but rather "is." As. citizens of an united country, "the whole boundless continent is ours," and we should familiarize ourselves with every portion thereof. Members desiring to take an extended trip may go West via Canadian Pacific or via Northern Pacific, can visit Yellowstone Park. To the South is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and to the West is California.

But Colorado is a host within itself. Its beauties and its resources, not to overlook the geniality and hospitality of those of our members who are sufficiently fortunate to live there are ours, to be enjoyed, the one thing needful being our presence. It is to the credit of our President, Mr. Reber, who registers from Philadelphia, but who lives in the hearts of all of us, that under his administration the League is coming West.

The reputation which the League has earned for attention to the details of its conventions is a sufficient guaranty the gathering of 1912 will be our best.

Kansas City, Mo.

EDWIN A. KRAUTHOFF.

UNIFORM RATE DISCUSSED.

The following discussion regarding the uniform rate will be worth careful thought by our membership:

CHICAGO, Feb. 26th, 1912.

I am in receipt of your favor enclosing letter from one of the members of the League complaining that their office sent a claim amounting to $466 to a county in Louisiana where the Bar Association rates provide that attorneys shall not take claims on a basis of less than 10 per cent. net to them on the full amount recovered. This member writes and suggests as follows:

"It appears that Mr. is a member of the Commercial Law League of America, and it seems to us that he should accept the terms of collection of the League if he expects the members to forward business to him."

I am enclosing you herewith copy of my reply, and suggest that inasmuch as this is a matter of interest to all the members of the League, this correspondence might with propriety appear in the Bulletin.

GENTLEMEN:

Feb. 26th, 1912.

Mr. Kreamer, Secretary of the Commercial Law League, has handed me your letter of February 8th regarding the Bar Association rates in Louisiana. We forward a great deal of business through the State of Louisiana and our records show that there are about twelve counties where Bar Association rates prevail.

We pay these rates and insist that clients stand for them, for otherwise we cannot handle their business.

The writer begs to call your attention to the fact that the Commercial Law League schedule is a schedule of minimum rates and that it does not, nor was it in any way intended, to affect the local Bar Association rates or to act as a maximum rate of fees to be charged by corresponding attorneys.

This question of Bar Association rates is one the forwarders have to meet, but so far as I am personally concerned I cannot have much faith in the Commercial Law League ever being able to convince the local attorneys throughout the country that they should not adopt rates of this character, when so many of our leading forwarders persist in forwarding claims on a schedule of fees considerably lower than the minimum rate advocated by the League.

In an article in the Bulletin last April I called the attention of the forwarders of the country generally to this condition and prophesied then that within the next few years the Bar Association rate was going to make it impossible for many forwarders to conduct a successful business. For three years I have been advising our clients of these conditions and advising them that wherever these rates prevail that they would have to stand this additional charge if they wanted to conduct their business through our office. The Bar Association rates is the direct and legitimate result of forwarding offices receiving business on one schedule of fees and forwarding it to local attorneys on a schedule considerably lower. It is bound to react on the forwarders, and, in my judgment, justly so.

As Chairman of the Uniform Rate Committee, I have made strenuous endeavors to get the leading forwarders to agreed to use the League schedule as a minimum rate without success, as many of the large forwarders seem to be of the opinion that attorneys throughout the country will handle- business on any rate it is sent to them, in order to get the business. I am satisfied that eventually any forwarder who is capable of handling a considerable volume of business will awaken to the realization that it is to his own interests to secure the co-operation of all forwarders in the adoption of the League schedule. Until such time, however, I am satisfied we will not be able to do anything with the local Baz Association question. Until the League as an organization shows that it has enough influence with its members who are forwarders to get them into line on the uniform fee proposition, I think it would be unbecoming the League to attempt to force its members who are receivers of business to adopt the minimum schedule as a maximum schedule.

T. O. BUNCH,

Chairman Uniform Rate Committee.

SOMETHING ABOUT COLORADO SPRINGS AND THE SPECIAL TRAIN TO THE CONVENTION.

Every member of the Commercial Law League of America owes it to himself and his business to let no obstacle prevent his attending the Convention at Colorado Springs or missing the opportunity of spending his vacation in Colorado. Colorado is as big as all New England and Indiana combined. Just think of it—over 100,000 square miles of scenery. Colorado Springs, where the next Convention will be held, is a locality where all Colorado seems condensed. Within an hour's ride are unsurpassed scenic features. It is said to be, in proportion to its population, one of the wealthiest cities in the United States and the transactions of its mining exchange approximate $100,000,000 a year.

If you are seeking a rest, Colorado Springs is in a class by itself. If the wonderful climate won't coax back exhausted vitality in one way or another, Switzerland can do you no good.

In another column we are showing a few cuts illustrating some of the many beauties of Colorado Springs, the next Convention town..

Every member who can conveniently do so should arrange to join the special train at Chicago, for whieh arrangements have been made with the Burlington Route and the D. & R. G. Railroad. These special trains afford you an opportunity of meeting and becoming acquainted with many of our members en route to the Convention. You should reach Chicago Sunday morning, July 21st. The special train will leave later the same day. The exact hour will be announced in a later issue of the Bulletin, after it has been decided what time will be the most convenient.

The Burlington has promised one of its very best trains, same to be electric lighted and equipped for the special comfort of its passengers.

The Burlington dining cars are famous for their a la carte service, and in fact every part of the equipment is to be the finest obtainable, one of the special features of the train to be one of the Burlington lounging cars which has been promised for the special. This is a type of car in use by very few of the roads and provides. comforts which have heretofore been hopelessly lacking in providing comfort for its passengers.

It will be your loss if you fail to attend the Convention and spend your vacation in Colorado. It will also be your loss, if you can conveniently do so, if you do not join this special train from Chicago to the Colorado Springs Convention.