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Judge John H. Light of Hartford, Ct., has been ap 'nted Attorney-General of Connecti cut to the unexpired term of Judge Mar cus H. Holcomb.

Ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin of New Haven was nominated by acclamation for Governor of Connecticut at the state Demo cratic convention Sept. 8. Judge Baldwin was nominated by Dean Henry Wade R era, his collea e on the faculty of the Yale w School. ean Rogers made an eloquent political speech the course of which was fre quently interrupted by rounds of a plause. In accepting the nomination, t e learned Professor of International and Constitutional Law at Yale made a characteristic speech ex tracts from which, as re rted by the news pa rs (the diction will ardly be recognized as ud e Baldwin's own), are as follows :— "This is the ﬁrst time for nearly eighteen years that I have had an o portunity to speak my mind at a political gat ering. "We have the old-fashioned notion in Con necticut that a judge should be kept out of politics, and while on the bench it was my endeavor to follow that rule, and content myself with casting a silent vote, now I have recovered the rivilege of free speech,

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Lord Halsbury celebrated his eighty-ﬁfth birthday on Saturday, Sept. 17. He has only three predecessors among the Lord Chan cellors of the Victorian era who attained a greater number of years. Lord St. Leonards died at ninety-three, Lord Lyndhurst at ninety-one, and Lord Brougham at eighty nine. The oldest living college graduate in the United States is believed to be William Rankin, who was graduated from Williams College in 1831 and who on Sept. 15 was one hundred years old. Mr. Rankin was a lawyer of distinction until he retired some years a 0. He was also, for many years, treasurer of are

gloardhof Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian urc. Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University, was nominated for Governor of New Jersey at the Democratic state conven tion meeting at Trenton Sept. 15. Dr. Wilson was nominated on the ﬁrst ballot and received forty more votes than the requisite number. His nomination was brought about by the eﬁorts of the Democratic state leader and of a number of independent Democrats. Henry L. Stimson, whose work as the govem

ment prosecutor of the sugar weighin frauds in New York forced him into nationaf romi nenm, was nominated for Governor 0 New York at the Republican Convention held at Saratoga late in September. Dean Ezra R. Thayer of the Harvard Law School, who knew Mr. Stimson during his two student years in Cambridge, has paid an interestin tribute to Mr. Stimson, for whom he ﬁnds it ard to ﬁnd words of praise too strong to do him justice. Mr. Thayer has said: ‘Other prosecutin officers have deservedly enjoyed great natio prominence as the result of achievements not to be compared with what Mr. Stimson per sonally accomplished in the Sugar Trust cases. In that matter, as in others, his conduct of

his office stands as a model for the future, and the wisdom which he showed in choosing his associates, as well as the quiet and eﬂ’ec tive despatch of business during his adminis tration, may be taken as earnest of his ca ac ity for executive oﬂice. In the light 0 his character and equipment, and his record as a man and a lawyer, it is not too much to say that he would be a worthy successor to Governor Hughes." I

and I am glad to use it before this convention,

which has done me today so great an honor. “It is, I believe, an hour of opportunity for the Democratic party, the country over. The people are tired of the Republican party, tired of its sweet content in living on the canned reputation of what it was half a cen tury ago. "All the power of the federal Government is given in the Constitution of the United States and strictly deﬁned by the Constitu tion of the United States. It can be increased through executive or legislative or judicial action, by usurpation of what belongs to the states or by u ation of what the people have reserved to t emselves, and in no ot er

way. We of the Democratic party are against such usurpation,—against a policy of imperial centralization." At the conclusion of the speech there was long and loud applause.

Mircellaneolu An innovation is likely to be attempted this winter by the Superintendent of Documents at Washington, in response to the demand for printed copies of laws enacted by Congress immediately after that passage. A circular will be sent out inviting subscriptions for the ship laws, as they are called, and if a suﬂi

cient number of subscriptions are received to warrant the expense of undertaking the print ing of the federal laws in this manner, they wil be mailed with promptness after their passage to the subscribers. The International Maritime Conference, sitting at Brussels in Se tember, after pro longed discussion reacheg an agreement on the extremely difficult questions of salva e and collision. Draft treaties on these su jects were unanimously agreed upon, and the