Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1910-03-12
President of Illinois University Takes
the Noted Jurist to
Task.
Kentucky Educators Enter Earnest
Protest Against His Pet
Measure.
SON DEFENDS HIS FATHER

The world seems daft on the mat
ter of pensions and on bonuses foi
universities and colleges. 1t devel
ops that Justice Harlan, of the
United States Supreme Court, has
been dabbling in the university mat
ter. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
1t is not often that n Justice oil
the Supreme Court of the United
States is sharply and publicly criti
cised before a committee of Con
gress. Yet that is just what hap
pened today when Edmund j. James
President of the University OF
Illinois, took Justice Harlan, of the
highest court in the land to task for
his activities in urging upon the
House Committee on Agriculture the
passage of the Boutelle bill, extend
ing the Morrill, act to the District OF
Columbia ana naming George Wash
lington University as the medium
through which the funds are ex-
pended.
AT the hearing given by this com
mittee December 10. 1902" said DR..
James, 81 noticed that Justice
Harlan, of the Supreme Court of the
United States, argued for this bill.
~ | am correctly Informed, Justice
Harlan has been on the payroll of
the George Washington University
for many years at a salary of from
81 900 to $4,000 per year
ut does not seem to me that il is
quite the proper thing for a Justice
of the Supreme Court to urge upon
the Congress, among whose members
are many men who practice in his
court and may be beholden to him
for fayors, that they should make
appropriations for the benefit of a
private institution on whose payroll
the said Justice has been for the
better part of a generation"
In answer to DR.. James suggestion
that Justice Harlan was on the paw
roll of the university and, that his
advocacy of the bill must therefore
be discounted because of the posi-
bility of the reduction in his salary
in case the bill was not passed.
Justice Harlan's son, DR.. r. ID. Har-
Ian, defended his father against the
attack, saying:
1t is doubtless not worth while
before any committee of Congress to
make the slightest reply to the
cheap fling at my honored father
which President James has Just. per-
mitted himself to make. Most of this
committee were well aware of the
fact that for twenty years he had
been teacher of constitutional law
at the George Washington Univer-
sity.
THAT is matter of common
knowledge in the city. But as he is
now approaching his four-score
years in the District, during which
he has come in close contact with
its young men, do not suppose
there was very much doubt in the
minds of the committee as to the
sincerity of his appeal in behalf of
the only feasible plan in sight for
granting to the young men of the
District the same privileges that are
now given TO the alien races Of
Hawaii and Porto Rico His love of
tair play and equal rights and his i'm
terest in young men are too well
known in this community to call for
my further comment upon Or.
James insinuation."
President James X. Patterson. Of |
The University of Kentucky; w. J.
McCcnathy, Principal Louisville Nor
nal School, and President III. II.
cherry, of the Western Kentucky
state Normal School, signed the petit
Jon to Congress protesting against
aid for the George |
University.