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TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1880.
BENCH, BAR AND PRESS.
THE STEINMAM-HEXSEL. DISHAKMENT.
Argument of A. K. SIcCIare en the Power
of Courts te Disbar by Summary Pro
ceedings An Interesting Re
view of the Courts and
Law of Pennsyl
vania. The case of A. J. Steinman and W. U.
Hensel, plaint ill's in error from the judg
ment of Judge Patterson summarily dis
missing them from the bar for a publica
tion in the Lancaster Intelligencer crit
icising a case that had been linally disposed
of and with which the appellants had no
professional connection, was lecently ar
gued before the supreme court at Ilarris
bhrg by Rufus E. Shapley and A. K. Mc
Clure, for the appellents, and by Samuel
II. Reynolds, as a "friend of the court."
The speeches were stenegraphically re
ported by Mr. H. C. Demming. Mr.
Shapley made an able and exhaustive ar
gument of the law, reviewing all the Eng
lish and American authorities bearing en
the issue, and Mr. McClure followed, con.
lining himself mainly te a review of the
bench, the bar, the press and the law as
interpreted and revised from time te time
in Pennsylvania. He said :
My learned " friend of the court" very
gravely misunderstands the attitude of the
counsel in this case. It is true that I feel
much interest in maintaining the rights of
the press,but much mere in maintaining the
rights of the bar. Indeed I appear te plead
the cause of my learned opponent rather
than my own. He is simply a member of
the bar, while I am mere fortunate in be
ing connected with a newspaper. If I
should be se rasli as te efleud some little
end of the judiciary and meet the fate of
the appellants, I might manage te worry
along in the editorial chair without ap
pearing at the bar ; but if he shall ever
eneud the judiciary he will be left without
a vocation, and if he correctly presents the
law, without remedy. In a little while his
friend Judge Patterson will probably be a
candidate ler re-election, and his nomina
tion would be reasonably certain as things
go in Lancaster these days, if the mayor
and police shall be equal in protecting the
political lcturn judges from self destruc
tion, and the vaults of the Lancaster banks
shall be strong enough te protect the returns
ever nights from factious belligerents. In
that case my learned opponent might be
inclined te vake the stump, and his party
predilections would compel him te favor
Judge Patterson's competitor. His im
pressive eloquence could net . be silent in
sueh a struggle. It is possible that he
might deem it his duty te say ou the hust
ings that corrupt and riotous judicial
nominations should be condemned with
emphasis by the people, and he might be
impelled te go further and say that a
judge whose record cannot stand public
criticism should net be permitted te pre
side in the temple of justice. If in such
manner, or in any ether manner, by public
or private speech, he should question the
fitness of Judge Patterson for his present
high office, he would be guilty of impair
ing public cenfidence in the integrity of
the court, and a messenger from the of
fended judge would summon him te the
august presence for apology or dismissal
from the bar. The judgment upon my
friend ou the ether side would be : " Yeu
have brought the administration of justice
into disrepute, and you are disbarred for
misbehavior in office." It is te protect my
learned opponent rather than myself that
impels me te appear te-day before the court
of hist resort in this case, and for his sake
I pretest against any such monstrous per
version of the law as he has inconsiderately
urged upon this learned court.
Mr. Reynolds (laughingly, in his scat)
I am much obliged.
