The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-28
UNWRITTEN LAW
 CAUSES A STIR
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(Continued from First Page.) professional ethics, letter from Jus
 tioe David J, Brewer of the supreme
 court of the United States, comment
 ing upon the report, was read to the
 convention.
 Dr. Henry Wade Rogers of New Ha-
 ven, Conn, chairman of the commit
 tee on legal education and admissions
 to the bar, presented the report of tfat committee
 The report contained many recom-
 IT nendations in the direction of regu-
 lating the conferring of law degrees
 They include one urging the adoption
 in each state and territory and in the
 District of Columbia of a uniform law on the subject of law degrees. In this
 connection the committee presented an
 outline of an act which would provide
 that the degree of bachelor of laws and
 bachelor of civil law may be conferred
 by an institution which maintains course of law for undergraduates
 which course extends over three acad- emic years of at least eight months in each year, provided the institution re- quires of applicants for admission to it's classes an education equivalent to that possessed by one who has com pleted a course required for gradua- ton from a high school, and, in addi- tion, requires candidates for such de- grees to carry at least ten hours of classroom work 8 week throughout each academic year in that institution or in some other institution qualified to grant such degrees that the degree of bachelor of laws may be conferred by an institution which maintains 6 course In law but which does not meet the requirements prescribed in the pre- ceding section; that the degree of mas ter of laws may be conferred only by institutions authorized to confer the degree of bachelor of laws, and shall bc granted only to persons who have studied law for not less than one full academic year after obtaining the bachelors degree in law and prosecut- ed such study in residence at the in conferring the degree; that institutions authorized by the act to confer the degree. of bachelor of lava may confer the degree of doctor of civil law and doctor of law but such degrees shall be granted only 10 per sens who have previously obtained the degree of bachelor of laws and a de- gree in arts or science, or in lieu of a degree in arts or science, have re- oelved an education equivalent to that required for such degree, and who shall thereafter complete two full aca- denic years of work done in residence at the institution granting the degree, or at some other institution qualified under this act to grant it; that the degree of doctor of laws shall not be conferred upon examination, but only causa honoris; and that no correspon- dence school of law shall confer any degree mentioned in this act.
 The association also was asked to adopt resolutions recommending to the bar associations in those states and territories in which boards of ex- aminers have not yet been establish ed that they take active steps at an early day to secure the appointment of boards to have supervision of all examinations for admission to the bar; the adoption of rule making it a necessary condition of admission to the bar that the candidate shall have an education equivalent at least to that required for graduation from a high school; requiring candidates for to the bar to have studied l law for three years if graduates of | law schools and for four years if not; expressing strong disapprohation of ! the practice which prevails in some states of admitting to the bar on law school diplomas; and approving the action of certain night schools in their course one of four years
 4 dissenting report was introduced by J. H. Reale, jr., of Cambridge, Mass. The reports after the failure to pass several votes to dispose of them, were ordered printed and referred to the next convention.
 Everett P. Wheeler of New York, read the report of the committee on in- ternational law, and it was accepted.
 During the reading of the report, British Ambassador James Bryce, who arrived in the city tonight and will deliver the annual address tomorrow, arrived on the platform, accompanied by Sir Frederick Polhck of London and was applauded.
 Judge Robert s. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Ind, as chairman, introduced the report of the committee on patent, trade mark and copyright law. It was
 in part as follows;
 Too much "regulation" of the insur- ance companies of America was con- demned in a report submitted by the committee on insurance aw. The committee found as result of it's ex- haustive investigation extending over a year, thath much of the genera, non-discriminating dstrust of insur- ance Companies and their manage ment," which followed closely upon the heels of the insurance investigation, was Unreasonable and unmerited, and due to the ignorance of the public res pecting the principles upon which in- surance is based and the methods which should be employed in supervies- ing It."
 A lively discussion was had on two by the committee in their report, the one calling for a statute forbldding the use of the Unit ed States mails to fraudulent insur- snce companies not licensed to tram sact business in the states where they are incorporated; the other for the ap- and eontirgap+ aia+~t1.,