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 The Legal World over two hundred lawyers, remarks being made by Chief Justice Rugg of the Su preme Judicial Court, former AttorneyGeneral Herbert Parker, ex-Governor John D. Long, federal Circuit Court Judge Hale of Maine, and Justice R. W. Irwin of the Superior Court. The following officers were elected: President, Charles W. Clifford of New Bedford; vice-presidents, William H. Brooks, James E. Cotter, James R. Dunbar, Samuel K. Hamilton, John C. Hammond, Herbert Parker; secretary, Robert Homans; treasurer, Charles E. Ware; executive committee, Hollis R. Bailey, Henry H. Baker, Paul R. Blackmur, Loyed E. Chamberlain, Robert G. Dodge, William H. Dunbar, Lee M. Friedman, T. Hovey Gage, Frederick L. Greene, Charles E. Hibbard, Henry F. Hurlburt, Andrew J. Jennings, Rob ert A. Knight, John W. Mason, William H. Niles, James M. Swift, George S. Taft, James H. Vahey, Joseph B. War ner, Alden P. White, Frederick N. Wier. Associations

American Bar Association. — Lord Justice Sir William Rann Kennedy of the English Court of Appeal will make the opening address before the Ameri can Bar Association at its next annual meeting, which is to be held in Mil waukee, Wis., Aug. 27-9, 1912. Alabama.—The dates for the next annual meeting of the Alabama Bar Association have been fixed as May 17-18, at Montgomery. North Carolina. — The annual meet ing will held June 25-7 at a place later to be announced. Oklahoma. — Notable changes in procedure were proposed in the report sub-

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mitted to the Oklahoma State Bar Asso ciation by the committee on judicial administration and remedial reform, at its meeting late in December. The com mittee would abolish hypothetical ques tions in criminal actions, would allow the accused to remain silent, but make his silence a fair subject for comment, and would greatly shorten and simplify the form of indictments. Pennsylvania. — The Pennsylvania Bar Association will hold its eighteenth annual meeting at Cape May June 24-7. Rhode Island. — A portrait of former Chief Justice Pardon E. Tillinghast, for a short time head of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, was presented to the state Dec. 4 by the Rhode Island Bar Association at its annual meeting. Prof. George Grafton Wilson, Professor of International Law and Political and Social Science at Harvard University, spoke on "A Law for the Nations," taking up the work of international agreements for the settlement of dis putes without resort to arms, and giving a description of various cases, from the arbitrament of the Pius fund case be tween Mexico and the United States, decided in 1902, to the broader appli cation of international law to the settlement of more recent disputes. William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind., former chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, fol lowed with an address on "A Court for the Nations." The officers were re-elected as fol lows: President, Albert A. Baker; first vice-president, Cyrus M. Van Slyck; second vice-presedent, William P. Shef field, Jr.; secretary, Howard B. Gorham; treasurer, James A. Pirce; exe cutive committee, Dexter B. Potter, William A. Morgan, Amasa M. Eaton,