The Legal World Tbe Governors ' Conference The
House of
Governors held its third
conference at Frankfort, beginning November_ 29.
Ky, for five days Twenty-four Gov
ernors and {our Governors-elect answered to the roll call. The first. morning was given
up to the formal the Governor of of the city and a
speeches of welcome by
Kentucky and the_mayor reply to these greetings by
the Governor of Rhode Island. The after noon session was taken up with matters of routine and organization and_the speech of
Governor-elect “'oodrovv Wilson of New ersey on the scope of the (_.‘vovernors'_con erence. It was natural. said Dr. Wilson, that Americans should turn to the national
them, on the whole, although they felt thal in each instance the laws needed to be amended and improved. Governor Draper of Massa chusetts offered some criticisms on the system of direct nominations, but did not desire to be considered definitely opposed to their adoption if some manifest objections to them can be corrected. The discussion on automobile legislation was concerned with automobile regulations and laws and the methods of licensing, and aroused a great deal of discussion. The laws of Massachusetts and Connecticut were es cially commended. ext year's conference will be held at Spring Lake, New Jersey, in September.
government for protection and relief from industrial abuses, but it 15 _not altogether
desirable that. it. should exercise full powers, because "to put federal law back of the great corporations would_ have been to give them the
right
to
dorrtlnate
and override
local
conditions. to equip them with the majesty and supremacy of the law which created and
regulated them and to level the variety of the communities before them.‘ It is there fore Dr_ “"ilson thinks, incumbent u n the statés to (yo-operate in meeting the situation Created by a highly organized business; and for the u se of this co-operation it IS the dun.
OF
{fie
Governors kto
“throw
their
' ' common tas ."1, the conserva mgngiiiulengtqtgrnoon of Dec. ‘ resources from a state stand uo‘n o f natural sdiscussed. Anablepaperwasread by ‘13in: rorris of Montana. The discussion
‘emo ici
ted in b several of the Gover
was pa?
‘ove mor 0?Colorado, the Governor
“0'5 1' 2a and the Governor of Montana 0:‘ Anzt?ng strongly _state supervision of
23% resources rename; Pisces '
men,
'
ove
or
ggisg'sgipiq‘gfiongiy advocated their control by ‘he hnalluosi‘pogrgant 1 vernment. question taken _up
Personal Grover C. Hosford has been a pointed Professor of Law in the University of issouri Law School to Succeed Prof. Thomas A. Street, who has been ap inted a member of the committee to revise the Philippine laws. Prof. Hosford had been a member of the editorial staff of the Edward Thompson Company. Hon. Samuel J. Elder was honored by a company of jud es and attorneys at a dinner at the Boston ity Club Nov. 28, when he deli hted them I’?! recounting his ex riences at he Hague. he afi'air was complimentary to Mr. Elder’s success in defending the interests of the American fishermen. He was praised by the speakers at the ostpran dial exercises, which were attended y about one hundred and fifty, and later applauded and cheered by Six hundred men when he delivered his address in the large ball. "No less than three of the judges now entitled to Sit in the House of Lords won distinction in athletics in their university
Anot e est-ion of workmen's compensation was the qudiscussion was opened by Governor
days," says Law Notes of London.
"The
acts.
Thifs fissoun in a very able statement
Oxford cricket eleven and thrice represented
Hadley o éitions at present existing. There of the 00:1e rial differences of opinion among
his university at racquets. Lord Macna hten race sixty rowed for Cambridge years ago, in and theinuniversity 1851 wonioat the
Lord Chancellor played three times on the
were 1113 _ as to what on ht to be accom th? Govebfntoxtjiere was a gengral consensus of
Colquhoun Sculls-the sculling championship
Ph§h.ed'
was a great subject, which
of the university. And the Lord Chief Justice
ta alt with wisely and carefully in the
was famous in his day both as a runner anda. cricketer. Among the High Court jud es may be mentioned Mr. Justice Channell, w 0 W011
OP‘n‘On
Eat
it,
mus‘ be ee The debate on this question near .fué'u;e{,efal hours._ . ‘ 001111?"3 theup twofor principal matters which On Dec- o r‘l'ly discussion were the were foxlnf direct nominations and of reel
the Colquhoun Sculls ten years after Lord Macna hten, and Mr. Justice Scrutton, 10118 a noted golfer."
subjects_ Oautomobile laws amongI the differ
procity t‘; ent
5L3 '
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priesefltef:1 nas_
Governor Fort of ew Jersey ve Y able paper favoring direct
e Governors m the states
nominat'fo ct nominations are in force favored
Announcement was made December 3 0f the appointment of Frederick W. behmarriln of St. Louis to be Solicitor-General of the
United States, to fill the vacancy caulsled n: the death of Lloyd W. Bowers. Mr. be m
