Show OVER THE WIRES Coast Legal Ethics as Viewed by New Yorkers The Senate Commission to Review the Labor Question A Subdued Feeling in England Over Russias Claims Pacific Coast Legal Ethics NEW YORK March InA Tribune editorial edi-torial says When the account of the purchase pur-chase by Sharons attorney of an alleged contract between the attorney of Miss Hill and an expert witness for 25000 was first received here the Tribune expressed ex-pressed some curiosity as to the position of the Pacific Coast Bar Association on the transaction That position has now been made clear A special committee appointed reported in effect that the action ac-tion of General Barnes was not immoral but unprofessional The association rejected re-jected the report and adopted a resolution resolu-tion declaring that H he has not been guilty of immoral or unprofessional conduct con-duct It is thus formally held by the bar of San Francisco that a lawyer is fully justified in negotiating with the clerk of an attorney engaged against him for the purchase of evidence in the possession posses-sion of that rival attorney and which he must be aware can only be procured through the basest treason and dishonesty dishon-esty if the proposed transaction is a genuine one |