The Administration of Justice In no branch of the public administration have there been more numerous or more beneficial reforms than in the administration of justice.

They have resulted in simplifying organization, in decreasing the possibility of corruption and partiality, and in diminishing the cost of litigation and the time which it requires.
For the benefit of those especially interested I give in the appendix the past and present organization of the courts.

[495] The subject is too technical to interest the average layman.
The slender salaries paid to judges, the fact that in the majority of cases their appointment and promotion were due to influence and suggestion, their liability to be transferred from one court to another or from the Philippines to the Antilles, as frequently happened, and the further fact that the subordinate personnel of the courts was not a salaried one, caused the administration of justice in the Philippine Islands to be looked upon askance.

There was a general belief, well founded in many instances, that lawsuits were won through influence or bribery.

Clerks and the subordinate personnel of the courts were readily bribed.