BANKRUPTCY COMMITTEE. JAMES ROSENTHAL, Chairman (Rosenthal & Kurz), Chicago, Ill. E. M. ALEXANDER (Alexander & Burke), Milwaukee, Wis. W. S. McCLINTOCK, Topeka, Kan. JULIUS HENRY COHEN (Cohen, Cresvey & Richter), New York, N. Y. BERNARD B. SELLING, Detroit, Mich. LISTS AND AGENCIES COMMITTEE JOHN C. LANDIS, JR., Chairman (Spencer & Landis), St. Joseph, Mo. HENRY W. BACKUS (Cobb, Howard & Bailey), Cincinnati, Ohio. A. V. BOWER, Scranton, Pa. E. E. DONNELLY, Bloomington, Ill. ISAAC PETERSBERGER, Davenport, Iowa. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. EDWIN A. KRAUTHOFF, Chairman (New & Krauthoff), Kansas City, Mo. HENRY DEUTSCH, Minneapolis, Minn. ALBERT N. EASTMAN (Eastman & White), Chicago, Ill. GEORGE M. NAPIER Wright & Cox), Atlanta, Ga. (Napier, FRANKLIN L. VELDE (Prettyman, Velde & Prettyman), Pekin, Ill. PRESS COMMITTEE, WM. C. SPRAGUE, Chairman, De-· troit, Mich., 3 years. E. C. FERGUSON (Ferguson & Goodnow), Chicago, Ill., 2 years. A. V. CANNON (White, Johnson & Cannon), Cleveland, Ohio 1 year. Morris Walker & Allen. WILLIAM G. BRYANT.... .Detroit, Mich. Clark, Lockwood, Bryant & Klein. J. HOWARD REBER... Three Years. DANIEL B. ELLIS.. Philadelphia, Pa. Rogers, Ellis & Johnson. J. C. BURNS.. .Denver, Colo. ...Columbus, Ohio Morton, Irvine & Lane. JOHN H. MOSIER, Muskogee, Okla. EDWARD F. PETERS (Burch, Peters, Oppenheimer & Connolly), Cincinnati, Ohio. THAD M. TALCOTT, Jr. (Talcott & Fisher), South Bend, Ind. UNIFORM RATE COMMITTEE. W. B. PADDOCK, Chairman, Fort Worth, Texas. ROBERT H. MUNGER (Munger, Robinson & Page), Sioux City, Ia. C.-H. TENNEY (Tenney, Hall & Tenney), Madison, Wis. HENRY A. JACOBS, San Francisco, Cal. L. M. MERCHANT (T. B. & L. M. Merchant), Binghamton, N. Y. HOUSE AGENCY COMMITTEE. E. M. ST. JOHN, Chairman (Carpenter & St. John), Rockford, Ill. THOMAS J. FAGIN (Fagin & Kane), St. Louis, Mo EDWARD E. BURKHART (Van Deman, Burkhart & Smith), Dyton, Ohio. JEROME J. ROTHSCHILD (Fox & Rothschild), Philadelphia, Pa. E. H. BELDEN (Belden & Losey), Spokane, Wash. FINANCE COMMITTEE. THOMAS D. HUFF, Chairman (Huff, Cook & Slottow), Chicago, Ill.; ALVIN H. CULVER (Culver, Andrews & King), Chicago, Ill.; FRANK T. MURRAY, Chicago, Ill. KREAM ER, SECRETARY, 108 So. LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL Thanksgiving Proclamation Now we We are thankful that election is over. can resume normal relations with our old friends, witb= out fear or favor. We give tbanks for being members of the League, which believes in and is working for evolutionary progress toward better things in law and practice. We rejoice that strong men are uniting with us, wbose friendship we covet and on whose belp we con= fidently rely. We are grateful for work; for bome and loved ones; for the provision for daily needs. We are glad to be alive, beart wbole and conscience free. Attest: E. L. Kreamer, Done by the President. Secretary. THE BULLETIN OF THE COMMERCIAL LAW LEAGUE OF AMERICA Published Monthly by COMMERCIAL LAW LEAGUE OF AMERICA, 108 So. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. Entered as second-class matter, September 12, 1910, at the post-office at Chicago, Illinois, Volume XVII. NOVEMBER, 1912. Number 11 A SUGGESTION OR TWO. The Secretary has prepared a list of subjects, which appear in this issue, to be considered by the Executive Committee at its meeting November 14th. If any member has aught to say, let him say it now. The Executive Committee should have the benefit of your advice. What do you think of this? To keep standing in the Bulletin during the present fiscal year a table showing how many membership applications each State Chairman on the Membership Committee is turning in. Each State Chairman doubtless will appoint as his assistants representative lawyers throughout his State to assist him in building up the membership. The record, therefore, will be that of the membership teams in each State. If no objection is had, this system of publicity will appear in the December Bulletin. While we are all ambitious to build up the League, each member should feel in duty bound to scrutinize the printed list of applicants for membership, and file objection within thirty days after the names appear in the Bulletin. The attention of the membership is directed again to the resolutions passed at the instance of W. G. Bryant, Chairman of the Committee on Unfair Forwarders last year, which appear at the bottom of page 139 and at the top of page 140 of the September issue of the American Legal News. The two significant paragraphs relating to members we quote again: "That no member of the Commercial Law League make a contract with any forwarder not a list publisher providing for the payment of a representative fee where business is forwarded on a division of fees.' "That business received from a forwarder with a condition 'that no fee shall attach provided claim is paid direct while in attorney's hands' be refused by all members of the League." Whenever a member is solicited for representation in a law list, with the character of which he is not acquainted, he should take the precaution to either write or wire Secretary Kreamer for the information that the League has on file. We cannot, through the Bulletin, volunteer information of this sort and publish it generally. We are privileged to impart it confidentially to such of our members as show their specific interest by inquiry. Many a loss and unsatisfactory connection would have been avoided if some of our members had taken this precaution in the past. Invitation is hereby extended to members who have not thus far been heard on our Convention floors, or whose ideas have not been presented through the medium of the Bulletin, to speak up. It has been charged that the "Old Guard" monopolizes our Conventions and everything else in the League. Nothing could be further from their thought or intention. They are men of active minds, executive capacity, and they possess the ready gift of knowing how. When an occasion arises requiring action, if no one else takes the initiative, our old standbys step in the breach. It is not their disposition to be in the limelight or monopolize the glory, but they do not want to see League action drag and therefore they get busy. Let our other members relieve the "Old Guard" of the burden of proof that the League is alive by themselves assuming the burden and pushing the game along. Failing to act on this invitation, the doctrine of estoppel will bar further complaint of this nature. Our apologies to Governor Shafroth. Of course he didn't swear, as he appears to have done on page 45 of the September issue of the American Legal News, when he is charged with uttering, "Damned up the Mississippi." Somewhere between the compositor and proofreader this and many other things slipped through or were omitted entirely in the September issue, which, nevertheless, contains enough of merit to repay the time expended for careful reading. Our Special and Standing Committees are getting busy. The reports of some of the Chairmen will be found in this issue; others will shortly follow. Vice President Boltwood extends his greetings to the membership in this issue of the Bulletin, and it makes delightful reading. If any man thinks the Bulletin is dry, let him inject some limpid, sparkling antitoxine as a cure for the alleged aridity. FREDERIC P. VOSE, President. |