Let nic be well understood at the outset
in regard te the distinction between
liberty and license of the press. I have
no sympathy with, or respect for, the
assumption that there must be no absolute
restraint upon the licentiousness of jour
nalism. Although trained te the press
rather than te the bar, I have uniformly
and earnestly protested against the theory
that our libel laws should give unre
strained license te publishers. We
reached that point in legislation when the
Gctz act practically stripped home and
private life of all sanctity and gave
unbridled license te the press, if the truth
could be summoned te sustain the publi
cation. It was a blot upon the statutes,
and I was glad, as a representative of the
press in the Legislature, te give active aid
in effecting its repeal some twenty years
age. Our present libel laws, when fairly
interpreted, are all that any reputable
publisher can desire, and the last decision
of this learned court in the Barr case is an
enlightened and just elucidation of the
relative rights of public journals, public
officers and private citizens. With the
right te criticize every public officer, in
cluding judges, and te discuss all ques
tions of public interest within the lines of
truth, and with the immunity of the new
constitution in criminal cases, protecting
the press against punishment for honest
mistakes, Pennsylvania journalism has
reason te feel just pride in the liberal laws
of our great commonwealth. We have at
last reached a proper appreciation of the
rights, duties and powers of both
the judiciary and the press, and that
teaches us that an honest and competent
judiciary cannot be successfully assailed
by a corrupt or licentious press, and that
an honest and fearless press cannot be suc
cessfully assailed by a corrupt or vindic
tive judiciary. Thojudge and the editor
who maintain their integrity and self-respect
have nothing te fear from these who
disgrace both the judiciary and the press
by their abuse of prerogatives
which should ever be sacred te truth
and justice. The judiciary is an
integral part of our governmental system ;
the press is an essential clement of
the safety and advancement of free
government, and their respective
duties are harmonious as the sea
sons, which se widely differ in their
offices, but all of which arc the sources of
health and plenty. Beth have painful
duties te perform at times, but these of
the courts are te conserve and te restrain,
while these of the press are necessarily
aggressive and often revolutionary.
Judges restrain newspapers which disgrace
themselves and their communities by li
centiousness, and newspapers criticise
judges when they drift into antagonism te
popular rights or when they disgrace the
ermine by the prostitution of justice. The
press is the advance line of every legal and
political reform. It must often accuse
power fearlessly and summon the law and
the courts te shield it against corrupt au
thority, -'"'and there have been periods in
our history when the press was compelled
te mae exhaustive battle te sustain the
integrity and majesty of the courts against
sudden tempests of popular passion.
The press is trained te criticism,
and adverse criticism is net pleasant
even te these most accustomed te it. Edi
ters de net enjoy it ; politicians fear it,
and judges are most impatient under it, as
they have net the attrition with the world
that readily adjusts public men te it. They
are but men, made better by their better
offices, and they have often marred the
pages of our judicial history by mistaking
the common resentments of common men
for a zealous maintenance of the dignity
and just prerogatives of the courts. It is
worthy of notice, however, that these
errors de net come from these te whom the
bar, the press and the public point as the
ornaments et the sanctuary of justice.
Great judges de net grasp for the extreme
powers conferred upon courts te enable
them te enforce process and compel public
confidence in the administration of the
laws. The Bairds, the Stantens and the
Pattersons de it ; the Gibsons, the Blacks
and the Woodwards have never done it. It
is the petty judge and the corrupt judge
that loves despotism and perverts the law
te its own degradation, while able and
reputable judges command public respect
by their fidelity te justice and have no
uses for their extreme powers te punish
their fees,
lllglits of Courts and Press.
The rights of courts have been well de
fined under our government. They were
naturally misunderstood even by our best
judges in the early history of the republic,
but such errors were promptly and severe
ly corrected. After gaining civil and re
ligious freedom in a terrible baptism of
bleed, we accepted the common law of the
parent government, and our courts were
slew te understand that much of the des
petism that bred the Revolution was incor
porated in the common law. The courts
assumed that with the common law had
come all the despotic power of judges ne
cessary in England te sustain the omnipo
tence of the crown. It was this delusion
of the eminent jurists who once sat en the
bench I new address that called out the
first admonition from the supreme author
ity of the commonwealth te its judiciary
by the impeachment of Chief Justice Ship
pen and Justices Yeates and Smith. They
acceptcd the law of England as the
law of our free institutions, as tLe
learned counsel en the ether side accepts
it te-day, and they were forgetful that its
despotism had perished by the independ
ence of the colonies. They summoned Mr.
