Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-06
Letter from
Big Bud.
Dear PsocEs Of Noxubes-


Judge Whitman was referred tt
the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate. a committee composed
entirely by lawyers. and they re
ported that the bill do not pass
and a motion was at once made
to indefinitely postpone the bill
This cuts off all debate and was
unfair to the opposition, but Sen
ator Price got the floor and sale
he wanted 70 30 on record as en-.
dorsing the resolution. Senator
Burkitt then sent up the follow.
ing resolution. which was signed
by sBurkitt. Carter, Taylor, Spen'
Ger, Price, and Talbot:
I'VE voted against the motion
to, indefinitely postpone the Whit
man. resolution, not because we
believed the Chancellor was gull
ty of corruption, but because we
are convinced that a man who
would give away $4,000 belong
ing to stockholders and deposit
ors, many of: whom are poor peo-
pie, to four men for nine months
service. two of whom could not
command a salary of $4,000 per
month, while the two law firms
participating in the spoliation at
tended to their other business
without interruption, showed an
inexcusable weakness. or a total
disregard for the rights of a
class whom courts of equity are
SUPPOSED to be organized to pro-
tect.,,
Not a lawyer in the Sonate
signed the above. It seems
strange to hne that nearly all the
lawyers, although admitting pub
liely That this fee was grossly ex-
cessiye. would stand by Judge
Whitman when il eamsso adopt,
ing. a resolution Of censure. A,
prominent attorney and an ex-
judge. a great friend of Walter
Prices, said to Walter. 'Don't
vote to ruin Whitman. and Wal
ter said, mo; | can't do that;
Whitman has already ruined him
self, and I must vote for a reso-
luton of censure.' A good many
lawyers admitted they voted
against the resolution because
Whitman had had no trial. We
said that he had not de'ied the
charges, had been before the
Committee of Investigation and
if they really wanted to give him
a trial, all they had to do was to
vote for the resolution to address
him out of, office. and then he
could have a. trial, but they
wouldn't do this. The $4,000
fee was only a partial payment,
but don't expect the Judge will
allow the receivers much more
money and all the rest of the
Judges in the country will sit up
and take notice.
We have introduced a bill in
the House that no man is in con-
tempt of court VINO critlcizes the
court out of its presence. | not
ice in a late paper that President
Taft said, referring to investiga-
'tions Of several Federal judges
now in progress, that it was
b wholesome thing for Congress
to exercise that power and think
it is an admirable thing for these
Judges to understand that they
ylre being investigated" And
'l(,is is also true of our State
!, ddges.
Well, the Senate and the House
have agreed on banking bill
and I think it a splendid bill. but
of course if there are any defects
found in it, they can be corrected
by the next legislature. Eliot
Yates. who seems to be better
posted on banking than most any
other man who had anything to
say on the banking bill. wrote a
letter to Senator Price suggest
ing several amendments. Sena-
tor Kyle, the author of the bill,
said had they bee suggested to
him earlier, he would have tried
to have them adopted. but they
came too late. / told Eliot. early
in the session. that there was no
use fighting the bill, as it was a
foregone conclusion that this bill
with the guarantee feature would /
be adopted and | advised him to
content himself with offering
such amendments as would make
the bill better in his estimation,
] understand that most vt the