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B0st0n.—At the annual meeting of the Bar Association of Boston, held Oct. 7, Moorﬁeld Storey was re-elected president, other oﬂicers being Samuel J.

Elder, vice-president; William S. Hall. treasurer; Robert S. Gorham, secre tary. These members were elected to the council for three years; Everett W. Burdett, Franklin T. Hammond, James F. Jackson, John Lowell, B. W. Warren, Henry A. Wyman and Henry James, Jr.

Syckel, former Governor Fort, Supreme Court

Justices

Swayze

and

Bergen,

Vice-Chancellors Nalker and Howell, Judges Skinner and Gaskill, Senator Silzer, former Justice Gilbert Collins, Villiam N. Clevenger and Frank H.

Sommer._ At a meeting held Oct. 16. it was voted to leave matters to a sub committee of Charles H. Hartshorne

and Judges Clevenger and Skinner. Miscellaneous In spite of the prophecy expressed in

Brooklyn. —The Kings County Law yers’ Association was organized at a meeting held in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct.

the judicial statistics of 1909 and the

days later, with a membership of more

assertion that crime was on the increase in England, the annual return of the Prison Commissioner for the year end ing March 31, 1911, which the British Government has issued, shows a satis

than one hundred lawyers. The ﬁrst annual meeting will be held next June,

cline in the actual number of convic

and until that time the oﬂicers will be: president, Edward T. Curran; vice

tions and in the proportion of prisoners under sentence to the whole popula

president, Max E. Lehman; correspond ing secretary, Samuel “J. Pease; re cording secretary, Thomas Hickey; treas

urer, Felix J. Bannert.

tion. The recorded actual number of those “doing time" is 167,695, a decline of 12,000 since the previous year, and of 30,000 since 1904-6.

Kansas. —The annual meeting of the Kansas State Bar Association will

and a commission somewhat similar to

14, and papers of incorporation were ﬁled with the Secretary of State two

be held Jan. 30, 1912. President Harry B. Hutchins of the University of Michi gan is to deliver the annual address.

Nebraska. —The dates and place for the next annual meeting of the Nebraska State Bar Association have been ﬁxed as the last Thursday and Friday in June, 1912, at Cedar Rapids. New Jersey. — The New Jersey State Bar Association has again taken the initiative, in an effort to provide some method by which the administration of justice in New Jersey may be expedited. A committee which is investigating this

subject consists of former Justice Van

factory state of affairs.

Government control of

There is de

monopolies

the Interstate Commerce Commission, to regulate all trusts, was advocated by Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, before the Brooklyn Con gregational Club, Oct. 24. Mr Prouty said: “I believe the only practical re

lief from trust oppression is to be found in more direct and drastic Government

regulation.

First a commission should

be appointed, in most respects similar to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. It should devote considerable time

to investigation before taking action." The long-expected Government suit

for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation was ﬁled in the Cir~