Show JUDICIAL ebullitions OF BAD TEMPER A washington ton TOX paper has tile the following conc concerning a bis uis district t rf ct columbia judge 0 peculiarly given to unseemly outbursts of passion the impeachment of judg judge e wylie is unanimously dema demanded nOd by the washington Vas hington bar if a round robin bobin is wanted to that effect it will be signed we think by every lawyer lawt er judge clerk bailiff and suitor theone the one ground on which all will meet is that judge capricious and petulant temper un fits him for the bench an eminent lawyer said of him 11 dont think the omnipotence of god bas has any limits buot would puzzle puzzie bim him blin to make another man so utterly unfit for a judge as wylie many others say this and go gg on nor for quantity 4 if anybody doubt let him attend the chancery court early the tho rhe judge comes comos in smiling takes his seat bows pleasantly to the bar evidentially Evi dentally he has breakfasted well some routine business is disposed of in an instant without apparent occasion the red blood flushes through his ears nohe nobe face and eyes and ills his voice rings angrily through th ligh the t 0 hall hali all all ail proper attention to business ends there luere for fon that da day every very lawyer feels he e is ii dealing with a judge suffering under some unaccountable temporary aberration of mind with one smitten of god and afflicted judge wylie wyllo never forgets or forgives a lawyer who has been the unfortunate object of one of these ebullitions consequently nine tenths of the bar feel that he be follows them vindictively an unpleasant plea piea sait salt consciousness when one is charged ch arged with the pecuniary interests of numerous clients to the other tenth he lie is annoying by ills his obtrusive favoritism favoriti sn his decisions appear to be governed chiefly by these personal considerations hence there is in them little law arnd annd no consistency among the bar they are proverbs fsr fer uncertainty being aa aih difficult to foretell as the verdict of a petit jury unless indeed you know what lawyers were on the different sides then you can always te tell teli ll 11 clients who are able always appeal fromm froma his adverse decisions and he be has crushed under foot many mauv a poor man in his petulance towards ills his advocate on the supreme court bench wylies manner at the beginning of a cause betrays his leaning he 19 unfavorable his countenance assumes a most scornful looks looky look his ills nose bet becoming oming a expressive as his curled lips we have sometimes thought some bad meent had bad struck ills his ol factories about that tinie time but the truer idea is that lie he is expressing his contempt by all the grimaces his face is capable of his picture taken at that precise moment ingmen would be much stared at in B barlows r window in counsel with ill ili his brethren of the bench lie he must be a thorn in the flesh all the other judges are courteous and fair minded and two of them will compare not unfavorably for ability and legal skill with any judges in the land but the place of J judge dge wylie is on the floor where ills his brother members of jot the bar would soon teach him to keep his temper under control but give us the investigation it will be more spies spicy than the other we will make it a point to attend and hear the lawyers depose as to the capricious results of this district brict t jem Jef jeffres jeffrey firey in the foregoing article we ba have vo the strictures of a free and independent press on the conduct of a judicial luminary in the district of columbia the proc of wednesday in the T third dr district tria court coutt r have a tendency to make gue reflect on tho the an imad versions therein thele there n con contained coltaine taine d if we u understood V the question asked by counsel correctly it was liot hot improper according to accepted and long iong established rule of evidence the question was wag for what purposes mis mits con Coh ways waya house was kept and the jact of df a previous grevl grevi pus ous conviction for keeping atolls a house dof of ill lil fame was viea riot not sought to be proved in this manner the rule of evidence 1 is eliat that the fact of a conviction must musk be proved by the record this Is ig the rule laid down in greenleaf but supposing that the fact of a conviction for keeping a houie houi e of ill III fame had been attempted to be proved in this way would this justify the court in indulging in so much mach passion sp spleen letin and ild lid md mad stricture iran itan improper question ir lri asked by one counsel and objected to by another the province of the court is simply to overrule or sustain the objection further than this it is highly improper for a court coult to go excepting in cases of extraordinary aggravation and even then it does poten moten not enhance hanco the dignity of the court indeed we very much incline to the opinion that ebullitions of temper are not only unbecoming but tend to detract from the dignity of the bench and to breed contempt in the minds of all fair minded persons in the community an over sp speaking eating judge Is no well tuned cymbal pym a I 1 and if we mistake not in other countries than utah such auch conduct would be held up to the scorn it so justly deserves we invite tile the attention of our renders readers to what was said of judda audgo wylle wyile and nom hom the facts let them draw their own inferences |