The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
A BANKING LAW CONFERENCE TO
 BE HELD IN NEW YORK.
Triai. And Hearings Enterrupfed bs The Holidays. VIII Be Re- newed As . Feature Of
 f'rhe News.

New Years week. with many inporf tant changes in governmental attaiIs and other spheres of human actiVity promises to be full of news or WiaS interest In many states the first day of the year marks the ending or one administration and the oeginnins os another, legislatures will convene ana a new order of things governmental will thus be inaugurated.
 Tn the foreign field there will De the iua,swuratfon Of H. Deucher as PresiF dent of the Swiss republic. and the openine of the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon Tn the same category. per haps. may be mentioned the "evacua- tion' of Cuba by the American troops who for nearly two years nave s.s ors
 on duty in theisland. On New fear day the return of these troops will Der gin. - ..n.
 h Atlantic City. Y. J., the first three das.a of the week the American Socilogical Society will hold It's own annual convention and will also have joint meetings with the American sta tistical Association. the AMericfn
 Economic Association and the Ameris can Association for Labor Legisiatlon.
 During the first four days of the week, inc American Historical Association and the American Political Science
 Association will hold joint meeting
 beginning in Washington and ending in Richmond Va. KA
 Leading financial authorities of the
 East will confer in New York this
 week with Senators Aldrich and Teller and Representative Vreeland in favor
 of the bill to be introduced Tn Con- rress shortly after the holidays recess to correct defects in the laws govern ing the administration of banks. The trin to Panama of the House Commit ice on Interstate and Foreign Com merge. starting from Charleston. Is scheduled for the week. The commit tee believes the time is near at hand
 to give the canal zone permanent code of laws. With this object in sight. they are going to look oyer the ground
 The report of the national conserva- tion commission is expected to be rem dered this week. On 1t the president
 will base a special message to Con Gress.
 Tn The Courts.
 Many cases and hearings of interest
 interrupted by the Christmas holiday
 will be resumed. among them the night rider case in Union City, Tenn. and the hearing in New York in the matter of the bankruptcy of the Fidelity Funding Company to determine whether the af- fairs of the failed Kieran concern with
 It's millions of liabilities seriously af- fecting a large number of Roman Catholic institutions, shall be wound
 up hy the Federal or state receiver. In the domain of the criminal law there are the decision scheduled for
 Monday, in the application for bail for the three men under arrest for the
 killing of former Senator CarnaclE, in Nashville, Tenn. the sentencing of 1 Abraham Ruef in San Francisco on | Tuesday for bribery and perhaps the | calling in New York of the case Of Sarah Koten, the nurse who killed a
 doctor iA revenge for alleged wrongs at his hands.
 The two cent postage rate with Ger.
 many will go into effect on January | i. On the same day the Canadian and | United States governments simultane- l ously will proclaim the new uniform | fishery regulations which have been l adopted for the boundary waters be- tween them.
 l To Honor wright.
 ! The New Years lists Of winners of | decoration of the French Legion of | Honor Is expected this year to con l tain the name of Wilbur Wright. the 1 American aeroplanist Out of Paris | this week is due the court decision in | the contention of the Count de Castel- 1 lane that the children of his marriage
 with the former Anna Gould, now Prin- ] cess de Sagan, should be taken from their mother and entrusted to him. l There will be two events of particu- lar interest in the automobile world For. the first time in fifteen months an
 automobile show will be held in New l York It will be open on Friday and 1 last week. The other will be two
 day run to Philadelphia and back oi l the womens Motoring Club of New l York on Tuesday and Wednesday with J only women as drivers and passengers
 but each car will be allowed to carry a male machinist for cranking the motors and such other work.