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Show UNIFORM IIS ARE TO BEC1SIDERED Conference Opens in This City and Will Continue for a Week PROMINENT MEN HERE President Is Charles Thad deus Terry, Instructor in Law at Columbia Tha merobe 8 of the execu lve comm tee of the twenty fifth annua confer ence of the coram ss oners o uniform state laws met last night In the suppe room of the Hotel Utah and arranged the programme for the weeks sess on of the commlss oners on un form leg s a t on. The membe s of th s conference a e meeting this week In Sa t Lake pre lm nary to the meeting of the American Bar association which convenes next week This conference was organized twentv five years ago and is s ow y getting un fo m laws on certain subjects adopted In all of the states As a result of the work of this conference aU of the s ates In the union save only Ca torn a ha e passed exactly the same aw re ative to the procedure with respect to actions on promissory notes In most of the states uniform egis atlon has been enacted rela tlve to the negotlat on of warehouse re celpts Opens This Morning The active sessions of he conference begin th s forenoon at Barra t ha a 10 30 o c ock The de egates o the con ference, representing pract callv everv s ate and territory under the flag wi be ve corned to the city by Mayor Samue C Park Char es Thaddeus Terry pres dent of the conference and professor of law at Columbia ool ege New York wi 1 respond in behalf of the commiss oners In the afternoon and on Wed nesday the conference wi 1 d scuss the important subject or un form aws on incorporation It Is the hope of the commiss oners that a un form act go erntng the incorporation of companies wi 1 be recommended at this session and that it w I be adopted by all of the states in the union. All day Thursday and all of Friday forenoon w I be devoted to a d scus sion of the Torrens system of land reg Istratlon The extradi ion of lunatics uniform leg s ation with reference to the desecration of the flag and laws re a t e to wi s, descent and distrlbut on wi 1 occupy the attention of the confer ence all af ernoon and a part of Satur day On Saturday the conference w i 1 devote its attention to a d scusslon of the proposed revision of the constitu Hon and by laws of the confe ence In the meantime It Is probable that reports of other committees will be disoussed in detalL President Terry Here Charles Thaddeus Terry of New York president of the conference an Instructor in law in Columbia arrived in Salt Lake last night and pres ded at the meeting of the executive comm t ee Others of the executive committee are Walter George Smith of Philadelphia, ex pres dent of the conference W M Crook of Beaumont Texas v ce president George B Young of Newport, Vt. secretary Thomas A. Jenckes of Providence R I treasurer Eugene C Massie of Richmond Va Judge W lliam H. Staake of Ph ladelph a Co onel Nathan W MacChesney of Chi cago pres dent of the S ate Bar associa-t associa-t on of H inols Seneca N Tas lor of St Lou s the em nent patent attorney and C A. Severance of St Paul who repre sented the Un ted States in the case aga nst the steel rust. Others who registered as comm ssion era In attendance at the conference on uniform legis at on are W O Hart of New Orleans Samuel Will ston of Cam bridge Mass professor of contracts of the law school at Columb a Holl s R Bai ey of Boston Judge Andrew A. Bruce of Bi marck N D Charles E Shepard of Seattle E t McDougal of Sapu pa Okla T Mou trie Mordecai of Char es on 8 C Doug as O Storey of Philade ph a Geo ge White ock of Baltimore secretary of the American Bar associat on former United States Senator J R Thornton of Alexandria, La. L D Wan of Baton Rouge La. Charles R Holllngsworth of Ogden Senator L, B Wight of Park City W H Folland of Salt Lake Henry tockbrldge of Baltimore, W G "Wu en of Cheyenne, Chares E B ydenburgh of Raw ins C P Black of Lansing M dn D H. Ba 1 of Marquette M ch Congress man Merr 1 Moores of Ind anapo s who was a classmate of President Taft at Yale Co onel John Hmkley of Bait more George W Bates of Detroit and W am Draper Lewis of Ph ladelphla dean of the University of Penney van a and expert draftsman, in the erop oy of the commit tee on commercia law BR ASSOCIATION offi cials who have arrived for the convention Charles "T Terry (above) president of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws which began its session yesterday George Whltelock secretary of the American Bar association |