Passmere before them, as a court of Eng
land could have done, and arbitrarily fined
and imprisoned him for an assumed con
tempt committed out of court by a placard
posted en a coffee house. Under the many
authorities se ably presented te-day by my
learned opponent, there could be no doubt
as te the power of the court te condemn
and punish as it did : but when able ceun
sel in this evening of the nineteenth cen
tury quote the English law of contempt of
eaeand two centuries age, the judges of
seventy-five years age may be excused for
a mistaking the law. The integrity of
Judges ahippcn, Yeates and smith were
never assailed. The judgment against
Passmore was confessedly an honest one ;
but the sovereign power of the common
wealth called them te fearful reckoning
and arraigned them for disobedience te the
whole spirit of free government. They
were impeached by mere than a three
fourth vote in the Heuse, and a majority
of the senators voted for their conviction,
although they escaped for want of the
constitutional vote of two-thirds It
was the first crucial test of the supreme
despotic power of courts under our liberal
ized government, and it was the first and
the last offence of the kind ever committed
by the supreme court of Pennsylvania. It
has many times been compelled te lay
its strong hand en the subordinate judicial
tribunals, te teach anew the lessen that
liberty is the chief jewel of our law, but it
has never, since the case of Passmore, of
fended against the liberty of the citizen by
the exercise of its extreme powers. The
impeachment of our entire court of last re
sort se clearly defined the despotic features
of the common law which were in conflict
with our free institutions that he who
runs may read. The laws of England re
mained unchanged, and are yet unchanged,
in the authority of courts te punish for
contempt, as was shown by England fining
and imprisoning Jehn Walter, of the Lon Len Lon
eon Timis, without complaint from the
supreme authority of the kingdom,
while the supreme ceuit of Penn
sylvania was impeached for exercising the
same powers which were exercised by the
English courts. Our judges could net
have forgotten that every fundamental law
of the state had departed from the Eng
lish laws in declaring the right of all citi
zens te speak, print and publish their
views with freedom, subject only te just
responsibility for the abuse of the privi
lege, and that a free press has been se uni
formly declared te be one of the indispens
able attributes of free institutions; but
they believe that courts could net exist
without despotic powers, and the lessen
had te be learned through much humilia
tion. The first amendment te the federal
constitution was proposed at the first ses
sion of the first Congress, and it was a
command te all the states net te abridge
the freedom of the press. Although the
early courts thus had line upon line te
ademish them that a free press and free
speech were vital features of our free insti
tutions, such men as Chief Justice Shippen
and Justices Yeates and Smith had te be
taught the law that liberty inspired, as
defendants in an impeachment trial before
the Senate. Since then the judiciary
and the freedom of speech have had
no conflict in our state, save as some
petty judicial tyrant has disgrrccd the
administration of justice. The right te
discuss law makers, law interpreters and
all public men and measures, both in the
public press and by public and private
speech, has never been questioned by this
learned court, and the press, as a rule, of
every political and religious belief, has
most faithfully sustained the prerogatives
and the judgments of this and of all ether
reputable courts. Se faithful has the
press of Philadelphia been in its support
of an honest judiciary, that party passion
and party discipline are new powerless te
defeat a competent and upright judge in
that city, no matter what may be his po
litical affiliations. It must be conceded
that the press of the chief city is the fair
representative of the press of the state, as
it is most widely read and most influential.
It has disreputable elements, as has our
judiciary. It has its blackmailers, as the
administration of justice has its low grade
police magistrates, where criminals find
protection instead of punishment ; but the
press and the judiciary of the city have
mere than asserted their fidelity te law, te
justice and te the accepted rights of each
ether.
Judicial License iu Public Criticism.
Mr. McClure next proceeded te review
the license with which the judges of the
supreme court had criticised their own de
cisions, quoting Judge Black in Hele vs.
Rittenhouse (2 Phila. R. 417), Judge Ag
new in the Williamsport bend case, re
ported in Norris. Judge Kennedy in the
Cellins case (8 Watts 344). and Judse Asr-
new's public letter te the people of Penn
sylvania in 1878. He assumed that the
judges of the supreme court were the
highest standard for the bar and the press
te emulate in pueuc criticism, and showed
that the license of the bench criticizing its
own judgments surpassed the license of
the press.
Hew Courts Have Invited the Criticism of
the Press.
