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a nne person is death, such sentence for the in sane person thus found guilty shall be for life; but in all cases the Governor shall have the power of pardon, after such inquiry as he may see fit to institute upon the question whether it will be safe to the public to allow such a person to go at large.
Attorney-General Wickersham took as the subject of his address delivered on Thursday evening, "Concerning Cer tain Essentials of Republican Govern ment." The banquet afterward given to Mr. Wickersham and the State Bar
The committee did not feel warranted in asking the Legislature to pass such a law just now, but asked that its report be submitted to all the oflicers of insti tutions for the insane and others who are interested in the question so that the bar may get a fuller knowledge on the subject. The Association adopted resolutions asking the Court of Appeals to amend the rules as to the admission of candi dates to the bar so as to raise the stand
Association by the Onondaga County Bar, on the same evening, was a bril
ard of education and character, "that
the profession may be placed upon the high plane to which it justly belongs." John Brooks Leavitt, in dicussing the report on abuses of the contingent fee, said that the committee had met with
liant affair. CRrmNAL PROCEDURE
Adolph J. Rodenbeck of Rochester, Judge of the Court of Claims and chair man of the Board of Statutory Consoli dation, made an address on Friday afternoon, on "The Reform of Procedure
in the Courts of the State of New York." The evils of the present crimi nal procedure were gone into fully by Judge Rodenbeck, who said that the same treatment which has been recom mended for the civil practice might be applied to the criminal branch. It could be classified, consolidated and revised
incredulity, apathy and hostility, and
to great advantage.
stated that the profession generally was not awake to the need of regulation.
The speaker repeated the ten recom mendations offered by the committee
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of the American Institute of Criminal
As a result of the action of the Asso ciation endorsing the Moon bill, the following letter was sent to the White
House:— Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1911.
The President, Washington: The New York State Bar Association, in annual convention in the city of Syracuse, earnestly and pursuant to unanimous resolution, petitions and urges that the salaries of the judges of the federal courts may be increased to the just and reasonable amounts proposed by Mr. Moon of Pennsylvania. The present salaries are both inadequate for the suitable support of those exercising the judicial office, which ex cludes the propriety of other gainful occupations, and insufiicient compensation for the service to which they devote their lives and sacrifice their professional opportunities. Elihu Root, President. Frederick E. Wadhams, Secretary.
Law and Criminology (see 23 Green Bag 92, under "Criminal Procedure"). When the classification, consolidation and revision of the practice acts have
been accomplished, some check upon the too frequent and ill-advised amend ments should be provided, said Judge Rodenbeck.
If no statutory board can
be secured by appropriate legislation a strong committee of the Association should be able to preserve the integrity and symmetry of the practice. Following the reading of Judge Roden
beck’s paper, the executive and law re form committees met to discuss the ex tent to which the practice of the courts should be revised.
The Association endorsed a Project ‘of the reform of medical eXPe" testimony.
