EDWARD LASHELLES SMALLEY, of Bremer County. 1847-1910. Edward Lashelles Smalley was born at Muncy, Pennsylvania, on the 23rd day of January, 1847, and died at Waverly, Iowa, on the 24th day of June, 1910. He was educated at Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, and his work as a law student was in an office. He was admitted to the bar at Waverly, Iowa, November 14, 1874, and commenced practice at that place in January, 1875, which was his home until his death. He was referee in bankruptcy.

JOHN S. STANBERY, of Cerro Gordo County. 1846-1911.

John S. Stanbery was born in Mercer County, Ohio, September 28, 1846, and died at Mason City, Iowa, March 24, 1911. He was educated in the State University of Iowa and took his law course there and was admitted to the bar at Mason City, Iowa, in 1870, commencing the practice of the law in that city in 1871 and spent his whole professional life there. He was for a time Justice of Peace and was a member from Gerro Gordo County of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies of Iowa.

WILLIAM GEORGE THOMPSON, of Linn County. 1830-1911. William George Thompson was born January 17, 1830, in Center township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and died April 2, 1911, at Kenwood Park, Iowa. He was educated at Witherspoon Institute, Pennsylvania, and did his work as a law student in the law office of Judge Daniel Agnew. He was admitted to the bar in 1853 in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice January 1, 1854, at Marion in Linn County, Iowa, where he spent the whole of his professional life. He was State Senator in 1856, Prosecuting Attorney, 1870, Territorial Judge of the Territory of Idaho, Member of Congress 1879 to 1882, State Representative in 1885, and Judge of the District Court of Iowa in and for the Eighteenth Judicial District, 1894 to 1906.

Judge Thompson was one of the most interesting characters in all of Iowa. In many features he was a great man. The local bar thus records its estimate of him:

"In point of ability as an advocate he had few superiors. We think we hazard nothing in saying that there was no man per

sonally more popular and more generally beloved by the members of the bar of the Eighteenth Judicial District, as well as by the public generally. His uniform courtesy, his unfailing kindness, and sympathy endeared him to all his acquaintances. In all his relations of life he was a manly man, clean, respected, and honored by all who knew him. While we will miss his kind, genial greeting and his kindly presence, yet we can never forget him as an honored member of the bar, nor fail to feel the influence of his life and example."

THOMAS UPDEGRAFF, of Clayton County. 1834-1910. Thomas Updegraff was born in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1834, and died at McGregor, Iowa, October 5, 1910. He came to Iowa in 1855 and was Clerk of the District Court of Clayton County from 1856 to 1860 and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1878. He represented the Fourth Congressional District of Iowa in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and also in the Fifty-third to Fifty-fifth. For a time at McGregor he was a member of the law firm of Odell & Updegraff and later of the firm of Noble & Updegraff. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888 and a member of the notification committee. Was a member of Garnavillo Masonic lodge. He was twice married and left surviving him two daughters.

DAVID JOHNSON VINJE, of Story County. 1850-1910.

David Johnson Vinje was born at Voss, Bergen Stift, Norway, on February 20, 1850, and died at Nevada, Iowa, June 18, 1910. He was educated at Whitten and Simpson Colleges and did his work as a law student in a law school. He was admitted to the bar at Des Moines, Iowa, in June, 1876, and commenced the practice of the law at Nevada, Iowa, the same year, and this was the scene of his whole professional life. He was County Attorney of Story County for two terms.

WILLIAM PERRY WHIPPLE, of Benton County. 1856-1910.

William Perry Whipple was born in Vinton, Iowa, December 26, 1856, and died at Vinton on the 6th day of June, 1910. He

had his college education in the State University of Iowa and his work as a law student was in the law department of the University. He was admitted to the bar at Vinton, Iowa, in June, 1878, and commenced the practice of the law there that same year. This was his home and the scene of the labors of his professional life. He was City Attorney of Vinton, Iowa, and Senator of the Fifth Senatorial District in the Twenty-ninth to the Thirtythird General Assemblies of the State of Iowa.

THE PRESIDENT: Next is the report of delegates to the American Bar Association.

