The Legal World William F. Johnson, a prominent Phila delphia lawyer, was given a dinner on the
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and, second, in entirely altering the method of the Presidential election.
evening of November 4 by his fellow-lawyers, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the bar, and was pre sented with a loving cup by Judge Kinsey.
{Bar Association: It is expected that one hundred and fifty or more lawyers will be in attendance at the
Henry B. Macfarland, for nine
ears Com
missioner of the District of Colum ia, handed in 1118 resi tion November 18, announcin that he intended to take up the practice 0 the law, since he had no pnvate fortune and créilrld no longer afford to give his time to the 0 cc. Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the Supreme Court of the United States, in an address given late in November before the Progress Club of Far Rockaway, N. Y., said he new that labor organizations are sensi tive about the nting of injunctions, but he expected that ultimately they will recog nize the value of this action in preventing riot and bloodshed. He condemned secret divorces: "I believe that it is better to have no divorce than divorce obtained by secret processes."
annual
meeting
of
the
Mississip '
y. The thirty-first annual meeting of the Ohio Bar Association will be held not at Put-in Bay Island, where the meetings have been held for a long period, but at Cedar Point, the dates being July 7 and 8. The New York State Bar Association held a special meeting in Albany Dec. 9 for the purpose of commemorating the life and pub ic services of the late Justice Rufus W. Peck ham. President Adelbert Moot of falo resided and short addresses were
Buf 'ven
by nited States Senator Elihu Root, ud e John Clinton Gray of the Court of A s, ormer Judge William J. Wallace of the nited States Circuit Court, Marcus
Charles S. Whitman, District Attorney of New York county, succeeding W. T. Jerome,
Bar
fisasociation, to be held in Natchez, Miss" in
T.
Hun
and
Lewis E. Carr of Albany.
is fort years of age. He was born in Nor wich, nn. He was appointed a city magis trate by Mayor Low in 1903, and in Febru my. 1907, was chosen resident of the board 0 city magistrates. 11 July, 1907, he was gromoted by appointment to the Court of eneral Sessions of New York City at an
One hundred lawyers from twenty-seven counties of California met at San Francisco Nov. 10 and organized the California State Bar Association, with Judge Curtis H. Lindley of San Francisco as president, M. K. Harris of Fresno, Lynn Helm of Los Angeles, and F. W.
annualsalaryof $15,000.
Street of Tuolumne as vice-president, E. J.
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trate he startled the police of the est Forty-seventh street station, shortly after midnight in March, 1906, by appearing in evening clothes and taking command of the station from the desk sergeant. Then he ordered several saloons to be raided accom panying the raiding party and assisting in the arrest of the bartender. Then he returned to the court room in the station and there held court before daylight.
Mott of San Francisco as secretary, and Thomas W. Robinson of Los Angeles as treasurer. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. The new association immediately gassed a resolution endorsing Erskine M. oss of California, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, for the vacancy in the Supreme Court of the United States. The annual meeting is to be held in Los Angeles. The Association is not the first of the kind in
Hon. George B. McClellan gave the first of two lectures at Princeton University Dec. 9, on "Present Day Legislation." Describing how it was that law was the concrete ex ression of public opinion, he showed how the legislative power of Congress had been in part yielding u to the other branches of government. '1‘ us to the Executive or to commissions ap inted by him had been yielded certain unctions, the excuse being that the powers were merely ministerial. An
association organized many years ago, which had become defunct.
California, but is the successor of a state bar
example was to be found in the Hepburn act,
which leaves the reasonableness or unreason ableness of railway rates in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Supreme Court. The Constitution had been amended by custom, he said, in two important
particulars: first, in limiting the service in the Presidency of any one man to two terms;
The resident of the Oregon Bar Associa tion, irt Minor, precipitated a sharp debate in the Oregon Bar Association at the annual meetin
held at Portland, Ore., Nov. 16-17,
by dec aring that the people have lost re spect for the constitution and that the initia tive is a failure in Oregon. He said that the great need in Oregon was a constitutional convention. The Association took action looking toward the close scrutiny of all in itiative measures which may be submitted to the voters of the state in November, 1910.
For this purpose a meetin will be held on the third Tuesday in May, for the purpose of studying and reporting upon all initiative
