The San Francisco call., 1901-11-17
REVIEWS ATTACK
ON MPHREYS
Hawaiian Bar Associa-
tion After Judge Of
the Circuit Court.
Accuses Him of Insulting
and disappearing
Attorneys.

HONOLULU Nov. 9.-At special
meeting held on the evening OF November
6 the Hawaiian Bar Associauon' oy
vote of 2S to f. placed itself on record as
sticking to it's position in the matter OF
the charges against Judge A s. humpn-
reys of the First CiI cult Court, IN spite
of the decision of United States attorney
General Knox sustaining the Judge Inc
committee appointed last June 10 Iorinu-
late charges against the Judge presented
a lengthy report, in watch the Judges re-
ply. as made at Washington, is severely
criticized and some or the conclusions o.
the Attorney General are also adversely
The report was read to the members by
Cecil Brown, chairman of the commttee
which made up the charges for presenta-
ton and sent Attorney +. w. dankey 70
washington to represent the association.
II dealt with each of the five counts tnar
were discussed and disposed OF In the re-
port that Knox made TO the President
and clearly showed that the CONCLUSIONS
reached by the executives at washington
were not convincing 70 the members OF
the committee
report on account of the reply he made
at Washington. 1t Is declared tnat IN
stating that some OF his disagreementS
with lawyers were due to his refusals 20
discuss cases outside of the courtroom
with them he intiuated that Honolulu
LAWYERS were in the habit of attempting
to so discuss cases, ana nisrepresenteo
and fnsulted the Hawaiian bar AS to one
of Attorney General Knox's conclusions,
with regard to the charge that Humpn-
reys employed baillff who was not nj
person to serve in such position, Knox s
statement being that the charge was too
trivial for comment, ne report says that
the committee desires enter a protest
against such a conclusion, and adds: To
hold that the deliberate appointment Of
an unfit bailiff, clothed with the powers
incident to that office IN this TERRITORY, IS
too trivial to be considered. cals Ior pro-
test" Attention is called to the fact that
the bailiff has the power to select and
summon jurors
The report CONCLUDES by mentioning the
fact that dispatches from Washington in
dicate that a commission may come to
Hawaii to investigate matters here, and
expresses the hope that such a commits
sion will come.
fore the report was adopted. Among the
tWenty-eight who voted for ii four were
members s Of the rb Bar otbes ASSOCIATION
four were among the thirty-seven who
instituted the proceedings against Hum
phreys. The association decided to print
and circulate copies of Its report as
The local papers all comment upon the
report of the Bar Association The Ad-
vertiser says: 'If such analysis Of the
charges and of the Judges reply had
been presented to Attorney General Knox
there can be little doubt that the result
WOulQ nave Do6u ulnCIcQl. II dloO SdJ
that the fact that the Attorney General
has acquitted Judge Humphreys of the
charges does not prove their untruth and
that time will show that the charges
were we'll founded The Star. whcih
stands with the Advertiser in the con-
troversy. says: The Bar Association has
put itself on record as thoroughly deter
mined that what charges it made were
correct, and 1T does not matter enc straw
whether there was an exoneration upon
a garbled defense or not, the Hawaiian
Bar Association stood to its colors and
was not to be browbeaten by either an
oficeholder here or Cabinet Minister in
Washington"
On the other hand, the Republican and
Bulletin and the weekly Volcano charge
that the action of the association is
renewal of the political fight against
Humphreys. The Bulletin refers to the
"Dole-Thurston Bar Association and po-
liticaI ring as trying to overrule Knox
and Roosevelt and working against
American ideals in the Territory The
Republican takes the same line
Judge Humphreys has resumed his
place on the bench and was presiding
Judge of the First Circuit Court during
the past week.