SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS

OF

STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONS

[All State Bar Associations were requested by the Secretary to submit a summary of proceedings. The Associations which responded favorably to this request appear herein. No report has been received from the other State Bar Associations.]

THE COLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION.

The Colorado Bar Association held its sixteenth annual meeting at Colorado Springs, July 10, 11 and 12, 1913. The address of President Harry N. Haynes touched generally upon recent legislation and expressed some views upon the Initiative, Referendum and Recall Amendments.

The annual address upon "Judicial Justice " by Roscoe Pound, of the Harvard Law School.

was delivered

An interesting contribution was the paper of Charles H. Carey, President of the Oregon Bar Association, giving the experiences of that state consequent upon the adoption of the Initiative and Referendum, with suggestions of defects existing and improvements for the future.

Other papers were as follows: "The Initiative," by William H. Bryant, of Denver; "The Referendum," by Harry B. Tedrow, of Boulder; "The Recall," by Jesse G. Northcutt, of Trinidad; "Colorado's New Practice and Procedure Act," by Thomas H. Hood, of Denver.

The Act referred to in the title of the last paper is one passed in 1913 granting the Supreme Court authority to prescribe rules of procedure and practice which, when announced, should supersede any conflicting provision of the Civil Code. The principal discussion of the meeting was upon a proposition for the Bar of the state to select by ballot the nominees for the judgeships upon the Appellate Court. A resolution was adopted appointing a

committee to formulate the necessary procedure to accomplish such purpose and to report at some future special meeting of the association.

The time and place of the next meeting were left to the Executive Committee.

STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT

At the annual meeting of the State Bar Association of Connecticut, held in New London on January 27, 1913, at the afternoon session, matters affecting the practice and procedure in Connecticut were discussed and bills, to be submitted to the General Assembly, considered and approved. At the evening session the chief speaker was Hon. Alton B. Parker, of New York, who discussed with ability the necessity for concerted action against the recall of judges. Acting at the suggestion of Judge Parker, the President of the Association appointed a special committee to devise ways and means to oppose any action toward making effective the recall of judges. The other speakers in the evening were Robert L. Munger, of Ansonia, and William B. Coit, of New London.

The summer meeting and informal luncheon of the Association was held at Eastern Point on August 19, 1913.

The membership in the Association is increasing and there is a lively interest in the work. Special committees appeared before the committees of the General Assembly at the recent session and urged the passage of various Acts which had been approved by the Association.

BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The Bar Association of the District of Columbia is not a district-wide Association but is local, in that it includes only the members of the Bar who are practising before the courts in the city of Washington. It has no annual meetings, except for the election of officers. It has no President's address, annual address, or such other matters as come before state Associations.

In addition to the annual meeting, held in January, three other stated meetings are held during the year, at which matters pertinent to the affairs of the Association might be considered.

It has a Legislative Committee of the Association, and a special committee, which was appointed last year, for the purpose of securing the passage of an Act of Congress increasing the number of causes for divorce. This committee has not been successful to date. There have been no proposed legislative matters referred to the regular committee so far this year.

GEORGIA BAR ASSOCIATION.

The thirtieth annual session of the Georgia Bar Association was held at Warm Springs, Georgia, May 29-30, 1913.

The President, Hon. Andrew H. Cobb, delivered his address, "Reverence and Relevancy."

Mr. Justice Joseph R. Lamar delivered the annual address, "The Bench and Bar of Georgia During the Eighteenth Century."

The following papers were read before the Association: "The Preparation of a Brief," by Albert H. Russell; "The Recall as Applied to the Judiciary," by Hamilton McWhorter; "The Constitution of Georgia-Executive Department," by John R. L. Smith; "The Constitution of Georgia-Legislative Department," by William G. Brantley; "Georgia's Constitution of 1887, as Relates to the Judiciary; Some Comparison with Other States and Some Proposed Changes," by Wright Willingham; "The Provisions of the Constitution of 1877 Relating to Finance, Taxation and the Public Debt," by Walter McElreath, and "A Constitutional Convention Unnecessary," by Edgar Watkins, H. J. Fullbright and Hatton Lovejoy.

