that the state was not entitled to additional representation.

He was afterwards appointed United States District Attorney, and served with distinguished ability, after which he, in a measure, retired from political life and continued the practice of law. It was not his privilege to attain a ripe old age. His health failed and he began to suffer from his old wounds; and among relatives and loving friends he passed away.

As a citizen and civil official, Colonel Hallowell exhibited the same qualities that made him conspicuous in the army. His integrity was unquestion. ed, and nothing could cause him to deviate from what seemed to him to be the path of duty. Fear was something he did not know, and friendship was something more than a name.

Memorial to Edwin A. McMath,

BY C. J. BROWN.

Edwin A. McMath was the son of Rev. Robert McMath, a Presbyterian Clergyman. He was born at Three Rivers, Michigan, October 21st, 1849, and died August 29th, 1898, in Webster, N. Y., the village in which his childhood and boyhood days were spent.

He received his early education and college preparatory training in the Webster Academy, and in 1870 was graduated from Hamilton college with high scholarship honors.

The law was his chosen profession, and his studies in this line commenced at once after leaving college; but much of the time from 1870 to 1875 was filled with educational work. For one year he was principal of the Academy of Lawrenceville, N. Y., for one year professor of Greek and Latin, in the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa.; and for three years he filled the important position of school commissioner in Monroe county, N. Y. During the three years he held this office of school commissioner he was active and influential in the educational affairs of the county and state, and during two of those years was president of the New York State Association of School Superintendents and Commissioners.

In January, 1875, he was admitted to the bar of Monroe county, N. Y., and commenced the practice of his chosen and loved profession in the City of Rochester. In the next seven years he had realized a most generous reward for the industry, ability and tact he had brought to his professional work; he had gained unusual success at the bar and had built up a remarkably prosperous and promising legal business in a large city. At the end of this seven years of his earnest work and brilliant accomplishments at the bar there came into his life its first cloud -the cloud of ill health, which ever after

shadowed his business life. In 1882 broken health compelled him to leave his business and his home for a climate in which he could more safely live. After spending some time in California and Colorado he settled in western Kansas and engaged in the cattle business, with the hope that the outdoor occupation of Ranch life might restore his health. As secretary, treasurer and manager of a large cattle company, he gave to this business the same zealous and intelligent energy which had characterized his work as student, educator and lawyer. Three years of this rough and active outdoor life apparently gave him back his old health and strength, and he promptly returned to the practice of law in the new pioneer home he had established in Grainfield. In those days, from '85 to '92, there was much important litigation in that part of our state, and in this field McMath was soon recognized as one of the strong and reliable lawyers of the state. But he was vouchsafed only a short term of active, successful practice at the bar in the western districts of the state and in this Capital City, for again he was compelled to relinquish active business by the serious lung and throat disease from which he had been relieved, but not cured, by a change of climate. But his active lawyer life in Kansas was long enough to impress upon his associates at the bar, and upon the courts before which he practiced, his superior ability and tact as a lawyer and his strong and beautiful character as a man.

Much of the last five years of his life was spent in the south, at Houston, Texas. The southern climate could not restore his health and he gradually succumbed to the disease with which he had been struggling so many years.

His wife, Mrs. Hattie C. McMath, and a son, Robert E. McMath, aged 12 years, survive him; to them this association extends its sincere sympathy in their irreparable loss. And here, as a tribute to the memory of the deceased, and for the comfort and benefit of his friends and associates who survive him, this association records its estimate of Edwin A. McMath-an able and honorable lawyer, whose life and character and accomplishments shed lustre on the profession and on his own name.

Memorial to R. G. Robinson,

BY H. D. GRAHAM.

Robert Gamble Robinson, a member of this association, died at his residence in Holton, Kansas, on April 18, 1898. Mr. Robinson was born in Illinois in 1861, and removed with his parents to Kansas when only a few years of age. He graduated from the law department of the University of the state of Missouri in 1882, and the next year opened a law office in Holton. He was elected county attorney of Jackson county for three consecutive terms, holding the office from 1885 to 1891. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives of the state legislature in 1895. Of him it can be truthfully said that he was a man whose strength of character, whose sterling integrity and tenacity of purpose, the people of his county fully comprehended. He was one of the toilers who tirelessly take up the duties of every day, and patiently and laboriously build that which endures. The one great end and aim of his life was to do his duty and

He walked attended

sense and vigorous

By a strong-aiding champion-conscience, bringing to the labors of every day the strong common interest of an earnest, faithful, honest man.

Death plans his own campaigns. He holds council with none of his victims. They are wholly at his mercy. To the many, he gives no warning, while to some he allows his approach to be seen. To our friend, whom we mourn today, death was in sight for many months. He lived in his shadow, year in and out, ever faithful to every trust, battling manfully for life until the grim messenger of death closed his eyes in peaceful and, as to all earthly scenes, eternal slumber. At the age of 37 years God's finger touched him and he slept.

The committee on Legal Education and State University Law School, through its chairman, David Martin, presented the following report, which was received and ordered to be made a part of the proceedings of this meeting:

THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS,

GENTLEMEN:

Your committee on Legal Education and State University Law School have the honor of reporting as follows:

The Law School is quite as prosperous now as during any previous school year. The enrollment of the senior class is sixty-nine (69); that of the junior class is seventy-three (73). The students with few exceptions attend the lectures and pursue their studies regularly, and appear to be making good headway toward a legal education.

Eight of the students contested for the honor of reading an original paper before this Association at the present meeting, the subject assigned being "Hypnotism as a Defense in a Criminal Action." Each of the papers evidenced industrious research, careful study and intelligent and independent thought. Any of them might be read with profit by the members of this association. Each member of your committee examined and graded these papers at his own home, one at Ottawa, one at Manhattan, one at Holton, one at Topeka and one at Atchison, with the result that one member found in favor of No. 1, one in favor of No. 3, one in favor of No. 8, and two in favor of No. 6, which took the honors--but Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 7 were not far behind those that received more favorable mention. We are now informed that No. 6 was written by Mr. H. G. Kyle, who will read it before the Association.

Prof. W. B. Brownell, so long connected with the Law School, resigned at the beginning of this calendar year to enter upon the duties of the office of county attorney of Douglas county, to which place he was elected in November last. The faculty and the students greatly regretted the severance of his pleasant relation with the Law School. It was a difficult task for the regents and the faculty to agree upon a successor to Prof. Brownell, but at length Prof. Wm. L. Burdick, of Hartford, Connecticut was chosen. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School; but though a native of New England he has traveled much, has resided in Colorado and North Dakota, and has become sufficiently cosmopolitan to "get on" with the students of a progressive western Law School. The Regents and the Faculty are to be congratulated on his selection. He will no doubt ably second the efforts of the veteran Dean of the Law School, Judge James W. Green, who has been with it from "the beginning."

We note a desirable improvement since last year in furnishing the lecture rooms with good substantial chairs in sections of five. The old chairs were light, and each was separate, which made noise and confusion almost unavoidable. The change renders the room much more quiet and orderly during the lectures. It is still necessary to use a few of the old chairs. These