The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-10-13


ed by this department in connection
with the Tax Commissioner. but paid
direct to the sheriffs, the following:
Three Bank Cases in Federal
) Nourt - ..... $l1,O2l. go
Bank v. Dunkle, mandamuS,
Sup. Ct. of App, (approxi-
:. mately) ................ 100000
.... g.. $16,021.96
Grand total collected for the *
Two years ...... =. $3b, $685.
A sum largely in excess Of the
amount appropriated for the support
| of this department.
Under Democratic laws the Attor-
ney General received all fees of the
Office. Under Republican laws all
| fees of the Office are turned into the
State Treasury. Under Democratic
| administrations the Attorney General
was not required to reside at the seat
and attended. to his general law prac-
| tice. Under the present administra-
ton he is required to reside at the
seat; of government and his entire
time taken up with official duties per-
tanning to his Office. New duties and
more labor have been added to this
| department by recent Legislation.
Such, for instance, as the law Of 1909
reorganizing this department., the
state board of health law as amended,
| the pharmacy law as amended, the
mining laws as amended, the new
| school law, etc.
| During Governor MacCorkle's ad-
ministration the Attorney GeneralIhad
only once case in the Supreme Court
of the United States, THE Maryland
| RnInn2rV tr oh
was assisted by special counsel The
Attorney: General under this admins
| tration: In two years of his term. has
Irrigated and is litigating eight cases
in that court; and all of them, without
assistance, except the Maryland
Boundary and the Virginia Debt cases.
In all of these eight cases, grave and
important constitutional questions are
involved, and the cases are of great
Importance to the peQpls These
cases alone have required :the closest
application and paintalking toll on the
part of the Attorney General. .
Unjustified Democratic criticism has
been directed at the Attorney General
because Hon. George E. Price was al
| lowed $4,000 at the last session Of the
Legislature for his services in the
Maryland Boundary case Senator
Price was employed by a Democratic
governor to assist Democratic At
torney General, and has been contin-
ued as special counsel in that case for
the eighteen years it has been pend
ing, and was paid $4,000 by the legis-
lature of 1894-5, during Governor
| MacCorkfe's Democratic-ad ministra.
ton. 1t was proper Senator Price
should be continued i'm the case until
ITS close and to be paid for his SER
vices, for such services have been ef-
hcient; but it remained for the pres.
ent: Attorney General to appear before
the United States Supreme Court to
move for an early hearing of the case,
which was granted, and the case
pushed to a speedy and successful
! termination, thus. cutting off further
! appropriations for special counsel.
1t has been publicly stated by Dem
,ocrats ignorant Of the subject that
Hon William M. o, Dawson is an as.
ststant to the Attorney General
records disclose this to be untrue,
Governor Dawson was employed by
the Board of Public Works as special
counsel in the Virginia Debt suit
alone. He Is no more an assistant in
the attorney generals office than the
law firm of Molohan, McCIimic g.
Matthews, of Charleston, Hon. Charles
e. Hogg, Of Morgantown, and Hon.
John G. Spooner, Of New York City, or
was Hon. John G.. Carlisle, of Wash
mgton City, before his death, who
we're employed as special counsel in
that suit before the present Attorney
General assumed the duties of the Of
nee. And they have all rendered ef-
ticient service to the people. Mollo-
nan, McClintic & Matthews, Dean
tlogg, Senator SDooner and ex-Gover-
| nor Dawson are no more assistants i'm
{ the Attorney Generals Office by reason
| OF their employment in the Virginia
'Oebt suit than were James II. Fergu-
! son, Caleb Bogges, James Morrow. Jr,.
a. |. Boreman, Caldwell & Caldwell. G.,
| &. Watts, w. A. MacCork1e, Alfred
| caldwell, and bSher then Democratic
attorneys employed by Democratic
| governors to. assist Democratic attor-
| neys general under Democratic adj
| mtnistrations See Acts Of the J,egis-
'ature 1875, page go; Acts of 1887,
| pages 25S, 26t, 1853, etc. And no more
than Chiffon, .MacCorIle & Chiffon
who were paid $6.075.85 in a special
ase by reason Of their employment
some years ago
There has been no money spent. or
contracted to be spent, for special
counsel fees for any legal work during
he term of the present attbrney Gen.
'ral, except in the Virginia Debt suit.
which expenditure was authorized by
the Legislature, and all the special
nOrDeol fhproip uyora