The Archive · 1931

THE U. S. JUDICIAL' SYSTEM

Washington, July 15.

The White House to-day made public a report of President Hoover's now extinct law enforcement and crime investigating commission in /which the experts who worked for two years under Mr. George W. Wickersham, the former Attorney-General of the United States, seriously indict the lower American courts.

The report of the Wickersham commission as made public to-day declares that "taking the country az 'a whole scandal continues to mark the work of oF courts, According to the reports the lower courts are filled with incompetent ites who conduct their work:

The reports of the individual' commissioners agree that the magistrates' courts lack dignity and that the minor courts carry on their proceedings in an atmosphere which tends to prejudice respect for Taw.

'The reports urge that all the American courts be taken out of politics and that there be a less but more careful use of the jury system, Judges, the report advises President Hoover, should be appoint-fed only on the' grounds of their fitness for office—United Press,

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