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 Bar Associations his subject fully in a paper occupying a single hour. (See p. 456 supra.) The Uniform Desertion Act and Uni

form Foreign Wills Act, submitted by the Committee on Uniform State Laws,

were both approved by the Association. Canons relating to the ethics of the bench, corresponding to those adopted last year with regard to the bar, were adopted in accordance with a report of

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President Hiram T. Glass submitted his annual address, followed by the read ing of a paper on “Judicial Reform in Texas" by Judge William Hodges of Texarkana. The report of the committee on judicial administration and remedial procedure was read, and excited much interest and discussion.

An interesting paper was read by the Special Committee on Legal Ethics. ~I-Ion. Ben Kendall of Waco, giving a The following oﬂicers were elected: sketch of John Marshall. president, George R. Bedford, Luzerne; Judge John C. Townes, dean of the law faculty of the State University, vice-presidents, Paul A. Gaither, West moreland, Hon. A. B. Hassler, Lancaster, Hugh B. Eastbum, Bucks, William Righter Fisher, Philadelphia, Isaac Ash, Venango; secretary, Hon. William H. Staake, Philadelphia; treasurer, Hon. Wm. Penn Lloyd, Cumberland; execu tive committee, Charles D. Gillespie, Christian H. Ruhl, Russell C. Stewart, Andrew A. Leiser, James I. Brownson,

T. C. Hipple, E. L. Whittelsey, Quincy A. Gordon, R. Stuart Smith, John H. Jordan, George C. Lewis, J. B. Wood ward, H. S. Prentiss Nichols, John M. Strong, Nicholas M. Edwards, Roland D. Swoope, B. Frank Eshleman, Harry Keller, Paul A. Kunkel, John D. Dorris, and J. Benjamin Dimmick.

Texas. — Congressman Martin W. Littleton of New York delivered the annual address at the thirtieth annual meeting of the Texas Bar Association, held at Waco July 4-5. Congressman Littleton is a native of Texas. He advo cated effective regulation of corporations, and the election of United States Sena tors by the people. In speaking of the organization of corporations he stated that no share of stock ought to be issued until it was able to hold up its hand

and say, I know my redeemer liveth; that the dishonest corporation made the honest corporation suffer.

read the report of the committee on

legal education and admission to the bar, which carried with it the recom

mendation that the president appoint a committee to consider the laws regu lating examinations and admissions to the bar in other states, and to prepare a bill on the subject. The recommen

dations of the report were adopted. Lee Estes of Texarkana read the re port of the committee on commercial law, which carried with it some recom

mendations as to legislation looking to uniform commercial laws and renewed the recommendations of a former com mittee to endeavor to secure the passage

of an act recognizing the commission of uniform state laws and creating a simi lar board of commissioners of Texas. The recommendations of the report were adopted in their entirety.

W. A. Wright of San Angelo read the report of the committee on criminal law,

which made the following suggestions for the consideration of the association: Longer terms and higher salaries for all judges, trial and appellate; an immediate record of all exceptions and reasons therefor to be made by the court stenog rapher, together with the court's ruling and qualiﬁcations, and a copy to be em braced, as taken down in the statement of facts and transcript; as soon as the