The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-28
ACCURATE RECORDS !
URGED BY LAWYERS.
CONFERENCE ON UNIFORM LAW
DISCUSSES VITAL STATISTICS.
New Standing Committee on Banks and
Banking Is Authorized and Will
Handle All Matters Pertaining to
Negotiable Paper, Bills of Lading and
Warehouse Receipts. iii

Uniformity in vital and criminal
statistics is the object of resolution
adopted today by the conference Of
commissioners for uniform state laws
In session in the state capitol. This
resolution authorizes the appointment
OF special committee to investigate
the subject and report at the next meet
ing Of the conference. -.
President Amasa M. Eaton empba-
sized the need Of uniformity in the
registration Of births and deaths and
Of judicial statistics, in his annual ad-
Dress The subject was also brought
before the conference by commun1ca-
ton from DR.. Greasy L. Wilbur, chief
statistician Of the department of vital
statistics Of the census bureau.
The Importance Of uniformity in
| such statistics can hardly be over
estimated,' said Judge William H.
Stake of Pennsylvania, chairman Of
the executive committee. "With the
increasing Importance Of the child la.
Dor laws Of the various states, there is
istration Of births. Death registration
is also Of great Importance The value
OF detailed data on criminality, as
| shown in the courts Of the various
states, to legislators and lawyers is OBJ
| vious. - .-..
New Standing Committee. .5
"Banks and Banking'' is the title of
new standing committee established
by an amendment to the constitution
| Of the conference adopted upon the
recommendation Of the Executive COM
| mittee. This committee has been es-
tabl1shed to cooperate with the stand
| ing law committee of the American
Bankers association in its efforts to
preserve the uniformity obtained thru
the negotiable instruments act from
amendments passed by the various
state legislatures and to take up all
ing which may, from time to time, be
referred to it. President Eaton will
not make any appointments to this
committee until late in today's SEES
sion.
The establishment of this committee
is the direct result of communication
from the American Bankers associa
ton, presented to the conference yes
terday by Thomas B. Patton, counse
and secretary of the standing law com
m1ttee Of the Bankers association.
Warehouse Receipts;
Consolidation Of the proposed bill tt
make uniform the law of warehouse
receipts took up the greater part Of
the time Of today's Session and the
conference continued in committee OF
the whole for this purpose. Tho thu
conference is supposed to adjourn al
the close of tonight's session, it il
probable that it will be obliged to re
sumo work tomorrow in order to com
plete the draft Of this bill.
Many important matters which were
to have been taken up at this meet
| ing will have to be deferred to the next
meeting. Among the reports which viii
be passed on to the next meeting are
the act to make uniform the law oil
bills Of lading, the act to make uni
form the law Of sales, partnership ani
divorce. -.
Twenty-Five states are now repre-
scented and thirty-eight commissioner:
day were H. R. Turner of Fargo, n. D.
John p: Greene Of Minot, N. b.; Ed
yard W. Frost of Wisconsin; F. H
Busbee Of Raleigh, n. c., and Roscoe
Pound Of Lincoln, Neb., dean of tht
University of Nebraska college Of law