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lawyer at a distance whom he does not fied and national code, the expense of trust? each member and his compensation to How can this code be obtained, is be fixed and paid by the legislature of perhaps the most difficult question. I his state. Let them take time, and do answer by concerted action of the the thing right, if it takes a year or so lawyers in every state. Let the bar — it will be worth the money; and then associations of each state take the let each legislature adopt the code matter in hand, and arrange for a returned by the commission as "the convention to consider the matter in code of procedure of the state," the all its forms; and if that convention result of the brains of some of the best deems it advisable let the legislature of and most eminent lawyers in the Nation; each state authorize the Governor of and the thing is done. each state to appoint a certain number All this will take time. But the thing of eminent lawyers, and let the entire is worth it, and now is the time to start. number so chosen by the various Gov LEV RUSSELL. ernors constitute a commission to meet where agreed on, and formulate a simpli St. Louis, May 8, 1912

The Legal World JKonthly Analysts of Leading Events The month has seen a great deal of hard fighting for possession of the state delegations in the coming Presidential conventions, and political controversy has taken up so large a share of the thoughts of the public that even other matters, commonly treated as nonpolitical, seem to be tinged with more or less of a political interest. The month has had few notable developments. The chief happenings of the month in dicate the prevalence of a widespread political unrest. The passage of the anti-injunction bill by the lower House of Congress has significance chiefly from the labor stand point, and political motives have no doubt played an important part in the investigation of Judge Archbald of the Commerce Court. It is impossible to determine just what foundation there is for the serious charges against him, and there is ground for the suspicion that the

object of the proceedings is quite as much to discredit the Commerce Court, and to bring about its abolition, as to prove Judge Archbald guilty of improper conduct. The Industrial Workers of the World still occupy a prominent place in the public eye, and the issue of "free speech" in Los Angeles is not the only one which has been seized upon by demagogic agitators. United States District Judge Hanford of Tacoma has been bitterly denounced for denying naturalization to one Olsson, on the ground that Olsson's socialistic opinions rendered it ' impossible for him to fulfill his oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The real point of the controversy seems to have been overlooked. Olsson declared himself a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, an organization suspected of a purpose to achieve its ends through unlawful violence than by peaceable means, and the real ques-