The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-04
LORRIN ANDREWS
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,anothar was what was the doctrine of
ley pres Judge r.. n. Lamme who is
| one 0f th, oldest lawyers ,ut there
land who had been one of the leading
attorneys of Southern California. haze
known Wiley while the latter was at
| Manila and had caused such trouble
! by causing the arrest of various people.
/ Lammo sized up the proposition before
us right away for when he came to the
question about cy pres. ne said to- Will
| hoy BY the way judge, i'm giving this
examination ! wish that you would
Isuell correctly. you have misspcIed this
word. You should have added another
s.. That would spell cypress, a tree,
| that is used for funerals as ! Judge that
/ this examination is to- be a funeral for
most of us Well that made Wiley
| mad at once. He announced that we
could not retain our questions after we
/ had submitted our replies i'm the eXa-
mination. / asked that we might do
| so, but he declared that the questions
were private. Several days later we
went before his clerk and were inform
/ ed that none of us. with one exception,
/ an old deaf man who had formerly been
the American Consul General Mr.Jer-
megen had passed the examination and
so could not be admitted to practice.
/ The entire proceeding was so ridiculous,
that we treated it much as joke. l
asked that I might be permitted to see
my papers in order to learn where 1
had made the mistakes. He replied
L 9 hRz yr4RT
private. subsequently I learned that
he said that he had wanted me to pass
but / had been the lowest of the entire
crowd Wiley said that we did not
know law, that we were exceedingly
rusty.
His action caused a great deal Of
criticism. The English papers over
there, who do not like us at all, de-
= nounced his action as outrageous. 1
, am inclined to think that he has re-
pented of his action and is beginning to
fear that he stirred up more trouble
, than he expected Certainly do not
believe that the administration at
E Washington would stand for any such
e methods He could have done it i'm
2 an entirely different way, that could
have been just as effective. But I pre-
sumo he thought that he was so far
away that he could act much as he
chose In fact his conduct reminded
me considerably of the way that Judge
Humphreys tried to act after his APP
! .pointment to the Hawaiian bench.
! THE situation over there means sim
ply that we will not practice i'm his
court. We have been admitted to prac-
: tice in the American consular court and
in the foreign courts. The bulk OF
our business is done in the foreign
courts, so that his action in debarring
US from practicing before him, will not
have any very serious effect. The most
i |disagreeable feature was perhaps, the
. humiliation Of being told that we could
l not pass the examination. We told
= him when he called us up, that we had
casese before his court, but he replied
that that made no difference.
"The American consular court is the
S first court there and from that court
\ appeals are taken to Wilhey's court
From his court the appeals go to the
Ninth Circuit in California. l am now
g on my way to try such a case before
c that court. His action does not i'm the
. least, prevent our pracucing. 1t mere
f ly keeps us from taking cases to his
court. That action will probably mean
= that cases viii be settled by arbitration
. rather than that they will be taken into
his courts. 1t is easy for the Ameri-
can attorneys to practice in the foreign
courts but the foreign attorneys are not
> as yet well acquainted with our prac-
tice.
Il can not say what is to be done in
regard to Whitley. l am not bothering
about him and l do not think that any
, thing is being done to take the matter
to Washington. Possibly some action
0 may be taken. Willie Heen was the
only American attorney who did not go
|. lup before I'm to take the examination"
you see Whitley was Attorney Cen
) eral in tho Philippines when Taft was
0 out there. He did all sorts of things
while he was there. But after Taft left
and was no longer there to stand for
n what he did, Wiley couldn't stay there
0 any longer, and so he went back to the
states and demanded something else
4 of the administration. 1t just happen
: ed that this new court had been es-
q tablished and Taft got him appointed
a judge OF it,"
I Andrews win be absent several