The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-29
President Farrar of Ameri-
can Bar Association in Ad-
dress Says Each State
Must Solve 1t Itself.
! DOES NOT APPROVE
OF JUDGES RECALL
He Blames the Corporation
Evil on the People, Say
ing Laws Passed Make the
Condition Possible.
(National News Association

(National News Association
BOSTON, Aug. 29-That the solu.
ton OF the problem of corporation mo-
nopoly" lies in concerted action by the
several states and not in the federal
government was the declaration OF
Judge Edgar ii. Farrar, of New Or
leans, president of the American Bar
association, in his address which open.
ed the thirty-fourth annual convention
OF the association at Huntington hall
today, with leading lawyers from all
parts of the country in attendance.
President Farrar recommended that
the proposition of conference among
the states In the near future be taken
up by the House of Governors,
which assemblies at Spring Lake, N.
j.. on September IL. He dealt with
the corporation problem at great
length, analyzing the present evils
and declaring the people themselves
are to blame. because of the action
of their legislatures in passing laws
making the condition possible.
Speaks Of "Recaii."
In the course of his address, he took
occasion to discourage in no uncertain
terms the growth of the recall" mea.
sure as applied to judges. particularly
in the constitution of Arizona. He de-
clared as the most important act of thu
recent congress the passing of the bill
abolishing the circuit courts. and he
reported on the work of the supreme
court judges toward revising the laws
OF equity procedure.
President Farrar's direct treatment
OF the corporation problem and his
novel suggestion for the remedy of 1t
created stir among the delegates.
He said In part:
Since your last annual meeting the
Sixty-first congress of the United
States held it's last regular session,
and the Sixty.second congress was sit.
ting In extra session when this report
was written.
The regular session has produced
less than q dozen statutes of general
Importance. The most noteworthy OF
these Is the new judicial code which
abolishes the circuit courts. concen.
trates the nisi prius Jurisdiction in the
district courts, and revises. amends
and re-enacts the statutes pertaining
to the judiciary of the United States
To Revise the Rules.
During a visit to Washington Febru.
ary I. took up with Chief Justice
White the question of appointing q
committee to revise the rules of prac.
tice In equity In the Federal courts
and learned that the court had already
considered the matter and had deter
mined to appoint such q committee
Before adjournment the committee was
announced by the court consisting OF
the Chief Justice and Justices Lurton
and Van Devanter. This committee
has issued q circular letter. request
Ing assistance and suggestions from
the members of the Bar, and 1t is to be
hoped that this request will meet with
Q hearty response. The court has
under the statute, the fullest power
to regulate the whole practice in
equity: and we may therefore live in
the just expectation that the labors
OF this committee of distinguished
Judges. aided by the whole Bar. will
result In giving the country a system
that will respond to the demand for
reform In that important branch OF
legal procedure.
Forty.one states, two territories and
three insular possessions have had
legislative sessions this year. AS re
suit of all this legislative activity
more than nine thousand statutes have
been added to the aggregate of the
laws OF our country. Most Of them
are local, trivial and formal. AS an il
lustration Of the manner in which al
Of this legislative activity is regard
ed. one of the vice presidents. in max
ing to me his report for his state, says
"Thank the Lord our Legislature did
not meet this year"
A New Radiealism.
However. there is one strident note
of new radicalism sounded in some
Of this legislation, which must not be
passed unnoticed in an assemblage ol
lawyers. 1t comes from territory
seeking to become a state, and was
Immediately taken up by the grea,
state Of California. | refer to the re
call Of judges by popular vote. Ari
xona has put into her constitution q
clause permitting the unseating of q
judge by vote of the people. and the
legislature of California has proposed
to the people Of that state an amend
ment to her constitution containing q
similar provision. The period Of trans
mission Of this virus from a territor,
to o state has been short Whether
the disease will progress further is tt
be seen.
II 10 difficult for one brought up IL
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