Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

American bar does not now command
the confidence, of the people that 1t ala
formerly. He spoke of the cry against
the delays of courts and decisions on
technicalities, and said that those were
some of the reasons for this loss of con-
fidence in the courts and lawyers. tie
pointed to the fact that in 1900 in England
and Wales ninty-five judges had admin
istered justice to the whole population:
but that in Illinois. with popuiatlon Oh
about 3,SCO,C0O persons, 24o judges had
not been sufficient to care for the DOCK
cts He declared that there are enough
judges in the country, and that the ue
lays were not the fault or the Judges
so much as the fault of the lawyers who
use every possible means, through care
lessness or intention, to delay cases. lie
declared that the real trouble lay IN the
archaic pleading and practices in TINS
country. practices which were done away
with fifty years ago in England
Mr. Diemer of the third year law class,
in an address, said that students came to
George Washington University Law
School to do business and deliver the
goods He said that they had no time
for outside activities, such as foot ball,
but they made speciality OF work.
The POSTMASTER was Dean Charles
Noble Gregory of the law school. The
committee in charge of banquet was
Henry c. Jones, chairman; William Van
Week, George w. Dalzell Maurice NJ.
Moore. Arthur II. Deibert, Frank s.
Smith, Walter E. Barton, Harrison B.
McCawley, Paul Anderson, Elton w.
Stanley, Laurence n. Wilson and Elmer
Stewart
Those at the Banquet.
Among those present were: H. X.
Acker. John w. Addison, William M. AL
exander Paul Anderson. S. V. Anderson,
David A. Baer, A. L. Barber. d. c. Bar
tholomew, w. E. Barton. E. F. Baum
gartner, James W. Berry, DR.. Henry G.
Boyer L. S. N, Of the board of trustees;
Harvey C. Bickel. c. c. Billings L. A
Bison. Frank A. Bower. Edwin {. Bran
denburg of the faculty. II. n. Branch
j. ST. c. Brookes, jr; Adds b. Browne
of the board of trustees. Evans Browne.
George B. Buck, A. Buhrman, clerk OF
moot court; Paul Bushnell. Thomas H.
Callan, John w. Calvert, w. Clayton
Church of the faculty, Melville D. Church.
Merrill E. Clark, Alan o. Clephane. wal,
ter c. Clephane of the faculty, Richard
Cobb, secretary of the university; j. M.
Colt. p. F. Colladay. Levi Cooke. II; w.
Coumbe John D. Cox, Joseph w. Cox.
T. l.. Creekmore C. E. Crews, E.. J.
Cumpston. jr.: George w. Dalzell, Arthur
H. Debert, William 1. Denning. c. B.
Des Jardins. R. c. De Wolf, John A
r. H. Duckett. II. E. Durham. John Paul
Earnest of the faculty. T. H: Eickhoh,
H. S, Elkins. w. C.. English, II: En-
lows. F: A. Everts. J. Ralph Fehr. Peter
faculty. D. E. Finley, jr.: S. H: Fischer,
David Fisher, William Fitch. William J.
Father of the board of trustees, Everett
Fraser of the faculty. F. r. Fravel.
J. Holdsworth Gordon. Andrew Jordan
Green. E. l.. Green. Charles Noble Greg
DRY. dean of the law school; William
q. Handy. H. A. Harding. Lauritz e.
Haugen, E. F. Haycraft. Arthur HELEN.
E. Heinrich, Samuel Herrick, George S.
Hill. Thomas S. Hopkins of board of
trustees. Representative r. G. HUMPHREYS,
from Mississippi; w. Y. Humphreys,
Stuart Hunt, j.. A. Ingram. r. K JACK
son. J. P. James. F. r: Jeffrey. j. c.
F. Johnson, from Maine; Ross H. john
son, H. c. Jones of the faculty. Shirley
P. Jones, A. ]. Krause. Harold Keats.
William F. Kelley, jr.. William B. King
r. S. Klein, H. o. Kuntz, w. L. La Fol-
lette jr. Representative j. w. Langley,
from kentucky: John B. Larner. presi-
dent of the board of trustees; j. Wilmer
Latimer of the faculty. l. b. Lazarus. I.
F. Laylin H. Latino Lewis. Henry B. F.
mcfarland of board Of trustees, Horace
G. MacFarland, John S. De Mankowski,
Carl A. Mapes. Thomas r. Marshall. Vice
President of the United States; Repre-
sentative Eben w. Martin. from South
Dakota; R. B. Meckley. Charles H. Mehl. |
Robert G. Merritt. l.. A. G. Miller. Will |
liam F. Miltenberger. Maurice NJ Moore,
Harley l. Mozingo. William NJ. Mulligan,
H. E. Neibling W. l.. Nelis H. T. New
comb, r. l.. Newhouser, E. J. Newmyer, |
Sotorios Nicholson, Theodore w. Noye |
of board of trustees. Clarence E. Os-
bon, A. c. Otto. NJ. NJ. Parker, E. E. |
Parmelee, Chief Justice Stanton j. |
Peelle, Walter S. Penfield. Representa- |,
tive Irwin S. Pepper, from Iowa, |
Arthur Peter. Francis J. Peynado DOM
inican minister to the United States; |
Charles X. Phillips. James F. Pierce, |
Charles H. Potter, Spencer B. Prentiss, !
w. F. Prettyman. F. S. Reese, w. B. |
Rice, j. c. Rogers. c. c. Rose, Guy E. |
Rowland, Samuel Rubenstein, W. W. |
Russell, United States minister to the
Dominican republic; George A. Sanborn |
l.. c. Shantz. James ". Schmied L. l.. |
Schnare, T.. o. Schneider jr., P. j. Shaw,
Randolph G. Shaw, Wallace Shepard A. |
Siegfried. A. r. Simpson. Breedlove
Smith, F. Z. Smith. Frank S. Smith, G.
Walter Smith. II. c. A.. Smith, n. B.