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 The American Bar Association finally carried by an overwhelming majority. Attorney-General Wickersham, who led the action to effect the continuance of William H. Lewis's membership, was thus successful, the association refusing the proposed action of the executive committee, which attempted to rescind the admittance of the three colored lawyers. On the heels of this action W. R. Morris of Minneapolis, one of the three negroes, resigned from the association, declaring that he did so "because of my sincere respect and un selfish consideration of the best interests of the leading organization of lawyers in the land. My action is intended as that of a lawyer towards lawyers for whose success and progress in their work of advancement I most earnestly and sincerely pray." The meeting closed with a banquet, the speakers including M. Le Grand of the French bar, Mr. Archambeault, rep resenting the Canadian bar, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles A. Boston, S. S. Gregory, P. J. Allen, Judge Orrin N. Carter. W. U. Hensel of Philadelphia acted as toastmaster. The following officers were elected : president, Frank B. Kellogg, St. Paul; secretary, George Whitelock, Balti more (re-elected); treasurer, Fred E. Wadhams, Albany (re-elected); execu tive committee, Hollis R. Bailey, Bos ton, Aldis B. Browne, Washington, D. C.; William H. Burgess, El Paso, Tex.; U. S. G. Cherry, Sioux Falls, S. D.; Judge William H. Staake, Phila delphia. President Kellogg was born in Pots dam, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1856. He moved to Minnesota with his parents in 1865 and in 1877 was admitted to the bar. In 1896 he was married to Miss Clara M. Cook, Rochester, Minn. He was city attorney of Rochester for three

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years and county attorney of Olmstead county for five years. In 1887 he moved to St. Paul and engaged in prac tice there. He was counsel for several large corporations until engaged by the Government in trust prosecutions. Cincinnati was chosen as the meeting place of the Association next year. SECTION ON LEGAL EDUCATION

The Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association met August 28-29, papers being read by the Chairman, Hollis R. Bailey of Massa chusetts, on "The Work and Aims of the Section"; Chief Justice John B. Winslow of Wisconsin, on "The Relation of Legal Education to Simplicity in Procedure"; Dean Harlan F. Stone, Columbia Law School, on "The Im portance of Actual Experience at the Bar as a Preparation for Teaching Law"; and Charles A. Boston of New York, on "The Recent Movement toward the Realization of High Ideals in the Legal Profession." COMPARATIVE LAW BUREAU

At the meeting of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Asso ciation, held August 26, Governor Simeon E. Baldwin of Connecticut, in his annual address as Director, declared that in its dealings with trusts the United States is far ahead of other countries, exercising vigilance over them while other countries are coddling and fostering them and in some instances supporting them with public funds. He cited numerous instances. The Bureau chose these officers: Director, Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin; secretary, W. W. Smithers; treasurer, Eugene C. Massie; Frederick W. Lehmann, St. Louis, Andrew A. Bruce, Jus tice of North Dakota Supreme Court, William Draper Lewis, Dean of the Penn