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 The Legal World forms of indictments, changes in the selection of juries and in the rules governing pleadings.

Other

speakers

were

Dr.

Daniel

Phelan, surgeon of the Dominion Peni tentiary at Kingston, Ont., L. A. Hal bert, general superintendent of the Board

of Public Welfare of Kansas City and James A. Kayll, advisory visitor of the New Zealand prisons.

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resigned from the bench Oct. 21, his resignation to take effect immediately. Judge Grosscup had ﬁrst announced that he would resign in September, but following published statements alleging

misconduct in office on his part and rumored reasons for the resignation at that time, he declared he would not resign until he had given his enemies a chance to face him squarely in order

that he might prove the charges false. Then came the report that he would re Personal Members of the Suffolk Bar met in the court room of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Oct. 21 for the presentation of resolutions eulogiz ing the late Justice John Lathrop of the Supreme Court. Moorﬁeld Storey was chosen chairman of the meeting and John C. Gray, as chairman of the com mittee on resolutions, read the report of his committee. Winslow Warren and Augustus Loring were called upon to speak of their personal acquaintance with the late Justice, and Attorney

sign some time.during the ﬁrst week of October, but his duties in connection with the settlement of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric case detained him. On leaving the bench Judge Grosscup announced he had no further plans for the future than to take up the private practice of law.

A very remarkable and impressive

General Swift presented the resolutions

incident occurred in Omaha early in October, in connection with a meeting of the Douglas county bar called for the purpose of adopting resolutions on the death of Richard S. Hall and two

to the full bench.

other deceased members of the bar. The meeting was addressed

With the record of twenty-ﬁve years of service well done in the administra tion of the federal law, Judge Henry F.

Severens of Kalamazoo, Mich., closed

by the

venerable Judge E. Wakeley of Omaha, who ﬁfty years before had made a similar address in memory of Mr. Hall's father, Augustus Hall, the distinguished pioneer jurist. “When ﬁfty years ago

his career as Judge of the United States

I took in that gathering of friends of

Court of Appeals at Cincinnati Oct. 3. Judge John W. Warrington, his suc

Augustus Hall, territorial judge of ' Nebraska, and said a few appropriate words out of my heartfelt admiration for his good life and good deeds, what could have been more improbable than that I, a half century later, should be

cessor, paid eloquent tribute to the career and service of Judge Severens. Follow ing the session of the court Judge Severens received expressions of _ per

sonal good will from many of the attor here to pay a like tribute to his son, neys and other friends. ley, Richard in a S. voice Hall?" trembling asked with Judgeemotion Vake Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States Circuit Court, seventh circuit,

as he addressed district and federal judges and members of the bar.