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comprised 725 cases, among them some of the most important, erhaps, with which the Court has had to eal for years. The ﬁrst month of the new term was occupied, in part, by the arguments in the Missouri River rate cases, on the constitu

tionality of the Carmack amendment to the Hepburn rate law, and in the Kentucky Blanket Grants case. The Court on Oct. 17 refused to grant a rehearin of the Missouri River Rate cases and the enver Rate cases (see 22 Green Bag 419). The result is to put into effect the order reducing the class rates between Mississippi River crossings and Missouri River cities on freight originating at Atlantic seaboard points, and that reducing freight rates on class articles from Chicago and St. Louis to Denver. The Court afﬁrmed the decision of the United States Circuit Court in Matter of Hoﬁstot (see 22 Green Bag 417), without rendering an opinion, sustaining the decision of udge Holt that the writ of habeas corpus wil not be granted, after interstate rendition proceedings, if the petitioner was physically present in the demanding state at the time when the crime was committed. The Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases have been assigned for rehearing on Jan. 3. The series of corporation tax cases has also been restored to the calendar for re argument in January. A number of other im ortant cases are also set for rehearing. hese include the Gom ers contempt case, to be heard Jan. 16, the mployer's Liability cases, to be heard Nov. 28, the Panama libel appeal case against the New York World. the 2-cent passenger rate cases from Missouri, and the litigation between the states of Vir 'nia and West Virginia over the question 0 the settlement of the debt due the former from the latter commonwealth, the last of which is to be argued Jan. 16.

Personal Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court, and Professor

John William Burgess, dean of the faculty of political science in Columbia University, received the honorary degrees of Doctor of IAWS from the University of Berlin, at its centenary celebration on October 12. “I cannot say too much for the juvenile court system and the probation system which you have here in America," said Chief Justice Hans Gmelin, of the Supreme Court of Wtlrttemberg, Germany, on his recent visit to the United States. "We are far be hind in the former system, and there are

many lessons which we can learn from the Americans." Charles Montague Lush, K.C., has been appointed a ud e of the English High Court, in lace of r. ustice Jelf, whose resignation too eﬁect on October 6. Mr. Montague Lush was born in 1853, and is the fourth

Son of the late Lord Justice Lush. Early in his career at the bar he wrote a well-known treatise on “The Law of Husband and Wife." He took “silk" in 1902, and during the eight 1years and more he has been a King's Counsel c has occupied a foremost place at the common law bar. "I do not agree with many of your fellow citizens that capital punishment should be abolished," said Judge Kun ah T. King of the Supreme Court of ustice, Pekin, China, during his recent visit to this country to attend the Washington Prison Congress, "but I do think that the punishment of a crime by death should be as humane as possible. For that reason one of my recom

mendations on m

return to China will be

the ado tion of t system of electrocution rather t :1 our present system of beheading. I have heard considerable of your system of juvenile courts but you must realize that in China we have very little need'of them. Our children are taught from their earliest days the honor of their parents, and a father's wish is law to his children. I do not think there will ever be great need of a juvenile court in China, even in the city of Pekin."

The ‘Uermont Bar Association The thirty-second annual meeting of the Vermont Bar Association was held at Mont pelier Oct. 4-5. President C. A. Austin's address dealt with "Marriage and Divorce." He reviewed the laws on divorce from the earliest times, sayin that a system of separa tion of husband an wife has always existed, and that the roblem is social, and can be aided but litte by le 'slation. The Asso ciation endorsed a bil allowing covenant, debt and assumpsit or an two of them to be joined in a single action or the same cause. The Committee on Jurisprudence suggested a modiﬁcation of the fellow servant doctrine, but no action was taken. The followin new officers were elected: President, Hon. ames M. Tyler of Brattleboro; ﬁrst vice-president, Rufus E. Brown of Burlington;

second vice

president, Porter H. Dale of Island Pond; third vice-president, Edwin Lawrence of Rutland;

secretary,

J.

H.

Mimms of

St.

Albans; treasurer, E. M. Harvey of Mont pelier; librarian, C. H. Senter of Montpelier.

Railway Rate Regulation Investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission into the proposed advances of freight rates in eastern trunk line territo, was resumed in October at Washington, D. ., after an ad'ournment of the hearing from New York ity. Counsel for the railroads expressed entire willingness to rest their case on statements made by President James McCrea of the Penns vania Railway; Presi dent Daniel Willard o the Baltimore & Ohio, and President William C. Brown of the New York Central lines.