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.
