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petitions circulated before that time. The rincipal address was delivered b E. T. 0st of Spokane, dealing with" fective Laws Re ardin the Election of the Judi day." he f0 owin officers were elected: President, Frederick . Holman; vice- resi dents, J. K. Hanna, H. N. Thompson, scar Hayter, C. V. Gantenbein, Grant V. Dim mick, A. A. Ja ne, A. S. Bennett, C. A.

Johns, Geor e . Davis, Thomas E. Craw ford, C. J. right, Thomas H. Crawford, l-I. L. Benson;

secretaa Jerry B. Bronaugh;

treasurer, Charles J.

hnabel.

James M. Beck, former assistant Attorney General of the United States, urged action by the United States Supreme Court with re spect to unquestioned perversions by Con gress of federal power in an eloquent address before the Rhode Island Bar association. December 6 at Providence, R. I. His subject was "Nulliﬁcation by Indirection." He said in part: " Unless our dual system of govern ment is to be subverted and chaos is to come again, the Sn reme Court must return to the doctrine of arshall. Already the Supreme Court makes a distinction between a state statute and a federal statute. As to the former, it has declared repeatedly that it will look beyond the form of the statute and even its language, and will consider in the light of its history its substantial purpose and its inevitable effect.

As, however, an

equal duty is u n the Supreme Court to a judge a federa act unconstitutional when it invades the reserved rights of the states. why should not the same udicial scrutiny of the obvious purpose and o ject be had in one case as the other? is this larin discrimina tion either logical or tenab e?" he election of ofﬁcers resulted as follows: President, Dexter B. Potter; vice-presidents, Walter F. Angell and Albert A. Baker; secreta, Howard B. Gorham; treasurer, ames . Pierce;

executive

committee,

illiam

A.

Morgan, Harry P. Cross, Arthur M. Allen, John W. Hogan and Frank W. Tillinghast.

Miscellaneous W. R. Vance, dean of the Geor on

University

Law

Washing

School,

retired

from that post and accepted a professorship in the Yale Law School.

The new law building of the University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colo., the

‘ft of

Senator Simon Guggenheim, was de icated

November 24. _—1_

Professor

Homer B.

much stiﬂer, and Washin

The statue of General Lew Wallace which was tobe putin Statuary Hall in Washington, D. C., was unveiled January 11. The author of “Ben-Hur" was a lawyer, starting in practice in Covington, Ind. Captain John P. Ma rew, of the General's command,

one of the t ree commissioners presenting the statue to the national overnment, resided. Senator Beveridge an Governor arshall delivered addresses and James Whitcomb Riley read a poem written es cially for the occasion. Lew Wallace, $2., of In dianapolis pulled the cord that unveiled the statue.

Recommendations to correct present abuses in appeals in civil suits are prominent in the report of the s ecial committee of the Asso ciation of the ar of the City of New York appointed by President Edmund Wetmore to consider the simpliﬁcation of the New York procedure. In order to prevent abuses of the right of appeal, the committee recommends that an amendment to the code be adopted 'ving the Appellate Division power to award nal Jud ent or direct a verdict wherever the trial Justice might do so and to substitute the equity and modern criminal procedure rule that a technical error was presumed to be harmless for the common law rule that it was presumed to be prejudicial. The House of Governors, composed of the Governors of the various states, will hold its

ﬁrst meeting at the call of Gov. Wilson in Washin on on January 18-20. It is pro posed t at this body meet annually for a session of two to three weeks to discuss, con sult, and confer on vital questions aﬁectin the welfare of the states, the unifying 0 state laws, and the closer unity of the states as a nation. Those active in the movement express the hope that an august, digniﬁed body of forty-ﬁve Governors, representing their states, with the lawmaking power 0 forty-ﬁve legislatures behind them, may in time become an inherent part in the American idea of self-government and a powerful factor for good in the nation. Prof. Charles Gross of the Department of History in Harvard Colle e died December 3. Since the death of Pro. Maitland he had been re arded as one of the leading authorities on eary English institutions and constitu tional history.

Hulbert

told

the

u had been given

Just two years to settle t e question or they would take it into their own hands.

He was born at Troy, N. Y.,

on February 10, 1857.

He was graduated

Portland, Me., Board of Trade December 10,

from

that there was now in the making as great a desire for secession on the Paciﬁc coast as there was in the South over the negroes, in view of the Japanese question. He said he had been told in California that they had

studied at the Universities of Leipsic, Goet tingen, Berlin and Paris. He was the author of several historical works, among which are

backed down on account of R09Sevelt, but the attitude of the present administration was

Williams

College in

1878, and later

"Gilda Marcotaria,” “The Exchequer of the

Jews of England in the Middle Ages," “Sources of History of English Literature," and "Bib liography of British Municipal History."