Show BAR BODY APPROVES fOUR ACTS Uniform Measures Recommended Recommended Recommended mended for Adoption by by States Consideration of committee reports formed the basis of this mornings morning's session of the American Amen Ameri can Bar association in the assembly assembly assembly as as- hall hail More acts for uniform uniform uni uni- uni form adoption In the several states were submitted to the association for approval nl today b by the the c committee on n uniform state laws Jaws than at an any preceding pre pre- ceding convention Four acts acta recommended for tor adoption adoption tion as uniform laws in the several se states slates w were e approved by the s l oca tion In the twenty five years' years work of ot this thle com committee ee with state commissioners commissioners commissioners commis commis- on uniform la laws ws only eleven cleven other acts have been recommended The acts recommended for tor uniform adoption are A uniform cold storage act a uniform partnership act a uniform workmen's compensation act and a uniform act relating to the acknowledgment ment of deeds and other Instruments taken outside of ot the thc United States The report of or the committee carries copies of ot the pJ pio- pio o. o acts all nil of ot which were approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved by the thc association toda today War Reviewed wed The committee on international law filed WEd a report which covered In tabulated tabu tabu- hated form torm tho the main events of ot the European crisis It however howe signified signified signi signi- fied fled that it had no r recommendations to make malec but contented Itself with a hope Tho The hope of the committee fol follows fol- fol lows They express the hope that the rules of or international law founded as the they are on the thA obligations of or hu humanity humanity hu hu- manit manity and of ot ju Justice tiCE may recover and reassert crt their beneficent nt It ity The violence nc of ot the thc pre almost almot world de Ide elde war has hall tended to stifle RUne hut cannot abolish principles so BO deeply de planted in human necessity s They Thov earn earnestly hope that th the efforts of or the government of ot th the United States States States' address to the maintenance of ot neutral rights and of international humanity and Justice may help to limit the severities of ot war which have ha so notably Increased d. d and tend to restore peace pence to the nations whose struggle afflicts the world Report Filed The report was received and tiled filed although someone tac facetiously moved that It be bl referred to the kaiser Four recommendations were made by the tho committee on commercial J law w. w The rhe first was that the tho association renew it Its adherence to the national bankruptcy law Jaw It was adopted The second recommendation r related to the Cummins act revising tho the methods of ot handling baggage on common com corn cornmon mon carriers It proposed proponed E d the tho employment em em- employment of a 1 special Ial draft draftsman man to draft a bill covering the same ground to remedy alleged defects in tho the Cummins Cum Curn- mins law Tho The recommendation was voted down The other recommendations ono one indorsing a bill re ro- ro hating lating to bills of lading in Interstate re and foreign comm commerce and on ono one Indorsing in In In- dorsing the movement to bring a about out uniformity of ot commercial laws Jaws throughout the commercial world were approved ed The committee on 1 and law and law reform laid JI three recommendations recommendations before the convention one of ot which was adopted The one ono adopted relates to and anti Indorses the protection and Is in line Une with the 1111 suggestions of ot President Taft In his annual address adre s In October 1914 and more recently placed before conN con- con gross N S In the form of ot a 1 house bill Make Recommendations A recommendation fixing the tho rate of or interest to be paid b by the government govern govern- ment mont on Judgments at not less lees than thon 3 I nor more than 6 per cent wo wai lost host Continued on page pac 3 2 BA BAR BODY Continued from page parte 1 Tho The r recommendation that a man on trial who pl pleads ds Insanity must de declare declare do- do clare dare in advance of ot the trial whether tho the Insanity claimed is permanent or temporary was recommitted to the committee The recommendation further provides that where a man pleads permanent In insanity the tho court shall have the thc power to commit him to an Insane RS asylum lurn until further order of ot court Members of the committee on professional professional pro pro- ethics h had ll no special r recommendations rec C- C to offer The report sa says The T te situation on as 88 to the discipline of ot tho the offending members of the bar remains in much the same came conditions as w was was s described in the committees committee's last report report report-a a state of vigorous healthy and high minded activity on the part of or some bar associations especially in certain large cities clUes where the need of such activity is III most crying and of ot serious neglect in n many runny others Making all 11 allowances allowances allowances allow allow- ances for the different treatment which tho the subject ct calls for tor in gars of ot different sizes and degrees of ot homogeneity homogeneity homo- homo this committee still believes that in many parts of ot the country much more ore attentive and systematic action b by bar associations is Js called for Past experience gives ample assurance q pf the success of such ef efforts efforts et- et forts torts when property exerted Draft Insurance Law The committee on Insurance said Mid that is wa was not r ready ady to report on a uniform Insurance code which might be adopted in all aU of tho the states It reported however that work was progressing and nd that the committee hopes to havo haven a draft of the prop proposed sed code ready for tor distribution within a short time The membership committee committee com com- reported that the tho membership had passed parsed the mark and had doubled in tho the last three years rears No Ko reports were offered by the following committees Judicial administration and reme remedial lat procedure legal education education tion and admissions to the bar grievances grievances ances law reporting and digesting patent trade mark and copyright taxation and publicity Members of ot the association stood while the report of ot the obituaries committee was was' r read by the secretary |