Judges Meet

A state association oí circuit judges - a new organization - held its first annual meeting at Lansing, last Thursday. Papers were read as follows: "Some Phases of Judicial Life," Judge E. D. Kinne, Ann Arbor; "Naturalization," Judge W. L. Carpenter, Detroit; "The Judge and the Juryman," Judge Robert E. Frazer, Detroit. Judge Kinne, speaking on the subject of jury arguments by counsel, believed that utterances by attorneys should not become matters of decisión or appeal, but should be deterniined by the trial judge, who being present was better able to determine the issue involved than an appellate court, whose judgment must be formed from brief and record. On the subject of naturalization the following resolution was adopted : "That all applicants for admission to citizenship should with their witnesses beexamined (atsuch times and places as the several circuits shall by special rule of court desígnate); that no applicant shall be admitted to citizenship without the personal examination by the court of the applicant and his witnesses as to the truth of statutory requisites; that no court should hear an application unless a pétition therefor shall have been filed at least one week hefore such hearing."