J. B. WEAVER, JR.: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association: At your session in 1910 Hon. J. L. Carney, Mr. F. F. Faville, and myself were named by this Association as delegates to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association to be held August 30 to September 1, 1910, in the city of Chattanooga. Your president, Mr. Carney, and Mr. Faville being unable to attend the meeting by reason of imperative engagements elsewhere, the writer alone of the Delegates named was present. Your Association, however, was also represented in fact by the attendance of a number of gentlemen, among whom were that veteran beloved of us all, Hon. James O. Crosby, E. M. Carr, Esq., of Manchester, E. B. Evans, Esq., Dean of Drake University Law School, Mr. Charles A. Dudley of Des Moines, Mr. E. Dean Fuller, now of Mexico City, and Mr. Wallace R. Lane, now of Chicago.

The session opened August 30 with an address of welcome by Senator Frazier of Tennessee, an eloquent and well-timed address marked by the traditional southern spirit of hospitality, welcoming us to the South or, to use one of his own phrases, "To her genial sunshine and, if you are very thirsty, to her still more genial moonshine." This was followed (after a proper interval, for the weather was very warm) with the address of President Charles F. Libby of Maine, devoted, pursuant to the rules of the Association, to the most noteworthy changes in statute law in points of general interest arising during the preceding year. It was a splendid address, patriotic in spirit, strong in conservatism that was yet constructive, and exhibiting a comprehensive

grasp of the march of jurisprudence at home and abroad. In this address will be found among other things an interesting and instructive discussion of modern tendencies looking to the widening of the Constitution by new methods of construction, that may well be studied by every lawyer interested in what promises to be a far-reaching movement fraught with most important results to our political and social framework.

Among noteworthy changes in statute law the President dealt at length with increased legislation relating to agriculture, with the rapidly growing statutes governing automobiles and motor boats, with notable changes in the banking laws of Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and New Jersey, the laws on the protection of immigrants, the matter of child labor, the conservation movement, the negro suffrage amendments in the South, taxation, employer's liability, and sundry other items, including an interesting review of the novel and intricate questions arising in connection with recent triumphs in aviation.

On the evening of August 31 Hon. Woodrow Wilson addressed the association upon the theme, "The Lawyer and the Community"-an extremely valuable contribution to the question of the lawyer's relation to the community in the light of corporate development in America. This address displayed that vigor of intellect, patriotic spirit, and facility of expression that have been evidenced since in a wider field-a field concerning whose limits, indeed, it were unwise at present to dogmatize.

An incident that caused some excitement and great indignation among the delegates was the formal filing with the Association of the charges preferred by James R. Watts against Hon. Joseph H. Choate of New York. This action by a member of the Tennessee Bar was promptly resented by the Association of that State and the charges and request of the mover for leave to withdraw same were referred to the grievance committee of the Association with the practically unanimous feeling of the lack of foundation, and of the utter impropriety of the filing of the petition, the same in any case belonging to the concerns of the New York Association in the first instance.

Among the most active, effective, and trusted workers at the meeting was our former Iowa comrade, Hon. Frederick W. Leh

mann, late President of the Association and now, to the surprise of no one, a strong force, standing, as ever, vigilant and aggressive at the right hand of Uncle Sam-one of the real working units in that intricate mechanism out of whose processes is woven in the loom of time that priceless fabric-national progress-and that means world progress.

For the ensuing year the Association chose as its President Hon. Edgar H. Farrar of New Orleans, a choice warranted both by the fitness of him who was chosen and by the great awakening of interest in the work of the Association that has been aroused in the last two years among members of the bar in the South, an interest greatly augmented by the presence of the Association in annual meeting in a southern State.

With respect to legislation recommended by the Association for adoption by the various States may be noted the report of the Committee on Uniform State Laws with respect to the following: 1. An act to make uniform the law of transfer of shares in corporations.

2. An act to make uniform the law of bills of lading.

Both of these acts are of considerable length and that relating to the transfer of stock may be deemed by many little short of revolutionary, its purpose being to give to stock certificates a practically complete negotiability such as is now applied to ordinary negotiable instruments. This may well arouse great diversity of opinion as it did in the Association. Both acts contain many sections and may properly go for full consideration to the committee of this Association dealing with uniformity of law. The acts will be found on pages 574 to 610 of the report of the session for 1910 of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Simeon E. Baldwin of Connecticut offered a resolution dealing with aviation, which was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform. This resolution directed the committee to inquire and report whether the common law makes an aviator liable for any loss or damage that may occur independently of negligence and whether an airship flying between the States or foreign countries is subject to regulation by Congress under the power of the latter over commerce between the States and with foreign countries. There was much discussion