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commerce and loans will no longer be considered lawful."

The representatives of ﬁfty-one com mercial organizations attending the Con ference sent telegrams to President Taft and to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, saying that they "heartily indorse treaties of unlimited arbitration with Great Britain, France and other countries and wish speedy success with

such treaties." The speakers at the Conference in cluded Hon. John W. Foster, who spoke on “Unlimited Anglo-American Arbitra tion," Thomas Raeburn White, who dis

cussed “A Plan for Choosing Judges of the International Court of Arbitral

is also senior r'nember of the law ﬁrm of Runnells, Burry 8t Johnstone of Chicago. Recent appointments conﬁrmed by the Senate include: Charles F. Clemons, United States District Judge of Hawaii; Alexander tice of theG.Supreme M. Robertson, Court of Chief Hawaii; Jus James A. Fowler, assistant to the Attor ney-General; Charles W. Cobb, Assist ant Attomey-General for the Interior Department.

Congressman Martin W. Littleton of New York delivered the annual address before the Law Academy of Philadelphia May 5, taking as his subject, "Law and Economics." He discussed the initia

Justice," Baron d'Estournelles de Con

stant, who warned against the dangers of popular ignorance and love of sensa tion, William Jennings Bryan, Senator Raoul Dandurand, LL.D., of Montreal,

tive, referendum, recall and a number of other live issues of politics, speaking without partisanship and with unusual

eloquence.

The address was much en

joyed by the two hundred lawyers who

Professor Paul D. Reinsch 0f the Uni versity of Wisconsin, William Dudley Foulke of Indiana, Sir William Mullock, Chief Justice of Ontario, Governor A. O. Eberhart of Minnesota, and Dr. James

L. Tryon and President Harry Garﬁeld of Williams College. The Conference adopted, with slight modiﬁcations, the Kirchwey resolution, creating a National Council for Arbi tration and Peace. Personal

Hon. Orrin N. Carter of Chicago has been elected Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court for the year, succeeding Justice Vickers.

John Sumner Runnells, vice-president

heard it. At the meeting of the Yale corpora tion held May 15, the resignation of Prof .Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, LL.D.,

since 1878 Professor of International Law in Yale Law School, was accepted. The corporation adopted a minute re garding his important services to the university. Professor Woolsey is the son of the late President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, and was born in New Haven, October 22, 1852.

The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the adjourn?

ment of the Court on May 29, prepared to scatter far and wide for their summer vacations. Justice Harlan usually

and general counsel of the Pullman Company, has een elected its president,

spends his summers at Murray Bay, Canada. Justices McKenna and Holmes usually summer on the North Shore

succeeding Robert Todd Lincoln, re

near Boston.

signed.

to Augusta, and Justice Van Devanter to Wyoming. Chief Justice White has

Mr. Runnells has been general

counsel of the company since 1887. He

Justice Lamar returned