New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
n[NERS SNUB WILLE1'T
croRTES DISGUST THEM.
co,rressman's address 4mases
Members of Queens Bar.

-.--.s.r,ar William Ti!lett- 5r- whose recent
-, against the President in the House Of Rep
.s.iles has by a unanimous vote Of that BODY,
re- s,,,,nred from THE Record" addressed last
s. he Queens County Far Association at its
e ns .ri-d annual dinner in the Hotel Astor, and
onis ..xcz,s+ed the members present with several
SC 5a,shle stories that there general shift
e :. ,he chairs and muttered queries of Where
ne =. rink he is?s' while numerous diners turned
c. c. ns,,s soua-ely upon the speaker.
c,-q down in the elevator member Of the
..-to- -vfo with fifteen twenty of the men
= ,eft the table while the Congressman was
- ~ said -Cne highly complimentary thing
...-t~c TO the Queens County Bar Association
=, ,.s- demonstrated here to-night-nany got
oe a-,1e afr. wiIlett was talking and those who
--s,-o5 gave 10 what he said little attention
,e,,-se kt my table there cries Of Rot
- Rnr-en.' I; IS toe bad that he should have
- ,-v1ted 10 xpeak and thereby cause a most
,lszss1t end 70 Al otherwise unusually enjoyable
s7ering
--es for serious discourse It was then after IL
-,.,- s,6 he WIS the last speaker. The stories
-. ,,,infJess one especially being much that
=, scv,e6 BY his waiting attitude his hesitation at
,,,f7z any other attempt TO please his audience
.,re- which he plunged into the labyrinthine maze
Of another yarn
---1e before whom the Hams case was tried The
= Association held its dinner only a few steps
--a-7 me room in which a similar affairs
80 nv +re Bayside Yacht Club. Of which William
: annis was member
r.s..ce crane took occasion to emphasize his
-. -ars+ive 70 precedent IN law. II the treat
-e-- of which during The Hams trial he drew con-
,5e-ssle comment from his fellow members on the
ee-cb There was no reference 10 the Hams case
,ss- r,zot. ru, the air VAS full OF 1t, was the
-oor, with well known me1 who were connected
v1th IL The justice said
there ere Two kinds Of lawyers and two kinds Of
,,5r-s one class Is coupoSed OF the strict prac-
titl0ners VINO are aaEeTlEg 70 pEeCeois5lL 1Q @ !ns
law = science which should move Forward as
az U-- 5I5ees should give Us workable rules which
,rcui5 beger z present DAY justice. OF course.
rss cannot eEiSiate. but they can act within the
3oFs-s ~ rhe Judge. Precedents may be bad and If
20 1o' sc@ - 1-are5eTiTs have their limitations
-4y1ere are things in law that are not just and
MT good Io- the present day Lawyers can do
-5cf that Judges cannot. There should be in every
hs- association a committee 10 which every law
--rnose1 in the Legislature should be referred
E5sr ne would not have enacted this hodge podge
vhicb e1ery year attacks our practice and our
There should be radical changes in our pro-
oA5ure The day should be past when man ep-
resrs ir court and the Court says 10 him. You
ksve z 7rsr cause buI you have come here the
ronF writ : man should he able TO get TO court
o1ickfy- and get his remedy quickly whether or
moi ne has followed the technicalities Of procedure
c-he- speakers were James " Osborne, Job L.
ye5ges. Thomas P. Sawyer and James W. Covert
among those present were Justices jerks. Hirsch-
bs-r. Maddox. Crane. Kelly. Garrison. Augustus
Vsn Wyck Blacknar. Woodward and Carr. OF the
Euu-erne Court. Ira G. Dsrrin, former District At
,o-1ey Of Queens County; James A Dayton. Law
renee c Cresse-. Borough President of Queens
sns George 2 EazleJor, II, the playwright Nor
rs l. Strauss presided