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tion to authorize him to appoint a com mission to investigate the patent laws and report what changes were necessary to make them fit modern conditions. The President gave several reasons to show the need for a change. He referred to the recent "patent monopoly" deci sion by the Supreme Court, and enu merated five other reasons which he said demanded the revision of the patent law. The first was that large corpora tions bought patents for improvements and suppressed their manufacture. The President urged that procedure under the patent laws be simplified and that the burden of proving the invalidity of a patent be placed upon him who would infringe upon it.

porations as counsel, and had held im portant receiverships and other judicial commissions. Morgan, D. E., former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota, died in California May 11. He was a native of Ohio, and first practised law at Grand Forks, N. D. Later he went into partnership with A. H. Noyes of Minneapolis, and later returned to North Dakota, where he established an office at Devils Lake. In 1883 he entered into partnership with Judge McGee, now district judge. In 1908 he was elected to the Supreme Court and served in that capacity until last year. Poor, C. L., president of the Burling ton (la.) Hawk-Eye, and City Solicitor of Burlington, died May 12, at the age of sixty-six. He was one of the best known members of the legal profession in Iowa.

Obituary Eaton, Daniel Cody, who died at New Haven May 11, was for many years Professor of the History and Criticism of Art at Yale University, being made Reavis, James Bradley, former Jus Professor Emeritus in 1907. He was tice of the Supreme Court for the state a graduate of the Albany Law School. of Washington, died April 29 at Tacoma, Griswold, Stephen B. for thirty-seven in his seventy-fourth year. He was a years librarian of the New York State native of Missouri, and went to the Law Library, died May 4, aged seventy- Pacific Coast in 1874. In 1880 he en six. When he took charge, in 1875, the tered law practice in Tacoma in part library was composed of 20,000 volumes, nership with R. O. Dunbar, now Chief and when he retired, in 1905, it had Justice of the Supreme Court of Wash grown to 81,000 volumes. ington. He was a Regent of the Uni Mabee, J. P., chairman of the Domin versity of Washington shortly after the ion Board of Railway Commissioners, state was admitted to the Union. died at Toronto May 6, following an Walton, Major Clifford S. who died operation for appendicitis. Before be at Washington, D. C., May 15, had coming Chief Railway Commissioner served on a number of international he was a Judge of the High Court of law commissions, including controver Justice, Ontario. sies between the United States and McClure, David, a prominent member Peru, Chile and Salvador, and was the of the New York bar, who had declined author of the "The Civil Law in Spain appointments to the highest courts of and Spanish America." He was often the state, died April 30, aged sixty- called into various courts as an expert three. He had served many large cor on civil and international law matters.