The Legal World Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis and Henry L. Doherty of New York discussed corporations from opposite points of view at the Mercantile Clu in St. Louis April 21. Mr. Doherty complained of "visionaries" who wish to limit the earnings of corporations to certain rates of interest and to fix railroad rates, and compared them to bulls in a china shop. "There never was a railroad rate advo cated by a reformer," said Mr. Lehmann, "so low as the rates formerly accorded volun tarily by the railroads themselves to favored shippers." The fcllowin Presidential appointments have been con ed by the Senate: Farish Carter Tate, United States Attorney, northern district of Georgia (re-appointed); Clarence R. Wilson, United States Attorney, the District of Columbia; John Phili Hill, United States Attorney, district of
aryland; William A.
Northcott, United States Attorney (re-ap inted), southern district of Illinois; Casey
odd, United States Attorney, western district of Tennessee; James B. Cox, United States Attorne, eastern district of Tennessee; Fos
ter V. rown, Attorney-General of Porto Rico; Charles A. Boynton, United States At tlorney (re-appointed), western district of exas.
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Hotel Wentworth, Newcastle, June 25. The program will include the president's address, given by Judge William M. Chase of Con cord; the annual address, by Judge Alton B. Parker of New York; a paper upon the "Admiralty Courts of New Hampshire," by Judge Edgar Aldrich of Littleton; and a paper upon an early New Hampshire pamphlet entitled "General Regulation for the Gentle men of the Bar of New Hampshire" by Wallace Hackett of Portsmouth. There will be a banquet in the evening. The annual meeting of the South Dakota Bar Association was held at Sioux Falls March 29-31. Judge Horace A. Deemer of Des Moines, Iowa, made the annual address, on “Some Proposed Reforms in Criminal Procedure," Hon. John B. Hanten of Water town read a paper on "State Taxation," and James Brown, of Chamberlain, on "The Lag gard Science." The following officers were elected: President, Carl G. Sherwood of Clark; vice'dents, S. W. Clark of Redfield, and W. Rice of Deadwood; secretary, John H. Voorhees of Sioux Falls; treasurer, L. M. Simons of Belle Fourche. The sixteenth annual meetin of the Penn s lvania Bali"I Associatiloin wiIl‘} held aét8 tl21e otelCa a,Ca ay, Endiicfi .., une ,9 and 30. pefiomyGuslzsv A. of Read
$0 Association: ing, Pa., will deliver the President's address.
The Utah Bar Association has decided, instead of having annual meetings in Janu ary, to hold two meetings a year, during the months of April and October. At the ad journed meeting in Salt Lake City, April 2, action favoring an increase in the salaries of state judges was also taken. The principal address at the evening banquet was made by Joseph Chez of O den, who responded to a toast, "Lawyers‘ eracity." Several of the state associations are to hold their annual meetings in June. Besides the New Hampshire and Pennsylvania Bar Asso
The annual address will be delivered b Hon. James Pennewill, Chief Justice of De aware, on "The La 11 and the Law." Papers will be read by on. Ham ton L. Carson of Phila delphia, on “The nesis of Blackstone's Commentaries and Their Place in Legal Litera ture," and by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq., of Lancaster, on “The Constructive Genius of
David Lloyd in Early Colonial Pennsylvania Legislation and Jurisprudence-1686-173l."
Illinois, at_ the Chicago Beach Hotel on the
Moorfield Story at the sixteenth dinner of the Bar Association of Boston, held April 8, took issue with Err-President Roosevelt's statement, word of which came recently from E t, that "no people have ever perma nen y amounted to anything whose sole public
23d and 24th; and North Carolina at Wri hts
leaders were clerks,
ville Beach and Pennsylvania at Cape
He referred to the egal work of Justinian,
ciations (see supra), the Georgia Bar Associa
tion will meet at Athens on the 9th and 10th; Iowa, at Des Moines, on the 23d and 24th;
ay,
on the 28th, 29th and 30th.
Justices of the Sn me Court of California were guests of the Angeles Bar Associa tion at a banquet April 14. "The Adminis tration of the Criminal Law" was discussed b Judge George W. Church of Fresno and C arence Darrow of Chicago, the former up
holding and the latter decrying present con ditions. James Dewitt Andrews of New York made an appeal for unity of laws throughout the Umted States. The next annual meetin of the New Ham shire Bar Association Will be held at t e
liticians and lawyers."
to the Code of Napoleon, and to such leaders as Hamilton, Adams, Lincoln and Marshall,
but the reform of the law, he said, has not kept ace with the progress of science, and it is t e duty of lawyers to put their houses in order by setting themselves to the work of reducing the expense and delays of litiga tion. He foresaw a severe strain for the judiciary. "There are coming some of the fiercest contests which we have ever known struggles against executives who would sub stitute their own will for law, struggles against judges who think they have a rig t to amend the Constitution whenever they wish, struggles against the combinations of capital and labor, struggles against everybody who undertakes
