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possible, but the suggested amendments Supreme Court of South Dakota and to the Negotiable Instruments act should Beard of Wyoming; and C. B. Elliott of do something toward arresting the the Philippine Commission, formerly tendencies toward diverse judicial in judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota terpretations of certain provisions of and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. this law. In the field of international affairs, the The Senate in August confirmed the action of President Taft in signing the Panama canal bill has been widely criti appointment of Chandler P. Anderson cised as involving a breach of treaty as Counsellor to the State Department. obligations. I f the Administration erred Mr. Anderson, has held the office in this respect, it may deserve to be since the death of Henry M. Hoyt. By congratulated for its victory in pre act of Congress this office is henceforth venting the abolition of the Commerce to be filled by Presidential appointment, and Mr. Anderson is made practically Court, at least till March 4th next. the under Secretary of State. Mr. An derson, who is a member of the New Personal York City bar, was one of the counsel In addition to those mentioned in the 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