Robert C.

The following officers were elected for 1913-14: Alston, Atlanta, President; Orville A. Park, Macon, Secretary; Z. D. Harrison, Atlanta, Treasurer.

ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Illinois State Bar Association was held at Springfield, April 8-9, 1913. The President's address was delivered by Hon. Harry Higbee, of Pitts

field. The President referred to the public demand for reform in court proceedings and pointed out certain changes in the law which would make the administration of justice simpler, speedier and more certain.

The report of the Secretary was made by John F. Voigt, of Mattoon. In it he reviewed in a general way not only the work of the Illinois State Bar Association, but also the activities of the Bar Associations of the various states of the union.

The first day of the meeting was devoted to the discussion of the general principles of reform best adapted to the needs of the Illinois courts. This discussion was opened by Edgar B. Tolman, of Chicago, Chairman of the Committee on Law Reform. The report followed in a general way the recommendations of a similar committee of the American Bar Association. The outstanding recommendations of the report were that the rules of procedure should be made by the Supreme Court for the entire state, and that only general principles should be enacted into law by the legislature. This would make the procedure more flexible and more easily amended when experience shows where improvements can be made. Twenty-five lawyers, representing the various districts of Illinois, participated for ten minutes each in this discussion.

The report of the Committee on Law Reform, which represented the work of that committee for three or four years, was unanimously adopted by the Association and a committee appointed to endeavor to secure the enactment of the recommendations of this committee into law.

The annual address of the Association was delivered by William E. Higgins, of Lawrence, Kansas, who was a member of the committee who wrote the new Code of Civil Procedure for the State of Kansas; a code of procedure that is said by those who are familiar with it to be a model of simplicity and a distinct advance in this line of law.

The report of the Committee on Uniform State Laws was made by Albert D. Early, of Rockford. It reviewed the subject and stated briefly the states that had adopted uniform laws of various kinds. E. P. Williams, of Galesburg, read the report of the Committee on Legal History and Biography. Dean Oliver A.

Harker, of Urbana, made the report for the Committee on Legal Education. It takes firm ground for a more thorough education before beginning both the study and the practice of law. The exceedingly interesting meeting of the American Bar Association held at Milwaukee, in 1912, was reviewed by William R. Curran, of Pekin.

Herbert Harley, of Manistee, Michigan, read an address on the courts of Ontario. He showed that Ontario, a close neighbor of this country, has a much simpler practice in its courts than we have and pointed out how we could benefit in a large measure by a study of the procedure in Canadian courts.

Albert M. Kales, of Chicago, delivered an address on the English Judicature Act. He urged the adoption of many of its principles by the Bar of Illinois. It has been in force in England almost forty years, and is believed to be one of the best systems known for conducting proceedings in courts.

The meeting closed with a reception and banquet, at which the speakers were Governor Edward F. Dunne, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Frank K. Dunne; William McKinley, Speaker of the House of Representatives; former Lieutenant-Governor William A. Northcott, and Edgar B. Tolman, of the Chicago Bar. The new officers of the Illinois State Bar Association are Robert McMurdy, President, Chicago; John F. Voigt, SecretaryTreasurer, Mattoon.

IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.

The nineteenth annual session of the Iowa State Bar Association was held at Sioux City on June 26-27, 1913. The attendance at the meeting was one of the largest in the history of the Association, and more new members were elected than at any prior time.

The address of the President, Justice Horace E. Deemer, of the Supreme Court of Iowa, upon the subject of " Representative Government," dealt largely with the question of the recall of judges, and judicial decisions. The annual address was delivered by Judge Emory Speer, Judge of the Federal Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Iris subject being "Americanism