Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-11

suppress commercial bribery, and that
one of them be passed,
Cummins' Senate Bill No, 1924,
Fletcher Senate Bill No. "a. and
Sims House Pill No. 263.
The committee on commerce, trade
and commercial law of the American
Bar association comprises Francis b
James, District of Columbia; T. Scott
Offutt, Maryland FitZ-Henry Smith,
Jr., Massachusetts, Howard II. Bald
ridge. Nebraska, and william H. II.
Piatt, Kansas.
The committee on uniform judicial
procedure recommends that every
member of the American Bar associa-
ton Immediately request his senator's
and congressman to assure the pas
sage of the bill before congress giving
to the supreme court of the United
States the authority to make rules
governing the entire procedure in|
cases at law to the same extent that
it now has power to regulate the pro-
cedure in equity and admiralty and
the bankruptcy courts.
The committee believes that the bill
is the key that will unlock the door
to a new era of scientific judicial re-
.atio2s. The report says;
The united bench and bar will CO.
operate in first constructing and then
in perfectng a simple correlated, sci
entific system of rules of procedure
and practice. The system of rules
should embrace all the merits and
none of the vices of, both the com
mon law" and code" pleading. ltsl
featural merit will be a patriotic eff
fort to administer, instead of imped-
ing Justice, by the lawyer who is now
sworn ~ uphold all procedural stat
utes, though they obstruct justice. The
Judge will solve procedurai difficulties
by seeing to it that the case is brought
speedily to issue on its merits through
suitable amendments to the plead
ings.
Travelling Expenses for Judges.
In urging that a special committee
be appointed to present to state legis-
latures the merit of making annual
appropriations of small sums TO de-
fray the travelling expenses of judges,
both federal and state, to meetings OF
the judicial section of the associations,
the report says:
ut is desired to repeat that such
an appropriation would be but small
premium to pay for insurance against
diverse judicial opinions; for the
promise of uniformity and for the
constant Improvement in jurispru-
dence assured by an annual conVen- |
ton of appellate federal and state
judges. Justice as well as liberty
must be assured in America. Liberty
was won only through the sacrifice
and privations of war; justice can be
achieved only by scientific. organized, !
vigilant and consecrated effort"
The committee on uniform judicial
procedure comprises Thomas w.
Shelton of Virginia, William Howard
Taft of Connecticut, Jacob M, Dick |
son of Illinois, Frank Irvine of New
York and Joseph ~ Teal OF oregon.
Discussing the division of opinion
over the peace treaty, the committee
on international law expresses the
hope that the wisdom and patriotism
of those who are officially charged
with the Consummation of this great
business may be able to reconcile and
to safeguard the interests of the world
at large, in stable. universal and en-
during peaoa, with the security of this
nations sovereignty and independ-
enCe."
The report summarizes the inter-
national situation, after enumerating
the main incidents of a year directly
affecting this country. On the COM
mittee are Charles Noble Gregory of
the District of Columbia, Theodore S.
Woolsey of Connecticut, Charles
Cheney Hyde of Illinois and Frederic
r. Coudert of New York. DR.. James
Brown Scott of the District of Column
bia was prevented from participating
in the report owing to his absence in
France in attendance at the peace
conference.
Efforts are being made to empha-
size the importance of arousing gem
eral interest in the celebration OF the
anniversary of the birth of the con-
stitution of the United States to take
place throughout the United States on
September II. A special committee
of the American Bar association is
cooperating in the plans for the cele
bration. In a recent letter sent to the
presidents of the bar associations of
the different states, the committee de-
clared that in view of the nationwide
propaganda designed to shake the
peoples faith in their own institutions,
it feels that a special responsibility
rests upon the lawyers of America for
the success of The celebration.