The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30

June to attend tine national confer
ence on criminal law and criminoiogy,
which opens on that date, If congress
adjourns in time to permit him to
leave Washington. This announcement
was made at a meeting of the com
mttee ON organization, which has prac-
tically completed the program for the
conference. 1t also was announced that
Governor Deneen will attend and mas
accepted the position of temporary
presiding officer.
The conference will be unique from
the fact that there will be no set
speeches or long addresses. All of the
work will be divided among separate
sections, each subject being referred to
the section to which it properly be-
longs.
Only One General Session.
There will be only one general SEES
sion and this will be held at the CON
cluson of the work by the various
sections None of the meetings will be
public, and admission will be by card
only.
on Monday morning, June Z, by Roscoe
Pound, chairman of the committee on
organization, at the Northwestern Uni
versity School of Law, and barring
perhaps brief address of welcome, will
proceed directly to business by electing
permanent officers, announcing the per-
sonnet of the several sections and al
lotting the topics to be taken up.
1t is expected that there will be be-
tween $50 and 300 subjects submitted
for discussion, and fully that number
of leading jurists, criminologists, peno
logists, psychologists, alienists and
criminal lawyers will be in attendance.
Some Who Have Accepted.
Among those from whom positive ac-
ccptances already have been received
, are
Wolford Bolster, chief justice of the
Boston municipal courts.
Joseph P. Byers, superintendent of
Randalls Island prison, New York, and
secretary of the National Prison as
ISOLATION
Levi l.. Barbour, Detroit, Mich.
Amos w. Butler, secretary of the In
diana state board of charities.
c. ". Cillins of the New York states
prison commission.
| II. p. Coats, manager of the Ohio
state refofmatory.9aa FL. aatsina=
1. ID. Crothers, superintendent of the
Walnut Lodge reformatory at Hart
word Conn, and a noted criminologist
| William H. DeLacey, Judge of the
juveline court at Washington, d. C.
L. I. Devine professor of social econ
omy of Columbia university.
Judge Lee Estelle, Omaha, Neb.
Homer Folks, chairman of the New
York probation commission.
James Hagerman of st. Louis, former
president of the American Bar associ-
alton.
John Koran, city register of Boston
! Ben Lindsey, judge of the Denver
municipal court
E. j. McDermott and Thomas B. Me
Gregor, the latter assistant attorney
general OF state, both of Louisville
! Judge Charles A. Pollock of Fargo.
Is. D.
Edward A. Ross, sociologist and Grim
inologist of the University of Wiscon-
! sin
Joseph F. Scott, superintendent of
the Elmira, n. Y, reformatory
DR.. Boris Sidis, Brooklne, Mass.
Sherman Moulton, Burlington vt.
Glno c. Speranza, New York
Wendall P. Stafford, Justice of the
supreme court of Washington, d. c.
George w. Stubs, Judge of the In.
dianapolis juveline court
| United States District Attorney Arba
l.. Van Valkenburgh of Kansas City.
| Hugo Muensterberg, psychologist,
Cambridge, Mass.
Brand Wtlock Mayor of Toledo.
| w. H. Whitaker, superintendent of
the Indiana state reformatory.
Judge Alfred Bridge, Idaho.
| Noted Alienists to Come.
| Among noted alienists who will at
tend are: DR.. Horace NJ. Brown of
Milwaukee, DIR. Charles V. Cunning
ham of Richmond, Va, +. r. Dercum of
Philadelphia, DR.. Morton Prince of Bos
ton, DR.. p X. Brown of San Fran
cisco
Some of the criminologists who will
be here are Professor John r. Com
mons OF Madison, Wis; DR.. L. S. Eos
ter of Williamsburg, Va; John jaw
Edison and Arthur Macdonald of Wash.
ington, d. C.
The various sections will go into the
detailed work of the conference at
meetings on Monday afternoon and
evening and Tuesday morning, and the
general session will be held on Tues
day afternoon. At this delegates will
be limited to five minutes each for
discussion; All subjects not disposed of
will be referred to an interim commit
tee, which will continue to work
through the year and report at the
next annual conference.
1t is probable that some of the sec
lions or committees will hold post SEES
sions after the close of the conference
and several advance meetings by dele
gates interested in special subjects will
be set for Sunday in advance of the
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