The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-26
CLASS DAY EXERCISES
YALE GRADUATES HAVE A MERRY
TIME AND PLANT AN wy.
W. Bourke Cochran Talks to Would
BE Lawyers and Exhibits the
Spectre of Imperialism.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, June 25.-The
class-day exercises at Yale were held on
the campus this afternoon. beginning at 2
o'clock in the wooden ampitheater. con-
structed for that purpose. There was a
considerable company of auditors present.
comfortably filling the structure, seating
400 people. Many of them were from dis
tant parts OF the country, friends and rela-
tives of the S57 members of the academic
class. The exercises consisted of the sing
ing of college songs, interspersed with
reading of personal humorous histories of
the members of the class. AS each mans
name was reached in the reading, he was
Eoisted TO the shoulders of his classmaters.
The historians were Charlton B. Inomp-
son, of Iryington, KY; Maurice Z. Gould.
of W~aubansee. Kan; Ashley D. Leavitt, OF
Melrese, Mass; 4. r. Hill, OF Yonkers. n.
Y, and C. II. Draper. of Hopedale. Mass.
The reading of the histories was followed
by the planting of the class ivy at the
Chittenden library.
W. Bourke Cochran addressed the grad
uating class of the Yale law school this
afternoon at the anniversary exercises. He
said the young men OF the graduating class
were entering their profession on the eve
of tie most momentouS decision ever given
by a court, referring to the pending ques-
ton before the Supreme Court of the
United States on the constitutional aspect
of acquired territories. Should the Su-
preme Court decide that the Constitution
applies to newly acquired islands, and that
their products and their people have free
access to our shares, to our ports, and to
our marts of trade. both political parties
will be as earnest I'm their desire to be rid
OF them as one party already seems TO be, :
said Mr.. Cochran. The United States
right 70 take territory is not disputed. The
annexation of Canada is a wish of many
not an imprcbability. nor the taking in of
South America an impossibility. Nor Is the
annexation of q part of China to-day quite
so ~fanciful as three years ago the annex
alton OF the Philippines would have been
considered. 1t is not impossible that
twelve months hence the annexation of a
part of the wall of China may be a burning
political question.
should hold that the Constitution of the
United States does not hold, then, too.
the consequences are momentous- a gov
ernment's policy can be changed, but the
decree of court stand irrevocable. What
might be the status of the President in
any countries in which Congress would set
up the government? The President might,
A. is quite conceivable. remain a Republican
magistrate only in the original Republic,
and his status range from that. in the
dependencies. TO a despotfc military ruler.
Indeed. Congress might remove the capital
from washington and set IL up outside OF
the bounds of the power of the Constitu-
ton which created IL. 1t could levy taxes.
not for the benefit of the governed. but for
tne peHcul VI III eONtIhOiS- AheSc dic
consequences which might flow from a de-
cision Of the court. You can now measure
for yourselves the magnitude OF the ques-
ton which the court can decide by its
declaration"
The papers read at the session of the
American Chemical Society were all tech
meal. During the afternoon meetings were
held by the sections of mathematics and
astronomy. botany. physics. geology and
geography. Prof. William Trelase, direc-
tor of the Missouri botanical garden. st.
Louis. addressed the section of botany on
Some Twentieth Century Problems"