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section 5440 of the Revised Statutes, pro hibiting the keeping of bucket shops in the District of Columbia.

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Imporlanl Legislation The Rhode Island legislature ended its session A ril 29, one of its final acts being the rejection of the federal income tax pro posal. A proposition to submit to the voters a constitutional amendment providing for biennial elections of state officers was approved at this session, as was also a child-la or bill, making it ille al for stores as well as factories to employ chi dren after 8 p. m. and prohibit ing the employment of any child under six teen unless able to read and write simple English sentences. Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, whose success in the noted Oregon Laundry case attracted some attention, has won a similar case in the Supreme Court of Illinois, a decision having

been rendered April 21 upholding the consti tutionality of the statute of 1909 of that state, limitin hours of labor for women to ten hours a . The brief in this case was noteworthy as a scientific production, review ing as it does a vast amount of evidence gathered from all parts of the world with regard to the efiects of long hours of labor upon the health of women (see 22 Green Bag 247, and the Latest Important Decisions in this issue.)

Personal— The Bench Justice Leslie C. Cornish of‘Au was_given a dinner by the Bangor

A. H. Whitfield, for many years Chief Justice of the Mississip i Supreme Court, and F. A. McLain, have

1 made Supreme

Court Commissioners of Mississippi, with duties similar to those of the justices of the

sta, Me., gal Club

Members of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States held a meeting in the court room at the Capitol on April 30 and Eaid tribute to the memory of the late ustice rewer. The Justices were present. veral eulogies were pronounced, including a striking tribute by Hon. Hannis Taylor. Judge E. C. Hart, Associate ustice of the Court of Appeals for the third district of Cali fornia, located at Sacramento, was tendered a reception March 28 by the seventeen San Francisco lodges of the Kni hts of Pythias,

of which order he is grand

ncellor.

Judge George W. Wheeler ve a reception on April 15 at his home in Bridgeport. Conn., in honor of Chief Justice Frederick B. Hall, who recently succeeded Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, Justice Alberto T. Roraback, who

was made a member of the court in 1908, and Judge Silas A. Robinson, who has just been elevated to the Supreme bench. Sir Samuel T. Evans, K.C., M.P., has been appointed to the office of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, to succeed Sir John Bigham,that resi gldnor ed. during He was last of Q.Queen C. to receive thethe reign Victoria. He was appointed recorder of Swan sea in 1906. Two years ago he was made solicitor-general, from which oifioe he has now been elevated to the bench.

April 22. Personal—- The Bar E. Stanley Toadvin has been appointed to succeed Judge Charles F. Holland, as Asso ciate Judge for the first judicial circuit of Maryland. Judge Charles E. Jenney, recently raised to the Massachusetts Superior Court bench, was the chief guest of the Norfolk County Bar Association at its annual banquet April 7.

Herbert M. Heath of Augusta, Me., gave a very profitable talk on “Cross-Examination," before students of the University of Maine Law School April 5. George E. Hill of Bridgeport, Conn., president of the Connecticut ar Association, was married A til 19 at Grace Church, New York, to Miss Cgtherine M. Utley of New York,

daughter of the late James Seward Utley. John B. Clayberg of Helena received the unanimous endorsement of the Yellowstone Bar Association for the position of Chief Justice of the Sn rerne Court of Montana at a ' meeting held at elena April 6.

Moritz Rosenthal, one of the best-known and most successful corporation lawyers in the country, has entered the banking business as a partner in the firm of Ladenburg, Thal mann& Co., New York.

The Senate has lately confirmed the appointment of ohn C. Rose, to be United States District udge, district of Maryland (an ori ‘nal vacancy provided by a recent act of ongress). Judge John F. Philips of the United States District Court for the western district of Missouri has announced his intention to retire from the bench on June 25 next. He has served on the federal bench since 1888.

He will, however,

retain his connection with the Chicago law firm of which he has long been a member. Charles F. Libby of Portland, Me., presi

dent of the American Bar Association, ave an address before the Portland Club on pril 25, on the proposed income tax amendment. His argument was in opposition to the con centration of too much power at Washington, and in favor of the preservation of our dual system of government in its present form.