The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-07

state money, that it would expedite jus
tice and advance the interests of the state
generally, | voted for the creation of this
Office / am now satisfied that a state of
this size does not require such an Office.
call your attention further TO the fact
that the expense of this office for the last
biennial period has been in excess of $780,
coo. The question involved here is not
whether or no this Office has been used for
the purpose, far as possible, of limiting
and obstructing an executive in the exer-
else of his constitutional duties when such
duties might conflict with the interests of
certain people; not, whether or no the
office has been used as a roosting place
for professional lobbyists who do not suf-
fer from Cutaneous Hyperesthesia; not
whether or no it has been used for the
purpose of creating political machine in
the various counties in the state; not,
whether or no the present incumbent will
better conserve the interests of the state
than those of the past; but the real ques-
ton involved is Has not divided author
/ ity led to unnecessary expense and les
sening of responsibility apd initiative in
the offices of States Attorney, and finally
is there any real necessity for the office?
/ recommend to you its adjustment with
the consequent saving of substantially tho
sum named.
Fourteenth To the cost of the Admin
istration of Justice. The expense of tn,
biennial period of 1901 and 1902 wa
ES461, 577 80, of 1913 and 1914, 800,
092 SO, or an increase of materially owe
100000, or oyer 73 per cent in IL years
In 1906, the state changed its system o
Courts and created a Superior Bench 0
Judges The advocates of this change he'll
that it would expedite business, simplif,
Justice, save the state large sums of none
and do away with the then practice of re
ferring questions to Masters. In m
Judgment, the new system has entirel
failed to produce the results claimed.
lit be true that we pay annually for aC
ministering Justice SS00,000 and for edr
cation 100000, then our system of &C
ministering justice among ourselves cost
us almost as much as our education.
follows that there is something RADICAL
: wrong. | believe the difficulty to be wit
the system. | recommend therefore tina
the state at once return to the system e,
: isting prior to the change adding two c
!, Imore judges to the Supreme Court, an
l doing away entirely with the Superio
o Court Superior Court Judges being statl
|. tory and not constitutional officers are sui
Il iect to being abolished by the legislator
- |
! practice of maintaining our Supreme Coul
/ with active live men, competent and ca
;, able of doing promptly the work require
q of them should prevail (this principle
II carried out by the laws of our sister state
} New Hampshire and Massachusetts,, whiC
e require the retirement of judges who ha'
reached the age Of seventy years.; l b
N ieve that our Municipal Courts should
s given a wider jurisdiction and that no a
% peal should be allowed in cases under
u certain sum except upon questions of La
&c thus saving to the state the sum of
b least 100000 biennial period.
d Fifteenth To Taxation and Ways al
Means. The revenues of the state and t