Harvard Union.

The subject of last evening's debate was: Resolved, That the recent lynching at New Orleans was justifiable. The principal disputants were: Affirmative, A. B. Healey '91 and F. W. Dallinger '93; negative, G. P. Costigan '92 and A. B. Mellish '92. The leaders of the debate for the affirmative sought to show that the case at New Orleans was one where ordinary legal measures had proved inadequate; that the people were confronted with an appaling condition which demanded vigorous and unusual measures; and that lynch law under somewhat parallel conditions had proved beneficial in California. The leaders for the negative disputed all these points. They held that California afforded no parallel for the New Orleans affair; that such a society as the Mafia could be-suppressed by legal means; and that every man accused of murder is entitled to a fair trial.