If judges were infallible, or even always
honest, however mistaken, the press would
net be compelled te criticize their official
actsastheplaintinsinerrer have criticized
Judge Patterson ; but while we have al
ways been able te point te this learned
court as free from fear, favor or affection
in delivering its judgments, it has mere
than once provoked the sovereign authority
te revise its decisions, and its purest and
ablest characters have net always been en
tirely free from the blemishes which de
manded the faithful wounds of manly
criticism. And when we take a dispassion
ate retrospect of the history of the judici
ary of our state.altheugh equal te the best
in this or any ether country, the necessary
office of the press as a fearless censer of
the official infirmities of judges must be
appreciated by every intelligent citizen. It
will be remembered by this learned ceu.t
that the Legislature was com
pelled te abolish a court in
Philadelphia te efface a fearful stain from
the judiciary of the state. The names of
Cenrad and Barten are linked with grate
ful memories in the circles where their
brilliant oratory and poetry survive their
judicial records, which all are glad te
consign te charitable forgetfulness. Then,
as in all like cases, the press
was slew te arraign the offending judicial
officers ; but public necessity finally de
manded it and the sovereign power abol
ished the court. The learned counsel en
the ether side would then have demanded
the punishment of the press rather than
the judges, because the public criticism
of faithless judges impaired public cenfi
dence in the integrity of the court ; bnt
there were no Judge Pattersons iu these
days and no teachers of the law that em
powers a judge te condemn and punish its
critics for his own crimes, and the diseased
judicial tumor was cured by heroic legis
lative surgery in obedience te the heroic
criticisms of the press. The distinct de
liverance in favor of individual rights and
against the summary exercise of the ex
treme despotic powers of judges, taught
by the impeachment of the supreme court
at the opening of the present century, was
faithfully obeyed by our entire judiciary
for the period of a generation. During
all that time we have no record of a
single complaint againsr the alleged abuse
of the arbitrary authority possessed by
courts te maintain their dignity and en
force process; but Judge Baird, of
Fayette county, finally forced the almost
forgetton issue upon the bench, the bar,
the press and the sovereign power of the
commonwealth. It was net doubted that
Judge Baird was an honest man, but he
was ill-tempered, revengeful in his seasons
of passion and of necessity ruled the law
and the bar badly when he could net rule
himself. He was subject te lucid intervals,
during which he intelligently and justly
judged himself and his infirmities, and in
one of these neon-day moods he addressed
an elaborate letter te the bar, deploring
the discord between the court and
the bar and suggesting that his retirement
from the bench would restere the adminis
tration of justice te its proper dignity
and efficiency. Te this letter the bar an
swered in respectful terms, accepting
Judge Kami's suggested resignation ;
but because the bar, with all the respect
that is due te the court, agreed with Judge
Band's preposition for his own
retirement, uis evil temper was
aroused, and he dismissed all the lead
ing members for the offense of
concurring with him in his own opinion of
himself. It was believed even iu Penn
sylvania that the power of a judge te pun
ish or disbar for contempt of court was a
power se sacred that no tribunal could re
view it. The Fayette county attorneys
were stripped of their profession by the fit
ful resentment of a judge, and the law of
fered no means of redress. Impeachment
would have followed, but the judiciary
committee of the Heuse decided te bring
the case first within the jurisdiction of the
supreme court for review by a special law,
and the decision in the celebrated Austin
case (5th R., 191) restored the disbarred
attorneys te their offices. Although the
rights of the press were incidentally in
volved in the case, the court below dis
missed that feature of the issue, and we
are denied the light of Chief Justice Gib Gib
eon's exceptional legal acumen en that im
portant question. Thus chastened by the
court of last resort and self-confessed as
unfitted for his trust, Judge Baird contin
ued te display his judicial infirmities until
an unbearable and wanton indignity offer
ed te a respectable citizen in his court re
sulted in the citizen publicly horsewhipping
the judge when he emerged from his judicial
sanctuary. An indictment for assault and
battery followed, and the defendant ap
peared, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
te fine and imprisonment ; but the bar and
the community, almost with ene accord,
appealed te the executive for a pardon en
the ground that the castigation of the
judge was fully merited ; and, although
pardons did net then go by favor, the par
don was promptly granted. On another
occasion he issued a rule upon a prominent
member of his bar, who had been his earn
est friend through all his follies, because
the attorney asked the court te hear an
authority en a point that had been petu
lantly decided before argument. The rule
was made returnable forthwith, and forth
with the lawyer was disbarred. Soen
after, the court sent for the dismissed at
torney te come into court te be restored.
but he declined, preferring te remedy his
own wrong and the wrongs of the
public by the impeachment and
the dismissal of the judge who
thus made a mockery of justice. Te
escape impeachment Judge Baird resigned,
but the ruling passion prevailed till death.
