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I require a unity of governmental control.

_ with "Pending Controversies over State Streams" —Colorado’s conflict with

I51‘; Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming and

The constitutional power of the nation seems to be almost but not quite sufficient for such control. To com

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the federal government. He outlined at length the situation in the several disputes and urged that Colorado should Zlllil be prepared to meet and combat the as; claims of her neighbors. "The fact is '8'," ..' hi2“ that the oﬁicers of the reclamation serv
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plete its power it should have power directly to regulating railroad rates


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and charges of fares for the trans portation of such commerce. Whether or not an amendment to the national con stitution is necessary to control such power, or whether it may be reached, as has been suggested by at least two emi nent statesmen, by judicial construction, remains for the future to demonstrate. I very much prefer the former method. I do not favor the extension of govern

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ice, from the highest to the lowest, have

always been unfair to the state of Colorado, particularly since the decision in the case of Kansas v. Colorado," he

declared. President Hayt's address was followed w ti by an address by former Attorney sins; General N. C. Miller of Grand Junction, s.,-w. ..1 Li.

Worrell, Jr., Denver, second vice-presi

urged the abolishment of useless tech

dent; William H. Wadley, Denver, secre

nicalities that binder and delay the

tary-treasurer (re-elected).

Simplicity should

be the keynote, he said, and common

Illinois. —While

women

have

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sense the controlling factor in the pro

dressed state bar associations before—

cedure of courts. An address which also excited much

the very able paper of Miss Crystal Eastman on “Workmen's Compensa tion” read before the New York State

interest was that of John A. Gordon of .1511‘

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The following oﬁicers were elected: Henry C. Hall, former mayor of Colorado Springs, was chosen president; N. C. Miller, former Attorney-General, Grand Junction, vice-president; Edward S.

on "The Growth of Federal Power.” The annual address was delivered by Frederick N. Judson of St. Louis. Mr. Judson had for his topic, “The Progress of the Law in the United States." He

wheels of justice.

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mental power by judiciary construction."

Denver, on "Nationalizing the Rail roads.” He advanced the novel theory that the federal government, through the interstate commerce commission,

should control intra-state as well as interstate commerce. He declared : "Lay ing aside all preconceived ideas and prejudices as to state rights and encroach

ment on such rights by the national government, and viewing the question

strictly from a legal and from a commer cial point of view, it seems to me only one conclusion can result and that is

that the best interests of the people, the best interests of commerce and the best interests of the railroads themselves,

Bar Association will be recalled—a woman had never spoken before the

Illinois State Bar Association until Miss Mary M. Bartelme, public guardian of Cook County, discussed “A Woman's Place at the Bar," at the annual meet ing held at Urbana-Champaign, June 22-3. Other women lawyers attended the convention.

Miss Bartelme's paper was the second on the program, following that of former Attorney-General Bonaparte. She said: “There are less than ten women devot ing their entire time to the practice of

law in Chicago today and they are, from an earning standpoint, making a