and programme were then finally approved and the Committee on Plan and Scope given full authority to complete all arrangements and do whatever might be necessary for the holding of the Congress.

Since that time your Committee has been active in completing the arrangements and details for the holding of the Congress, which is to be held by special permission of the exposition company, in Festival Hall, on the exposition. grounds.

It has been arranged that all the delegates to the Congress shall receive cards of admission to the exposition grounds for the entire week, beginning September 26th; that each delegate shall receive a medal indicating his membership and arrangements have been made by the local committees for the enter tainment of the primary speakers and foreign delegates during the week.

A local committee of the St. Louis Bar and of the St. Louis Bar Association has raised a fund to defray the expenses for the entertainment of the Congress and of the members of the American Bar Association, amounting in the aggregate to $5000.

The Bar Association of St. Louis has contributed for the same purpose the sum of $1000.

A banquet is to be tendered to the members of the American Bar Association and the delegates to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists by the Exposition Company on Wednesday evening, September 28, 1904, at the Tyrolean Alps in the exposition grounds.

Appended to this report is a printed copy of the rules for the organization and procedure of the Congress and of the programme, and a list of all the accredited delegates to the Congress.

It is believed by your Committee that much good will result from the meeting of this Congress, and that the participation of this Association therein, and in promoting the same, has

assured the success of the Congress which is to begin immediately upon the close of the meeting of this Association.

Your Committee desires to acknowledge the efficient services rendered by the Committee on Programme and by the Committee on Plan and Scope above mentioned, and especially the very efficient services rendered by Mr. V. Mott Porter, the secretary.

Your Executive Committee, at the solicitation of this Committee, made an appropriation of $2500 toward defraying the expenses of the Congress.

It is understood that the proceedings of the Congress will be printed for distribution among the members of this Association, the delegates to the Congress and the various governments participating therein, as well as the Bar Associations and universities represented in the Congress.

We recommend that a vote of thanks to the Exposition Company be adopted by this Association for its efficient participation in perfecting the arrangements for the Congress, as well as for the generous entertainment provided by it for this Association and the Congress.

Respectfully submitted,

ST. LOUIS, September 27, 1904.

JACOB KLEIN,

Chairman.

UNIVERSAL CONGRESS OF LAWYERS

AND JURISTS.

UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION.

SEPTEMBER 28-30, 1904.

PURPOSE AND PLAN OF THE CONGRESS.

The Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists is held under the auspices of the Universal Exposition and the American Bar Association. It was organized by a Joint Committee on Plan and Scope formed from a committee of twenty-five lawyers appointed by the Universal Exposition and a committee of fifty lawyers, one from each state and territory, appointed by the American Bar Association.

The Congress is composed of delegates named by the governments of the world, delegates from Bar Associations and kindred associations of all countries, delegates from law schools and the law faculties of universities, and eminent judges, jurists and lawyers specially appointed as delegates-at-large. The delegates appointed by foreign governments have been named by the respective governments in response to invitations extended through the American State Department.

The American delegates consist of the following classes: (aa) One hundred and twenty-five lawyers named by the President of the United States, comprising the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; the Presiding Judges of the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals; the Chief Justices of the Court of Appeals and Court of Claims at Washington; the lawyers of the President's cabinet; the living ex-Attorney Generals; the Solicitor General; the living ex-Presidents of the American Bar Association; the Presiding Justices of the courts of our territories and foreign possessions; lawyers from the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States, taken largely from

the judiciary committees of those bodies, and eminent lawyers in various parts of the country.

(a) Those judges of the Federal Courts and the judges of the Appellate Courts of last resort in the various states who have accepted appointments as delegates ex-officiis.

(b) One hundred delegates named by the American Bar Association.

(c) From each State Bar Association delegates equal in number to the representation of the respective states in the House of Representatives of the United States, but each state and territory is entitled to be represented by at least five delegates.

(d) From states not having State Bar Associations delegates appointed by the judges of the highest courts thereof and in the same proportion as stated in the preceding paragraph.

(e) Delegates from the faculties of American law schools attached to state universities and those belonging to the Association of American Law Schools.

(f) Eminent American lawyers and jurists specially appointed at large.

Among the objects of the Congress are the consideration of the history and efficacy of the various systems of jurisprudence. and the discussion of those questions of international, municipal and maritime law which concern the welfare of all civilized nations; the hope of contributing to the greater harmony in the principles and the forms of procedure upon which the law of civilized nations should be based; the bringing of lawyers and jurists from all parts of the world in contact for the purpose of exchanging views on the principles and methods of the correct administration of justice, and the establishing of closer relations and associations between members of the profession upon which the administration of justice depends.

ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGRESS.

President of the Universal Exposition, 1904, David R. Francis.

President of the American Bar Association, James Hager

man.

Chairman Exposition Committee on Congresses, Frederick W. Lehmann.

Director of Congresses, Howard J. Rogers.

COMMITTEE ON PLAN AND SCOPE.

Frederick W. Lehmann, Chairman. Chairman Exposition Committee on Congresses.

Amos M. Thayer, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.

James Hagerman, President of the American Bar Association.

Jacob Klein, Chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists. Edward S. Robert, member of the Exposition Committee on the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists.

Charles Claflin Allen, member of the Exposition Committee on the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists.

OFFICERS OF THE CONGRESS.

President, David J. Brewer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Vice-Presidents [one from each nation to be elected at the first session].

Secretary, V. Mott Porter, Secretary of the Organization Committees.

RULES OF ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE.

I. Membership.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Committee of the American Bar Association will prepare and furnish to the President of the Congress an official roll of all accredited to the Congress.