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body. Edgar H. Farrar of New Or leans will preside and deliver his address as president. Another speaker will be
constitutional convention. “Every one," he said, "must concede the absolute necessity of a more up-to-date judicial
William B. Hornblower of New York.
system.
A rkansas. — The newly elected ofiicers of the Arkansas Bar Association are: President, Ashley Cockrill, Little Rock; vice-president, James D. Shaver, Mena; secretary, R. R. Lynn, Little Rock; treasurer, J. Merrick Moore, Little Rock.
Our constitution deals with
matters that might be much better left to the wisdom of the Legislature." He criticized the imposition of the duty on the Governor to appoint a greater
number of minor ofiicials than any other state executive in the country.
The
reform was also favored by George A. Heaney of Atlantic City, and Senator
Georgia. — The following officers were elected at the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association: President, Alexander president, W. W.Smith, C. Bunn, Atlanta; Cedartown; first vice
second vice-president, J. R. L. Smith, Macon; third vice-president, R. D. Meador, Brunswick; fourth vice-president, president, L. W.T.Branch, J. Brown, Quitman; Elberton; fifthsecre vice
Osborne, and opposed by Edward Q. Keasby of Newark, former Senator Wil liam M. Johnson of Hackensack, and
Charles Hartshorne of Jersey City. When the vote was taken, nearly all the promi nent members of the judiciary were
opposed, including Samuel Kalisch of Newark, who had been sworn the day before into the Court of Errors. The association took a somewhat
tary, Orville A. Park, Macon; treasurer, Z. D. Harrison, Atlanta; executive com mittee, W. W. Gordon, Jr., Savannah;
different position, however, on the fol
I. J. Hofimayer, Albany; W. H. Barrett, Augusta; H. C. Peeples, Atlanta.
considered at a special meeting of the association to be held in Trenton in
lowing day, voting that the proposition for
a
constitutional
convention
be
January, 1912. Kansas-President Harry B. Hut
chins of the University of Michigan, former dean of the law department of that university, has consented to deliver
the annual address before the Kansas State Bar Association, at its annual
meeting, January 30, 1912. New Jersey. — Discussion of the revi sion of the state constitution occupied a prominent place in the debates of the New Jersey Bar Association, which held its annual meeting at Atlantic City June 16-17. The proposition was finally laid on the table by a decisive vote.
President Howard M. Carrow of Cam den called the convention to order, and
Charles S. Moore of Atlantic City then introduced a resolution calling for a
A resolution was also adopted for the appointment of a special committee to consider plans for improving the admin istration of justice in the state. Governor Woodrow Wilson made a forceful address at the thirteenth annual banquet which aroused much discussion. He said in part: —
“It is true that the legal profession, as a profession, does not enjoy the con
fidence of the people. I am surprised, and I must say disappointed, that the legal profession of this country has not undergone the same change and liberal izing that has characterized its progress in other countries. "The community no longer regards you as legal guides. You have with drawn from statesmanship and lowered
