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B0st0n.—At the annual meeting of the Bar Association of Boston, held Oct. 7, Moorfield Storey was re-elected president, other oflicers being Samuel J.
Elder, vice-president; William S. Hall. treasurer; Robert S. Gorham, secre tary. These members were elected to the council for three years; Everett W. Burdett, Franklin T. Hammond, James F. Jackson, John Lowell, B. W. Warren, Henry A. Wyman and Henry James, Jr.
Syckel, former Governor Fort, Supreme Court
Justices
Swayze
and
Bergen,
Vice-Chancellors Nalker and Howell, Judges Skinner and Gaskill, Senator Silzer, former Justice Gilbert Collins, Villiam N. Clevenger and Frank H.
Sommer._ At a meeting held Oct. 16. it was voted to leave matters to a sub committee of Charles H. Hartshorne
and Judges Clevenger and Skinner. Miscellaneous In spite of the prophecy expressed in
Brooklyn. —The Kings County Law yers’ Association was organized at a meeting held in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct.
the judicial statistics of 1909 and the
days later, with a membership of more
assertion that crime was on the increase in England, the annual return of the Prison Commissioner for the year end ing March 31, 1911, which the British Government has issued, shows a satis
than one hundred lawyers. The first annual meeting will be held next June,
cline in the actual number of convic
and until that time the oflicers will be: president, Edward T. Curran; vice
tions and in the proportion of prisoners under sentence to the whole popula
president, Max E. Lehman; correspond ing secretary, Samuel “J. Pease; re cording secretary, Thomas Hickey; treas
urer, Felix J. Bannert.
tion. The recorded actual number of those “doing time" is 167,695, a decline of 12,000 since the previous year, and of 30,000 since 1904-6.
Kansas. —The annual meeting of the Kansas State Bar Association will
and a commission somewhat similar to
14, and papers of incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State two
be held Jan. 30, 1912. President Harry B. Hutchins of the University of Michi gan is to deliver the annual address.
Nebraska. —The dates and place for the next annual meeting of the Nebraska State Bar Association have been fixed as the last Thursday and Friday in June, 1912, at Cedar Rapids. New Jersey. — The New Jersey State Bar Association has again taken the initiative, in an effort to provide some method by which the administration of justice in New Jersey may be expedited. A committee which is investigating this
subject consists of former Justice Van
factory state of affairs.
Government control of
There is de
monopolies
the Interstate Commerce Commission, to regulate all trusts, was advocated by Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, before the Brooklyn Con gregational Club, Oct. 24. Mr Prouty said: “I believe the only practical re
lief from trust oppression is to be found in more direct and drastic Government
regulation.
First a commission should
be appointed, in most respects similar to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. It should devote considerable time
to investigation before taking action." The long-expected Government suit
for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation was filed in the Cir~
