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and considered, and the vote passed was adverse in the proportion of 57 to 45. Proposals have been adopted to amend the constitution so as to give either branch of the legislature power to con duct investigations separately; attach ing double liability to state bank stock; amending the veto clause so as to take away from the Governor the power to veto bills partially, except as to appro priation bills, and making a three-fifths instead of two-thirds vote necessary to override a veto. The convention has also adopted a proposal providing for uniform taxation on all property, excise, franchise, income, inheritance and mineral output taxation. A majority — perhaps as large as 70 per cent — of the delegates have been classed as "progressive." Ohio is the first eastern state to attempt the revision of its organic law since the direct legis lation movement began. Personal

The Virginia Law Register publishes an editorial tribute to Judge Thornton L. Massie, who was recently murdered by friends of a convicted felon in Carroll County, Virginia. It truly observes that all America, as well as Virginia, may well be proud of the memory of a scholarly and able jurist, a conscientious and efficient public servant, a "gentle man unafraid." The New York Law Journal adds: "The example of his death at the post of duty, faithful to the institution of which he was the embodiment, is an inspiration to those who contend for preserving such insti tution in its integrity." That France may show Americans the way to get justice is the opinion of ex-Judge John D. Lawson, who, as a representative of the American Bar

Association, is soon to go to that coun try to spend a year in studying its legal ways at short range. The results of his inquiry and of observations he made in a visit to England last year are to be laid before the Law Reform Com mittee of the Bar Association, of which he is a member, and will be considered in the extensive report which that com mittee is to make on procedure. Associations

Alabama. — The dates for the next annual meeting of the Alabama Bar Association have been fixed as May 17-18, at Montgomery. Indiana. — The annual convention of the Indiana Bar Association is to be held in July in South Bend, Ind. 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. North Carolina. — The annual meet ing will be held June 25-7, at a place later to be announced. Pennsylvania. — The Pennsylvania Bar Association will hold its eighteenth annual meeting at Cape May, June 24-7. Procedure

The Supreme Court of Oregon, acting under a constitutional amendment passed by the people, has laid down a rule that it will not grant appeals on mere techni cal grounds, but only when it can be shown conclusively that errors have re sulted in a miscarriage of justice. This action has been taken in a compara tively unimportant case, arising over a promissory note for $350.