possible, but the suggested amendments to the Negotiable Instruments act should do something toward arresting the tendencies toward diverse judicial interpretations of certain provisions of this law.
In the field of international affairs, the action of President Taft in signing the Panama canal bill has been widely criticised as involving a breach of treaty obligations. If the Administration erred in this respect, it may deserve to be congratulated for its victory in preventing the abolition of the Commerce Court, at least till March 4th next.
Personal
In addition to those mentioned in the
Supreme Court of South Dakota and Beard of Wyoming; and C. B. Elliott of the Philippine Commission, formerly judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
The Senate in August confirmed the appointment of Chandler P. Anderson as Counsellor to the State Department. Mr. Anderson, has held the office since the death of Henry M. Hoyt. By act of Congress this office is henceforth to be filled by Presidential appointment, and Mr. Anderson is made practically the under Secretary of State. Mr. Anderson, who is a member of the New York City bar, was one of the counsel
before
the
Alaskan
Boundary Tribunal,
July issue of the Green Bag, the honorary
and
counsel
for
the
State Department
degree of LL.D. was conferred by the
under
Secretary
Root
and Secretary
University of Michigan, at the celebra
Knox
from
1905
to
1910.
He has been
tion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of
President
Taft's
legal
adviser
in the
its founding, upon Professor Melville M.
consideration
of
the
British
protest
Bigelow of the Boston University Law
School, and upon Professor Floyd R. against free tolls for American vessels
Mechem of the University of Chicago passing through the Panama Canal.
Law School.
Isaac Franklin Russell, Professor of
Henry W. Dunn, who has just assumed Law in New York University for over
the office of Dean of the Iowa State thirty years, and now Chief Justice of
University law school, till lately prac the Court of Special Sessions of the City
tised law in Boston as junior member of of New York, has given an interesting
a firm doing a large amount of corporation statement of his impressions of the
In an interview he
work. Ten years ago he was graduated English Courts.
from Harvard Law School, where he was said: "It has been a great delight to
a member of Phi Delta Phi fraternity me to visit the London courts and
and a member of the editorial board of observe at close range the operations of
the Harvard Law Review. The law the English legal system. First, always,
school to which Mr. Dunn goes has an we Americans note the presence of trial
unusually large member of graduates in lawyers, holding briefs that are models
public life, such as, for example, Senator of patient and exhaustive preparation.
Crawford of South Dakota, Senator The barristers, disciplined by daily ap
Clark of Wyoming, Senator Kenyon of pearances in court and prepared to the
Iowa, Judges McClain, Evans, Deemer, last detail for their forensic labors by
and Ladd of the Supreme Court of Iowa; thorough study, and holding high the
Judge Campbell of the Supreme Court standard of professional honor, greatly
of Colorado; Judges Haney of the expedite the business of the court in dis
