|
|
|
Mr. Ireland submitted the following:
Ordered, That this Convention will adjourn sine die on
the 12th day of August next.
Mr. Starr moved to strike out the 12th and insert the
8th.
On motion of Mr. Mitchell, the whole subject was laid
on the table.
The unfinished business being the part second of the
judiciary report relative to the Court of Appeals, was
taken up.
Mr. Gill withdrew the amendment offered by him yes-
terday.
The question was on the substitute of Mr. Archer for
the 19th section.
Mr. Walsh said the administration of the judicial sys-
tem of the State among the people of the State had been
a total and complete failure. The people in his section of
the State had grievously suffered under it, and the para-
mount object in the care of this Convention was to remedy
this crying evil. The amendment of the gentleman from
Harford continued the system, but only provided for a
change in the officers. Was it to go out that this Con-
vention only considered it necessary to issue its edict,
that the men now in office were to go out as the only
remedy for the great wrongs to which the people had been
subjected? An independent Court of Appeals had the
tendency to largely increase the number of appealed
cases, the expense of which was enormous, and the people
generally could not bear it. The report of the majority
of the committee, and the three-judge system in the cir-
cuits was advocated by Mr. W. who maintained that the
adoption of Mr. Archer's substitute would of necessity
force the adoption of the one-judge system. They desired
to make a good system and a cheap system, one that the
people would grow great under.
Mr. Page had heard from all quarters of the State
the feeling that the present system was a complete fail-
ure; he had heard it from those who had sat on the
bench themselves, and more particularly in the expres-
sion of that popular sentiment which had culminated in
354
|
|
|
|
 |
