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New York State Bar Association. The vote stood 25 to 16. Unconstitutionality and inhumanity were two objections that were offered against the change. Too much lawmaking was another. The committee making the report had been asked to consider what attitude the society should assume toward proposed changes in the law providing for a ver dict of "guilty but insane" in criminal cases and limiting the right of alleged insane persons to the repeated issuance of writs of habeas corpus.

Obituary

Cox, John F. — The Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, John F. Cox, died at his home in Home stead, Pa., Nov. 6. He was born in 1852, in Mifflin township, and attended Westminster and Mt. Union Colleges, graduating from the latter institution.

an advocate of conspicuous ability, died at La Grange, Tex., Oct. 29. Riker, Samuel. — Samuel Riker, a re tired lawyer, died Nov. 19, in New York City. He first gained prominence in 1859, when he was concerned in the construction of the will of William Jay. Robinson, William C. — The dean of the law school of the Catholic Univer sity of America at Washington, D. C., Professor William C. Robinson, was stricken with apoplexy Nov. 7. He was seventy-seven years old, and one time dean of the law school of Yale University. He was a noted writer of legal works. Russell, William Hepburn. — William Hepburn Russell, who died Nov. 21, practised law in New York City, wrote legal articles and compiled a digest of United States Supreme Court Reports.

Dryden, John F. — Ex-United States Williams, James. — James Williams, Senator John F. Dryden of New Jersey, D.C.L., Fellow of Lincoln College, Ox President of the Prudential Insurance ford, and All Souls Reader in Roman Company of America, died Nov. 24. Law, died Nov. 3, in his sixtieth year. Ex-Senator Dryden went to Newark, He was a frequent contributor to the N. J., in 1873, when he was thirty-four Law Magazine and Review, and wrote years old, with the purpose of founding over one hundred legal articles for the an insurance company to deal in indus Encyclopedia Britannica. Besides his trial risks. He amassed a fortune esti legal writings, which included an edition mated at $50,000,000. of the Institutes of Justinian with a Komura, Juiako. — Baron Komura, commentary, he wrote "Dante as a who died at Tokyo Nov. 22, was gradu Jurist," "A Lawyer's Leisure," "Brief ated from Harvard Law School in 1878, less Ballads," and "The Oxford Year." receiving the first degree ever given by Yale University had given him the that institution to a Japanese student. honorary degree of LL.D. His legal education was partly continued Wright, Carroll. — A leader of the with studies in the office of the late ex- Iowa bar, Carroll Wright passed away Attorney-General Davenport of New at Colorado Springs Oct. 28. He had York. been counsel for the Rock Island Rail Moore, L. W. — Judge L. W. Moore, a prominent member of the Texas Bar Association, former Congressman, and

road and prominent in Des Moines. He had served several terms on the Board of Regents of the State University.