Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-09-02
Resolution Approved Calling
on Body to Go on Record
Against Putting Screws on
Criminals.
FAv0Rs LIFE TENURE
FOR FEDERAL JUDGES
Reports From 23 Committees
Heard at Busiest Days ses-
sion Of Association at Mon
treal Today.

liiy krased Wire % Evening FFesaIs.
Montreal Que, Sept e-This was
the busiest day of the annual meet
ing Of the American Bar association.
Reports We're received from twenty
three committees and most of che da,
was devoted Co discussing them. The
evening was set aside to hearing ain
address BY eN-presldcnt Taft on the
Selection and Tenure Of Judges"
The comparative law bureau met
and heard an address by lts director.
Governor Simeon y. Baldwin, of Con-
necticut, and the section of Legal Ed
ucation heard the annual addriss OF
hs chairman, Walter George Smith. of
Philadelphia. AZ tho session Of tho
bar association, the committee on
commercial law recommended an en-
dorscmcnt of the Pomercnc bin on
uniform bills of ladlng ia interstate
ana foreign commerce ana opposing
any attempt 10 repeal the national
bankruptcy act
The committee on jurisprudenco
and law reform disapproyed a reso-
luton calling on the association TO
condemn the use of the so-cailed "9rd
degree" In criminal prosecutions. The
committee also reported It's opposition
10 n proposition 20 abolish the fifo
tenure Of federal judges ana declared
u its belief that the present method
of selecting such judges by federal
appointment was the best one.
a report favoring the establishment
of reference ana bill draftlns depart
ments IN connections with state nnd
national legislatures was received
from the special committee appointed
TO investigate this subject The com
mittee on uniform state laws submit
tod a so-called marriage evasion
act which IN substance seeks to pre-
vent persons from evading the mar
riago laws of their own states by get
ting married Ia other states. A spo-
cial report 10y committee appointed
at the last meeting declared that
public opinion was growing IN favor
of uniform laws for compensation for
industrial accidents and their pre-
ycntiOn.
The committee ON patent, trade
mark and copyright law strongly
urged the creation OF a single court
of ;, resort in patent cases SO as
TO obtain unity ana harmony IN the
law
Thomas w shelton, chairman OF
the committee ON uniform iucicfal
procedure. said In his report that
eek President Tafts dream of inter-
state judicial relations on basis as
scientific ana permanent AZ Interstate
commerce relations. seemed Ia a fair
way of contamination"
Necessary legislation had been In
troduccd In both houses of congress.
he said. for model federal system
on the law side OF inferior foderaf
courts Co be prepared and promulgnt-'
ed by the United states supreme
court
Viscount Haldane. lord high chan
celior of Great Britain, who address,
cd the association yesterday, left to-
day for New York there 90 board the
I.usitania and sail Tor Liverpool to-
morrow. with the party went Chief
Justice White. of the United states
supreme court This afternoon many
of the Americans attended the laying
of the cornerstone az monument 60
sir George Ettionne Cartier, Canadian
statesman Ex-president TAFT was
one of the speakers