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cuit Court at Trenton, N. 1., Oct. 26, by Assistant Attorney-General John B. Vreeland of the New Jersey district, acting under the immediate direction of Attorney-General Wickersham. Ex Secretary of Var Jacob McGavock Dickinson is associated with the Attor

gestions. Senator Sutherland, chairman of the commission, supplied an outline of the proposed plan, as follows: —"The

ney-General as special counsel to the

and not subject to election by either

Government. The defendants named in the Government’s bill include thirty

employer or employee. The remedy shall be exclusive of any common law or other statutory remedy. The law will apply to all accidents resulting to the

seven corporations. ﬁve individuals sued as trustees and eighteen in their capac ity as officers and directors of the Steel Corporation or its subsidiaries. According to a dispatch from Madrid, Prof. Walter Lichtenstein, librarian of Northwestern University at Evanston,

compensation is to be paid by the em ployer directly, and not out of a general fund created by any form of taxation. The law shall be in form compulsory,

employee while in the course of his employment, except those where the disability continues for a period of two weeks or less, the employer, however, to furnish medical and surgical assist ance to an amount not exceeding $200."

Ill., purchased in Spain for Harvard University, on Oct. 27, the extensive

library of the Marquis d'Olivart.

This

library has long been regarded the most complete collection of works relating to international law and diplomacy. It is also rich in material upon the subject of jurisprudence. The gathering of this collection has been the work of a life

time. The printed catalogue shows more

At the ﬁfth annual meeting of the American Association of Title Men, held in Little Rock, Ark., in October, John T.-Kenney of Madison, Wis., read a paper on “The Passing of the

Torrens Fallacy," in which he discussed at length the land title problems of Great Britain and her colonies. Refer ring to the United States, he said: “In respect to conditions in the United

than 6,000 titles and the number of volumes is much larger. Many of the States generally, I shall not attempt books are of very early date and no ' to particularize, but I call your attention longer obtainable. The collection of to the fact that since our last meeting at early books upon the theory of natural Detroit, two states, New York and law is very extensive, but the material Oregon, have enacted amendments to upon the Spanish-American war of 1898 their laws permitting the withdrawal and the recent Moroccan controversy of registered lands from the operations

is no less complete.

of such statutes at the will of theowner as demanded in our resolutions of last year

After a two days executive session,

and not a single state has adopted the

the federal Employers’ Liability and Workmen's Compensation Committee

law during the past winter, although some

reached an agreement at Washington, D. C., on Oct. 24, on the basis of legis lation to be recommended to Congress, and adjourned until Monday, Nov. 6, when the commission will meet in Wash

In many of the most progressive states, among them Wisconsin, I am glad to say, notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts of its advocates, it was again

defeated. In Chicago, the most aggres

ington for the purpose of hearing sug

sive and energetic administrative head

forty-three legislatures were in session.