Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . .Such was the energy and success of ^Ir. Winnin the Senate that in one year the bills eitherdrafted or reported l)y him reached the whole Blue Book. Senator Brown says, in his sketch of :— His success in carrying his i)oints was re-markable. Of , he sometimes failed toget his bills substituted for l)ills and reports of 590 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. other eoniniittees. We tliink, lio\ve\er, weare safe in sayiuy (alt
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . .Such was the energy and success of ^Ir. Winnin the Senate that in one year the bills eitherdrafted or reported l)y him reached the whole Blue Book. Senator Brown says, in his sketch of :— His success in carrying his i)oints was re-markable. Of , he sometimes failed toget his bills substituted for l)ills and reports of 590 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. other eoniniittees. We tliink, lio\ve\er, weare safe in sayiuy (altlioui;Ii we may be mis-taken in some minor matter) tiiat no hill draftedby him as the result of a reference to any ofliis committees, and no l)ill reported by him,was ever defeated. He was for 1S93 electetl Ijy a large majorityMayor of Maiden, Mass., where he resides. Jiie strength of his mind lies in analysis, inthe power of grasping details, and in the con-structive faculty tiiat piovides a remedy incomplex difficulties. When the great Lamsonct Goodnow cutlery concern was thrown intoinsolvency, the leading creditors who would. have accepted twenty-live percent, put the caseinto his charge. He secuied the passage of aspecial law, devised and obtained the ado}>tionof a complex compromise, secured the discon-tinuance of thirty law suits in diltcrcnt states,stepped from his office into the actual manage-ment and sale of hundreds of different stylesof goods, and in a yeai, despite the efforts ofrivals to crush their weakened competitor,brought the couipany to an impregnable posi-tion, and the creditors with what they receivedwill be paid in full. He drew the pioneer nuiuicipal lighting law of 1891 except the amendment as tothe purchase of private i)lants, and secured tliepassage of the act of 1893 excluding earningcapacity as an element of price which citiesand towns could be forced to pay for them, aprecedent important in dealing with publicservice cor
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