New-York tribune., 1905-01-18
LINDSAY TO STATE BAR. |
R. L. Hand and Simon Fleischmann
Also Speak.


citation tonight rounded out the first day Of Its
twenty-eighth annual meeting. with reception at
the Fort Orange Club in honor of William Lindsay,
OF New-York City, formerly United States Senator
from Kentucky and later chief judge of the high
est court OF that State. Mr.. Lindsay was the
speaker tonight the session of the association
held in the Assembly chamber, which was attended
hy representative gathering of Albany people and
OF lawyers from all parts of the State.
The association elected the following officers:
President, Richard L. Hand. of Elizabethtown; vice
presidents Cephas Brainerd. of New-York James
Mckeen. OF Brooklyn: William P. Rudd. of Albany;
Edgar T. Bracket, of Saratoga; Edwin Noting
man, or Syracuse; Frederick Collin of Elrnira; John
Van Voorhis of Rochester. and John Cunneen OF
bunalo; secretary Frederick E. Wadhams, OF AL
bany; treasurer Albert Hessberg. of Albany.
Simon Fleschmann. of Buffalo addressed the asso-
ciation on the subject Bar and Bench" relating
especially TO the influence OF the bar upon judicial
appointments and nominations. He said;
II appears that communities in proportion in
nicos 'eg & are new and undeveloPed are stu sns
+hd no they nave often anomaously concluded tnat
by second or third class lawyer than by first
fbe class awyer and in nation where the people are
orally succeeded in carrying out this idea Law
judge, among other things should be a first class
lawyer, and they also feel that they on the
number for the judicial position. than lay
At the afternoon session President Hand made
his annual address His subject professional
Responsibility" In his Introductory remarks he
paid tribute to the loftiness of the law and the
unselshness OF the lawyer. and pointed out that
out of the twenty-five men who had occupied the
Presidential chair twenty were taught in the law,
and no less than twenty-five Of the thirty-two Gov
ernors Of the Empire State members of the
bar. While admitting that there were undesirable
men in the profession he contended that unsefsh
regard for the welfare OF others the character
istio Of the true lawyer. In speaking of the
derful progress of the country he said that the
forces Of greed and pride often and too
widely supreme in private and public life TO allow
the country TO reach its highest ideals
Charles E. Hughes. OF New-York spoke on Ar
rest and Imprisonment Civil Process" and
Adrian H Joline of New-Yor6, discussed Martin
Van Buren the Lawyer Tonight ex-senator Will
lam Lindsay. formerly of Kentucky, now of New
York City. delivered the annual address in the AS
sembly chamber Constitutional Relations Of
the General Government 10 the Governments Of the
States Composing the Federal Union" He said
in part:
Is the United States of America a nation? Are
plural or singular? The two propositions involved
IN these inquiries have been the subject of pro
longed ingenious and apparently inexhaustibe dis
affirmative, and each sometimes in the negative.
but each answer when given is subject to ma
The people Of the United States have always had
have. Until the end t of time to deal with the task
Of defining the constitutional relations Of the fed
eral government with the governments of the in
dividual States which compose the American Union.
interest TO all and of vital as well OF practical
administration and preservation of our dual system
They are of exceptional Importance, and the sub
ject Of exceptional interest at this time when 1t is
being gravey claimed that problems heretofore re
garded domestic in their character. and clearly
within the reserved powers of the States, have
interest demands except by the intervention Of the
federal government and the use of its strong arm,
and therefore that IL has become necessary that
eu1 end bshed in the application of remedies
been
or conceded the federal government has authority
| that government without the exercise Of powers
which haye IN She IN the States to the exTson
| Of any superior or even concurrent authority:
power resort be had to constitutional amend
ment or to the application OF more ioeTal rules ESQ OF
liberty apply. in their efforts 10 discover
| stituton. The courts have no concern with the
| Constitution except TO discover It's meaning ana
10 apply that meaning to the questions that IN the
progress OF events come before them for adjudica-
It may be that the advances in the use and appIi
cation Of steam and electricity have brought about
sfactorily control and that the successfuI dena4
eraI government cannot Intervene for the relief OF
the general public, may leave that public without
such be he case we have reached the point at
| which there should be redistribution OF powers
between the States and the general government.
and possibly the grant by the people OF PEWers
In the sphere Of it's delegated authority the su-
oI me OIi'G. 5 , ~ S+9tss IbeGr
Jurisdiction is absolute as II was before the
federal Constitution was adopted Wnlle aisPuteo P
claims to superior Jurisdiction have sometimes
threatened the perpetuity of our institutions in the
end each controversy has eventually reached a
conclusion. tending to support and perpetuate,
rather than destroy impair. the relations es-
tablished when the dual government, under which
we have lived for more than hundred years. was
called into existence.
Chief Judge Cullen of the Court Of Appeals.
tertained Mr. Lindsay at dinner tonight The
judges of the Court Of Appeals and prominent mem
bers Of the association were also Judge Cullen's
guests After the address in the Assembly Chamber
Mr. Lindsay was entertained at the Fort Orange
Club.