Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-07-08

mo nroceedino and while 1t is dign1hed IL strlkeS
some people also being aWluiiS 49, naor,b,os -
Every Monday as soon as court asseholoa;
e the custom tn read decisions on cases winch
have been considered and on which tno $3.50
is tn mass Judgment If the decision OF sleaI
case is expected the courtroom always Is cro"ueu
and the members of the bar, newspaper h CO., 60
others who have been present before on I'M
occasions look anXiously to see which Juueo "
to read the important decision. II any one Oh
three or four justices is to read 1t tnere Is ais
tnct sense of disappointment. because nooody
except the reading Judge is likely 10 neai 'no
decision. In other words, some or the JuoSeo vi
the supreme court have such weak voices Cnat
not even the men closest to them can eaten wna'
thew say and everybody must wait until the decl-
sion can be read before knowing what it means
This Inability or perhaps lack of desire on the
part of some of the justices to read out loud IS
great trial to the newspaper correspondents VINO
are anxious to telegraph the news or the declsloh
at the earliest moment possible. There are otner
troubles which beset the correspondents as Well
as those which come from the poor enunciatlon
and the weak voices Of some of the justices.
Legal language is the hardest KIND or language
for the layman to understand, and the result Is
that when the decision is read the first part OF
occasionally makes it seem certain that one side
has won the case while the tail end of the deci-
sion may reverse everything and give the case
to the other side.
There was one striking instance Of this in
great case which was decided three years ago.
The city of Chicago trying to effect changes
in it's street-car system. The street-car compa-
MES held that their franchise good for 100
years and that the city could not GUST them from
any of their privileges under their franchise. The
case went to the Supreme court and was of tre-
mendous interest to all the cities in the United
States Moreover, the speculative interests of
the country were awaiting the decision with the
keenest anxiety and interest, for il it went one
way it meant that certain stocks still would be
of great value and if it went the other way it
means that they would be worth little.
The decision read in the Supreme court
by Judge who had a good voice Everybody
had made up his mind that II the Supreme court
decided that the railroad companies had a hun
dred years franchise they had won the case and
that the city had lost. This was regarded as the
crucial feature of the w hole controversy
The newspaper correspondents from the great
cities were in attendance at the court when the
decision was read and they were ready to
dispatch messengers instantly to the telegraph
office with a brief dispatch saying either THE
companies win," "The city wins" This was
all that was to be sent out at the first instance.
for the situation was understood in every news
paper office in the country and single tip as to
which side would be sufficient to release
long stories of the railroad controversy and other
stories already written of what the victory meant