Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — AUSTRIAN BAR IN PROTEST [ARTICLE]

AUSTRIAN BAR IN PROTEST

Object to Restraining Refugee Lawyers of Galicia and Bukowina From Practicing. Vienna—A committee of the Austrian Bar association has recently drawn up a vigorous protest against the enactments of the government restraining the refugee lawyers of Galicia and Bukowina from the practice of their profession in lower Austria. The representations of the committee, which has behind it not only the prominent lawyers of Vienna, but of all the Austrian crownlands, received instant and hearty indorsement from the bar. The Austrian Bar association repudiated all sympathy with the illiberal policy of the state authorities, and by a three-quarters vote* of its members, put itself on record against the proceedings disbarring its colleagues from Galicia and Bukowina. Public opinion, too, keenly alive to the fact that the government is imposing disabilities on a part of its population which is suffering for its sake, is in emphatic accord with the stand of the lawyer’s committee.