Shanghai people who. wish to bring those large crystals from Ghina arid Japan' into' the United States may do so free of duty, according to the latest ruling of the Board of. United States General Tientsin, Peking and Shanghai carpet and rug dealers will interested in a recent contract} awarded to Hardwick & Magee of Philadelphia by the Palmer House hotel of Chicago. The contract, said to be the largest ever awarded, calls for 115,000 yarlls of carpet valued at $500,000 gold.
Lunacy and Cri sal Trials Considerable interest has been aroused by the announcement by State Senator George Woodward! that he will introduce a bill in the next session of the Pennsylvania legislature providing for the appointment of a permanent lunacy commission of alienists to pass upon the sanity of defendants in! criminal cases." The measure has been devised to stop the practice! of retaining high-priced alienists on both sides daring criminal proceedings. It ix not the intention of the proposed Pennsylvania law to prohibit alientists from testifying as expert medical witnesses, but, by the establishment official commission acknowledged authorities, to enable the court to put the emphasis on all testimony given by the commis-
The recent Loeb-Leopold trial in Chicago has unquestionably. been 6692: the inspiration for the move, as there is a wide-spread feeling. throughout the country that the battle of the alienists that finally resulted in the two boys being: imprisoned for life was more oF less a farce, and efforts are being made on all sides to sce that no such thing happens in American' courts again.
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