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Show LAWYERS TALK I ! ALIENS" RIGHTS I I J More Adequate Protection Is Needed, Says Report to Bar Convention ST. LOUIS. Aug. Enactment ot federal legislation guaranteeing more1 H adequate protection to aliens In their H treats riffhts was recommended ut 10- H ' day's session of the convention of this H 'American Bar association by Its com- H mlttco on Jurisprudence ana ldw re- This subject is "entitled to very ser-Ions ser-Ions consideration in the pending con- H Sre88,V in the opinion of the commit-tee commit-tee Its recommendation, according to the report, results from "various 'complaints that have been made to the United States by other nations that th' rights of the citizens of those nu-lions, nu-lions, under existing treaties, were not 1 sufficiently protected by laws or inis The proposed legislation provldea JH thai the 'President be authorized to direct the Attorney-General, in the name end behalf of the T'nlted States, to file a bill In equity In the proper district court of the United States against any person or persons threat-enlnR. threat-enlnR. to violate the rights of a citizen or subject of a foreign country. Me-CUI Me-CUI d to such citizen or siihjeii by H treaty between the United States and such foreign country: and that this provision shall apply to acts threaten-cl threaten-cl by state oflfcers under the alleged Justification of a law of the legislature i of the state m which such acta are to be committed." I In cases whore aliens are brousht to tin I . for lol i lion ) of state statutes, which are deemed by the president to be contrary to the rights of the defendant, the goern-no goern-no nt, under the proposed law. would have power to filn an intervening poti-tion poti-tion for the transfer of the action to a H federal court. The committee also suggested empll- aJH fications of the Judicial code to clarify fJH laws governing the removal of causes and advised changes in the rule of the supreme court, so that lawyers would not have lo Journey to Wash-ington Wash-ington to file motions. 1 oo bbbbbbI In Andean Colombia, scientists have found mote than twice as many dlf-ferent dlf-ferent BpeclSfl of lnnd birds as exists tin the Unitod States. Cnnnda and iGreenland. oo 1 I Two women have been elected as Judges in SwlUerland. I |