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I have the honour to acknowledge your letter
of April 10th, in which you (a) appeal to me to consult the Chief Justice on all matters relating to the Supreme Court and (b) request that the questions now in issue may be discussed verbally.
With regard to the first. I am entirely at
a loss to understand what misapprehension can have prompted this appeal. It is most certainly my desire now as it always has been to consult the Chief Justice on all matters referring to the Supreme Court.
With regard to the second. I fully informed Your Honour in a private note of the reasons which prompted me to deprecate a discussion of such matters as had already become the subject of Official Correspondence. I observed that I heartily welcome discussion of any matter before it had reached this stage, and when it might be desirable to clear the field of argument and define the issues. The literary ability displayed by Your Honour in stating every conceivable argument in favour of the view you uphold, and in mesting any arguments which may be advanced against it, leaves no room for verbal expansion. Should our points of view unfortunately differ, or should I be unable for financial or other reasons to concur in a proposal made by you - as for instance in the matter of an immediate increase in the Registry Staff - the correspondence is usually forwarded at Your Honour's request to the Secretary of State for his final decision. To make it complete a precis of any verbal discussion which had intervened would be necessary, and this would involve additional time and work, without in my opinion any corresponding gain. The subjects at issue are connected with
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