The Legal World

subject being "Respect for Law." The special committee on criminal law, in its report, announced that it had found the criminal procedure of Kansas free from technical faults and delays which have been attributed to the criminal procedure of this country. South Carolina. — The annual meeting of the South Carolina Bar Association was held at Columbia, S. C., beginning Jan. 24. President P. H. Nelson made his report and a general discussion of the business followed. Judge Alton B. Parker of New York delivered an ad dress in which he expressed himself as opposed to the recall of the judiciary and took exception to some of the criti cisms of the bench made in the past by Mr. Roosevelt. Others reading papers were Chief Justice Gary, and Messrs. Knox, Livingstone, and T. P. Cothran. South Dakota. — At the thirteenth annual meeting of the South Dakota Bar Association, held at Aberdeen, S. D., Jan. 4-5, the following officers were elected : President, James Brown, Cham berlain; first vice-president, J. H. Mc Coy, Aberdeen; second, Frank Ander son, Webster; secretary, J. H. Vorhees, Sioux Falls; treasurer, L. M. Simons, Belle Fourche. Miscellaneous

A movement has been launched look ing to the appointment of a divorce proctor in Des Moines. A proctor has been appointed in Kansas City and is doing good work there. It is likely that a similar office will be created in Chicago courts. It is the duty of the officer to investigate all divorce cases filed in the courts and make recommendations re garding their disposition to the judge who hears them.

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The International Law Association, at its next meeting in Paris, France, to begin May 27, will consider the ques tion of an international divorce law. The conference also will give attention to the question of copyright, interna tional arbitration of disputes between nations, industrial problems in the light of the law of nations, and the prestige to be given by other nations to business concerns. That Congress shall have power to enact laws regulating hours of labor throughout the United States was the purport of a resolution for an amend ment to the Constitution offered in Congress Jan. 31 by Representative Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts. "Every industry," he said, "is subject to a uniform operation of the tariff. As an economic proposition, it is no more desirable than the hours of labor in a given line should be variable than that the duties should be higher or lower in one state than another." The struggle to secure a suitable site for the new law courts in New York City ended Jan. 18, with the action of the Board of Estimate. The building, which will be of huge proportions, will occupy the tract of land bounded by Leonard, Lafayette, Baxter, and Park streets, while Centre street, with its car tracks and footways, will run through its basement. The first cost of this site will be $4,425,500, and the cost of con demnation proceedings will not carry it much over $6,000,000. The first esti mate of the cost of the building is $9,000,000. What was believed to be the first demonstration in a court of justice of the Mtinsterberg theory of criminal detec