The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-18
Congress Backs Up Donovan And CuIIop In Judgesmp Fight Clause Remains Part of JudgeShip Resolution Des- pIte CIaytOn's Efforts Text of Donovan's Address As Recorded in the Congress
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tBy Our Staff correspondent.)

(By Our Staff Correspondent
 Washington, July 18.-At the ses-
 sion of the House held Tuesday Rep
 resentative Jeremiah Donovan of Con
 necticut and Judge William Allen Gull
 1op, representative from Indiana led
 the fight against the creation of an
 extra judgeship for the Fourth Circuit
 of PennsyIvania~ Representative Gull
 lop has amended the bill as it came from the Senate to require the Presi-
 dent upon making appointments of judges to make public the names of the persons endorsing the judge. This is in pursuance with a measure in troduced in the House, and defeated in the Senate at the last Congress.
 The publicity clause, and commen- dalton of the Democratic congress men. was made a part of the declara- ton of principles in the last Demo cratic national platform. Yesterday Chairman Clayton moved that the Gull Top amendment be struck out. The motion was lost by a vote of 88 and 49 ayes. victory for Representative Donovan.
 As there has been an effort made with the reactionary class to misquote MT. Donovan and distort his words 1 his speech as reported upon the floor of the House and published in the 1 Record without editing as as follows: l
 s'Mr. Speaker, it strikes me that where we have so many very able lawyers here, capable to state the facts, in this particular case to mis- | represent it is not according to our principles. The distinguished gentle 1 man from Pennsylvania, MT. PaInaer) | spoke here as if the position in ques-I ton was one of importance. It is the 1 minor court in the United States. It 1 is as the petit justice of the peace is l to the higher courts in the States practically of mo- importance. The holder Of the position of judge inetafsi court passes upon laws and acts of I your Congress. For instance, 1t passes upon statute made crimes, not crimes I at common law. That is the business l of the court in the main. There is no | suffering (because of a lack of judges0 l except perchance in the cases of those 1 who are out on bail, in that they are | not brought to trial for possibly a l week or two or a month or two later. l The crimes punished by this court | consist of attractions of the internal | revenue laws in regard to tobacco and whiskey and in regard to mail mat ters-obscene literature. The mum Der | of cases. taken there that require abil- ity, that require knowledge of the l law, is not per cent; and yet we are | giving to whoever occupies that posi- | ton practically quarter of a million dollars if he lives the natural life of
 man Just think of it: $7,OOO a year for life.
 .'You can see. right away that it | works no harm to have one of these jobs vacant, because when those of fees are vacant foT a year no one F knows it except someone who has 8 | friend that he wants to enjoy that | have cases where there is a vacancy for a year, and the dfsting guished | chairman of the Judiciary committee, one of the ablest men of our country, knows of that vacancy for months, and great lawyer that he is, knowingt that the country is not suffering on account of the vacancy, he does not give it the slightest interest whatever. That is picture of a 1awmaking body, great lawyers, and what a pitt full picture it is.
 e'One word in regard to the ques- ton of publicity. Of course in the gentleman S state of Alabama nothing goes wrong. They can not go wrong where the gentleman resides but in other states theyRdo have judges that do things that are wrong, and these judges ought to be in prison instead of on the bench, and these judges are by men who ought to be in prison instead of at large. Publicity would aid us to know who is interested in the appointment of judges.) The public pays the salary. 1 The public raises the money, and the least they are entitled to is to know the sponsors of these judges. If the distinguished gentleman from Alabama had in his state a crew of judges whose only duty to perform was to issue injunctions and restraining oth- CTS in order that the public might be p1ucked, how long would he ac- quiesce in such a condition or stand for the crowd that benefited by these orders and injunctions who were the sponsors of the judges-created them so to speak. Nobody would stand for that.
 .sNo doubt the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Ndr. Pal1ner) and the gentleman from Alabama (N1r. Clay ton) when this matter (pubncity in presidential. appointments) came up before the other Congress voted for these resolutions, no matter what re- 1uires them now to reverse themselves and to vote against them If you wish to do your duty to mankind and to your oaths, obey the mandate of your convention at Baltimore, the first article of which is economy in public expense-that labor might be lightly burdened. Does it affect the distin- guished gentleman from Alabama: The platform pledge at Balttcore goes in the waste basket as rubbish. Thank you gentlemen"