The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-22
HOOKER CASE WILL NOT DOWN
NAN ASSOCIATION or THIS CITY
TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING.
fall signed by Eminent Lawyers OF Both
Parties who Are Unwilling TO Leave
on the state Judiciary the Blot the
Majority at Albany Could Not See.

Parties VINO Are -lnWllllnS 10 Leave
ON the state Judiciary the Blot the
Majority at Albany Could Not See.
The Bar Association Of the City of New
Yor, does not propose to let the case Of JUS
,ire Warren b. Hooker rest whore the State
Bsr Association dropped it. special
meeting OF the local association has been
called for Friday next TO take up the Hooker
case anew. The rules OF the city bar asso-
cation require twenty signatures to a re-
quest for a special meeting. Sixty sig
natures we're obtained in a few hours for
this special meeting, and the number could
have been indefinitely increased
The petition was signed by all the e1-
presidents OF the association who we're
In the city. Wheeler II. Peokham, William
@. Choate and Joseph Larocque. 1t bears
the names Of as many prominent members
~ the New York bar who are Republicans
ma il does OF those who are Democrats.
Among the Republican lawyers whose names
appear are: Henry +. Rowland Henry W.
Taft. b. Ayrnar Sands, George W. Wicker
sham, James NJ. Varnum, Thomas Thacher.
F de Peyster Foster, Paul d. Cravath.
william d. Guthrie and j. W. Simpson.
Other signers are:
Iohn q. oarIsle. AuSIen u, f9 ;o, mi,'ia inh,
q. Milburn. George L. Rives. Adrian II.
1oine. II J., Stimson. +. Is. Jennings. Law
rance Godkin f. 3. Lord. Bronson Winthrop.
Robert W. De Forest, William Church Osborn.
c. F. Matthewson. Edward E. Sprague David.
q ogden, Charles F. Brown. Charles Stewart
Dawson. Francis c. Huntington. f.. l.. Win
- f. Henry Cloason Thonas Y.
Cu.opi ~ - rdnS,nd T. paSiias waItor n
huLnt.'', ~, % irhoahar 'Tbaron q s,rono
I 1sEioi, az " ,,dara. Fdr,ard Nttohen
Imam, Imam - Tiison chorIes peabodv
William ~ wilson. onarleS a. $1,000 A.
William Mltcheii' James tfore hins Na'i - No
Gersdorn, Holman Muller. Arthur H. Mas
ten William A. Jenner. lawrence T. seN-
ton. William w. Hoppln. William Rand. Jr,
George Zabriske
tn ro,it,o, for tho snacial meetino ia a
ne pe'i'io" iOi '"0 ePeo'''- -
loIo"s' .,,o
Sues htouneH sg'' ~ ~, ~ V,,o VIZ.
siu,,o"u % tbo nndersi gned nembers Of the
IsstnHciation 81 the Bar the city OF New York.
A hereby request YOU 10 call a special meet
ing Of the association for the eth day OF
January. 1905. for the purpose OF considering
what action II any should De taken o} WIS
assofau00n VI feHHrG u n s4 sro ~ rho snnreme
S u.s. ~ nc State of New York
noted Neu, Work Ian 10 zoos
Lusten q For. one of the sieners. said
&c nigbt 10 n rennrtar who questioned
-.
"a n the meta OF Mr.. Justice Hooker
,hora Ia No room for question. They are
sJn,itted We are confronted with the
Question Shall We hold those acts up to
H., nvbi;c indignation or shall we. by our
siIence anprove them? There il no middle
+r,,,nj Ne either nust nv action throw
e,,r ,.aigbt toward the condemnation and
s,n,,reesion of such acts on the part Of the
9nG;niarv or wa must by our fnaction do
a., tbot much toward stimulating and
9.noc,,raging their renet;tion.
-Tbe State Bar Association found tho
<,o,s hut alec found itself with no higher
stonGord Of tho nronrieties than that by
which Mr.. Justice Hooker himself measures
lie conduct That association said practi-
caiIv iust this II said. We do not mind
~ sort ~ thing in n Judge What more
oan,yo,, e1nect Of n Judge than that he use
lie infuence ms Judge Hooker used hist
.Tha situation is regarded by many
,,o,nbers Of the New York bar. and am
snong them as very grave. 1t is felt that
~ ;nsfica 70 tho bench as we'll as the bar
Nj Justice Hooker must not be permitted
70 be brushed aside. notwithstanding this
strange attitude OF the State Bar Associ-
alton as represanted on the face of tho
record nv ia official action And this is
s,,-,ng no,hinq OF the great danger to the
nublic Of such judicial acts being con-
doned-yes virtually approved by tho
State Rsr Association
sNr Justice Hooker may be called upon
~ SIT as a Chancellor. He NAV be called
10 mas upon questions OF equity
-unon questions involving not ONLY the
hard rules az the common law, but invov-
iny the conscienca ns we'll To what
are litigants to appeal when they appeal
TO the COINCIDENCE of Mr.. Justice Hooker,