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 Latest Important Cases returns is probably true. She has bled herself too freely, and the heart now shows some signs of weakness." International Politics. "The Powers in the Paciﬁc." By Archibald R. Colquhoun. North American Review, v. 193. p. 861 (June).

“The only way to insure peace in the Paciﬁc Ocean is to maintain a roper balance of power between East and est, and unless the British Empire and the United States are prepared to co-operate the task will be almost impossible." Irrigation. "The Service that Makes the Desert Bloom.’ By Frederick Palmer. Hamp ton's, v. 26, p. 699 (June).

in a com rehensive article on reclamation work being one in the West, Mr. Palmer pays a high tribute to the United States Reclamation Service. He is especially enthusiastic over the accomplishments of Frederick H. Newell, Director of the Service. Music. “Music and the Profession of the Law." By Clement Antrobus Harris. 23 juridical Review 65 (Apr.).

Party

Politics.

369 "Theodore

Roosevelt,

Please Answer.” By Melville E. Stone, Jr. Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 265 (June). Criticizing Mr. Roosevelt's record with respect to the "Panama scandal." Political Corruption. "The Lorimer Case." By James H. Blount. North American Review, v. 193, p. 871 (June). if a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the chain by which Mr. Lorimer is anchored to his seat in the United States Senate is indeed shamefully weak, for, unless Kerjury on the part of Meyers be admitted, t e crookedness of Browne is clear.

Tariﬂ. “Testing the Tariff by Moral Effects." By Ida M. Tarbell. American Magazine, v. 72, p. 186 (June). "The ﬁnal case against the doctrine of pro tection as’ we know it lies then in the kind of men it makes: men who are worse, not better,

for its practice. No system against which this, the greatest of human offenses, the corruption of manhood, can be proved can stand.

"Protection must ultimately disappear from this land because it is breeding bad men."

Latest Important Cases Administrative Powers. Question of Unlawful Delegation of Legislative Power

to Secretary of A grieulture — Federal Pub lic Lands — Rules and Regulations of which Violations are Criminally Punish

able. In U. S. v. Grimaud and

U. S. U. S. v.

rules and regulations, and made a vio

lation thereof a penal oﬁ'ense.

Their

several demurrers were sustained. The government brought the case here under the clause of the criminal appeals act (34 Stat. at L. 1246, chap. 2564, U. S.

Comp. Stat. Supp. 1909, p. 220) which

Inda (L. ed. adv. sheets 480), decided

allows a writ of error where the ‘deci

by the United States Supreme Court May 1, to quote the opinion of the Court (Lamar, J.):— “The defendants were indicted for grazing sheep on the Sierra Forest Re serve without having obtained the per mission required by the regulations adopted by the Secretary of Agricul ture. They demurred on the ground that the forest reserve act of 1897 [30 Stat. at L. 35, chap. 2, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1540] was unconstitu

sion complained of was based upon the invalidity of the statute.‘ "The federal courts have been divided

tional, in so far as it delegated to the

Secretary of Agriculture power to make

on the question as to whether viola

tions of those regulations of the Secre tary of Agriculture constitute a crime. The rules were held to be valid for civil purposes in Dastervignes v. United States, 58 C. C. A. 346, 122 Fed. 30; United States v. Dastervignes, 118 Fed. 199; United States v. Shannon, 151 Fed. 863;

ibid. 88 C. C. A. 52, 160 Fed. 870. They were also sustained in criminal prosecutions in U. S. v. Deguirro, 152