The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-11
Satterthwaite, Editor, Goes
After Lawyers.
On Account of That "Pure''
Advertising Bill.
WANTS PURE" LEGAL ADVICE
Penalty for Lawyer Who Pleads
Case for Guilty Man.
Ii Attorney Misleads Court He
Must Go to Jail.

4 Joe Satterthwaite, editor and MEM
Der of the house from Butler county
!. would get even with the lawyer mem
bers of the legislature for urging the
passage of that fake advertising Dill
| Now Satterthwaite will introduce a
pure legal advice bill for the benefit
of the interpreters Of the Kansas
| statutes.
The member from Butler county, who
edits the we'll known and widely quo
ted Douglass Tribune when he is not
| helping to make law, wants to square
| things with the lawyers and he ism
ashamed of the fact. So he will this
week introduce a bill that will compel
| a lawyer to give only safe, sane and
| Judgment proof legal advice. That ism
| all. The lawyers provided in their news
paper bill that a publisher was respon-
sibIe if a fake advertisement appeared
| in tho columns of his paper. And Just
| for that, Satterthwaite will provide IN
| his bill that any lawyer who PLEADS
\ the case of a guilty man, VIII be re-
garded under the law as an accessory
and made punishable the Same as the
culprit.
But s. tterthwaite won't stop even
there. Just to show the lawyer mem
beers that justice works several diff
ferent ways, he will provide that any
attorney shall be bound by his state
ments in open court. Thus any at
torney who puts the reverse English
on his Interpretation of the statutes
and nisleads the court, viii be guilty
of a. 1nisdemeanor and must go to jail
to think over his hasty actions Ana
again. a lawyer who juggles the tes-
tinrOny in his arguments to a court
or Jury, shall be held responsible. For
a second offense Of this character, the
court may cancel the lawyers sheep
skin permission to practice. 1ntimidat-
ing a witness, compelling q witness to
similar proceedings are all ofenses to
which Satterthwaite would make the
attorneys atone to the court.
And all, Satterthwaite admits, be-
causa the lawyers have helped to put
ban on the Kansas newspaper bust
ness.
Four OF the big Democratic party
pledges are going to conference this
week because of the inability Of the
two branches of the legislature to
agree on the provisions to be written
in these platform promises. These
measures to be fought out by the con-
ference committees include the initia-
tive and referendum, the recall, the bill
providing for the state publication or
school textbooks and the MaSsachuS-
etts ballot law.
When the house and senate took
hold of these party promises. they in
jected amendments which did not meet
with the approval of the opposite
house. Therefore both the house and
the senate have their own measures,
but there are conflicting provisions in
the individual bills and the trouble
must be adjusted in the meetings of
the conference committees.
The, first conference request came
from the senate Monday when that
fnY-
committee to fight out the provisions
of the Massachusetts, ballot law. There
was q Joker in the conference request,
which provided for an equal number
of conferees from each house. So the
house held strictly to the old rule and
insisted on a three to two apportion-
ment of conferees before acceding to
the senate demand. That protected
the house against future embarraSS-
ment and gave representation more
nearly equal in proportion to the MEM
bersf1ip of the two houses. Now con-
ference committees are to be appoint
ed to fight out the initiative and refer
endum, the recall and the bill providing
for the state publication of school text
books.
Hamm of Allen is the real true
friend of the prohibitory law in the
1913 legislature. The lola man has
devoted most of his time since the
holes in the liquor law which, in his
opinion. will stand repairs. He has |
full half dozen bills amending the laws
already on the statute books and he
has pleaded long and ardently Tor
their passage.
While the house was working under |
general orders Monday afternoon, one /
of Ham--1's pets got tangled in the leg |
speaker pro tenn, didn't hesitate to tell |
Harnrn that his bill was vicious and ,
that it ought to be amputated just .
below the ~nacting clause But Hamm |
insisted it should be passed and the !
house put its approval on the bill and /
passed it on to third reading. This is !
the new and latest offering of the AL |
len county member:
THAT If two or more persons vol
UNFAIRLY meet and contribute TO a fund
with which to purchase Intoxicating
liquors and further meet at a certain
place and there drink such intoxicat- 4
ing liquors as u beverage, such per
sons shall be deemed guilty of a mis- /
deneanor and upon conviction shall !
be punished by a fine of not less than
$500 nor more than $500 and by i'm
in the county jail for not
less than so days nor more than six I
months"
The judiciary committee did full
days work Monday. 1t acted on 80
bills. OF this number, it killed just
26. recommended two bills for passage
and sent back to the house two bills
on which were attached no recon-
1t was one of the biggest
slaughters since the ses
sion opened and members who saw
their pets sacrificed vowed that the l
committee took a pot shot at the en-
tire assignment.
After an hour in which speeches u
flowed like the waters down from
Lodore, the house Monday afternoon
for passage the Carroll il
bill compelling the old soldiers at Fort
Leavenworth to send their ballots to II
their respective counties to be count Il
ed. Carroll and Orr fought off the