If your honors will.turn te the records of
your own court, you will find that the
same judge ended his professional career
summarily at this bar. He differed se vio
lently with this learneM tribunal in the ar
gument of a case that he asked te be dis
barred because, as he said, either the
court or himself knew nothing about law,
and he was dismissed in obedience te his
own request. Yet te criticise such a judge,
who made a comedy of law and whose in
firmities drove justice from her own tem
ple, would,according te the learned counsel
en the ether side, be te impair public con
fidence in the integrity of the court, and
if done by an attorney, deserves the penal
ty of dismissal from the bar.
If your honors will recall the exhibition
of incempetency in the neighboring dis
trict of Yerk some years age, it will give
another pointed illustration of the public
criticism the judiciary provoked. Judge
Irwin, although an honest man and ap
pointed by an honest executive, proved
wholly unfitted for his responsible trust.
Of such it can well be said that few die
and none resign until compelled te cheese
between voluntary retirement and dismis
sal. The bar hesitated and the press was
reluctant te criticize with that incisiveness
that the public interest demanded, because
the obnoxious official was charged with
public duties of uncommon sanctity. A
committee finally decided te appeal te the
ambition of the judge, and proposed that
he should resign and accept a nomination
for Congress. They urged that statesman
ship was his ferte and that he should net
be isolated en the bench when he could
feast en national fame ; but he
probably distrusted political premises, and
he rejected the proposal and exposed
from the bench the attempt te bribe him
te desert the high duties the state had im
posed upon him. The bar then agreed net
te appear before him for the trial of cases,
and formally demanded his removal by
legislative address a humiliation he es
caped by his resignation. If you turn te
the Chester district you will find that
Judge Nill was rejected by the Senate in
obedience te the remonstrance of almost
the entire bar, because of alleged incom incem
petency, and like pronounced criticism of
the fitness of judges oceurred in half a
dozen ether districts of the state a short'
time before the adoption of the elective
judiciary. Indeed, it was the provoked
criticism of the press, the bar and intelli
gent public opinion upon partisan and in
competent judges, aided by the manifest
judicial prejudice against the amended con
stitution of 1838, which made the people re
sume their sovereign power ever the imme
diate choice of judges in 1851. What judge,
member of the bar, representative of the
press, or intelligent citizen, lisps the name
of the late Chief Justice Gibsen save te
praise and reverence ? His distinguished
successor, in pronouncing his eulogy from
the bench, truly Raid that he was the only
chief the hearts of the people would knew,
and yet he brought upon his otherwise
stainless judicial record a reproach that
perished only when he slept the dreamless
sleep of the dead. Your honors are
familiar with his painful story, told in a
public letter te excuse the one weakness
that was stronger than himself. He plead
ed that he had given the vigor of his life te
his state, and that the question of bread
and raiment had impelled him te accept a
commission that brought with it a shadow
that was never effaced from his life.
The learned justice from Bradford who
was a member of the convention
that nominated the honored chief for
election in 1851, will remember hew that
ene infirmity confronted his candidate, and
hew himself and another active delegite
since a justice of this learned court ( Will
iam M. Perter) made exhaustive battle
for the great jurist, who was then quoted
in both hemisphercs, and finally nominated
him by a bare majority. They admit
ted the justice of the criticism of the most
respected public journals of the cenntry,
but offered bis purity of purpose and his
pre-eminent judicial services te command
the charitable judgment of the world. Thus
the highest and purest as well as the low
est and vilest of these who have wen judi
cial honors have merited the fearless crit
icisms of the press by their errors or crimes,
and the high character and general respect
of our judiciary te-day is in no small de
gree the result of the free press that faith
fully maintains .the integrity of our free
institutions.
Concluded Te-morrow.)
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