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Personal— The Bar, William Travers Jerome, District Attorney of New York county, has offered himself as a candidate for re-election. He has been Dis trict Attorney for nearly eight years, having been first elected on the reform ticket headed by Seth Low. His presence in the campaign will doubtless tend to make it more pictur esque. To look after the interests of the govern ment in litigation incident to the administra tion of the customs laws, Attorney-General Wickersham on Aug. 12 appointed D.Frank Lloyd as Deputy Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. Mr. Lloyd is the first assistant United States Attorney for the southern district of New York. William A. Robertson, Edward R. Wakefield and Martin T. Baldwin, assistants to the solicitor of cus toms, were appointed special attorneys to assist the new Deputy Assistant AttorneyGeneral. Henry M. Hoyt, who has been selected to fill the new position of Counselor of the State Department, will have special supervision over all treaties. He will be the authority on international law for the department. Mr. Hoyt was Solicitor-General of the Depart ment of Justice for several years. Mr. Hoyt received his education at Yale and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania law school. He was formerly president of the Investment Com pany of Philadelphia, but soon found that he could not resist the attractions of the pro fession he had chosen as a young man. {Bar Associations The lawyers of Athens, Georgia, met August 28 to plan the reorganization of the Athens Bar Association. More than twenty-five of the city's leading attorneys were present. The tenth annual meeting of the Bar Asso ciation of North Dakota was held at Minot, N. D., Aug. 12. There was a fairly large attendance representative of nearly every city and town in the state. President F. H. Register delivered his annual address. The Dallas Bar Association of Dallas county, Alabama, held a recent meeting to take action by way of protest against the repeal by the legislature of the Dallas county laws governing juries. The lawyers of that county consider the local law about as near perfection as it can be made. Congressman Martin of South Dakota ad dressed the South Dakota Bar Association on

"Federal Control of Corporations" at the annual meeting held at Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 12—14. He favored federal license by charter. Officers elected included: president, E. E. Wagner; vice-presidents. Chambers Keller, Westley B. Stuart; secretary, J. H. Vorhees, Sioux Falls; treasurer, L. M. Simons. The next meeting will be held in Sioux Falls in January. Only routine matters were attended to at the annual meeting of the" Michigan State Bar Association, held at Detroit, on August 26. The committee on the Christiancy Memorial Fund reported that the sum of SHOO had been subscribed for the purpose of procuring a marble bust of Judge Isaac M. Christiancy, one of the four greatest jurists which Michigan has produced; this bust is to be placed in the capitol building library at Lansing, as a com panion piece to the bust of Judge Campbell now located there. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—president, Harry A. Lockwood, Detroit; vice-president, Charles W. Perry, Clare; secretary, William J. Landman, Grand Rapids; treasurer, William E. Brown, Lapeer. The Colorado Bar Association gave con siderable time to a discussion of what is known as the "third degree." In Colorado this prac tice is a felony, and H. E. Kelly of Denver, who drew the law now a part of the statutes of that state, said that it was not only cruel and atrocious but unconstitutional every where in the Union. A notable feature of the meeting, which was held at Colorado Springs Sept. 3-4, was the address of Henry Latchford, M.A., formerly of the Inner Temple, London, who spoke on "Life in the Inner Temple, or the Haunts of the Muses." Mr. Latchford is a graduate of Trinity College of the University of Dublin. Addresses were made in the afternoon by President Wilbur F. Stone and C. C. Butler of Denver. Mr. Stone's subject was "The Ancient Laws of Babylon," and Mr. Butler discussed "Lynch ing." Former Mayor Henry C. Hall of Colo rado Springs delivered an address one morn ing on "Municipal Charters." The ever present subject of the relief of the congested condition of the state supreme court caused lengthy discussion. Officers were elected as follows: president, Lucius W. Hoyt, Denver; first vice-president, Henry C. Hall, Colorado Springs; second vice-president, E. L. Regenitter, Idaho Springs; secretary-treasurer, W. H. Wadley, Denver. The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Missouri State Bar Association took place at Pertle Springs, near Warrensburg, Mo., on September 18 and 19. Among those present from Kansas City were Judge John F. Philips, Judge James Ellison, Judge W. O. Thomas, 0. A. Lucas, F. W. Gifford, Jesse J. Vineyard, Rees Turpin, L. A. Laughlin, Pierre R. Porter, Thomas H. Reynolds and Edwin A. Krauthoff. The annual address of the president, F. N. Judson, was an elaborate review of the legis