[NOTE.-Members other than the subcommittee participated in the hearings.]

CONTENTS

TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1943

Statement of Hon. John J. Parker, senior circuit judge, fourth judicial

circuit, chairman of the Committee of the Conference of Senior Circuit

Judges on the Punishment of Crime....

Letter from Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, chairman of the Conference of

Senior Circuit Judges, dated May 17, 1943...

Statement of-

Hon. Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General..

Hon. Orie L. Phillips, senior circuit judge, tenth judicial circuit

Hon. George Wharton Pepper, president, American Law Institute,

Philadelphia, Pa.---

George Maurice Morris, Washington, D. C., president of the American

Bar Association_.

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Resolution approved by the House of Delegates, American Bar Association,

Detroit, Mich., April 27, 1942___

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1943

Statement of Hon. John J. Parker (resumed).

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Statement of Dr. William Draper Lewis, director of the American Law

Institute...

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Endorsements of the bill (submitted by Judge Parker).

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Statement of—

Hon. Bolitha J. Laws, associate justice, District Court of the United

States for the District of Columbia

Hon. Carroll C. Hincks, United States district judge for the district
of Connecticut__

Arthur T. Vanderbilt, former president, American Bar Association,
and chairman of the committee on rules of criminal procedure...__

James A. Johnston, warden, Alcatraz Prison_

Sanford Bates, parole commissioner of New York State and president

of the American Parole Association__.

Statement of James V. Bennett, Director, Bureau of Prisons, Department

of Justice...

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Reference notes on Federal Corrections Act (submitted by Mr. Bennett) _

Statement of J. Pope Dyer, Chattanooga, Tenn___

Letters from-

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Hon. Mortimer W. Byers, United States district judge, eastern dis-
trict of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., dated May 14, 1943---

Hon. Francis G. Caffey, United States district judge, New York, dated

May 17, 1943__

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Hon. Samuel Mandelbaum, United States district judge, New York,

dated May 20, 1943.

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Hon. Murray Hulbert, United States district judge, New York, dated

May 23, 1943_.

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Hon. John J. Parker, United States circuit judge, Charlotte, N. C.,

dated May 31, 1943.

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Hon. John J. Parker, United States circuit judge, Charlotte, N. C.,

dated March 2, 1943, to Speaker Rayburn, recommending H. R.

2139 and H. R. 2140..

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