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The Legal World "The Judicial Recall." Senator William Berry of Indianola also read a paper on the opening day on "The Administration of the Indeterminate Sentence and Re formatory Law." The annual address was delivered by Mr. Justice William Renwick Riddell of the King's Bench of Ontario. His subject was, "Com parison of the Constitutions of the United States and Canada." Other papers read were: "The Juvenile De linquent and His Treatment," by Judge Charles S. Bradshaw of Des Moines; "The State Law Library," by A. J. Small of Des Moines, and "Some Rail road Problems," by Hon. J. L. Parrish of Des Moines, general counsel of the Rock Island. The report of the Committee on Law Reform excited considerable discussion. It favored the abolition of appeals based on purely technical errors, an increase in the number of Supreme judges and the division of the Supreme Court into two sections, limitation of the time permitted each side for trial in jury cases, three-fourths verdicts where the jury has deliberated not less than ten hours, and separate primary ballots for judicial officers. The pro posal to limit the time for hearings was lost by a tie vote of the association. The plan for three-fourths verdicts was unanimously defeated after it had been amended to apply only to cases where not over $500 was in controversy. The association voted in favor of increasing the Supreme Court to at least nine members, but against the proposed division of the court. A. T. Cooper of Cedar Rapids read the annual report of the committee on membership, and reported an increase of 125 in the past year, more than three times as many as were ever re ported before. Governor Hadley of Missouri received

a great ovation at the banquet, and made an entertaining speech. Justice H. E. Deemer of Des Moines was elected president; Major John F. Lacy, Oskaloosa, vice-president; Prof. H. C. Horak, Iowa City, secretary; Frank T. Nash, Washington, treasurer; A. J. Small, Des Moines, librarian. The next annual meeting will be held at Sioux City, on the last Thursday and Friday in June, 1913. Miscellaneous

The national House on July 11 passed the Clayton contempt bill, 232 to 18. The measure provides for trial by jury for those accused of indirect contempt of a federal court. An attempt to pass a substitute prepared by Representa tive Sterling of Illinois was voted down. The verdict in the Camorra trial at Viterbo, Italy, was rendered July 8, by a unanimous decision finding nine of the accused guilty of murder, and the remainder of the band guilty of belonging to a criminal association. This remarkable trial took almost a year and a half. Altogether over seven hundred witnesses were heard. The annual meeting of the Chicago Bar Association was held June 4. The president, Edgar B. Tolman, delivered an address in which he discussed the work of the association on behalf of high standards of professional ethics, the separation of judicial elections from party politics by means of the recent bar primary, and other matters. The membership showed a substantial in crease over that of the previous year. The President forwarded to the Senate on July 10 the nomination of Frederic Dodge, Judge of the United States District Court at Boston, to be United States District Judge for the first judi