The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-27
HEAR JUDGE THAYER.
Second Days Session of American Bar
Association.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 27.-The second
days session of the American Bar as
ISOLATION was called to order today by
President James Hagerman, of st.
Louis.
After a short executive session the
general session was resumed and the
annual address of Amos Thayer, United
States circuit judge for the eighth cir
cult of ST. Louis was read by Judge
Franklin Ferris, also of this city. Judge
Thayer was present, but owing TO d
heavy cold was unable to deliver the
address himself. The subject OF the ad-
dress was 1.-THE Louisiana purchase; its
influence and development under Amer
lean rule
Following Judge Thayer's address the
session was occupied with reports OF
standing committees.
The standing report of the committee
on international law briefly reviews the
more important events OF the year IN
the field of international law, conclud-
ing the review by saying;
1.-THE United States have done fnucn
to promote the settlement by arbltra-
ton of international disputes. w neh
once our people realize that 1uslce pc
tween nations ought to De allalIletu ~
peaceful means our influence Will pc
exercised in favor of the resort TO SucL
means and against the arb1tramenl OIL
the sword and that influence, II we are
ture to our national traditions, VIII De
come more powerful every year.
The report then takes up the Russo
Japanese war and discusses it at some
length. Briefly, the report states
ut is not for your committee TO pass
Judgment upon the merits OF this war;
but we do submit that the japanese
claims is of character that afforos JusI
ground for meditation under the SSc-
ond title of The Hague convention; Inc
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tory powers think it to be useIuI tl a.
one or more powers which nave no
part in the conflict may oner OF tn lSl
own volition, so far as clrcuIhs 1870 taIlSS9
may make it appropriate, tfsSlr IrleI .Il.
ly offices or their mediation TO inc
states engaged in the cOnfilct. .
'.The United States might, as II
seems to your committee, very pro- S5i
Iy avail itself of the provisions u -
Hague convention and make an en-
deaVor to put an end to the turtner
shedding of blood in Manchuria-
The standing committee on JuIls-
prudence and law reforms su psll ~.
it's report. dealing with sales OF non
orary degrees and combinations OF
trusts. The report stated that a care
full investigation throughout the GU 4I,
try has been made to ascertain nov
far the evil of the sale OF honorary
degrees in law existed and that put
a single, instance had been discovered
in Tennessee. In regard to the SUD
iect of ombination in the FORM OF
trusts the committee reported that un-
der the clause of the constitution TO
regulate commerce congress mas no
power to create corporations except
those which have for their op1ect lne
carving on of exclusively interstate
bnsinesS The report concluded by
submitting a resolution:
THAT the bill presented to congress
bv the maritime law association Oh
the United States entitled an act TO
int actions
for negligence causing death In mari
time cases is, in the opinion OF TINS
association, one which supplies a de-
feet in the law of the United States
and we earnestly recommend to con-
gress that it should take up and pass
this BILL ..
The majority report of the stand
ing committee on commercial law SUD
adopted at the last meeting of the as
Socia ton that the committee be IN
structed to report specific remedles IN
legislative form for any unlaWful com
binationS which may threaten COM
merciaI intercourse, is based on the
conclusion that the resolution referred
to the federal power to regulate inter-
state commerce rather than to the
state power to control commerce ex-
clusively within the state.
The committee is therefore of opin-
ion that until the exising remedies
recently provided by law for the pro-
combinations are further invoked and
their efficiency further tested it is not
necessary to PROFOUND additional leg
islation extending the summary pro-
cedure.
A minority report was submitted
by Walter S. Logan stating that he
was unable to agree entirely with the
conclusions of the other members OF
the committee on commercial law.
His report concludes:
81 know of no better weapon that