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...Squire Ames and Doctor Ames," S. E. Morison: "A Journal of Village Life in Vermont in 1848." Edited by W. O. Clough: "The Genesis of Godey's 'Lady's Book'," Lawrence Martin: "A Ballad on the Northwest Fur Trade." F. W. Howay: Memoranda and Documents:: "Count Caleb Cushing," S. K. Hornbeck: "Milices du Newhampshire...
...headings in the Smith record to which, without elaboration by him, his friends could point with pride. Within a decade, New York had stepped up her education appropriations from 83 to 290 millions per annum. Her new penal code, drawn by a Smith-suggested crime commission under State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, had become the model for many another state...
...Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model for tightened laws in many a state. The theory underlying the Baumes code is that crime is disease, that habitual criminals are chronic patients. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York appeared before the Baumes commission a fortnight ago and elaborated its theory of crime still further. He made suggestions which...
...Chairman Caleb H. Baumes of the New York Crime Commission, author of the current model for habitual-offender crime laws,? said: "It is ridiculous to exclude from a jury persons who read the newspapers. A citizen who doesn't read the newspapers is not an intelligent citizen and he probably is not fit to be on a jury." Mr. Baumes urged that judges be empowered to select juries, leaving counsel the chance to show cause why any selection is unsuitable...
Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...