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Smith of Philadelphia are also to be speakers. The latter will discuss "Uniform Marriage and Divorce Laws." The meeting will be held at Put-in-Bay, July 6-8. The thirty-third annual meeting of the Illinois State Bar Association will be held at Peoria Tune 24 and 25. The President's address will be delivered by E. P. Williams of Galesburg, and will be a review of the leg islation adopted by the present session of the General Assembly, with his recommendations for changes in the laws. The annual address will be delivered by O. H. Dean of Kansas City, Mo., on "The Making of the Constitu tion." Hiram T. Gilbert of Chicago, whose bill is now pending before the General Assem bly to reform the entire practice and procedure of the state, will discuss the subject "The Administration of Justice in Illinois." Floyd R. Mechem of Chicago will deliver an address on "Employers' Liability." Val Mulkey of Metropolis will speak on "A Legal Injury." The Mississippi Bar Association met early in May at West Point, Miss., for its fourth annual meeting. Recommendations were adopted favoring a constitutional amendment to admit of ten jurymen bringing in a verdict in civil cases, a restriction of the right of appeal to the Supreme Court to cases where the amount in dispute does not exceed $200, and a provision permitting testimony taken in a former trial to be read in any subsequent trial if the witness cannot be found after diligent inquiry. The Association, after some discussion, went on record as favoring legis lation making "pistol toting" a crime. The Association also voted to recommend the enactment of a law providing for three Com missioners on Uniform State Laws from Mississippi. Thomas H. Sommerville, dean of the law department of the State Univer sity, was elected president, W. H. Powell, Leroy Percy, and W. A. Roane, vice-presidents, and Judge Sydney Smith secretarytreasurer. The next annual meeting will be held in Natchez in May, 1910. Mr. William B. Hornblower, whom Presi dent Cleveland offered the position of Justice of the United States Supreme Court, dis cussed the Sherman Act and termed it un scientific at the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Bar Association, held at Man chester, N. H., May 10. The greatest defect in the law, he said, was the coupling of penal provisions with those affecting the legality of contracts and authorizing process of in junction to restrain their enforcement. A contract may be against public policy and may be unenforceable, he said, and yet may not involve such an element of moral tur pitude as to justify punishment of the parties as common criminals. Moral turpitude in the creation of combinations in restraint of trade ought to be clearly defined by statute. According to the Sherman Act every agree ment in restraint of trade is illegal. At the

close of Mr. Hornblower's address, a com mittee was appointed to report at the next meeting upon the proposed adoption of the American Bar Association code of ethics. Mr. Edwin F. Jones, in the annual president's address, urged the inadvisability of waiting for the enactment of rules of professional conduct by some censorious legislature. The next annual meeting will be held in December. The officers elected for the remainder of the year are: president, Judge William M. Chase of Concord; vice president, Chester B. Jordan of Lancaster; secretary and treasurer, Arthur H. Chase of Concord; executive committee, William E. Marvin, Lawrence V. McGill, Walter D. Hill, Judge Oscar L. Young, Allen Hollis, Oliver W. Branch, Joseph Madden, Judge Jesse M. Barton, Ira A. Chase and Edmund Sullivan. Necrology— The Bench Judge L. D. Thoman has passed awayjjat Evanston, Ill. He was twice Probate Judge of Mahoning County, Ohio. Judge William H. Donahue, a prominent lawyer and judge of Hennepin County, Min nesota, died at Philadelphia May 2. Judge John W. Arnold, distinguished lawyer and Confederate veteran, a county court judge, died suddenly at Monroe, Ga., April 24. George W. Bailey, former Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, died at Ft. Collins, Col., April 15. He was fifty-three years of age and as a young man had been a cowboy and newspaper reporter before taking up the study of law. Hon. D. L. Hanington, Judge of the SuEreme Court of New Brunswick, died at 'orchester, N. B., May 6. He had enjoyed great popularity throughout the province as a lawyer, politician, judge, and Anglican churchman. Former Judge A. B. Carpenter died at Los Angeles April 24. He was born in New Hampshire eighty-three years ago, but passed the greater part of his life in Kentucky. He left the Union army to become public pros ecutor, and was later elected to the Circuit Court of Kentucky. George M. van Hoesen, formerly Judge of the old Court of Common Pleas, died April 18 in New York City at seventy-two years of age. He was a gallant officer in the Civil War and afterward engaged in the practice of law in New York. He drafted the first elevated railroad bill in New York state. Judge Henry L. Palmer, for thirty-five years president of the Northwestern Mutual