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approving a bill providing for the ap pointment by the different Appellate

cellor James R. Day of Syracuse Uni versity; J. Newton Fiero, dean of the

divisions of the state, of not less than

Albany Law School; James A. Lawson of Albany, and Rev. Dr. E. A. Burnham.

ten nor more than one hundred and twenty physicians for each district who

are to be the only experts who may be sworn. They would be paid by the counties. The report of the committee on the Torrens system of land registration,

showing how the law strengthening

by

still

requires

amendment,

was

adopted by the Association. Senator Root was the toastmaster at the annual banquet, held at the Onon daga Friday evening, and the speakers included Attorney-General Wickersham;

former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Charles Andrews of Syracuse; Mr. Justice William Renwick Riddell of the King's Bench, Toronto; Judges Irving G. Vann, Frank HQHiscock and Wil liam E. Werner of the New York Court of Appeals; former Governor Horace White; H. T. Kelley, who represented the Toronto bar; M. L. Garneau, who represented the Montreal bar; Chan

Mr. Justice Riddell spoke in favor of arbitration for the settlement of dis

putes between nations. He advocated immediate and extensive expansion of the courts of international arbitration. He expressed the belief that the recent speech of President Taft, in which the President declared that all international

disputes should be referred to a court of arbitration, regardless of the nature of the quarrel, marked a new epoch in world history. The following oﬁicers were elected: President, Senator Elihu Root, (re

elected); secretary, Frederick E. Wad hams of Albany; treasurer, Albert Hessberg of Albany; vice-presidents, ﬁrst judicial district, William G. Choate; second, Edward M. Shepard; third, Lewis E. Carr; fourth, Thomas Spratt; ﬁfth, Jerome L. Cheney; sixth, Israel T. Deyo; seventh, Edward Harris; eighth, Frank lin D. Locke; ninth, John F. Brennan.

The National Civic Federation RESIDENT Seth Low called the eleventh annual meeting of the National Civic Federation to order Janu ary 12 at the Hotel Astor, New York.

Mr. Low said that as the result of the ef forts of the Federation and the American Bar Association, it was likely that within

the next few years uniform laws would be enacted by all of the states covering the regulation of corporations, work men’s compensation and compulsory arbitration. There had been organized,

these councils and the executive com mittee of the Federation were working to push through the uniform laws already decided on without delay. Gilbert H. Montague, William Dudley Foulke, Samuel Untermyer and others

who have been active participants in the enaction of the anti-trust legislation by Congress in the several states, out lined their views on the subject.

In place of the Sherman law, Mr. Untermyer, in common with Prof. J.

Mrs Low said, state councils in twenty

W. Jenks of Cornell, Edgar A. Bancroft,

three states and the District of C0 lumbia, and as the result of this action

counsel for the International Harvester Company, and others, advocated federal