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signing of them will only be a matter of days. T e nations represented at the Conference were Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria Hun ary, Ital, Russia, Belgium, Holland, all t e other European nations, the United States, most of the South American republics and Japan. There was an attendance of sixty-four delegates. The quin uennial report of the Harvard Law School lass of 1905 contains interesting ﬁgures regarding the earnings of over 15 members. The average monthly earnin s of these men over ofﬁce expenses were 216. The lawyers, however, are earning consider ably less than those of the class who have deserted the practice of law and gone into business. The eleven men who have done this are earning an average of $334 a month above expenses. Of those practising law, the men on the Paciﬁc coast are doing the best ﬁnan cially, their avera e earnings being $308 a month. Those in ew York city come next with an avera e of $267, while those in Massa chusetts are owest with an average of only $167 a month. The International Conference on State and Local Taxation met in Milwaukee the ﬁrst week in Se tember. The resolutions adopted condemne the general property tax, so far as it applies to personal property, as unjust and inequitable, and from the testimony given rt ap ared that none of the states that had repu 'ated this system had any desire to return to it. The conference recommended an investigation by a committee of the Inter national ax Association of the question of a practical substitute for the personal tax as well as the methods of administering taxation laws. general] in the several states and rovinces. T e papers and addresses dealt argely with the taxation of co orations and the administration of tax laws y state com missioners. The Columbia Law School opened its regular term this fall in a new building given b an anonymous donor and known as Kent all. It stands at the northwest corner of Amster dam avenue and 116th street, and has a well equip (1 library, extraordinary in size and comp eteness. The shelf capacity is 25,000 volumes, and there are tables and chairs for

about 335 students. On the ﬂoor below the library at the street level modern and well lighted locker rooms, social and moot court rooms have been constructed. The comple tion of the law building marks an epoch in the history of one of the famous law schools of America. Althou h Columbia, as King's Col lege, established t e ﬁrst professorshi of law in America back in 1773, the law

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such, has been in a temporary home. _As_ members of the Railroad Securities Com mission created by Congress to investigate the issuance of railroad stocks and bonds and

secure data bearin on alleged overcapitaliza tion, President Ta t has ap inted the follow ing: Arthur T. Hadley, resident of Yale University, chairman; Frederick Strauss of the New York banking ﬁrm of Seligman& C0., vice-chairman; Frederic N. Judson, the eminent lawyer of St. Louis; Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, expert in traction matters and vice-president of the National Conservation Commission; and Professor B. H. Meyer of the department of political economy in the Uni versity of Michigan, chairman of the Wisconsin Railway Commission. President Hadley has a pointed as secretary of the Commission b illiam E. S. Griswold of the New York City

ar. A party of one hundred and ﬁfty delegates to the International Prison Congress made its tour of the United States, by a special train

of Pullman cars, September 18-28. Nearly ﬁfty countries were represented, the hundred foreign delegates being entertained at the ex nse of the Government. The itinerary was rom New York to Chicago and then by way of Indianapolis and Louisville to Washington, nal institutions everywhere alon the route ing‘ visited, including Blackwe '5 Island, the

ew York State Reformatory at Elmira,

the New York State Prison at Auburn, the State Agricultural and Industrial School at Indust, N. Y., the State Reformatory at Mansﬁ d, 0., the Indiana Women's Prison,

the Indiana Girls’ School, the Indiana Boys’ School, and the Indiana State Reformatory at Jeﬁersonville. The National Civic Federation has effec tively organized a movement to establish permanent councils in each state to ca on the work for uniformity in legislation. ith the assistance of Governors of States and leading business men, councils have been organized in the following states: Maryland, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,

Kansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin. A depart ment of the Civic Federation for New England was formed in Boston Sept. 23. By Novem ber the Civic Federation expects to have formed 0 nizations in every state in the Union, an

to have agreed on the bills now

under discussion throughout the country so that they ma be presented to every state legislature in t e coming winter. Some of the questions on the list for the coming campaign are, conservation of natural resources, divorce, regulation of railroads and quasi~public utili ties, good roads and automobile regulation, reform in legal procedure, pure food and grugs, and compensation for industrial acci

ents. Two new laws went into effect in New York City on Sept. 151;, that establishing a Domestic Relations Court, with jurisdiction over all cases involving discord between hus band and wife, such as abandonment, non support, or cruel and abusive treatment, and that dividing the Night Court into two