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Show Let There ba an Invd-itiation. The following extract is from the Htuai.D'fi synopsis of Judge Me-Kean's Me-Kean's remarks to the gentlemen of the bar on W dn- nlay: Daring liU honor's residence in L'tuli tiiere hud been about live mem-ix.'r.-i of tiic bar who were in the habit of trying their causes in trie newspapers. news-papers. Before the trial theae uttor-nf-vi would try to shape the public mind by articles in the news-pap- rs, ftnd after the veniiet they would comment on the action of the court and jury. Their hands were seen in the newspapers both before be-fore and after the trial of their causes. His boner appealed to trio members of the b ir to help him find out who those men were. They woro worthy i to be ca.iL over the bar. It would not be a diliicult tank to find out who tho unworthy ones were; he (the court) was pretty well Batistb-d who they were. Tne man who would take a retainer and then go to a newspaper with his cause was a disgrace to Lhe bar and unworthy Lo be a member ol Lhe profession. The above contains an excellent suggestion, and one upon which the brethren of tho bar should act at once. Let a bar meeting be cilled, a commitUo of intelligent, upright, up-right, honest, truthful lawyers, be selected to ascertain and report LO mo court wuat meuiuors oi the bar n re in tho habit of trying their causes in the newspapers. Here is a direct insinuation, and quo of those " innuendoes " which so annoys an-noys his honor against the entire bar, and it will rest against them all till the parties aimed at are definitely aud fairly hit. Tho judgo's words are a grave imputation on tho honor of gentlemen and the purity of the press. No honorable attorney would seek to two the press to prejudice the public mind in favor of his clienL's cause; and the conductor of a newspaper, news-paper, if they were not corrupt and venal, would scorn lo illow the columns of their journal to by used for any mini pu!p'.-.tM. An investigation investi-gation is demanded, aiu! after tho "five members of tho bar" h ve been singled out, and the journals which they havo been prostituting, been discovered, thou let them all bo censured, punished and di-gniced to the extent the law will permit. |