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 Bar Associations troit, read a paper on the life and serv ices of Isaac P. Christiancy, who was

a member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1857 to 1875. The associa tion has had a bust of Judge Christiancy

made, which will be placed permanently in the state library at Lansings. The subjects selected by other speakers were: United States District Judge Arthur C. Denison, “Substance and Form"; Hon. Grant Fellows, "Rever sals on Technical Errors"; Hon. A. B. Eldredge, "Matters in Which the Dis cretion of the Trial Court Should Be Final"; Prof. Jerome C. Knowlton, Uni

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that the natural price of an article is that ﬁxed by the operation of the natural law of supply and demand, working without artiﬁcial restraint. But the fact is that the law of supply and demand does not, and has not for many

years worked in this country in a natural unrestrained and unfettered manner. Prices of standard articles of consump tion have been ﬁxed by associations of the producers, without the participation

of the consumer or the general public." Mr. Wickersham asserted that it was a matter of serious consideration whether

it would be practicable to give to the

versity of Michigan, “Admission to the

proposed interstate corporation commis

Bar."

sion the power to ﬁx prices.

He also

The association elected the following

considered the holding company to be

oﬁicers: President, A. B. Eldredge, Mar quette; vice-president, Watts S. Hum phrey, Saginaw; secretary, W. J. Land man, Grand Rapids; treasurer, William E. Brown, Lapeer; directors, T. A. E. Weadock, Detroit; Judge Parkinson, Jackson; L. H. Sabin, Battle Creek;

an important factor in the problem of

W. W. Potter, Hastings; W. K. Clute, Grand Rapids; Judge Wiest, Lansing; Lincoln Smith, C. W. Dodds,

Avery, Port Huron; William M. St. Johns; Lieut.-Gov. Ross; Hitchcock, Bay City; Judge Mt. Pleasant; H. M. Oren.

Minnesota. — Attorney-General Wick ersham was selected to give the annual address before the Minnesota State Bar Association meeting at Duluth July 18-20. Discussing "What Further Regu

lation of Interstate Commerce is Neces sary or Desirable," he declared that a

great combinations.

Missouri. — Governor Simeon E. Baldwin has accepted an invitation to address the Missouri State Bar Associa

tion Sept. 23, at its annual meeting at Excelsior Springs. His subject, it is said, will be "Artiﬁciality of the Law of Evi dence."

North Carolina. -— The thirteenth an nual meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association was held at Lake Toxa way June 28-9. The association had

counted on hearing the annual address delivered by Congressman Martin J. Littleton of New York, but he was un able to be present.

The association adopted the report

national administrative commission to

of its committee on law reform, recom mending that the number of judges be

regulate great industrial organizations in the same way that the Interstate

ent system of rotation be abolished,

Commerce Commission regulates rail ways, is desirable and may be necessary.

"The anti-trust legislation of the United States,” he said, “and of most of the

separate states is based on the theory

increased to twenty-four, that the pres that the solicitors be put on salary and that the law~relating to challenges of jurors be amended. Bills designed to carry out these reforms will be intro duced in the next legislature.