The age-herald., 1902-01-29
Millionaire Schwab Grows Weary of Being Honored by Yellow Journals

mat Is the work in promotion of unifor- mity In all state laws. Albert E. HenscheI New York lawyer. drew the first bill seeking to give legal effect. to this most praiseworthy movement. MT. Hensehers bill became the law of New York state and since then the subject has been nrac- tically dealt with in thirty-one of the forty-five states
 The act of the New York Legislature. which is being followed in material points, creates a commission of lawyers whose duty 1t is to frame a negotiable in- strument code. This is done through the investigation of the statutory laws of other states, and when the commissions of all the states shall have agreed upon a code it is to be made the law of the states represented.
 Alabama's Supreme Court ranks as one of the first five state Supreme Courts in wisdom and soundness of decisions, and yet Alabama is not represented in the most important legal undertaking in the history of the Republic. Other southern states who equal Alabama in inaction in this matter of such vast importance are Tennessee, Louisiana (which still adheres to the Code Napoleon), Arkansas, Texas, and North Carolina-six of the fourteen states that are now outside the move ment, though three of the fourteen, Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania, have hereto fore done some good work in that direc- tion.
 Assuredly the Alabama bar would favor the movement if 1t were placed fully be- fore the lawyers; and anyone desiring to see an admirable bill on the subject could probably secure copy by writing to State Senator L. M. Hosea at Columbus Ohio, or to Mir. Francis B. James of the Cin- cinnati bar, who framed Senator Hosea's bill
 It was stated in this place some weeks ago that President Roosevelt had proved to be of sufficiently independent mind as to rub the wrong way various Repub- lican Senators, including such leaders as MT. Platt of New York, MT. Hanna, and MT. Elkins. This Is curiously borne out by the fact that when Senator Elkins went to the White House in company with his colleague Senator Scott, it was necessary for MT. Elkins to be introduced to the President. Now that we are ac- quainted I hope we shall see more of each other" the President is quoted as saying with characteristic frankness MT. Hanna does go to the White House occasionally, but one never hears of MT. Platt of New York being there.
 By the way, Mir. Platt is a greatly changed man of late. His health Is not good, and he has become restive under the prolonged newspaper attacks upon him, nearly all of which is unjust and even cruel. He is no more the man of the cartoonist and the ribald jester than is MT. Hanna man who wears dollar marked clothes
 MT. Platt is a devoted lover of little children and is deelHy attached to his own family. No man with such attach ments can be very wrong in any direc- ton. And that old newspaper cry about Me Too' Platt was nothing short of the outrageously false.. It is perfectly well known that MT. Platt had determined months before the famous Conkling-Plat episode to resign from the Senate; but MT. Conkling pursuaded him not to do so. He was greatly attached to MT. Conk- ling and therefore withheld his resigna- tion. Finally when MT. Conking suddenly determined to throw down the gauntlet to Garfield. MT. Platt joined him and there by carried out his own intentions. After wards in the bitter contest at Albany MT. Platt still stood by his friend.
 The reason for MT. Platts purpose to resign from the Senate in 1881 was busi- ness He was not rich and his private business was suffering on account of his Senatorial duties.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.