The Legal World "preached the vaporings of the French Revo lution," and "practised the principles of a hard-headed man of the world, not too
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or four years. He is fort -two years old, and a graduate of Harvard ollege and Harvard Law School.
scrupulous in his methods, but devoted to his
country and anxious to serve her to the best of his ability."
Peraonal- The Bench Judge M. B. Abercrombie of Tuskegee, Ala., gave a dinner December 22 in honor of the bar and the ofiicials of Macon county.
Mayor-Elect William J. Gaynor of New York City was given a dinner Dec. 20 b the bench and bar of New York City. udge Alton
B.
Parker
acted
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toastmaster,
and other past and present members of the judiciary expressed warm appreciation of the character and ability of the guest of the even ing. Judge Gaynor earnestly asked for the good will and support of the bar in the great task upon which he was about to enter.
United States Circuit Judge Peter S. Gross cup delivered a lecture on “Corporations and the Sherman Anti-Trust Law" Dec. 10, before
the college of law of Marquette University. Judge M. M. Brooks of San Antonio, Tex., has resi ed from the bench of the Court of Crimi A peals of that state. He is suc ceeded b Judge Felix J. McCord, who had served t ree years as Assistant Attorney General. Justice Lewis J. Conlan, who retired from service in the New York City Court, where he had served for sixteen years, on January 1, was resented with a gold-headed cane by the ustices, officers and employees of the court on Dec. 21. Former Judge Alton B. Parker presided and delivered the principal eulogy of the late Justice Peckham, at a special memorial meet mg of its bar of the United States Supreme Court, held in the Supreme Court rooms in Washington Dec. 18. Governor Hughes of New York has ap inted Randall J. Le Bceuf of Albany as preme Court Justice of the third judicial district, to succeed the late Justice George H. Fitts of Cohoes. Mr. Le Baeuf was born in Cohoes, N. Y., in 1870.
Judge Andrew Wilson, of the Juvenile Court of New Orleans has been called by Dr. A. S. Orne of Chicago, one of the best
juvenile court judges in the country. Dr. Orne is also highly pleased with the Loui siana juvenile laws, as they are practised and enforced in New Orleans. Tribute wasl{)aid to the memory of the late Judge Robert . Bishop of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Dec. 18, by lawyers and judges. Resolutionswere adopted, after which Chief Justice Aiken spoke, recalling the afiec tion inspired by Judge Bishop, as well as the honor and respect in which he was held. President Taft has nominated George H. Carpenter of Illinois for district judge for the northern district of Illinois, to succeed the
late Judge Bethea. Judge Carpenter has been a circuit judge of Cook county for three
In an opinion which reduced the salaries of commissioners in charge of condemnation proceedings in connection with the construc tion of the Ashokan reservoir in Ulster county, to furnish a water supply for New York City, Justice Howard of the New York Supreme Court made the striking assertion Dec. 28 that at least forty per cent of all the money ap ro priated for public use is lost in aft. “ t is greatly to be regretted," he said, "that no public enterprise can be projected and con summated without this appalling loss called ‘graft.’ Graft is not necessaril an illegal expenditure of money; but it is t at unneces sary wasteful use which characterizes the construction of every public venture." Federal Judge Peter S. Grosscup appeared as a defender of trusts and combinations in an address given Dec. 17 at the annual dinner of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association at Chicago. He declared that efforts to prevent co orations from combining are as useless an as contrary to the laws of nature as statutes against the fundamental principles that control the solar system. The jurist said the great combinations must be curbed by some sort of government regulations, but he sharply criticized the present laws tending to this end. Discussing in detail the ques tion of railroad regulation, he asserted that neither the Interstate Commerce Commission nor the federal courts are as well qualified to fix rates as the railroad men themselves. He unfolded a scheme which would guarantee the railroads a fixed dividend and allow them to fix their rates accordingly. If their profits exceeded this fi re he would provide that the excess shoul go into the public treasury. His system of reform included industrial insurance and pension funds and a provision by which railroad employees could benefit by some sort of profit sharing arrangement.
Pcrsonal- The Bar Charles A. Colley of Waterbury, Conn, is
to retire from the practice of law to manage his real estate interests. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Abram M. Tillman as United States Attor ney for the middle district of Tennessee.
