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has been taken will be taken hereafter. The President will request the members of the General Council, a committee of lawyers, one from each state, to aid him in noting the statutory changes that have been made in the respective states.

Robert D. Benedict, of New York:

I want to emphasize what has been said, that this is a proposition to strike out from our proceedings the most valuable thing in my opinion in its whole history. Whenever I have been asked by gentlemen who were not members of the Association what is the special object of being a member I have always pointed to this collection of the addresses of the Presidents containing this compilation as the most valuable source of information to be found anywhere for a lawyer who desires to keep posted in the progress of legislation. I am so much opposed to this proposition that I object to the proposition even being referred to the Executive Committee.

The President:

The Association will permit me a word, having just gone through this experience. I was fortunate in having a year in which not many of the states held legislative sessions, and I received such generous assistance from each member of the General Council that while it was labor, yet it was a pleasant task. Of course, as suggested by the gentleman from Nebraska, who for two years was President of this Association, the President can speak upon any topic that is near to his heart, but where this work is so done, that it is a valuable compendium, as I am sure you will believe when you see the printed address, only part of which I undertook to read, and which is largely the work of the members of the General Council, and, with the leave to print, with discretion upon the part of the President not to read it all, but to have it there for future reference, it appears to me that the old lines that have prevailed from the beginning ought to continue.

Henry H. Ingersoll, of Tennessee:

I rise to the point of order that it is not within the province of the Executive Committee to consider this matter.

The President:

The Chair would rule that the point of order of the gentleman is not well taken. We can refer this matter to the Executive Committee, but they will have to report back to us upon it. They can take no action which will in any way change the Constitution.

Joseph Wheless, of Missouri:

I move that the motion to refer this matter to the Executive Committee be laid on the table.

Charles S. Varian, of Utah:
I second that motion.

The motion to lay the resolution on the table was adopted. Edward Q. Keasbey, of New Jersey:

The Committee on Law Reporting and Digesting made a report yesterday just before the close of the session, and I am under the impression that no action was taken upon it at that time. If I am correct in so understanding, I move that the report be received, filed and printed.

The motion was seconded and adopted.

G. A. Finkelnburg, of Missouri:

Before this meeting adjourns I desire to make a suggestion either to the Executive Committee or to the officers of the Association with reference to the size of the hall in which we hold our annual meetings. It is a fact that when motions are made on the right of this hall we over here on the left are not able to understand what is going on. I have experienced this same difficulty at Saratoga, and at other places where we have met, and I think in the future we ought to endeavor to have a smaller hall which will conduce to the deliberative character of our proceedings.

The President:

The Executive Committee will bear the suggestion in mind. Henry L. Stone, of Kentucky:

Mr. President, I desire to offer the following resolution : Resolved, That the Secretary be and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be distributed to the members in

attendance, for their information and use, printed in convenient form, copies of the Constitution and by-laws of this Association at each annual meeting.

This resolution is offered because of the fact that during the sessions of this Association we have felt the need of examination of the by-laws and Constitution as certain amendments have been offered and discussed.

William L. January, of Michigan:

That is already done, sir, and has been carried out every year.

The President:

I will ask the Secretary to make a statement.

The Secretary:

For a number of years the Secretary has brought to the meeting a quantity of pamphlet copies of the Constitution and by-laws and had them on the table for distribution, and has called attention in his annual report to the fact that the copies were available.

Henry L. Stone:

After hearing the statement of the Secretary, I withdraw the resolution.

The President:

I am called upon to state to the meeting the conclusion of the Executive Committee with reference to certain invitations to the Association as a body to visit outside places and take part in hospitalities tendered to us. The conclusion which we have arrived at is that inasmuch as we were in large part the guests of the Exposition Company we would not attempt to accept as a body any invitations outside of the grounds of the Exposition, and, with your approval, I will direct the Secretary to acknowledge the invitations which have been so kindly extended to us with thanks and expressing our inability to accept of the hospitality offered.

We will now pass to the election of officers nominated by the General Council this morning.

James O. Crosby, of Iowa:

I move that the Secretary be authorized to cast the ballot of the Association for the election of Henry St. George Tucker as President of the Association.

William L. January:

I second that motion.

The motion was adopted.

The President:

The Secretary has cast the ballot, and I declare Henry St. George Tucker, of Virginia, elected President of the Association for the ensuing year.

Theodore S. Garnett, of Virginia:

I now move that the President of the Association be directed to cast the ballot of the Association for all the other nominees. The motion was seconded and adopted.

The President:

I beg to announce, gentlemen, that the ballot has been cast and that all the gentlemen nominated have been regularly elected.

Frank E. Gregg, of Colorado:

I move that we do now adjourn sine die.

The President:

Before putting the question on the motion to adjourn, I desire to announce that the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists will meet in this hall at two o'clock. Many of the members of this Association are delegates to that Congress and all who are not delegates are invited as guests to be present. The Association then adjourned sine die.

JOHN HINKLEY,
Secretary.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, September 26, 1904.

The report of the proceedings of our last meeting at Hot Springs, Virginia, in August, 1903, has been printed and distributed to all the members, and also to all State Bar Associations and legal journals and to a large number of libraries in the United States and abroad on our free mailing list.

There were 1814 members at the close of the last meeting. Forty-eight members have been elected by the Executive Committee between meetings, under Article IV of the Constitution as amended.

All of the states are represented in our membership, except the State of Nevada. Also the following territories are represented: Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Indian, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The Philippine Islands are also represented.

Invitations were sent to all State Bar Associations to send three delegates to this meeting, and to all City and County Bar Associations in states having no State Bar Association to send two delegates. There are forty State Bar Associations, four Territorial Bar Associations, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and about three hundred and seventynine local Bar Associations.

The reports of the Committees on Indian Legislation and on Penal Laws and Prison Discipline for this year have been printed and distributed to members by mail fifteen days before the meeting. The reports of the Committees on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Commercial Law and Grievances have been printed for use at the meeting.

Notices were sent to all members of standing and special committees, requesting their attention to matters referred to such committees.

It may be of interest to the members of the Association to learn that the Secretary's stock of back reports of the pro

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