The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-06
walton MOORE is
SPECIAL counsel
.----.
Prominent Virginia Lawyer Spc-
cial Attorney for Many Rail
roads.
REPRESENTS ALL IN SOUTH.
Development of Interstate Com
,nerce Law Demands Spe-
cialists on Rates.
REPRESENTS ALL IN SOUTH
rlmeg.pispatch Bureau.

Washington. d. G.. Sept. .. 1907.
Hon. n. Walton Moore. OF Fairfax has
been employed in connection with
Judge Ed. Baxter. OF Nashville, Tenn,
as assistant special counsel to repre-
Commission, and In resulting litigation
In the Federal courts. nearly all the
railway companies operating In the
territory south of the Potomac and
Ohio and east Of the Mississippi. The
lines include the Illinois Central. the
Southern, the Atlantic Coast Line. the
seaboard Air Line, the Norfolk and
Western and other lines. Judge Bax-
ter's Office Is in Nashville and Mr..
Moore has already taken an office in
this city in the Metropolitan Bank
building.
This does not mean that am leav-
ing Virginia" said Mr.. Moore to-day.
while 1 have an Office here shall
keep up my practice In Virginia and
maintain my active connection with
the firm of Moore, Barbour and Keith.
at Fairfax, composed OF Messrs. John
S. Barbour, Thomas r. Keith and my
self
He Ii Out Of Politics.
Mr.. Moore will also continue to re-
side at Fairfax, spending his days In
Washington and sleeping in Fairfax,
which has become a suburb of Wash
ington since the completion of the
trolley line from the Aqueduct Bridge
into the town.
The news OF Mr.. Moore's new con-
nection will be hailed with pleasure
Eighth Virginia District. since 1t Is
now assured that he will not be
candidate for political honors. at least
not ut en- carly day. He served with
distinction as a member of the Vir.
ginia Senate and the Constitutional
Convention, and could have been the
successor OF Hon. John F. Rixey In
Congress had he chosen to be diverted
from the practice of his profession.
He is recognized as one Of the ablest
members OF the bar In Virginia. and
Is one of the comparatively small class
Of lawyers who achieved a reputation
rs practitioners of both criminal and
corporation law. In this new and wider
field, Mr.. Moore will add to his repu-
tation as LAWYER. and enter upon a
practice which will be more or less
national In character
The enactment of the law regulating
railway charges Is having the effect.
which Is becoming more manifest
every month, of creating a more or
less new field for the practice OF law.
Under the old act creating the Inter
before the commission was not ex-
tensive. The law did not give the
commission the power to inforce its
decisions regarding rates, and the rail-
roads fought cases before IL In more
or less of perfunctory manner. Judge
Baxter represented the roads named
above in all cases before the commits
sion, and did not realize, nor did his
clients. the need of much help in
doing so.
New Field of Law.
But the enactment last year Of the
law greatly extending the powers OF
the commission, and clothing 1t with
authority to enforce the orders 1t had
for nineteen years been authorized to
make. at once clothed 1t with much
more dignity and added immea surably
to its Importance. Since the commits
sion has had these increased powers
the hearing of every case against
railroad has seen able counsel at the
bar OF the commission, contesting
every point with energy and spirit
The result is that practice of Inter
state commerce law" is developing into
specially, and a mass of law is being
built up, governing the peculiar sub
jects with which the commission has
to deal. This specialization of inter-
state commerce law promises to create
n class of lawyers as distinct as patent
lawyers.
1t is field which must prove at
tractive. since the lawyer who enters
1t has to do only with large questions.
The subject matter of single case
may involve only a difference of less
than penny in the rate between Osh-
kosh and Kalamazoo, and Kalamazoo
and some other similarly outlandish as
we'll equidistant place, but the settle
ment of the rate may finally involve
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars. in
deciding whether the hundreds of thou
sands shall be turned in to the railway