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The President:

Unfinished business is in order.

The Secretary:

On behalf of the members of the Association from Maryland I desire to nominate Arthur Steuart for the vacancy on the General Council caused by the election of Mr. Whitelock as Secretary.

George Whitelock, of Maryland:

I second that nomination.

The President:

That will stand over until the election of the officers takes place, or, by general consent, it may be acted upon now, it being a nomination to fill a vacancy on the General Council. Is there objection? Hearing no objection, it is so ordered.

H. A. Bronson, of North Dakota :

Mr. President, I desire to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the advisability of amending the By-laws of this Association by adding thereto Section XVI, hereinafter set forth, be referred to the Committee on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, who shall report upon the subject matter of the same at the next annual meeting:

Section XVI. A section of the Association to be known as the Section of Legal Writers is hereby established, which shall meet annually in connection with the meeting of the Association, but not during such hours as the Association is in session. Its object shall be the promotion of the best methods of legal writing and the advancement of American jurisprudence. The section may make recommendations to the Association which shall be referred by the Association to the Committee on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The proceedings of the section may be published at the discretion of the Executive Committee, and on the recommendation of the Committee on Publication. All members of the Association who desire may enroll themselves as members of the section, and all law-publishing persons, firms or corporations shall each be entitled to send a delegate annually to the section, which delegate shall be admitted to all of the privileges of a member thereof during such annual meeting for which he was so appointed. The section shall be organized by

the appointment of a Chairman and Secretary at its first session, and a Chairman and Secretary shall thereafter be elected annually by the section.

As the purpose of introducing this resolution is simply to bring the matter before the Association for reference to the proper committee, and as under Rule 3 it is submitted without debate, I will not further comment upon it at this time.

The President:

The resolution will be received and stands referred to the Committee on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, unless there is objection. The Chair hearing no objection, it is so referred.

Elmer E. Rogers, of Illinois:

I wish to move the adoption of a brief resolution, as follows: Resolved, That with the approval of the Executive Committee, a committee of not less than eleven members be appointed by the President to draft Canons of Professional Ethics for the Judiciary.

I move, sir, the reference of this resolution to the Executive Committee:

The President:

The resolution will be received and referred to the Executive Committee.

Francis Rawle, of Pennsylvania:

I have no doubt that it is well known to all the members of the Association that Congress has passed a penal code, which is the revision drafted by the Committee on Revision of the Sixtieth Congress. I understand from the Chairman of that committee, Mr. Moon, who is a member of the Philadelphia Bar, and who has been the most active man in the drafting of the penal code, that he is now proceeding with the other laws of the United States. Of course, that will affect us particularly, because it is his intention to change the technical complexion of the federal courts, doing away with the Circuit and District Courts, and having one court of First Instance, and, of course, the present

Courts of Appeals. Having thus introduced the matter, I offer the following preamble and resolution:

WHEREAS, The House Committee of the Sixtieth Congress on the Revision of Laws has prepared a Penal Code which has been passed by Congress, and is now preparing a revision of the remaining laws, including those relating to the Circuit and District Courts,

Resolved, That the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure be directed to confer with the committee of Congress on Revision of the Laws, and to report at the next meeting of the Association upon the progress of the revision, and its opinion of the principles upon which the same is being prepared.

I would have moved the reference of this to a special committee, but the Association has sometimes evinced its thought that the standing committees ought to do the work that is to be done, and, therefore, I have specified the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

Ralph W. Breckenridge, of Nebraska :

I second the motion to refer the resolution to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

The President:

The resolution will be received and referred to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure, with power to carry out the recommendation contained in it.

Elmer E. Rogers, of Illinois:

Mr. President I think it is proper at this time to introduce the following resolution of thanks for the courtesies received by the members attending this meeting:

Resolved, That the gratitude of the American Bar Association be, and the same is hereby expressed to the citizens, lawyers, and to the press of Detroit for the courtesy and hospitality extended to the Association at this meeting, which we have all so thoroughly enjoyed.

Thomas P. Carothers, of Kentucky:

I desire to second heartily that resolution.

John C. Richberg, of Illinois:

I rise to make the point of order that all resolutions must be referred under the rules.

The President:

Not resolutions of this kind. Therefore, the point of order is not well taken.

Thomas P. Carothers:

Coming from that part of the Southland that believes it knows something about hospitality, and echoing as I know I do the sentiment of the members of the American Bar Association gathered here from all parts of the country, and enjoying this beautiful city on the grand stream through which flow the waters of the Great Lakes, our hearts will ever turn with fond recollections to the hospitality tendered us by the members of the Detroit Bar Association and by the good people of the City of Detroit. Therefore, sir, it is with extreme pleasure that I second the resolution that has been offered.

The resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising vote.
George R. Young, of Ohio:

I have a resolution which I beg leave to offer and ask to have referred to the appropriate committee:

Resolved, That the failure of a person charged with the commission of a crime, and who has given bail for his appearance to present himself for trial as required by the terms of his bail bond or recognizance, should in and of itself be treated as a public offense analogous to jail breaking, and punished either in the same manner as the offense with which such person is charged or in some other appropriate manner commensurate with the gravity of such original offense.

Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut:

I second the resolution.

The President:

The resolution will be received and referred to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

Walter George Smith, of Pennsylvania, offered a minute in recognition of the services of the retiring Secretary, which was duly seconded. Ernest T. Florance, of Louisiana, objected to the passage of the resolution on the ground that it violated the provisions of the sixth By-law of the Association. Upon a vote being had, the resolution was adopted, Mr. Florance voting in the negative for the above reasons. The resolution appears on page 93.

Francis Rawle:

I desire to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the thanks of the American Bar Association be and they are hereby extended to the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Detroit for the use of the Council Chamber, and to the Hotel Pontchartrain for the use of various rooms in the hotel for the accommodation of the Association.

The resolution was seconded and adopted.

The President:

Is there anything further under the head of Unfinished Business? If not, the next in order is election of officers.

Ernest T. Florance, of Louisiana:

I move that the nominations made by the General Council be now ratified, and that the Secretary be instructed to cast one ballot for the election of the gentlemen nominated.

The motion was seconded and adopted, and the gentlemen nominated by the General Council were duly elected as officers of the Association for the ensuing year.

The President:

It now remains only for me to say a last word to the Association. The gavel which I have here is one which has been in use from the organization of the Association. When we had our meeting at Denver the members of the Colorado Bar Association provided the silver which now furnishes the trimmings of this gavel. Upon the first band there have been inscribed the names of the men who have presided over the Association from the very

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