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The Medico-Legal Society of New of money value for himself and his friends York commemorated the approaching from railroad companies, some of which completion of four decades in its work were litigants in his courts, and all of at its annual dinner given on Jan. 24, which were under the regulations of the under the presidency of Dr. T. D. Interstate Commerce Commisssion, sub Crothers, celebrating the work of the ject to the review of the Court of Com society since Mr. Clark Bell was elected merce. I consider this course of con duct, and each instance of it, to be a high president in November, 1872, by con ferring Honorary Membership upon a crime and misdemeanor." considerable number of eminent names of the bench and bar and of prominent At the thirteenth annual conference medico-legal jurists abroad. Mr. Clark of the National Civic Federation, held Bell presented a historical report of the in New York City, Jan. 28-29, President leading features of the work of the Seth Low attacked the Sherman anti body for the last forty years. Hon. trust law and recommended federal John R. DosPassos, who was a member licensing of all state-created corporations. of the society in 1872, read the paper He advocated the appointment of an of the evening, on the general topic of inter-state trade commision to have over "Reform in the Law"; Judge John sight of all large interstate business. Woodward of the Appellate Division He reviewed all the important industrial in the Second Department, responded disputes of the year and highly compli to the toast of the Bench, and Nelson mented the American Federation of Smith, an octogenarian leader of the Labor as a constructive agency for the bar, responded for the Bar. bringing about of industrial peace. His denunciation of the Socialist Party and The conviction in the United States the Industrial Workers of the World, Senate, Jan. 13, of Robert W. Archbald, whom he put in the same category, was of Scranton, Pa., as guilty on five out emphatic. August Belmont read a of thirteen articles of impeachment, paper which gave a risumi of the agita marks the first time in fifty years, and tion for workmen's compensation. A the third time in the history of the draft butline of a proposed Model Safety United States, that a judge has been Act for the prevention of accidents was removed from office as the result of presented. Proposed pension laws were impeachment proceedings. Three other debated by F. Spencer Baldwin, George judges during the past century have been T. Morgan and Arthur Williams. Em impeached, but acquitted. The House erson McMillin reported that a bill voted to impeach Judge Archbald on covering the regulation of public utilities July 7, and the impeachment was laid would be ready for presentation to the before the Senate on July 15. The trial Civic Federation within a few days. The did not begin, however, until Dec. 2. investigation, he said, had been most Senator Root, in a statement filed exhaustive, and the cost, he said, had during the voting, said: "I have voted been $55,000. There were also dis that the respondent is guilty under cussions of the Federation's proposed Articles I., II., III., V., VI., and XIII., amendments to the Erdman Railway because I find that he used the power Conciliation act and upon a proposed and influence of his office as judge of the model state Mediation act. There was Court of Commerce to secure favors a debate on "The Practicability and
