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tion is therefore that of Olsson's inclina tion to obey the laws of this country, rather than whether he considers those laws just or unjust. Apart from these political or social developments, there has perhaps been some slight progresss toward more effi cient administration of the law. The new legislation bringing about certain reforms in the Boston Municipal Court, though not so far-reaching as to place that court on a par with the Chicago court in efficiency, will bring about some highly beneficial results. The agitation led by Police Commissioner Waldo in New York City must also tend to exact a higher standard of efficiency from the judges of the Court of General Sessions in that city. The passage by the Senate of the federal Employers' Liability bill is a triumph for the Taft administration, and marks a step in wholesomely pro gressive legislation. Penonal

At the May meeting of the Yale Cor poration John W. Edgerton, Secretary of the Yale Law School since 1903, was appointed Professor of Mercantile Law. George Grafton Wilson, Professor of International Law at Harvard Uni versity, has been appointed by the Har vard Corporation exchange professor to France for the year 1912-13. Mr. Justice Mahlon Pitney was ten dered a complimentary dinner April 27 at Newark, N. J., by four hundred mem bers of the bench and bar of New Jer sey. The speakers were Mr. Justice Hughes, Chancellor Edwin Robert Wal ker, Chief Justice William S. Gummere, Attorney-General Edmund Wilson, Rob ert H. McCarter, former Attorney-Gen eral, acted as toast-master.

A portrait of Judge Peter Grosscup was hung in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, beside other paintings of judges on April 23, under the auspices of the American Bar Association, addresses being made by Stephen S. Gregory, president of the Association, John S. Miller, and Judge Francis E. Baker. The portrait was painted by Lawton S. Barker. Dean John H. Wigmore, speaking recently before young men at the Chi cago Y. M. C. A., gave the following estimate: about sixteen-twentieths of the lawyers in Chicago make from $1,000 to $3,000 a year. One-twentieth make $4,000, one-twentieth $5,000, one-twen tieth $6,000 or more. There are not over forty lawyers in the city who make more than $10,000 a year. Charles H. Burr, of the Philadelphia law firm of Burr, Brown & Loyd, was awarded the H. W. Phillip's prize of $2,000 on April 20, by the American Philosophical Society, for the best essay on "The Treaty-making Power of the United States." Nine essays were sub mitted. At the banquet at which the award was announced, toasts were re sponded to by Professor Charles P. Chandler, Professor John Bassett Moore, Charlemagne Tower, Professor James Brown Scott and Mr. Burr. Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, speaking as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute at its annual meeting in New York May 17, pro phesied the early repeal of the Sherman anti-trust law and announced himself a progressive in politics as well as in business. "Competition is necessary," he said, "but I do not believe in de