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can pee le may justly criticize the executives of our y for their mistakes, but they will pardon them, if they believe that there is a

court will be organized late in the autumn ranking next to the Supreme Court of the

sincere endeavor to ascertain the facts, to

commerce court is authorized it will make another tribunal of co-ordinate judicial power. There will probably be need, therefore, of such a building.

deal with problems in the light of the facts, with the sole object to be of service to the community, and that must be the test to be ap lied to all essays of administration. resident Lowell of Harvard University talked on "Physiology in Politics," and said:

“How much do statesmen turn to professors of political science for advice? Surely students of politics do not lead public thought so much as they ought to do; and is this not largel because they are regarded as theoretica; because, in other words, they do not study enough the actual workings of Government?

United States, and

if the

new

interstate

S aking to the Civic Forum at Carnegie H in New York City on Dec. 28, on the centenary of Gladstone's birth, Ambassador James Bryce said that Gladstone's leadership was marked by his work for peace and good will among the nations. He was helped in all his pubhc life b his deep religious faith and earnest piety. his moral coura e, Mr. Bryce

said,

was

rare

amon

p0 iticians.

Politics is an observational, not an experi

Gladstone's mind was open to t e call of any

mental, science; and hence the greater need of careful observation of those phenomena

good cause, which was the ﬁnest test of any

which‘ we can use. For example, what are the classes of voters who change sides, or abstain from voting, at different elections, and

in what way is this affected by the Australian ballot, and by direct primaries or other methods of nomination?" Professor Farnham discussed "Labor Legis lation and Economic Progress," and Professor

E. M. Parker of Harvard presented a aper on “Administrative Courts for the nited States." The latter speaker said: “Our sys tem of submitting questions between govern ment and citizens to the ordinary courts is not in all things advanta eous to the citizen." On the second day, rofessor Frank W. Taussig of Harvard University deplored the lack of exact methods of formulating a theory of wages that would hold good under all con ditions. Professor G. M. Wrong of the University of Toronto declared Canada to be to all intents and purposes a free country, which could break its ties with the mother country with out a strug le, with the people of Canada hardl knowing that a change had been tak ing p ace. Ambassador Bryce’s address on "Recent English History in its Constitutional Aspects" was largely devoted to a tribute to Gladstone's knowledge of the British Constitution and his notable work in helping to mould it to ﬁt modern conditions. Many other equally important addresses were delivered, which there is not room to

notice.

eadership. The twelfth General Convention of the Le al Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi was held in ew York City, Dec. 28 and 29. Forty out of forty-one active Chapters were repre sented. Six applications from Law schools were considered, and charters were granted to the Pittsb h Law School and the Alcalde Law Club of t e University of Texas. The following were elected members of the Execu tive Council :——Earl G. Rice, Seattle, Wash.; Louis D. Barr, Mansﬁeld, Ohio; Emmett A. Donnelly, Madison, Wis; Herbert M.

Peck, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Geo. A. Katzen berger, Greenville, Ohio.

Necrologr The Bench Bryant, judge Edgar E.—At Coﬂ'eeville, Miss, Dec. 11, aged 48.

ernor of Askansas; a brilliant man of high

literary attainments. Castor, éudge Lyman G.——At Vienna, Ill., Dec. 9. or the past three years county judge. Cape, Walter Burton.—At San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 6, aged 48. Served two terms on the superior bench of California‘; formerly president of the San Francisco Bar Associa tion. Davina, fudge james B.—At Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 16, aged 48‘

Miscellaneou:

Orator and jurist; a

popular but unsuccessful candidate for Gov

One of the ablest

lawyers in California; formerly Justice of the Peace in Sacramento, also Court Commissioner.

Professor George W. Kirchwey, Dean of the Columbia Law School, spoke Dec. 19 in

Trinity Church, Boston, on the legal aspects of the peace movement in its relation to the Christian church. He expressed the belief that the Hague plan is about to be consum mated.

Fahrion, Ge0rge.—At Kiowa, Col., Dec. 67 aged 73. Judge of Kiowa county for thirty seven years; never had one of his decisions reversed; one of the best known lawyers in

the state. Fitts, justice N. Y.,

There has been a deal of a 'tation in years ast for a Supreme Court bui ding on Capitol ill, Washington, as a companion building to the Library of Congress. The new customs

Dec.

George

H.——At

17, aged 58.

Kingston,

Served as city

attorney of Cohoes, N. Y., and Surrogate of Albany county; elected Supreme Court Jus tice for the Third Judicial Department in 1905; term would have ended in 1918.