The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-25

aroused in the community over the series of newspaper attacks against Commissioner A. J. Adams through the columns of the Daily Alaskan and the result of the himsy and trivial charges preferred against Mr. Adams by the editor of that paper, We have | been requested to publish in full the decsion of Federal Judge Brown. at the public hearing held in the city hall Tuesday evening, which resulted in a dismissal of the charges and com plete yindication of the commissioner. Judge Browns decision is herewith given in full, as furnished from the | stenographic report of the proceed. ings by his private secretary:
 q think might as we'll decide this case now as to decide it tomorrow or next day or some future time.
 This matter has given me a good deal of thought It is an unpleasant thing to have difficulties of this kind come up, but there is only one thing to do with them and that is to meet them promptly and fairly and dispose of them as best we can. I am not intallible in my judgment; MT Adams is not infallible in his judgment, Mir. Adams is not perfect can see quite plainly how this matter came about, all of it practically grew out of little or nothing. In the begin. ming it grew out of a little business rivalry in the newspaper business and possibly among attorneys in the law business, and these things grow and become magnifed. I can see where there is little foundation for it. l can see where MT. Medley hay. ing his office in MT. Adams office might give rise to a little suspicion. little feeling possibly on the part of some attorneys that he might be fa- yored. l doubt very much the wis dom of this sort of an arrangement. but the evidence here before me dis. closes in reality that MT. Medley was not in reality and in fact a partner of Mr. Adams. It is uncontradicted that he was appointed in three cases where absolutely no fee could be allowed. for which he received nothing. That surely cannot be considered a wrong full act on Mr. Adams part in favoring him. It one case it appears that he vas appointed on petition for the ap- pointment of a guardian, and there is no proof here that that was wrongful and improper, or that it was wrong fully or improperly managed. But. as l say, the fact of Mir. Medley being in the office was perhaps not a good arrangement
 
 Now with regard to this newspaper matter. Possibly MT. Adams regrets as much as anyone can that he ever started in the newspaper business. but l don't think that anything wrong has been proven here against him. l doubt the wisdom of it, he being Commissioner, and the possible en- tanglement or suspicion of some sell fish or interested work, sometimes called grating in that connection. I don't think that there is anything of that kind proven here, I believe much of this is due to that insinuous sort of rivalry in business that leads one to believe that his rival in bus mess is getting an advantage.
 Now there are no character wit nesses here to testify to Mir. Adams good character and I wouldn't have cared to listen to any. The only pur- pose of their testifying would be to inform me as to his character, and I can say here now that I have known MT. Adams more or less intimately for about fourteen years. MT. Ad- ans is not any more perfect than any of the rest of us. He might have some unfortunate ways, he might have incurred some enmities, but l believe Mir Adams to be an honorable man, l belive him to be an honest man and to the best of his light and to the best of his ability I believe he desires to wrong no man.
 Now these charges as to the mat ter of municipal or criminal cases brought before him as commissioner I fhinlx fha tagtip,Ony tbo ,,,d;,ruto, q, T