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Range Company of St. Louis, Mo., against the American Federation of Labor. Early in the

ten years. years ago.

He went to New York about ten

arguments on the appeal from the decision of

the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, the Court ascertained that the Federation was no longer boycotting the Bucks Stove Company, and therefore that it was not necessary to deter mine whether the courts of the District of Colum bia were right in issuing injunctions. But though peace had come to the principals there was no evidence that opposing counsel were not in earn est in arguing the "contempt" case. They took the position that in order to decide the contempt case, it was necessary for the court to decide whether the "boycott" should have been en joined. Fighting for the American Federation of Labor and its officials were Alton B. Parker, former Democratic presidential candidate; Jack son H. Ralston, Frederick L. Siddons, William E.

Richardson and John T. Walker. Opposed to them as the representatives of the Bucks Stove & Range Company were Daniel Davenport and J. J. Darlington. Arguments were made by Judge Alton B. Parker and Jackson H. Ralston for the accused, and by J. J. Darlington and Daniel Davenport against them. What Attorney Ralston and Darlington had to say was strictly in regard to the law in the case. Judge Parker digressed to praise these leaders of American organized labor, while Mr. Davenport made a vigorous attack upon the American Federation of Labor. The Court took the case under advise ment.

Hon. Reuben R. Gaines resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas early in January, after a strolne of paralysis. For nearly a quarter of a century he had been a member of this court, and for nearly sixteen years Chief Justice. He maintained the highest standards of his calling, and his decisions in nearly every instance received the judicial approval of the United States Supreme Court, when subjected to review by that tribunal.

@ar Association: Arizona. —The Arizona Bar Association elected these officers at its annual meeting held at Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 10-11: Frederick S. Nave of Globe, president; H. B. Wilkinson of Phoenix, vice-president; Paul Burks of Prescott (re

elected), secretary; J. H. Kibbey of Phoenix (re elected),

treasurer.

At

the

annual

banquet

the following speeches were made: “Are the Initiative and Referendum Theoretically Prac ticable?" Judge F. S. Nave and George Purdy Bullard; "L'Homme Criminel," Attorney-Gen eral John B. Wright; “The Lawless Science of the Law," John Mason Ross; "Judicial Psy chology," Chief Justice Edwart Kent; "The

Process of Amending a Constitution," Judge Kibbey and W. B. Cleary; "The Recall of the Judiciary and the Salary of the Judges," John S. Williams and Col. H. L. Pickett.

Personal Hon. Ralph Oregon Dunbar, recently elected Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, was born in Illinois in 1845, but when he was only one year old his parents migrated to Oregon. After attending Willamette University, he moved in 1867 to Olympia, where he studied law in the office of Elwood Evans. Excepting for a brief time when he practised law at The Dalles, his life since 1867 has been spent in Washington. He was editor for six years of the Goldendale Sentinel. For more than forty years he has been in close touch with the life of the state and has a long record of honorable public service. Van Vechtcn Veeder of Staten Island, N. Y.,

has been made United States Judge for the new Eastern District of New York. Mr. Veeder is a son of John W. Veeder of Schenectady and is forty-two years old. He is a graduate of Colum bia University and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1891 and practised in that city for

Kansas. — The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Kansas State Bar Association was held at Topeka, Jan. l1-l2. Among the papers read were "The Maladministration of Justice in Homicide Cases," by Burr W. Jones of Madison, Wis., and "The Moral Duty to Aid Others as a Basis of Both Civil and Criminal Liability," by A. D. Andrew of Kansas University Law School. Maine. —The annual meeting of the Maine State Bar Association was held in Augusta Jan. 11. Hon. Luere B. Deasy, of Bar Harbor, presided and the meeting was attended by be tween sixty and seventy of the members. The annual address was delivered by Hon. Frank S. Streeter of Concord, N. H., who took for his subject, "The World Moves," and dis cussed the initiative and referendum and com pensation for industrial accidents. The introduction of the resolutions of the Knox County Bar Association favoring a new law court for the state of Maine, independent