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tion of the American Bar Association canons of legal ethics. This recommendation was followed. A report was read, pre red by W. 0. Hart of New Orleans on t e eﬁorts made in this and other states to procure the enactment of uniform legislation, and pro osing a resolution indorsing the Stafford uni lhrm bill of lading and transfer of shares of private corporations bills. This resolution was adopted. Archibald R. Watson, Corpora tion Counsel of New York City, and former editor of Bench and Bar, spoke on “Some

happening was the oﬁicial announcement to the conference by Secretary Knox, through Solicitor of the State Department James Brown Scott, of the probability of the early establishment of the proposed Court of Arbi tral Justice.

Simeon E.

Baldwin,

ex-Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, pointed out some of the faults of the present court of nations established at the ﬁrst Hague Conference, and expressed the hope that Secretary Knox's proposition to make the Judges of the International Prize Court ex oﬂicio Judges of the Court of Arbitral Justice,

of the Duties and Responsibilities of Muni cipal Government," and expressed some enthusiastic raisehas of since Mayorbeen Gaynor of New York City, wlhich construed in

would receive general indorsement. England, Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador, Columbia, and

some quarters as a Presidential boom. These officers were elected: E. H. Randol h of Shreveport, president; Joseph Carroll 0 New

other countries were represented by delegates. Among those who made addresses were Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Professor John B. Clark of Columbia, President Emeritus Charles

Weeks,

W. Eliot, William

second vice-president; Judge P. S. Pugh of

Orleans, ﬁrst vice-president; E. T.

law and Benjamin

. Bryan, Oscar F. White

. Trueblood.

Shreveport, third vice-president; Frank P. Stubbs of Alexandria, fourth vice-president;

Charles A. Duchamp of New Orleans,secretary

Miscellaneous

treasurer.

Crime and Criminal Law A committee of the United States Senate has been appointed to investigate the "third degree" method of police examination of risoners. It consists of Senators Curtis, rown, Borah, Overman and Stone. Inthe death of Prof. Franklyn C. Robinson of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., at Port land, Me., May 25, Maine loses her best known

expert on toxicology. For many years, prac tically every case in the state, where there was a suspicion of poisoning, was referred to him, and e was called as the state's expert in numerous murder trials.

Clara Shortridge Fultz of Los Angeles, Cal, dean of women lawyers in Southern Cali fornia, has been appointed assistant district attorney because it is deemed advisable to have a woman in the office to deal directly with women complainants. Four oil paintings of former Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court have been presented by United States Senator Frank B. Brandegee to the state of Connecti cut, and hung in the State Library. The portraits are of Chief Justices Roger B. Taney, Salmon Portland Chase, Morrison R.

Waite and John Marshall. Professor Edward H. Warren of the Har vard Law

International Law and ‘Polilics The New England Arbitration and Peace Congress met at Hartford, Conn., May 9-11.

Much enthusiasm was aroused by the reading of letters from President Taft, Ambassador Bryce, Secretary Knox, and

other

Peace Society met and elected these oﬁ‘icers: president, Robert Treat Paine, Boston; treas urer, F. B. Sears, Boston; secretary, Rev. B. F. Trueblood, Boston, and auditor, Dr.

William F. Jarvis, Waltham, Mass. _ The sixteenth annual International Arbitra N. Y., May 18-20.

return will live at 224 Marlborough street,

Boston.

distin

shed statesmen and leaders, Dean Henry ade Rogers of the Yale Law School discussed "The Present Problem," Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York spoke on “The Life of Elihu Burritt, and former Governor George H. Utter of Rhode Island considered “The Signs of the Times in the Light of Peace.” Other addresses given were those of ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, Hon. James Brown Scott, and ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. At the close of the conference the American

tion Conference was held at Mohonk

School and Miss Elinor Foster,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dou las Foster, were married May 28 in the orthminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. They will spend the summer in Europe and upon their

Lake,

The most important

Members of the joint committee on the reform of legal procedure appointed by the American Bar Association and the National Civic Federation held a conference in New York City at the Bar Association in West 44th street the ﬁrst week in June. Everett P. Wheeler, Esq., of New York, is chairman of

the former committee, and Ralph W. Brecken ridge of Omaha of the latter. The degree of Bachelor of Laws was con ferred upon twelve graduates of the Temple University Law School of Philadelphia at the commencement exercises on June 4. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, delivered the address, his subject being “The New Demand upon the Scholar in the Republic." Two members of the class had already passed the Pennsylvania bar ex aminations, and one had passed the New