The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
TOPEKAN AT HEAD



statute be enforced and not made
laughing stock, as in Missouri, was a
resolution endorsed by the Kansas
State Bar association at its thirty third
annual session in the supreme court
rooms. other legislative measures
endorsed by the association are:
Probate of foreign wills.
Torrens system of land registration.
Bills Of lading act.
Stock transfer act.
Marriage and marriage license act.
Marriage evasion act (to prohibit
marriage after divorce by going TO an
other state and marrying before time
limit expires in state where divorce
was procured)
Child labor act.
Workmen's compensation act.
Laugh at First.
Some laughter was created when the
! flag dissertation resolution was intro
| duced. One or two attorneys de-
clared that it would never be enforced
| However, it was declared that in the
! last two years Mrs. Effie Hyatt Van
Tuyl, hostess of the Kansas building
at Frisco and chairman of the Kansas
committee on flag dissertation for
Daughters of the American Revolu-
bottles sold in Leavenworth, off flour
! sacks made in central Kansas and off
stoves sold in Kansas Then the reso-
! luton was adopted without further
argument.
An address on THE Bulk Sales Law
by Charles L. Hunt of Concordia was
! delivered at the opening session this
morning. While not wishing to criti-
else the law, Mr.. Hunt declared that its
uniformity in judicial Interpretation
had not been reached and in many
respects its enactment had failed to
protect creditors.
Object Not Obtained
eff uniformity were desired" said
| Mr. Hunt, that object has not been
attained, and judicial Interpretation is
such that any. attempt to classify the
| various decisions and compare the
acts construed with the language of
our own would extend this paper far
beyond the length permissible or
| proper on this occasion. Reference,
! therefore, will be had only to the com
paratively few cases which would
seem to be of value in constituting the
| Kansas act.
A short address by Gilbert H. Firth,
of Emporia, followed. In the after
noon an address on Fee Justice" By
Charles d. Shukers, of Independence
opened the session. followed by an
address on Contracts, and the
Courts read by George T. McDermott
of Topeka.
In the evening a big banquet will
be held at the Masonic temple. Judge
Henry f. Mason will act as toastmas-
ter and this will close the thirty-third
annual session.
Regulation Injurious.
That an adequate interstate trans
portation system is necessary to tbs
commerce of the country but that the
system Is being iniuriously affected
by the present method of regulation
/ was the point empha sized last evening
by Edward J. White of St Louis, d
, railroad attorney, in his annual ad-
dress before the bar association. He
urged that the entire power of regula-
, ton of interstate carriers be placed
in the hands of the general govern
ment, except as to matters so essen
TALLY local that they cannot be USED
to interfere with the efficiency of the
: service, or the just rights of the car
rier
The passing years have brough
such a mass of inconsistent and con
f flicting legislation and burdens tina
railroad receiverShips have become
+ the order of the day" said Mr. White
= This deploTable condition of tn,
interstate carriers in the United
+ States is largely due to the fact tina
they have had to meet, at one and tn,
, same time, not only two conflictin,
> legislative theories of unrelated ant
opposite character, of the state ant
federal government, but they have, a
tho Samc time, been bound and con
trolled by the inconsistent and con
flicting laws, rules and orders of tn
/ various states through which the line
( of railroads run while primarily oh
: ligated to obey tie laws of the inter
l / state commerce commission.