| Show OPINION NEXT EXT MO MONDAY DAY Green and Gaynor Hearing by British Privy Council if Concluded Conclude S c cI I London Dec liThe privy council which yesterday began hearing the an aneal a peal eal ot of the United States ot of the justice of at Quebec In the case or of Green and nd Gay Gaynor Gaynor nor adjourned at the conclusion of the arguments today JUdgment will ho be rendered Dec 19 Donald McMaster K C of Montreal concluded his argument In or of orthe the United States today and was tol fol followed lowed by Herbert H Asquith former home secretary representing the two respondents Mr Asquith contended there wa no ground for the intervention Intervention tion of the privy council counell The most their lordships could do was to express an abstract opinion on th the merits of the case Mr Asquith of the form In which the AmerIcan gov government government had presented the c case se It seemed to him highly Improper He rood road n a paragraph In the American printed case commencing whether the judge in the discharge ot of his duty and ending nor Indeed do they think it necessary to do so Mr Asquith said he considered It was a serious matter that suggestions of this kind should be made in a printed document in a legal inquiry ot of this description The lord chancellor Lord SalIsbury concurred saying The suggestion contained In that ex cx extract tract Is absolutely Irrelevant to the question of legality I must deprecate the Introduction or of such matters into the appellants case They cannot af affect a our judgment Olf oits Its merits The paragraph in ui is as fol Whether hether a judge i in the d discharge Of his duty who certainly has done nothing to merit such treatment may mayba maybe be ba threatened with discipline judici judiciary arY or administrative by a law part partner nor ner ot or the minister of justice at attorn torn torny y of 01 Can wether one judge of the superior Court ourt cart can cause his wrIt of habeas to issue before another ju g ot of the same has disposed sed ofa of a writ i u d in re regard regard gard to the same watter whet r it itIs ItIs Is seemly t that it th the petitIon ot of the lat later er writ be applied for In the name or of a law firm In which the mm I Ilster lster ister of and attorney of Can Canada I adais ada Is a partner and of the pre premier premier mier of Quebec Is also a partner and that nearly nearh a month should elapse and several proceedings intervene before it was discovered that the whole name of the firm should not have haye been used but only thereof whether equally It Is seemly that hat the he par partner ner or of attorney of Quebec the latter being a member of the provincial cabinet and a col colleague colleague league ot of the tha premier of the province should be counsel for the fugitives whether t is proper that the crown should be throughout the protracted proc proceedings Involving not only serious charges but International treaty matters upon which the appellants do not at this time desire to make any further comment nor indeed tp they think it necessary to do so Mr Ir MacMaster said to the Associated Associated Press that he was confident the decision of the privy council would be in his favor but he declined to say what would be the next step of the United States attorneys Mr McMaster ter did not expect Greene and Gaynor to surrender for extradition As to Mr complaint Mr MacMaster said It would have no ef feet on the case Mr MacMaster Greed agreed that the paragraph referred to b by Mr Asquith was Irrelevant but he added that by taking exception to it the respondents emphasIzed the point made by the American government Mi MacMaster has left for Qu ns town to overtake the steamer Cam Campania pania which sailed from te day for New York |
