Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-03
WILSON FAILS TO GET
LEGISLATORS IN LINE


posing forces in the Democratic party
or not on any basis remains to be
seen, but advocates Of the McDer-
mott jury bill, which provides that
the people decide by their votes
whether they want judge-made juries
or to have the sheriff draw juries
under restrictions. claim to have made
sufficient converts to insure it's pas
sage by both Houses. They say that
If the bill is not adopted in its COM
plete form, its provisions by which
the sheriff. with proper safeguards,
may draw juries viii be Incorporated
in new bill and passed.
chaneelIor's Jury.
On the other hand number of
Assemblymen who favor the idea Of
having the chancellor select the
! juries' claim that plan may be adopt
ed and some of them say that there
may be provision for a commission
of which the sheriff and the vice.
chancellors would be members. Men
who favor the idea of having the
chancellor appoint commissions claim
| that plan will be adopted, possibly
with the provision that the sheriff
be a member of the commission.
without any definite plan having
been agreed upon, except that of a
! chancellor and sheriff drawn jury
adopted at the second conference from
which Assemblymen were excluded
or any votes being cast the conferees
agreed TO adjourn until 2:30 p. m.
next Monday, at the State House. In
any event it is certain that judge
made juries will not be forced upon
the people. Even Senator Davis, Will
son majority leader in the Senate,
admitted that his side would have to
accept a compromise, While Judge
dudspeth went SO iai dS W say thai
no courts Whicn nave peei. ineA s 1870
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Fielder and Wittpenh'
| Although Mayor Wittpenn did SIT
with Governor Fielder in the CONFER
ence with the President, the greeting
which Mr.. Wilson gave the Mayor
| was noticeably less cordial when ne
arrived here than that he accordeo
to Governor Fielder.
One of the features OF the CONFER
ence was Assemblyman McDer-
motifs fruitless endeavor to nave the
President either criticise MS Dill OF
LAM ,,, e', Aetas 49, conference Mr..
SIonarn, or had this. 10 saw; Il called
| precedent Wilson'S attention to the
! faot that the nlatform of 1911 specific
| OIL, declared against leaving the
nowar of drawing juries with the
| ebariffs ana that the plank of 1912
was an express recession from that
80 1o11 He would give no specific
onswar to this and listened without
rerlvine He evidently objected to
beine catechised
81 do not concede the right of the
President or any other man to criti-
else me for any action to the people
who have trusted me unless he Is
willing to discuss the reasons Of his
criticism. The people of the State
will also observe the significance of
the fact that the Wittpenn Assembly
men who were supposed to run with
the countenance of the President had
specifically declared against giving
+his nowar to the courts. It seems
something more than a coincidence
| that the platform of which President
Wilson approved left 1t open to the
wittpenn men to formulate this plan.
- c.,
Cons''u'o
| "An l have SAID with respect 70
Mr.. Wilson's leadership on jury re-
form applies even more enectuaiiy
to the constitutional convention ques-
ton. Here we ind the senators VINO
were conspicuous in defeating this
bill, going before the people ana say
ing they did not understand this
plank. Whose leadership is TO blame
for this conclusion? If the Demo
cratic party finds itself unable 10
| unite on inS'iou .s ~