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to deny his fellow citizens equal rights." Brief addresses were also made by ustice Henry N. Sheldon of the Supreme udicial Court, Charles F. Libby of Portalnd, Me., resi dent of the American Bar Association; enry {d Elliot, K. C., of Montreal, representin

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ontreal Bar Association; ud e Charles ac Intyre, president of the ary and Bar Asso ciation; Judge Robert Grant of the Probate Court and President R. C. Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo. Judge Grant read some original verses f l of local satire which would be lost on any one but a Bostonian.

lawlessness can be framed a ainst this Gov ernor. For the Tennessean gures that since his inauguration in 1907 he has issued 956 pardons. The New York World says his average has been six pardons a week, with a recor of 38 for one day.

The Sleel Corporafion’s Plan for ‘voluntary Accident Relief

be examined by physicians, so far as is prac ticable, to learn whether their delinquency is due to physical defects which can be remedied; and that more careful investiga tions be made of the character and history of defendants before being placed on proba

The plan for voluntary accident relief adopted by the United States Steel Corpora tion and experimentally ut into operation for one year beginning. ay 1, 1910, is an interesting eﬂort to solve the problem of just compensation for industrial accidents outside the sphere of legislation. A scale of compensation has been drawn up ﬁxing the amounts to be paid for temporary disablement, for permanent disablement, and for death. Thus single men temporarily dis abled will receive 35% and married men 50% of their daily wages at the time of the acci dent. An additional 2% for each ear of service above ﬁve years is added to t e fore going amounts, and in the case of married men, 5% more is added for each child under sixteen, rovided the total relief does not exceed 8 per day. Relief for permanent disablement will de pend upon the special circumstances of each case, and will ap ximate as closely as ssible to the f0 owing standard: for the oss of an arm, eighteen months‘ wages; for the loss of a hand or le, twelve months’ wages; for the loss of a oot, nine months‘

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wages; for the loss of an eye, six months’

The annual report of the New York State Probation Commission transmitted to the Legislature April 15 stated that over 11,000 offenders were under the care of probation officers in the state last year, over 9,000 being placed on probation during 1909. The report showed that an increasing number of courts are using the system, and that the standards

of probation work are improving, and good results are being obtained. The Commission recommends, among other things, that pro bation be used more generally in rural sec tions; that greater use he made of probation as a means of obliging offenders to make restitution for losses or damages caused by their offense; that children in juvenile courts

The Commission also favors, so far as

is practicable, the hearing of children's cases in guvenile courts by civil procedure instead of y criminal procedure. The action of Governor Patterson of Ten nessee on April 13, in pardonin Col. Duncan B. Cooper immediately after t e latter was sentenced by the Supreme Court of the state for murder in the second degree, has given rise to general denunciation. Governor Patter son's act shows exactly the same barbarous spirit as that of his friend, the pardoned man, when the latter ‘wrote to ex-Senator Carmack shortly before he was murdered, "If my name appears in the Tennessean again, one of us must die." In defense of this extraordinary proceeding, Gov. Patterson has foolishly argued that he is throughly familiar with the records, and it is "repugnant to every prin ciple of justice that a man should be found guilt of murder who was not in a cons iracy to ki, and who in fact did not kill."

e has

not, however, offered any argument in sup port of his own ability to discharge the func tions of a court of law in adjudicating a matter of which he could not pose as a dis interested jud e. As the New York Times has observed, ‘ every consideration that should

have weighed with a civilized Governor in a civilized communit ought to have restrained him from this act. ' It is possible, however, that even more serious charges of abetting

we es. seath relief will depend upon how long the deceased has been in the service of the com pany, and the number of children under six teen, but is in no case to exceed $3,000. ' To entitle an employee to any of the fore going relief, the execution of a release to the company will he insisted on. No relief will be paid if suit is brought. The nod for

which relief is paid is not to excee ﬁfty-two weeks, and all injured men must obey the surgeon's instructions to be entitled to it. The company will under no circumstances deal with an attorney, or with any one except the injured man or some member of his family, “because it is art of the plan that the whole amount pai shall be received by the employee and his family." Relief will be paid only for disablement

sustained while acting within the scope_of employment or while voluntarily protectvivriilg the companfy's property or interests, nor

it be paid or injuries caused or contributed to by the intoxication of the employee injured or his use of stimulants or narcotics or hrs taking part in any illegal or immoral acts. The compan in no way binds itself to grant the relie, for no contract is assumed nor right of action conferred on the emplo e. The expense of carrying out the plan m _be met by the company with no contribution whatsoever from the employees.