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 The Legal World of the m'si pn'us terms, provoked a lively dis cussion, the subject being referred to a special committee which was to report at an adjourned meeting. The election of officers resulted as follows: 0. F. Fellows of Bucksport, president; George C. Wing of Auburn, F. H. Appleton of Bangor and C. F. Johnson of Waterville, vice-presidents; Norman L. Bassett of Augusta, secretary

and treasurer. At the banquet the following toasts were responded to: "The Bar," Hon. Charles F. Libbey; "The New Hampshire Bar," Hon. Frank S. Streeter; "The Bench," Justice Savage;

"The Legislature," Hon. Frank A. Morey; "The Young Lawyer," Raymond Fellows, Esq.; “The Expert," Hon. Herbert M. Heath.

Montana. — The following oﬁicers were elected at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Mon tana State Bar Association, held at Helena, Jan. 10: J. N. Kirk of Butte, president (re

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West of Guthrie delivered an address on “Limi tations of the Powers of the Corporation Com mission." S. T. Bledsoe of Guthrie read a paper on "Regulation of Public Service Corporations by the State Commission." D. I. Johnston of Oklahoma City read a paper on commercial law. Judge Stilwell H. Russell of Ardmore de livered an interesting address on "Harmless Error." Judge J. T. Dickerson of Edmond read a paper on "Juvenile Courts and Their Inﬂu ence." A resolution was passed providing for the appointment of a committee of three, to urge upon the legislature the enactment of a law increasing the number of justices of the state Supreme Court from ﬁve to seven in order that the docket might be cleared of more than 1,100 mses. Judge John H. Buford of Guthrie was elected president, Clinton 0. Bunn of Okla homa City, secretary, and C. H. Ennis of Shaw

nee, treasurer.

elected); C. F. Word of Helena, secretary (re

South Dakota. — At the twelfth annual meet ing of the South Dakota Bar Association, held

elected); A. J. Horsky of Helena, treasurer.

at Pierre, S. D., Jan. 11-12, the president's ad

New York City. —— The Association of the Bar of the City of New York elected officers Jan. 10 for the ensuing year as follows: President, Francis

dress was delivered by C. G. Sherwood of Clark, and the principal address was made by Judge Charles S. Whiting, a member of the state Supreme Court, whose topic was "The Lawyer as a Citizen."

Lynde Stetson; vice-presidents, Charles C. Bur

lingham, William D. Guthrie, Payson Merrill, Henry W. Taft and George Zabriskie; recording secretary, Silas B. Brownell; corresponding secre tary, Henry Melville; treasurer, S. Sidney Smith; members of the executive committee, Francis W. M. Cutcheon, Francis C. Huntington, Wil

liam Travers Jerome, L. C. Krauthoff and Charles W. Pierson; members of the committee on admissions, Eldon Bisbee, Alfred A. Cook, Vinthrop E. Dwight, Harmon S. Graves, Mont gomery Hare, Albert C. Millbank and Charles Albert Perkins.

Uniformity of Laws Uniformity of legislation was the subject dealt with by several speakers at one of the Saturday luncheons of the Republican Club of New York City, Jan. 14. Walter George Smith of Philadelphia sketched the history of the movement which has resulted in a number of model uniform acts, and said that the uniform divorce law had been accepted by three states and is practically the law of a fourth. it would not prevent divorce, he said, but it would re

North Carolina. — The North Carolina Bar Association has selected June 28-30 as the dates for the annual meeting, the place of which has not yet been decided upon. Oklahoma. ——The Oklahoma State Bar Asso ciation held its annual meeting at Oklahoma City Dec. 28-29. T. J. Womack delivered the president's address, and the annual address was given by Judge Doster, one of the ablest lawyers in the Southwest, whose subject was, "The Con stitution and the Courts."

J. C. Monnett, dean

of the Oklahoma University Law School, read an interesting paper on "Legal Education and Ad mission to the Bar." Attorney-General Charles

duce frauds to the minimum and obviate the scandal of a marriage being good in one state and void in another and children legitimate in one jurisdiction and illegitimate in another. Thomas W. Shelton of Norfolk, Va., dealt with the diﬂi culties arising from diverse judicial interpreta tions of the same law. As a remedy he pointed out that in the highest court of the land —— the United States Supreme Court-the individu ality of its members is merged in the court, and he suggested that uniformity in judicial interpre tation might be gained by conferences of the state Courts of Appeals, or at least of their presiding Justices. Ralph W. Breckenridge of Omaha, chairman of the joint committee of the