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methods of dealing with neglected and defective children showing criminal tendencies.
Massachusetts Bar Associalion The new Massachusetts Bar Association is gradually perfecting its organization, two committees having been appointed at this writing.
Miscellaneous
One of these, the Committee on
Le 'slation, has already had several meetings an has submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature its views on the recent report of the commission which investigated the causes of delay in civil cases. This committee is charged by the constitution with those duties commonly allotted to committees on “law reform,‘ and is made u of the following members: Charles F. Balier, Fitchburg; Christo her T. Calahan, H01 oke; Charles W. Cli 0rd, New Bedford; rederick A. Fisher, Lowell; John D. McLauilhlin, Boston; ohn W. Cummin 5, Fall ‘ 'ver; William . Niles. Lynn; rederick S. Hall, Taunton; Charles E. Hibbard, Pittsfield;
Hon. George S. Taft,
Worcester; Hon. Augustine J. Daly, Boston; Lee M. Friedman, Boston; George W. Anderson, Boston; and Robert Homans. Boston. The Committee on Le a1 Education is thus constituted: John W. ason, Northampton; {)qseph H. Beale, Jr., Cambridge; oseph B. arner, Boston; S. H. E. Freun, Boston; and Alden P. White, Salem.
Crime and Criminal Law Chattanoo a's new Juvenile Court was 0 erred on eb. 28. Cit Judge Martin leming is the presiding ju ge.
The twenty-sixth conference of the Inter national Law Association will be held in London from August 2 to Au st 6, under the presidency of rd Justice illiam Rann Kennedy. For the first time in the history of Co lumbia University, women are to be per mitted to take the law course. They will be received at the summer session, which begins on the first Wednesday in July. Heretofore no law courses have been given at the summer school. The twenty-third Congress of the Institute of International Law was opened in the Sorbonne March 28 by Minister of Justice Barthou. There was a la e attendance of authorities on internationa
law,
all parts
of the civilized world bein represented. The delegate from the Unite States is James Brown Soott, Solicitor of the State Depart ment. The questions under discussion in cluded the treatment of the vessels of belliger ents while in neutral ports in time of war, which point was activel debated following the Russo-J8. anese co 'ct; regulations for the laying o submarine mines, and inter national law as affecting individuals.
President Taft was the chief speaker at According to a recent ofiicial report, the Rand, in South Africa, contains more crimi
nals to the thousand inhabitants than any other place in the civilized world. The population is about 1,500,000.
In 1909 one
out of every 245 was convicted. The prison has lost its terrors for the native. During the last five years 182,689 natives have assed through the prisons—roughly, one- th of the total native population. Delegates rephresenting penolo 'cal and other closely a. 'ed interests wi make a two-thousancl-mile journey next autumn to visit reformatories and penal institutions between New York, Chicago, Louisville and Washington. On arrival at Washington the delegates will attend the annual meeting of the American Prison Association from September 28 to October 2. The eighth qulnquennial International Prison Congress will be held at Washin n from October 2 to October 8, on the invitation of the Depart
ment of State, being opened by President Taft. Distinguished experts and students of criminology both at home and from abroad will attend. The Congress is divided into four
sections,
Section
I
dealing
with
in
determinate sentences and other subjects of_ criminal law and procedure, Section II with reformative methods, Section III with
preventive methods, and Section IV with
the dinner given in his honor by the American Peace and Arbitration Lea e March 22 in New York City. He u the importance of having a permanent court of arbitration, and continued: “As resort becomes more and more frequent to this permanent court questions which can be submitted in the view of the nations will grow broader and broader in their scope. I have noticed exceptions in our arbitration treaties, as to reference of questions of honor, of national honor, to courts of arbitration. Personally, I do not see any more reason why matters
of national honor should not be referred to a court of arbitration any more than matters of property or matters of individual pro prietorship."
Necrology-— The Bench Bingham, Marcellus A.—At Burlington. Vt., March 14, aged 64. Judge of Chittenden county probate court; formerly State's Attorney, representative, and state senator. Brewer, David Josiah, LL.D.-At
ington, D. C., March 28, aged 73. Smyrna,
Asia
Minor,
his
Wash
Born in
mother bein
a
sister of David Dudley, Cyrus W. and Step en J. Field, and his father a missionary; edu cated at Yale and at Albany Law School; entered practice of law at Leavenworth, Kas.;
