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Index to Periodicals came from those who thought that the matters at issue affected the honor of the two countries. In the long dispute as to the Oregon boundary there was the same talk of honor. President Polk declared that ‘he did not believe the terri torial rights of the nation to be a subject for arbitration.’ ‘All Oregon or none.‘ ‘Fifty-four forty, or ﬁght,’ was the popular cry. In the end the forty-ninth parallel was accepted with no loss of honor and dignity. The sticklers for the honor of this country pressed Lord Salisbury to meet President Cleveland's demand ——for such it was-that England should submit to arbitration the dispute between her and Vene zuela as to the boundary line of British Guiana. Lord Salisbury, who understood honor as well as any statesman, did not ield to this pressure. The matter was referre to arbitra tion, and resulted in a decision, on the whole,

in favor of England. A famous American statesman once declared that he would as soon cut off his right hand, as agree to the contention of England with respect to the North American ﬁsheries; a contention which his country lately submitted to the Hague Tribunal, with no loss of prestige or honor. In truth all the great arbitrations of the past, certainly the most successful, have turned upon questions which the litigants at one stage in the controversies declared involved vital interests and points of honor. “One remark as to the draft of the Anglo American treaty of arbitration. It is proposed to refer certain questions to a Commission of Inquiry, which will report without deciding. It might have been better to treat all questions alike.

But, at all events, the scheme provides

for old international disputes what is so much needed, a refrigerating chamber in which heated passions may cool down." "The International Prize Court and Code." By James L. Tryon. 20 Yale Law Journal 604 (June). "What now does all this legislation mean? It means that when the International Prize Court and Code come into use there will be a single system of law among the signatory nations with respect to prizes. Each signatory nation will no longer have the exclusive right to be its own judge of correct principles in a his toric and important department of International Law, but will be subject to a higher sovereignty, the self-imposed order of a quasi-international union, of the gradual growth of which the court and code are both expressions. It is another step forward in the limitation of war by the development of international justice. it is there fore a notable advance in the evolution of the peace movement." "Compromise —- The Great Defect of Arbi tration." By William Cullen Dennis. 11 Colum bio Law Review 493 (June). "It is submitted that with care in the framing of the terms of submission, direct agreement as to the selection of the judges, a simple, clear code of arbitral procedure, maintenance and ampliﬁcation of the right of revision, and the right to set aside an award which disregards the

terms of submission, together with provision for appeal in proper cases for the correction of error, compromise may be largely banished from international arbitration, even before the estab lishment of a permanent court of arbitral jus tice."

Interstate Commerce. "The Source of Authority to Engage in Interstate Commerce." By Frederick H. Cooke. 24 Harvard Law Re view 635 (June). "The fundamental right of transportation be tween points in different states is not derived from the Commerce clause, having been in exist ence long before the Commerce clause, and is one not merely against interference by indi viduals, but against interference under govern mental authority, whether that of Congress or

of the states. "But this statement applies only to the bald right of interstate transportation, as distin guished from such transportation under condi tions of special privilege. For this purpose govern mental authority is necessary. Such authority may be derived either from Congress or from the states." J udiclal Powers.

See Government.

Juvenile Delinquency. See Domestic Rela tions. Labor Problems. "The Railroad Riots of 1877." By James Ford Rhodes. Scribner‘s, v. 50, p. 86 (July). "From the close of the Civil War to the end of the century the gulf between labor and capital was constantly widening; the difficulty of either workman or employer putting himself in the other's place increased. This tendency was much accelerated by the autocratic reduction in wages in 1877 and by the strikes and riots which ensued. It is true that victory rested with the railroad companies, but it was a Pyrrhic victory." Legal Education. "instruction in Statute Law." By Horace A. Davis. 6 Illinois Law Re view 126 (June). "The end to be sought is instruction in the proper method of interpretation. That the materials necessarily used may prove valueless

in later professional life is unfortunate; but it does not mean that the work has been wasted. The same methods applied in discovering the real meaning of the New York Highway or Lien Law will be used in interpreting the federal statutes on taxation and the New Jersey cor poration laws. A mental attitude and accurate methods of work are the lessons to be learned; not an intimate acquaintance with any given statute, no matter how important.

The answer

is in effect the same as is made to the objections against certain courses in mathematics, and even against a liberal education as a whole-—that its purpose is to teach the student how to think." Legal History. "The Origin of the Peculiar Duties of Public Service Companies, I." By Charles K. Burdick. 11 Columbia Law Review 514 (June).