Justice Miller of
the Supreme Court, asking for a change in the law in regard
to monitions for summoning defendants in Admiralty. The change
had been made necessary by some recent decisions of the Court.
The other members of the Committee looked at each other in
dismay. None of them was familiar with the question, or knew
at all what it was all about. I then stated to them the difficulty,
giving them the names of the cases and the volumes where they
were found. They were all quite astonished to find a man
from the country, of whom probably none of them had ever heard
before, having the law of Admiralty at his tongue's end.
If the question had related to anything in the Digest under
Adr, or anything thereafter, I should have been found probably
more ignorant than they were. But Judge Poland took me into
high favor, and I found his friendship exceedingly agreeable
and valuable. I do not remember that the Committee on the
Revision of the Laws had another meeting while I belonged
to it.
I was also, as I have said, put on the Committee of Education
and Labor. The Bureau of Education had been lately established
and the Commissioner appointed.
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