New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

l che day, If her employer wished her 1 tC do so.'
 Surprised and disappointed at MT. i Choate's refusal-which he may long since have forgotten, so brief was the l ep1sode-we conveyed the invitation l to MT. Brandeis, who accepted at once and has, for eight years, suc- cessfully defended in the courts of last resort of the nation and the 1 states every similar statute of which the constitutionality has been as- sailed, giving his services free of all charge.'
 Mrs. Kelley seems to think that MT. Brandeis deserves credit for doing legal work of great social and
 industrial importance for nothing MT: Choate's fees in those cases, had
 he taken them, would have aggre- gated at least s1OO,OOo. MT. Bran
 deis threw s1o0,OOo away. We were simple enough to F entertain Mrs Kelley's idea until our studies of the Rrandefs hearings at Washington be- fore the senatorial lawyers of the Judiciary committee began Now we rave discovered that every time Mr. 1 Brandeis has done a lawyers work for nothing he has aroused deep suspicion among brother members of the bar. Charging nothing has been one of his chief crimes and it is one of the reasons why the honora ble senate should never permit MT. Brandeis to become a justice of the United States supreme court.
 The case of the ten-hour law is only one of many in this wicked mans legal career. There was the Lennox case, so much relied upon to show MT. Brandeis' unfitness for Inc bench. As the profoundly shocked Senator Works solemnly notes in his summing-up; MT. Brandeis made no charge against either Lennox or Stein for services rendered.
 Consider also the now celebrated United Shoe Machinery companv's in- Cictment of Mr. Brandeis. He re- fused to accept fee from the inda- pendent shoe manufacturing people who were fighting the United Senator Works calls this a "noost singular performance. Tn expla4niner MT. Brandeis' reprehensible conduct to the senate subcommittee Lawyer McClennen of the Brandeis frn, testified:
 MT. McClennen-These manufac- turers paid the firm of Brandeis Dunbar & Nutter s2,50O, and MT, Brandeis returned these manufac- turers out of his personal funds s2,500.
 Senator Chilton-Do you mean to say that that money was paid into the credit of the firm?
 "Mr McClennen-Paid into Inc firm; yes.
 "Senator Chilton-It was paid to your firm, and then MT. Brandeis .out of his personal funds, returned inc fee to them?
 MT. McClennen-Ye want +o say with reference to that this: We are engaged in the practice of law and expect to be paid for practicing law MT. Brandeis has a definite percentage of the proEts of that firm. and while we can stand it for him to give his time to public causes. he has thought that perhaps it was a little fard on the rest of us to ask him to give his time to public causes when there was a client ready to pay him for those same services That is the explanation of that"
 Senator Works, however, continued to be suspicious. Te inquired closely, III hls report, into MT. Brandeis' mo- uVes. It was certainly an act of generosity to his partners" he wrote coupt1ully. But evidently there was room TOT a VlllainCus purpose in the lack of MT. Brandeis' head
 lnfnately worse was Mr Brandeis' Lnethlcal conduct when employed bv stockholders of the Boston and Maine railroad to fight the absorption of the road by the New Haven. There again he charged nothing for his ser vices, which were certainly very valuable. And what did the rascal do then but take $25,OO0 out of his own pocket and pay it to his law partners as their share of the fee which he could have collected from the Boston and Maine stockholders, but did not.
 Senator Works, of course, could not commend such a performance. He found in it bad professional prac- tice from beginning to end Tn his view, 'the only effect of this course, instead of the uneQuivocal one of taking compensation from Mr. Law renee, was that MT. Lawrence escaped the payment of a fee that was justly due from him, and MT. Brandeis was placed in an equivocal and questionable position" Senator Cummlns of Iowa wrote, in his re- i port, of his own complete mystifica- l ton:
 In this situation MT. Brandeis paid | to his partners s15,Oo0 out of his l own funds, and rendered his service 1 without pay. This payment was not l solicited by his partners, but was ac- cepted by them rather under protest. 1 nave not been able to fathom the 1 motive for this transaction
 More rascality perhaps! MT. Bran- de1s' motive in making himself poorer by $25,00 must indeed have been sinister and ma1evolent.