El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

rather than connected with the ad-
ministration OF u courts.
A Municipal DUTY.
The duty Of the municipality. TO
conduct a legal aid bureau Is Just IS
much a civic duty Is cleaning streets
and providing water a bureau to IN
Vestigate and defend imposizions
upon the poor and the ignorant and
zcnce for men, women and children
without means IS Just as much an
obligation as TO ill the office Of dis
trict attorney for the prosecution Of
crimes"
Revise Court Procedure.
Prompt enactment OF the bill sub
mitted TO the last session OF congress
10 empower the United States
supreme our TO make uniform rules
for federal district courts designed 10
simplify procedure IN such vi and
promote the speedy determination OF
recommended in the report Of the
committee on Uniform judicial pro-
cedure.
The report declared the regulations
to be made by the supreme court
under the Dill should embrace al
the merits and none OF the vices OF
both OF the common law and code
pleading"
enactment OF he bill. the report
continued. would result in promulga-
-A4A ~ AAE AAEAEAL1 Gl4AA u q
simple scientific and correlated
system OF rules, which viii prove an
attractive model for the states 70
adopt for their courts"
Get Auuy From Uncertainty.
The drift OF law is toward "uncsr-
tainty, confusion and variation" &C.
cording to h report OF the commit
tee on reclasEtfication and resrats-
ment OF h law. The committee sug-
gests that a simpler recodification Of
the law be effected. and that the laws
in the various states be more uni
form
"A certain and Uniform system Of
law for a country so large in area
and so otvided as 70 government can
be attained only through making
plain by visible expression with the
greatest attainable certainty simpIicr
ity, completeness and order the great
system OF law which has been de-
veloped, but which has been in
adequately expressed in this coun-
try" the report says
The possibility for Improvement Of
our law cannot be oyerestimated,"
continues n report. The causes for
the confusion and uncertainty OF the
law and the responsibility for them
are matters which are relevant to
the means which may be taken to I'M
prove the law.
~of these causes It may be re-
marked that in a complex and
progressive system OF law, there is a
natural tendency Tin the absence Of
counter influences) TO confusion and
uncertainty and. in q country com
posed OF so many states with q large
number Of Independent courts and
with no U OF ultimate decision as
70 q large part Of the subjects Of
litigation, this tendency Is increased"
Inauguration Dates.
The long period between the cleo
ton Of the president OF the United
States and his Inauguration IS "a
serious evil fraught with much
danger" according to the report Of
the special COMMITTEES OF the change
in date Of the presidential insugura-
ton
The report recommends that the
period be shortened. and that the
short term Of the old congress be
eliminated II, however. does not
suEgest any other date for the in
auguratfon, explaining that March 4
has been recognized by constitutional
amendment as the date OF inaugural
Il adds: That the period between
and Inauguration Is liable TO
leave the administration in hands
which have been d~iscredited by a pop
ular vote OF want OF confidence and
that such a situation greatly weakens
the prestige Of h government both
at home n abroad"