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much discussion, especially on the point
whether an air ship should have the nationality of its owner, as proposed by the committee, or that of its place of
registration. The latter alternative was eventually adopted with a qualification.
Personal W. H. Cobb of San Francisco suc ceeds Oscar Lawlor, resigned, as assist ant Attorney-General for the Interior Department.
Another point was whether aerial war
should be forbidden.
The British mem
bers were practically unanimous in con demning the use of air-vessels as engines
of war.
Professor Holland, regretting
Judge William P. Whitehouse, who has been re-appointed to the Supreme Court of Maine, has been a member of that bench since 1890.
the very existence of aeroplanes, thought
their free circulation even in time of peace a public danger. It“ The term aéronef has been adopted by‘' the Institute as the best generic term
Hon. George B. McClellan has ac cepted a lectureship in politics and government at
Princeton
University,
a chair having been endowed through for vessels used in aerial navigation. The propositions adopted in their some
the efforts of some of his friends.
what inchoate form are: — I.
IN TIME OF PEACE
l. A distinction is made between public air vessels and private air vessels. 2. Every air vessel shall have a nationality, and one nationality only, which shall be that of the country in which it is registered. Air vessels shall carry some special sign by which they can be distinguished. The state in which registration is applied for shall determine to whom and under what con ditions it may be granted, suspended, or with drawn. Nevertheless, the state which registers an air vessel belonging to a foreign owner shall have no right to assert protection over such air vessel on the territory of the state to which its owner belongs against the operation of laws under which the said state may have forbidden its subjects to register air vessels abroad. 3.
International aerial navigation is free, sub
ject to the right of subjacent states, to take certain fixed precautions with a view to assur ingEtheir own safety and that of the persons and property of inhabitants on their territory. II.
IN TIME OF WAR
1. War in the air is permitted, provided it do not expose the persons or property of non combatant populations to greater danger than those to which they are exposed in war on land or war on the sea.
An invitation to meet next year at Christiania was accepted.
Hon. U. G. Denman, former Attor ney-General of Ohio, has accepted an
appointment as United States Attorney for the northern district of Ohio, suc
ceeding the late R. W. Tayler of Cleve land.
The deadlock in the lowalLegislature ended April 12, when Judge William S. Kenyon of
Fort Dodge was elected
United States Senator to succeed the late Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver. Judge Kenyon was born in Elyria, O., in 1869.
He was Judge of the Eleventh Iowa judicial district, and in 1903 was ap pointed attorney for the Illinois Central Railway. In 1907 he was made general counsel of that company, with ofiices at Chicago. He was appointed assistant to the Attorney-General of the United States March 14, 1910. His home is at Fort Dodge, Ia.
Judge Claudius B. Grant, formerly of the Michigan Supreme Court bench, laid down some practical rules for brief making in an address April 15 before the
