The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-22
DOES A BALLET NEED INTELLECT,
 ASKS DONOVAN
(speeial to the Farm.er.9

Washington. May 22-'tWhat does a
 bailifr of a United States court do that
 requires intellect? asked Representa-
 tive Donovan of Connecticut in the
 House, Wednesday,. during the debate
 upon the bill calling for a codification
 of the laws, of Representative Mad
 den of Illinois, who was making a
 plea to raise the pay of the bailiffs
 from 8 to $4 a day. It got on the
 nerves of the Connecticut member.
 who is not a lawyer. to hear Madden
 of Illinois. lawyer by profession.
 make the statement that the bailiffs
 had the same duties to perform as the
 narsha1s. He said that the baififfs get only salaries, while the nlarshals get fees for the same work
 MT Donovan declared that the du- ties of the marsha1s were fixed by law and that a bai1if could not per form the duty of a marshal. "Is it not true that the bailiffs are only orna- merats: that they do not have to do any thinking? I ask the gentleman if that is not a fact 7
 MT. Madden rep1ied-ss -ssThe gentle man from Connecticut would not make that sstatementS if he knew what he was talking about. These men not only act as bailiffs but they perform the duties of rnarsha1s. "
 What duty does a bailiff perform that requires intellect? asked Dono- van.
 If the gentleman will sit down will answer him. said MT. Madden. Tn the court am descriping, the bail iffs are men of intelligence, men of education, men of experience, men who have knowledge of how to meet men and how to service papers, how to do all of the things that wise, clean forceful business man wouM require Of the best man he had in the office. rf7<Sz the court is open and the court is closed, but wait in attendance on the judge, serve writs, make arrests. take prisoners to the penitentiary and do everything that can be done by a man who is charged with responsf- bi1ity fl, performing the duty devo1v- ing upon United States marshal They ought to be paid a decent com pensation for she responsibilfty they assume.
 Tn reply Mir Donovan said sT think the gentleman from Illinois is not provide any such duties for a ball. if; it does not provide any such duty for crier. am willing to agree that s a day is a small sum for anyone to live on in these times, especially under the conditions that the Repub 1icans left the country in. Three dol lars will not go a long way but for the gentleman to tell us that 1t re- quires the graduate of an university that it requires some intellect-to han de the business of a. baiIin or crier is imposing on the good nature of his trifing with them. z
 was appealing to the intelligence Of the gentleman from Connectfcut,s z. replied MT. Madden.
 MT. Donovan replied ssIf was from Chicago. might have as much in teIligence as the gentleman from Illin- ois. He cannot find in the statutes or any act Of Congress anything fixing such duties of the bailin or crfer as he describes. Therefore. say that if the gentleman can quote from any statute line showing that a bailiff is charged with the duties he describes will cheerful1y vote with him. But there is not such a line in the book from one end to the other that fixes any such duties
 We have officials around here and what do they do from the time they come in in the morning until they go out at night? They warm chair seats. They stand on the floor and look us over for g. few moments, then go to the side room and occupy an other chair. That is practically the duty of these bailiffs. They are chair warmers without doubt.s'
 Minority Leader Mann came to Mad den,S aid. He called attention to the fact that MT. Donovan was not a law yer and said: sI was over in the ss1- preme court the other day, as I drop in once in a while, and heard the crier announce the opening of the court. It Just crossed my mind wheth- CT there was anybody in the House of Representative with sufficient degree of knowledge, intelligence, abfl- ity and gall to make the announce
 nent which the crier does over there. I know of only one who has the latter qualification and he is the gentleman from Connecticut"
 MT Donovan replied: MT. Chair man the member from Illinois (Mr Mann1 always Eliminates any subject that he talks about, but if he had picked up the statutes of his country and quoted one line showing what the duties of bailiffs and criers are it would have helped us more than all of the sarcasm and sharp tongued wit that he has used. Just the plain, or dinary language as it is written in books would have suff1ced. But there from. and do one knows it better than the gentleman from Illinois. There is no other answer for a lawyer to any position that layman may take except sarcasm, sharpness Of tongue They do it in the petty courts and they do it on the floors of Congress; they do, it where they are. It cannot be helped. MT. Chairman tT is bred in the bone. 7
 The Newburn Bank at Newburn. Tenn, capitalized at $50,0oo with de- posits of ss0,eoo was ordered closed.