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has been dissolved that he may carry out this

purpose. Protection of the individual from the tyranny of the grou was the keynote of the address delivered Fe . 22 by Attorney-General Wickersham on the progress of law, at George Washington University. He declared that the situation in this country when the rising tide of monopoly began, about twent years ago, was analagous to that in Eng and in Queen Elizabeth's reign, when the granting of s cial rivileges aroused the people to revo t. Re ~ef from similar conditions in this country was obtained by the power conferred on Congress to regulate trade and commerce. William D. Guthrie has been made Pro fessor of Constitutional Law in the Columbia Law School. Mr. Guthrie, by the Way, is commonly understood to have received $1,250,000, the largest fee ever earned for professional services, in connection with the illdlclai and final interpretation of the 12: will written by the late Henry D. glint. To carry on the case made necessary a com plete knowledge of the history of testamen tary trusteeship, the statutory and the com mon law relating to the question. Some $20,000,000 was involved.

E. B. Pierce of Chicago has been invited to read the principal paper at the annual meet in of the Arkansas Bar Association, to be bed in Little Rock the latter part of May or the first part of June. Mr. Pierce is head of the legal department of the Rock Island

system. The speakers at the twenty-third annual ban net of the Kansas City Bar Association,

whic

took place Jan. 26, included Edmund

Wetmore of New York, ex- resident of the

American Bar Association, obert C. Smith, president of the Bar Association of Montreal, and Murat Boyle and Charles M. Howell, representing the Association. The Florida State Bar Association held its annual meeting at Tampa, Fla., Feb. 23-24. The annual address was delivered by the president, E. R. Gunby, and papers were offered by W. A. Blount, J. B. Brown, G. M.

Robins, A. H. Farrar and C. P. Cooper. At the banquet which closed the meeting Hon. Edward B. Vreeland of New York, of the National Monetary Commission, made the principal address. Attorney-General George W. Wickersham will deliver the annual address at the next meetin

John D.

Lawson,

LL.D., editor of the

Central Law journal from 1878 to 1881, took

editorial charge of the American Law Review with the beginnin of the current year. He was born at Harm ton, Canada, in 1852, and

was a graduate of the Law School of Osgoode Hall in 1875, being called to the Ontario bar in the same year. He removed to St. Louis in 1876 and practised there until 1885, when he removed to New Jersey and from there to California. His most extensive legal work, “Ri hts, Remedies and Practice," was written

at t is time. He became Dean of the Law School of the University of Missouri in 1903. He has been a well-known writer on legal subjects for twenty-five years, and has been appointed by the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology a special com missioner to investigate criminal procedure in Great Britain.

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of the Illinois State Bar Association,

to be eld at the Chicago Beach Hotel at Chicago on June 23 and 24. Other addresses upon questions of general interest will be delivered by distinguished lawyers from differ ent parts of the state. One of the leading questions for discussion will be the revision of the practice and procedure in the courts of Illinois. Preparations are being made to bring together the largest possible assembly of lawyers from all parts of the state. The membership of the association is now about fourteen hundred, but is ex

cted to reach

two thousand by the time o the next meet ing. The Oklahoma Bar Association held its annual meeting Feb. l4—l5 at Oklahoma City. Secretary of Commerce Nagel was to be the guest of honor, but was detained in Wash ington by important business. The annual address was given by the president, W. I. Gilbert. The following pa rs were pre sented: “Legal Problems of as and Oil De velopment," W. R. Allen; “The Work of the Code Commission," John R. Thomas; “Descent

The annual meeting of the Louisiana State Bar Association will be held in Baton Rou e on May 20 and 21. As the two codes will up for discussion in the General Assembly, it is expected that the association will be largely attended.

and Distribution of Indian Lands," J. V. Cabell;

“Proposed

Constitutional

Amend

ments," Frank Dale; "Progress of the Legal Profession,” Judge 1James R. Tolbert; “A New Acquisition as App ied to Inherited Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes,” Judge M. E. Rosser; "Munici al Bonds and Contracts,”

At the annual meeting of the Cumberland Bar Association, held an. 25 at Portland, Me., Hon. Charles F. Li by was elected president. The other oflicers elected were Hon.

Seth L. Lan'abee, vice-president, and Hon. John F. A. Merrill, secretary and treasurer.

H. W. Harris, 0 ahoma City. T. Womack of Alva was elected president for the ensuing year; Clinton 0. Bunn of Ardmore, secretary; and C. H. Ennis of Shawnee, treasurer. A

vice-president was named from each of the thirty districts.