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very great pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman renowned in diplomatic circles, an expert upon international law, well known by reputation to all of us, Prof. John Bassett Moore, of New York.

John Bassett Moore, of New York, then read his paper. (See the Appendix.)

The President:

There are two standing committees that did not report this morning. The Chair calls upon the Standing Committee on Law Reporting and Digesting. If a member of that committee is present and ready to report, the Association will be glad to hear from him.

As it appears that no member of the committee is present the report will be passed until to-morrow morning.

The report of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar is next. Is that committee ready to report?

The Secretary:

I understand from the Chairman of that committee that there will be no report from it this year.

The President:

Several special committees reported this morning by unanimous consent, and the Chair will now call upon the others. The first is the Special Committee on Classification of the Law. Edward A. Harriman, of Illinois:

That committee has had no meeting this year, Mr. President, and therefore there is no report to make.

The President:

The Special Committee on Indian Legislation. I understand from the Secretary there is a printed report from that committee. Is there any member of it present? If not, as the report is a brief one, I will call upon the Secretary to read it.

The report of the Special Committee on Indian Legislation was then read by the Secretary.

The President:

What is the pleasure of the Association with reference to this report?

Hiram F. Stevens, of Minnesota :

In the absence of the Chairman of the committee, who is my townsman, and the other members of the committee, and in view of the fact that this subject has been very fully considered by the Association, I move the adoption of the report. Wm. P. Breen, of Indiana:

I second that motion.

The President:

The passage of this motion will include, of course, the adoption of the resolutions appended to the report.

The motion was adopted.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

The Committee on Uniform Laws is next in order.

The report of the Committee on Uniform Laws was then read by the Chairman of the committee, Lyman D. Brewster, of Connecticut.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

Amasa M. Eaton, of Rhode Island:
I move that the report be adopted.

J. T. Maffett, of Pennsylvania:

I second that motion.

The motion was adopted.

Amasa M. Eaton, of Rhode Island:

In connection with this I offer the following resolution: Resolved, That Article III of the Constitution be amended by adding to the committees therein enumerated the Committee on Uniform State Laws.

This is in accordance with the recommendation of that committee. The committee at the present time is not one of the standing committees, and it is deemed advisable that it

should be. It is one of the objects of our Association as expressed in our Constitution, and it is of such vast importance that certainly this committee should be one of the standing committees of the Association.

The Secretary:

In order to do that, the By-Laws would have to be amended also, because there is a list of committees on the first page of the By-Laws.

The President:

That can be done by separate motion, because a different vote must be had on that question.

The Chair begs leave to call attention to the fact that all standing committees are composed of five members each, and that is because of a provision of the Constitution. The Committee on Uniform State Laws is composed of 46 members. Therefore it will be necessary if this is to be made a standing committee, either that the committee shall be reduced to five members, or else that there should be a change in that article. of the Constitution.

Albert H. Walker, of New York:

May I ask, Mr. President, what is the practical difference between a standing committee and a special committee?

The President:

The Chair knows of none, because all the privileges of a special committee, so far as its meetings and appropriations. from the treasury are concerned, are the same.

Albert H. Walker:

That being the case, I suggest that it would be better to continue those gentlemen who have charge of this subject as a special committee rather than to transform them into a standing committee, in order that the number may continue. as at present.

Amasa M. Eaton, of Rhode Island:

Then I suggest, Mr. President, that my motion lie over until next year in order that it may receive due consideration.

The President:

That will be done, and the motion made by the gentleman. from Rhode Island will lie upon the table until the next meeting.

The next special committee is the Committee on Federal Code of Criminal Procedure.

The Secretary:

There is no report from that committee.

The President:

The Committee on Penal Laws and Prison Discipline. Is there a report from that committee.

The report of the Committee on Penal Laws and Prison Discipline was then read by J. Franklin Fort, of New Jersey. The President:

The report will be received, ordered printed and filed. (See the Report in the Appendix.)

Martin Dewey Follett, of Ohio:

Allow me to move, Mr. President, that the committee be continued.

Henry E. Davis, of the District of Columbia:

I second that motion.

The motion was adopted.

Martin Dewey Follett:

One other matter, if you please, Mr. President. While we were in Europe, we found this fact to be true,-that we desired that the influence and investigation of this body should also carry some of its influence in regard to the International Prison Congress which meets once in five years; the one of this year is the sixth, the next one meets five years hence in Hungary, and the next, as we hope, ten years hence in the United States. Hence I have prepared this resolution:

Resolved, That it is desirable that the American Bar Association be represented in the International Prison Congress to be hereafter held, and that the Committee on Penal Laws and Prison Discipline be requested to present proper changes in the

Constitution and By-Laws to provide for the same, and report at the next session of this Association, one year hence.

Frederic P. Haskell, of Massachusetts:

I second that resolution.

The resolution was adopted.

The President:

The next committee is that on Federal Courts. Is that committee ready to report?

Edmund Wetmore, of New York:

Mr. President, just prior to the last meeting of the Association, a Commission appointed by Congress, consisting of Messrs. Botkin, Watson and Culberson, had its duty extended so that it was charged to revise and codify the whole body of statutes relating to the courts of the United States and their procedure. They had then made a preliminary report in which, in consequence of the efforts of the Committee on Federal Courts of this body, they had included nearly, but not quite all, the amendments which had received the approval of this Association. The Committee on Federal Courts was thereupon, at the last meeting of the Association, charged to co-operate with the Congressional Commission and obtain, if possible, the adoption by them of all the measures which have been approved by this Association. Shortly after that, the preliminary report. referred to was sent to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. No steps can be taken until that report, which is in the form of a revision of the whole body of the statutes, shall have received the consideration of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. We therefore endeavored to obtain a hearing before that committee, and considerable correspondence took place and personal efforts were exerted to that end. We obtained an appointment for a hearing, not only for ourselves, but for all who were interested in the subject. Senator Hoar, the Chairman of the committee, subsequently informed us, however, that it was impossible to give us a hearing during the session just passed, and he has also informed us that it will be impossible to get a hearing at the coming short session of Congress.

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