The Legal World The late Judge Geo e H. Williams and the Justices of the upreme (‘ourt of Ore on were banqueted March 15 at Port lan, Ore. by the Multnornah County Bar
Association. Judge Williams gave reminis cences covering sixty-six years‘ ex rience in the practice of the law and in pub c life, and was crowned "Nestor of the Ore on Bar" with an im ressive ceremony that (1 been ar ran in honor of the distinguished jurist. It so happened, however, that the ceremony
was destined really to be a last farewell, for a fortnight or so later, on April 4, udge Williams died. The "grand old man 0 Ore on," as he was known, had had a most
'stinguished career. He was nominated by President Grant Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but the nomination was not confirmed by the Senate.
Penonal- The Bar Daniel W. Baker, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, has resigned his position in order to look after his private practice. John Marshall Gest has been endorsed by the Law Association of Philadelphia for the position to be made vacant b the respective retirement of Jud e William . As man from the bench of the ham’ Court. .5 gm“
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is that the present situation is discreditable both as regards the national and the state governments in meetin their obligations to private citizens, an that the nation, the state, the county, and the city should be made liable both in contract and in tort u n exactly the same basis as every indivi ual and every private corporation.
New Dean of Harvard Law School The name of the late Professor James Bradley Thayer will lon be sure of an honored place in the anna s of the Harvard Law School, and the appointment of his son, Ezra Ripley Thayer, to succeed the late James Barr Ames as Dean will be grati fying to many. Dean Thayer is fortyjfour years of age and has been very actively engaged for several years in the general ractrce of law. as a member of the pronunent oston firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palrner& Thayer, and he has lectured at Harvard Law School on Massachusetts practice. _He is a member of the American Bar Association, and represented Massachusetts on the com mittee which formulated the code of pro fessional ethics, and is also an active member of the Boston Bar Association. He edited
his father's book of "Legal Essays." IIn addition to the ap intment as Dean, Mr. Thayer was also e Dane Professor of Law.
R. W. Burnie, barrister-at-law, a criminal
lawyer well known in London, is to be or ‘dained a priest of the Church of England in May, after an unusually short pre aration specially sanctioned by the Bishop of ndon. Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis, speak in on “National Control of Corporations" be ore the St. Louis Bar Association March 7, expressed the o inion that the national gov ernment is, in a matters of general concern. the best repository of all arti cral ' powers and the best conservator of all national ri hts. The national bank, he said. was a strr ing example of good national control. The following appointments have been confirmed by the Senate: William S. Kenyon, of Iowa, assistant to the Attorne -General, ‘vice Wade H. Ellis, resi ed; . Frank Lloyd, Assistant Attorne -€ianeral; and the following United States ttorneys,-—Wil1iam E. Trautmann, for the eastern district of Illinois; Barnes Gillespie, for the western district of Virginia, vice Thomas Lee Moore, whose term had expired; Herbert F. Seawell,
$ar Associaliom The Mississippi Bar Association will hold its annual meeting in Natchez, Miss., in May. The Louisiana State Bar Association will hold its annual meeting in Baton Rou e on May 20 and 21, durin the session 0 the General Assembly, whic will then be giving its attention to the two revised codes. At the annual meeting of the Worcester Count (Mass) Bar Association, held March 4,
the fo owin
officers were elected: John R.
Thayer of
orcester, president;
David
F.
O'Connell of Worcester, vice-president; Frank C. Smith, Jr., of Worcester, secretary and treasurer.
The Bar of Philadelphia met on March 21 to take action on the death of the late N. DuBois Miller. Remarks ap ropriate to the occasion were made by Ju e William H. Staake, Henry; Flanders, J.
ercy Keating,
'mce Harry Skinner, whose term had expired.
Theodore M. tting, David Wallerstein, and T. DeWitt Cuyler.
Mr. Simon Fleischmann's admirable paper on "The Dishonesty of Sovereignties," read last Janua at the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association, has been Issued as a parn hlet reprint from the Pro ceedrngs of the ssociation. The contention of this eminent lawyer of Buflalo, N. Y.,
The Massachusetts Trial La ers' Asso ciation held its first. meeting on arch l in Boston, with one hundred and twent -five members present, and elected these 0 cers: Judge Augustine . Daly of Cambridge, president; Henry H. Bond of Boston, vice president; Roland G. Sherman of Boston, secretary.
for the eastern district of North Carolina,
