I took the Digest beginning with the letter A, reading the abstracts, and then reading the cases referred to.

I got as far as Adm and read the cases relating to admiralty practice.

The next morning the Speaker announced his Committees and the House adjourned.

After the adjournment, Judge Poland, Chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, called the Committee together and laid before them a letter he had just received from Mr.Justice Miller of the Supreme Court, asking for a change in the law in regard to monitions for summoning defendants in Admiralty.

The change had been made necessary by some recent decisions of the Court.
The other members of the Committee looked at each other in dismay.