Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-11
MEETING CLOSES
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
ELECTS OFFICERS.
PAPERS Read Before the Body Today
Domain of Written Law and
wOman's Education.

The closing session of the annual meeting
of the American Social Science Association,
which convened here Monday evening, was
held this morning In the assembly hall OF
the Columbian University. AS the program
had been arranged it was the intention 10
hold a session this evening. but the papers
assigned for that time were read this morn
ing. The next annual meeting Of the asso-
citation will be held in this city about the
18th of next April.
At the meeting this morning the nomi-
Mating committee reported a list of names
for officers, which was practically the same
as that of last year. and the report was
adopted. The principal officers are: Presi-
dent. Charles Dudley Warner of Hartford
Conn; general secretary, Frederick stan
ley Root of New York: treasurer. w. Z.
LIE Gendre of New York Chairmen of de-
Observation-Disclosures, Jacob L. Greene:
health, Dr. w. II. DAILY of Pittsburg: edu-
cation and art. Rev Joseph Anderson, DID,.
social economy, F. B. Sanborn. Inc pro-
gram today was given up to subjects De
longing to the department of Jurisprudence
and the secretary, Prof. Isaac F. Russell OF
New York. made the opening address: his
subject being THE Domain of the Written
Law"
Domain of Written Law.
He said: THE end of the century wit
nesses the expanding domain of the written
law The nations represented at The Hague
have accepted the work of the peace con-
ference establishing a judicial procedure In
cases of International dispute; the German
empire has put into operation an Imperial
code of private Jurisprudence; the nego-
table instruments law has been enacted III
fifteen states and in the District of Column
bia, and the New York commission on stat
utory revision has reported no less than
eleven codes this last year for the action
of the legislature.
I'VE are living in an era of codes. Sense
less diversities in legal rules subject juris-
prudence as a science and lawyers as
profession to the Scorn of sound and ra-
tonal thinkers. A strong national sent1-
ment always follows the enactment of uni
form national laws. as history amply at
tests. And the markets of the world are
fast becoming one great market, and the
production of great staples Is fast becom-
ing a world-circling production, and ethl-
cal and juristic principles are being rapidly
assimilated through the debates and con-
troversies of great sovereign powers, may
we not hope that jurists will put away as
fast as possible the reproach that comes
from the diversities, the conflicts, the
certainties and the mysteries that now en-
veloD the law?
Women In Legal Profession.
Legal Education of Women the
subject of a paper by Mrs. Isabella Mary
Peters. LII. NJ, of New York In speak
ing of the progress made in this respect,
the writer observed:
'In all. thirty-four states admit wo-
men to practice law. one state does not
consider a woman eligible a notary, but
has one woman lawyer; two do not admit
them to practice. but do to their law
schools and two states suffer each county
to decide for itself. In some states admis-
sion to the bar has been given by statute.
in others by court DEGREES: in the newer
states II is never restricted, for the an
swer is Invariably. They were probably al
ways eligible. In five states law is ST
lent while six states prohibit. One woman
is practicing in the Klondike. and Canada
allows some women to be solicitors. The
experiment of women on juries was made
by Judge Howe in Wyoming in 1894. re-
ceiving high Communication. He said: Il
have never. in my twenty-five years of
experience in the courts of the
country. seen more faithful, intelligent and
resolutely honest grand and petit jurors
than these In the same state woman
justice of the peace writes: In some thirty
civil actions tried before me there has been
but one appeal taken. and the judgment
was affirmed In the court above
while women lawyers have not increas-
ed to an alarming extent as was said by
an Irish paper. they are yet numerous
enough to prove that legal education is
for women as for men, and that, given the
opportunity, the woman will embrace it
as quickly she may"
1.-The Suppression of Vice, How Far an
Efficient and Proper Function of Govern
ment," was the subject of a paper by Prof
C. G.. Tiedman of New York city. 1.-The
by William Writ Howe. was read by the