Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12
TO REAOYE TANGLE.
Local Bar May Ask Help of the Next LegisIature.


 After what took place in the dis trict court this morning between At torney Kennedy and Deputy Judge Peasley. it is evident that the local bar will make some effort to have the next legislature do something to re- move the eternal tangle that sur rounds the office which Judge Peasley holds in that cOurt Attorney Kenne- dy moved that the cases of Rogers against Clerk and Clark against Wooss >ter be either adjourned to the Matcn term O. the court or tried before the jury at the present term. Judge Peas ley oppostd the motion. The case is about a horse and all concerned I've in Watertown, except MT Wooster. who is now> living in Santiago, Gal, for the benefit of his health. He IS represented by Attorney Thoms. Att torney Kennedy represents MT Clark, and Judge Peasley, Mir Rogers.
 Attorney Kennedy started off ex- blaming the circumstances of the case and Judge Peasley objected, claiming the case was not before the court The court ruled for Attorney Kennedy, however, who then proceeded to state that it was necessary that' the jury should hear the facts in both cases in order to judge fairly. He was sur prised, he said, to read in the after noon papers Saturday that the attor- neys in four cases had objected to their cases being tried by the court. He would like to know when attorneys were given the power to select their own judges. ..e
 ''The bar of this district" thun- dered Attorney Kennedy, ''have cause to have the standard of practice Tn this court raised, and they are going to have it raised if they can.'' He was very glad to be able to say that Judge CoweH had decided in that di- rection also, but he could not say as much for Deputy Judge Peasleyx It was not fair to the other members of the bar that the deputy judge should act as attorney one day and be judge before the same jury another day. ''I wish to be honorable in this natter he went on, "and I want to be fair in all my dealings with the other mem bers of the bar, and if 6 brother law yer asks me to allow case to go over because one of his witnesses is i'll or for some other reasons always agree. But that is not the case with Deputy Judge Peasley, and I say now that 1 will do all I can to prevent Judge Peasley trying any jury cases in this court. When, last fall, was busy i'll the campaign, Judge Peasley was the only attorney that pressed me to try my cases. Why did he do 1t? Because he is too much of a rank partisan That's the reason why he pressed me"
 Attorney Thoms spoke up at thls point, saying that he had as much irl- terest in tine case as anyone, but he saw that Attorney Kennedy was en- gagged in the good work of trying to induce the voters Of the state to vote for Judge Parker and he did not wish to interrupt himsin the good work. < This closed the arguments and Judge Cowell said he would not per- init another word to be said on the matter, and will decide the motion at short calendar next Saturday. J
 All the lawyers in the city, and for that matter in the state, know that the wax the office of deputy judge of the district court is conducted IS enZ, tirely wrong, and that the only cure for it is to have the judges put on cir cult, like the judges of the superior court. Until some such change is ef- fected the deputy judge of the dis tTict court will be in stew with the other attorneys, for his recompense as deputy judge is far from sufficient to enable him to be independent of his office practice.