Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-30
Maine Man Washington,
D. C., Police Judge,
Ivory J. kImbaN Deals Out
Justice In the Capital
Maine Senators Glossy Watching
The Tariff Revision.

Washington, D. c., June 29.-(Spe-
ciaD.--A veteran judge. In whom Maine
people have an interest is rounding out
20-year period of service here in
Washington He is Police Court Judge
Ivory J. Kimball, who started life up
in Jay, Me-. and has become not only
a very representative citizen of the
National Capital, but very much of an
institution here in the contest against
the lower classes of lawbreakers.
He came to Washington by the In
diana route. having resided in that
state number of years, where ne
gained the friendship of the late Ben
jamin Harrison Washington is the
largest Negro city in the world, and
naturally it's 10000 Negro population
composed in considerable part of poor
and uneducated Negroes, furnish many
cases for the police and frequent the
police court in large numbers. 1t is
rather unusual that the judge most
skilled in handling such cases should
be Yankee born, for it is often claimed
and with some foundation, that the
Southern people know better than any
other people how to deal with the Ne
grocs and command their respect.
Judge Kimball is stern in dealing out
justice to the colored folks. who fall
out with the police, but his justice is
tempered with mercy. Every four years
when his term as judge expires,
cotcrie of Negro lawyers. who do not
succeed in getting their clients dis
charged in his court, start Il campaign
against him. But these campaigns seem
to entrench Judge Kimball in the re-
gard of the men who are occupying the
White House and he comes off with a
denomination so easily that it has come
almost mcnotonous. However, that is
because he is conscientious man in
the discharge of his duties and also a
just man. He is a Christian man and
exemplfies his Christianity from the
bench. The petty lawbreakers of the
colored race in Washington fear him
and because they fear him they would
prefer some more lenicnt Judge In his
place.
His position affords him a great OPP
pOrtunity to serve the community we'll
and because this former Maine man
has not fallen short of the requirements
he is highly regarded-so highly re-
garded that no President would care to
designate any other citizen to take up
Judge Kimball's work. He is probably
the best known police court Judge of
the better class in the United States.
Judge Kilnball has taken quite an
active part in Grand Army circles in
the District. He had an honorable rec
ord as 9 soldier in the Civil War Here
in Washington he has served on a
number of committees that have had
to look after the matter of employment
fer the old soldiers in government de-
partments. In that line of activity he
has been associated much with Thorn
as S. Hopkins. a former commander
of the Department of the Potomac,
who OWNS the ancestral acres at Read
field. Me, whittier he goes every
spring to farm it for a few weeks.
Judge kimball has many friends back
in Maine, although in later years he
has not often returned there.
Senator Hale has had hard fight all
along the line over the duties on pulp
and paper. Just when the tariff bill
was being concluded as far as the
schedules were concerned, Senator
Norris Brown of Nebraska, a treeless
state. where the newspapers are clam
orirg for the lowest possible duties in
the belief that it will mean cheaper pa
per, came forward with an amendment
tn put mechanically ground wood pulp
actually upon the free list That goes
considerably farther than the House
provision, which would make pulp free
only when certain duties are removed
by ether countries. The Brown amend
ments are numerous and extend
through the pulp and print paper list.
The Washington weather is so sultry
and Senator Brown was so pestiverous
that it was thought best to yield to his
demands to the extent of incorporating
the amendments in the bill, but it is
understood that they will be dropped
out when the bill is in conference.
Senator Hale will be able to look af-
ter those items personally, as a men,
Der of the confereace 1t is a pretty
safe statement tha6,a he will get the
pulp and paper duties in fairly salts
factory shape for the Maine Industries.
The opposition, however. has been
much stronger and much more aggrcs-
sive than it was expected to be and If
the Maine senator had not been or
guard as a member of the finance COM
mittee it is hard to tell what might
have happened.
The Maine contingent at the Capitol
is having sultry time. closing out the
month of June The senator's, of
course, are having the worst Of it, for
they put in long days ever "a hours,
except Sunday. The day had been be-
ginning at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
and ending at o'clock at night but
this week it is to begin at 10 o'clock in
the morning and end about 10 o'clock at
right for the Senate is having night
sessions.
Every few days Senator Frye gets
whack with the Senate gavel while
Vice President Sherman goes out to
play golf with President Taft and
somehow or other he manages to boost
the tariff bill along several spaces
That Is because he knows how to hus-
lie the Senate along to a vote and how
to discourage wrangling and debating
There is little prospect that the
Maine members will he back in their
homes before the end of July Sena-
tors Hale and E>rvo think IL uiII toLo