D. Orton. Ollyer Olson. Julius Thompson, Frank A. Steele, 5. T. Jeifreys, Stephen B. Howard, Wm. A.'GilmoHe, John K. Brown, ',Wm. T. Love, C. s., Blackett, NJ. k. Stevens. Arthur B. Wright, Willoughby Clark, John Rustgard, C.. J. Lomen, R. B. MilrOy, C. NJ. Thuland, F. E. Fuller, Arthur G. Thompson, c. D. Murane. J. C. Applewhite, John W. COrsOn. w. Fl. MetsGn. C.. Fl. McBride, C. B. Mcdonnell. VOlney T. Hoggatt, O. D. Cochran. C. Pickler,' James w. G 'itfin. N. F. Steniem, ]. F.. IlDbbes, T. J. Geary. Lazarus X Solomons, J. w. Albright, H. B. Nj. Miller, N. F. R. Haoch, F. Grimm. Francis McNulty. C. w. Turner, E. Coke Hill, Philip (. Dibert, Cecil H. CIegg. :,
 The following refused to sign the petition: Kenneth M. Jackson. P. C. Sullivan. w. H. Bard, George D. Scho- field, w. Il. Brinker, George w. Fox, T. r. Ryan. Robert Duncan, J. r Tn, rnton. A. $. Burrows. I. M. Reed H. E. Shields, C. $. Hannum, W. V Rinehart.
 A committee was appointed to sec the lawyers who were not present fOl the purpose of securing their signatures and the transmission of the petition tt the president by telegraph from Seattle was entrusted to Messrs. Charles 5, Johnson, Ira D. Orton, R. B. Milroy. Arthur B. Wright, Key Pittman.
 A committee was also appointed to obtain data from the court records in support of the statements contained in the petition to be forwarded at once to the president. The committee is com posed of P. J. Coston. Julius, Thompson and Claudius H. Mcbride.