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in the discussion of the proposed changes in the Civil Code, and of the proposed Criminal Code. Mayor J. P. Turregano offered the hospitality of Alexandria in an opening speech, and Hon. Ralph S. Thornton ex tended the welcome of the Alexandria bar. Gov. J. Y. Sanders, referring to the fact that the most perfect system of law devised by the human mind, the civil law, was to be revised, said that there was also great need of the revision of the Criminal Code. The former received chief attention, a symposium on it being opened by Hon. R. E. Milling, chairman of the Commission for the Revision of the Civil Code, who outlined the changes that the Commission had tentatively agreed upon. He said that while he and his asso ciates were at first "strongly of the opinion that many defects existed in the Code, and that many radical changes should be made therein," they finally concluded that it was better as it was, in the main. J. P. Blair of New Orleans discussed the question "Should the Community Laws of Louisiana be Re?ealed or Modified?" and Hon. Henry L. 'avrot of New Orleans made an address on "The First Governor on the First Code." Hon. J. C. Theus considered the topic "What Laws Should be Required to Compel Reg istry of Changes in the Title to Real Estate, When the Title Comes Through Succession or Through the Community?' and Henry P. Dart discussed the subject, "Should the Laws Requiring the Convocation of Family Meetings tor Certain Purposes be Repealed? Mrs. Jessie Benedict Gessner, in the dis cussion which followed, warmly advocated the abolition of family meetings. M. H. Carver read a scholarly paper on "The Divorce Laws of Louisiana." Sentiment was practically unanimous against any mate rial changes in such laws. In the symposium, the discussion of live topics connected with the revision of the Civil Code continued on the second day, when H. Garland Dupre Speaker of the House of Representatives, discussed the disabilities of married women, Miss Florence Loeber joining in the helpful dis cussion, and Hon. E. H. Randolph followed with a scholarly paper on "Should the Rights of Illegitimate Children be Increased or Diminished?" There was much general dis cussion on all the topics, in addition to the regular addresses. The trend of the debates indicated a sentiment predominantly in favor of the retention of the civil jurispru dence of Louisiana substantially in its present form, without other changes than those necessary to adapt it to contemporary con ditions. The closing hours were made in teresting, not only by the presentation of the president's address, by Hon. W. S. Parkerson of the New Orleans bar, but by the reading of a paper by Attorney-General J. B. Stirling of Mississippi on "The Relation between Interstate and Intrastate Com merce." The subject of a new court house received some attention. Amendments to the constitution were adopted, providing for committees of three members each on juris

prudence and law reform, on legal education and admission to the bar, on publication, on state laws so as to promote uniformity, of legislation, on local bar associations and on obituaries. The meeting came to a close with a banquet. E. H. Randolph of Shreveport was elected president, the other officers being: vice-presidents, Joseph W. Carroll, Frank P. Stubbs, Jr., Philip S. Pugh, Edward T. Weeks; secretary-treasurer, Charles A. Duchamp. Necrology— The Bench' Ex-County Judge David Millar died at Lockport, N. Y., May 4. He was prominent in the Democratic party. John J. Fruit, Presiding Judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Wisconsin, died at La Crosse, Wis., May 27, after an illness of six months. Irwin William Schultz, a leading lawyer of Warren County, New Jersey, former Mayor of Phillipsburg, and former Judge of the County Court, died in Phillipsburg, N. J., May 17. Judge George R. Pryordied at Nicholasville, Ky., May 20. . Early in life he taught school, having James Lane Allen among his pupils. He was one of the best known lawyers of his section. Charles Alexander Weller, County Court Judge of Peterborough, Ont., died June 5, in his seventy-ninth year. He was widely known in Ontario and held in the highest esteem. Judge Henry L. Henderson, who was for merly United States Judge in Utah, died in that state early in June. He was at one time law partner of the late Judge Brown of Washington. Judge R. H. Lee, who had long been promi nent in the public affairs of his section of the state, died at Sanford, Miss., May 17. In earlier days he had taken an active part in local politics. Samuel Ashton, who forty years ago was Justice of the Supreme Court in Chicago, died in New York City June 3, at the age of eighty-five. He was a personal friend of Chief Justice Fuller. Judge W. P. Green, who died at Fulton, Ky., May 9, was the prosecuting attorney for Washington County, Ky., forty years ago, later becoming county judge. He left the law to engage in journalism. Judge Horatio Wildman, one of the oldest and best known lawyers of Ohio, died May