NOTES ON WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.

On November 10-12, 1910, representatives of the several state commissions which have been investigating the subject of compensation for industrial accidents met at Chicago for a conference. Delegates were present from New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey, Montana and Massachusetts. There were also representatives of the Federal Commission, United States Bureau of Labor, and a special committee of commissioners on uniform state laws, together with a special delegate appointed by the Governor of Connecticut. The public and newspaper correspondents were excluded from the meeting. The Commission of the State of Washington made its report to the governor on December 80, 1910, and submitted a bill. The proposed Washington Act abrogates the doctrine of negligence as between employer and workman; removes the subject from the domain of private controversy; asserts and assumes the subject to be within the police power of the State; and deprives the courts of jurisdiction in the premises, except in the administration of the act.