The Legal World Frederick W. Gnichtel has succeeded Judge John Rellstab as Judge of the Court of Com mon Pleas of Mercer County, N. J. When the senate re-convenes it is anticipated that he will be named for the full term. A painting of Judge William E. Fuller, hung in the probate court room at Taunton, Mass., June 2, was given by the Taunton bar in commemoration of Judge Fuller's twentyfifth anniversary. Associate Justice Henry A. Melvin of the Supreme Court of California was the chief speaker at a banquet given in honor of Dr. Hall, Dean of the Law School of Chicago University, at Oakland, Cal., May 19. Horace E. Deemer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, made an address on "The Social Cosmos" at the commencement exercises of the Creighton College of Law held at Omaha, Neb., May 15. Seven young men were graduated. The appointment of Hon. Charles B. Elliott, formerly of the Minnesota Supreme Court, has been confirmed, as Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, succeeding Judge Willard. Justice Elliott is the author of several legal text-books. Justice L. O. Loranger, who has com pleted his twenty-seventh year as Judge of the Superior Court of Montreal, made his last appearance on the bench May 17, when he presided over the Court of Review. His colleagues took appropriate notice of the event. Reports from Shanghai say that Hon. Rufus H. Thayer, the new Judge of the United States Court for China, successor to Judge Wilfley, has been well received socially in Shanghai, and has succeeded in giving a favorable impression of judicial fairness and ability.
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predicts that he will be nominated without opposition and elected in 1912. A large portrait of Judge James G. Jenkins was presented to the United States Circuit Court at Milwaukee on May 15. Federal Judges Landis, Baker, and Grosscup and members of the Milwaukee Bar Association attended the presentation service. The in tention is to have portraits of all former judges hung in the court room. United States District Judge George Gray of Wilmington, Del., agreed to become the fifth member of a board selected to arbitrate the differences between the Scranton Railway Company and its employees. The motormen and conductors demanded a flat rate of twenty-five cents an hour, instead of twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two cents. Judge Sydney M. Smith took his seat on the bench of the Mississippi Supreme Court, to which he has just been appointed. May 11. Judge Smith is the son of a Confederate soldier, was graduated in 1893 from the law department of the University of Mississippi, served in the legislature, and was appointed to the circuit bench of his state. Prosecutor Crossley of Mercer County, N. J., paid a high tribute to Judge John Rellstab, when the latter sat for the last time in the Mercer County Court on May 21. Judge Rellstab's appointment as United States Dis trict Judge for the district of New Jersey, which was confirmed by the Senate, has been favorably received by the New Jersey bar. Associate Justice R. V. Fletcher of Miss issippi, who relinquished the Attornev-Generalship in order to serve the unexpired term of Justice Calhoun, has begun the practice of law in Jackson in partnership with Hon. J. N. Powers, former assistant Attorney-General, and Mr. A. H. Whitfield, Jr., son of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
The great work being done by the American International Law Association, the project of which, if accepted, will control the action of the next International Peace Conference, was described by Judge Daniel G. Taylor, May 28, at the quarterly meeting of the St. Louis Bar Association.
Rear Admiral Samuel C. Lemly, U.S.N., retired, is suffering from a complete mental and physical breakdown, which is understood to have had its origin in the strain to which he was subjected in the celebrated Schley case. He was the Judge Advocate-General who conducted that case, and was widely caricatured and criticised in view of the popular excitement over it.
Senator Edward F. Blewitt of Pennsylvania declares that Judge George Gray of Delaware is the only man on the political horizon of the Democratic organization for President, and
Walter F. Frear was Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Supreme Court before he was ap pointed Governor of Hawaii. A native of
