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Before the action could come to an issue they found that the points of difference were not great, and settled the dispute themselves. In this case the Committee on Arbitration served really as a Committee of Conciliation. Above all, resort to it overcame a dis agreeable incident quickly, and at prac tically no expense."

Hansfield, Judge W. W., died July 27, at Ozark, Ark., aged eighty-two. He had served as prosecuting attorney cir cuit judge, member of the legislature and after serving on the Supreme Court many years was forced by ill health to resign. He was one of the four or five surviving members of the convention that voted Arkansas out of the Union into the Confederacy. He was also The eighteenth annual convention of a member of the convention which in the Commercial Law League of America 1874 drafted the present state consti met at Colorado Springs, Colo., begin tution. ning July 23, with an attendance of four James, John H., Chief Justice of the hundred from all parts of the United Texas Court of Civil Appeals for the States and Canada. J. Howard Reber fourth district, died at San Antonio, of Philadelphia presided. Gov. John F. Tex., in July. His position has been Shafroth of Colorado made the address filled by the promotion of Judge W. S. of welcome, and in addition to important Fly of the same court. committee, reports which occupied much Page, Charles H., who had served of the time of the convention on three three terms as a Congressman from successive days, interesting papers were Rhode Island, died in Providence, R. I., presented, among which were the annual July 21. He was for many years a address, delivered by Justice Rosseau A. prominent lawyer of his state. Burch of the Kansas Supreme Court, Scruggs, William Lindsey, former Min on "Constitutions and Courts," "The ister to Colombia and Venezuela, died Ideal Lawyer," by S. T. Bledsoe, Okla at Atlanta, Ga., July 18, at the age of homa City, and "Impossibilities of the seventy. In 1894 he acted as the legal Law," by P. G. Dedmon, Fort Worth, Tex. At the banquet Judge Ben B. adviser and special agent of the Vene Lindsey spoke on "Politics and Reform," zuelan Government, charged with the Earl W. Evans of Wichita, Kan., on settlement of the Anglo-Venezuelan "Recall and Recollections," and Wade boundary dispute. He succeeded in Millis of Detroit on "The Eclipse of the bringing this to arbitration in 1897. Lawyer." Washburn, William D., formerly United States Senator from Minnesota, Obituary died at Minneapolis July 29, aged eightyAlexander, Thomas, United States one. A native of Maine, he removed to Commissioner and Clerk of the United Minneapolis just after his admission States District Court in New York to the bar at Bangor in 1852. He be City, died July 24, at the age of fifty- came a leader in the business upbuilding eight. As the fourth incumbent of the of Minnesota. He served in the na office, Mr. Alexander succeeded Samuel tional House for six or eight years, and H. Lyman as Chief Clerk of the Dis afterwards in the Senate, from 1889 to 1895. trict Court eleven years ago.