Morton, Irvine & Lane. F. A. CAMPBELL, Chairman, Kansas City, Mo. JAMES E. MCINTYRE, Colorado. Springs, Col. 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), Dayton, 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. ERNEST L. KREAMER, SECRETARY, 108 So. LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Hoffman Mercantile Agency, Chicago. -J. L. Taylor & Company, Tailors to the Trade, 319 W. Van Buren St. A division of fees is asked. International Credit Bureau, Grand Rapids, Mich.-Wolverine Brass Works. International Law & Collection Agency, 128 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa-Pratt Food Company. A division of fees is asked. Interstate Reporting Company, L. K. Cornell & Co., Chicago, Ill.-Hartman Furniture & Carpet Company. Interstate & Dominion Collection Agency, Louisville, Ky. Collier's Weekly. Jobbers' Collection Agency, Minneapolis, Minn.-Western Manufacturing Company. A division of fees is asked. Joel I. Schweitzer of New York City, N. Y.-Paris-New York Fashion Company and Oppenheimer & Trebitsch. Continued on inside back cover. 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. under the Act of July 16, 1894. The following have been suggested largely through the mass of correspondence, the reading and answering of which has engaged a large portion of your servant's time during the current month: The Bulletin is our forum. It has no editorial policy. Every member is free to express his views through this medium. It is not a vehicle of publicity for the Officers of the League, but a clearing house for the interchange of constructive thought for the welfare of our League membership. If you attended the last Convention and sat silent during its sessions, speak your piece now through the Bulletin. If you did not attend, speak anyway. Suggest one definite thing, at least, for the League to accomplish this year. Members of the League should favor their fellow members as correspondents wherever possible. League membership pays in the coin of the realm and yields dividends of various kinds. It would be a consummation devoutly to be wished if the leading law lists would, by star or otherwise, designate the League members, so that we could exchange business intelligently with our own members. Whenever you take space for your professional card in a Law List, or otherwise, insist that the publisher designate you as a member of the C. L. L. A. The succeeding numbers of the Bulletin will contain the advance program of the several standing Committees, outlining their work, etc. Watch for these announcements and co-operate loyally with the Committees. It is a fine thing to note how unanimously the various. Committeemen have accepted assignments to designated Committees. Each speaks enthusiastically of the work of the League and promices full measured loyalty during this adminstration. As Abner said to the Elders, so the League says to its Committeemen: "Now then do it." The Executive Committee meets next month. What suggestions have you as to the questions they should consider? The Lists and Agencies Committee has already started on its most important work of preparing a schedule for issuance to members. Write to John C. Landis, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., Chairman of the Committee, giving him the benefit of your latest thought in this connection. Every receiver of business should insist that the forwarder place the business on the uniform rates approved by the League. Each member should use his influence, also, in securing from the law lists the approval of our uniform terms. Co-operate with W. B. Paddock, Fort Worth, Texas, Chairman of the Uniform Rate Committee. Your President advocates that the Operative Resolutions, which have been passed at the several Conventions and which are now binding upon the Officers and Membership as a whole, should be printed in connection with the Constitution and By-laws of the League. By reason of this omission, this office was led to appoint a Press Committee in ignorance of an Operative Resolution governing the appointment, which was passed at Atlantic City. Only one member out of 2,700 apparently remembered the fact that the Resolution was still operative. Your President, therefore, has been compelled to recall his appointments to this Committee in obedience to the mandate of the forgotten Resolution. Mr. Charles Friend of Milwaukee was assigned, during the recent session of the American Bar Association, to address the Association of American Law Schools. A summary of his remarks delivered on that occasion, and of the Resolution passed at the instance of W. O. Hart of New Orleans, appears in this issue of the Bulletin. Members will be interested in studying this subject. The Dean of Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, is calling for a list of topics to be covered in a special course on Commercial Law Practice. What do you suggest? Mr. Carl Badger of Salt Lake City was, with other members of the League, designated, at a late hour, as Committeemen to attend the Convention of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress. Mr. Badger's report will appear in this issue of the Bulletin. Members will read with interest the canons of ethics approved at Colorado Springs Convention. This copy of the Bulletin containing the Code should be kept in a permanent file for ready reference. Vice-President Lucius Boltwood of Grand Rapids has been asked to favor the League members with an article which would appear in an early issue of the Bulletin. Our Vice-President seemed surprised and pleased that he should be called upon to |