ITEMS OF INTEREST October 29, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Radical reforms in judicial procedure were considered by the American Bar Association at its thirty-third annual convention at Chattanooga, Tenn. At the convention a year ago a committee was named to investigate and propose methods whereby litigation could be expedited and the much complained of "law's delays" obviated.

The sensational story of an alleged five-hundred-thousand dollar corruption fund carefully distributed in an effort to defeat the anti-race track betting legislation at Albany in 1908, was told on the witness-stand before the legislative bribery investigation committeemen at New York last week.

Practically all of the corporation tax, aggregating in excess of twenty-seven million dollars, has been collected by the treasury department. The officials declare it was collected with less annoyance and was paid apparently with less reluctance than any other internal revenue tax imposed.

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