The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-27
TAFT SPEAKS AT LAW
 SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY
ADDRESSES GRADUATING CLASS ON CRIMINAL LAW AD-
 MINISTRATION.

Suggests New Code of Laws for Our
 New POssessions-would,,i in Most
 Ciyn Cases, Do Away With Jury
 TriaIs-w. D. Embree Wins Town
 send Prize-Number of Honors Go to
 New Haven Men-'95 Reunion.
 At the Yale Law school yesterday were held the eighty-first anniversary exercises of the school. The guest of honor was Secretary of War Taft, Yale '7S, who addressed the graduating class in the afternoon. There were many other prominent guests present, sever al of whom spoke at the alumni lun- cheon.
 Tn the morning, at a meeting of the Law school secretaries, twenty-four scribes were present. .. Burton Mansfield was elected presi- dent; Harrison Hewitt, secretary, and Harry Asher, treasurer. The law school association of class secretaries voted to apply for admission to the general body of university secretaries. Secre- tary Stokes and Dean Rogers address ed them.
 The officers of the secretaries asso-= citation, together with the following graduates, were appointed aan alumni executive committee; William A. Wright of this city and Howard Knapp.
 At 12:S0 the alumni of the Law school to the number of 200 had lunch con in the library of the school" Dean Rogers introduced Howard Knapp of Bridgeport as toastmaster' Among those called on were Major General Darlington, U. s. A., of the Yale AS, Law school AS; Judge Lyman E. Munson, who was appointed to the supreme ench of Montana by President Lincoln; M. Dwight Collier of the New York county bar; Judge Townsend, Secretary Taft and Mason TroWbridge, for the graduating class The speaking was Of an informal nature. and the grads had a great get-together time.
 After the luncheon all adjourned to ths formal exercises. where Dean Rogers and the faculty of the school took seats on the platform. The large
 
 friends of the class. <.
 The first number on the programme was the orations for the Townsend prize by three members of the graduat- ing class. The speakers were William Dean Er1lbree and Frederick M. Mo Carthy. David Edward #Levigne was to have spoken, but was unfortunate ly taken i'll and could not take part. Both of the speakers took for their subject stThe Zemstvos Conference of 1904. The first speaker was MT. Elm bree, who sketched the history If Rus sian oppression, the rise af the Zcinst- rrivilsges. Then he told of the zcnls't- vos conference last year, of the hope in spired by iE iii the Russian people and of it's rebuff by the czar. Nevertheless, ,. he said, it was the beginning of a new Z. era for Russia, of a revolution, whether peaceful or bloody, the czar alone can decide.
 Mr. Embree's delivery was clear, calm and distinct. He used none of the old time oratorfcal tricks and presented his arguments as to a jury of clear headed business men
 MT. Mccarthy followed. He said that there had always been conflicts between the governors and the governed, citing the Boston tea, party in our own coun. try. But Russia, he declared, had beer oppressed for generations, the oppras- sion of the people being vital to the throne This has culmfnated in the zenstVos conference of last year, the seed of Russian liberty. MT. Mccarthy spoke little more dramatically, but a broke in his speech twice. -.s- <. <.
 The Townsend prize (established b5 the Hon. James, M. Townsend in 1874, IS of s100 and was finally awarded te