Julius Henry Cohen, of New York: I rise to another point of order. The resolution offered by the committee on amendments to the Constitution appears upon page 2 of the copies that we have, and it reads: Resolved, That the American Bar Association does hereby alter and amend the Constitution and By-Laws of the American Bar Association so that the same as amended shall read as follows: That resolution brings up the entire proposal, and any amendment that is pertinent to any branch of the proposition is in order and may be presented at the appropriate time; and the resolution offered by the gentleman in the front seat that we shall consider only amendments is out of order. President Strawn: The Chair will hold the point of order well taken. The question before the house is upon the adoption of the Constitution and By-Laws. I think, if the members please, it will facilitate matters if we take up the Articles of the Constitution and By-Laws seriatim, and let the objections be offered as and when we read them. Therefore I will ask the Secretary to read the sections. We will start with Article 1 on page 2. Article 1 of the Constitution was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: We will proceed to Article II. Article II of the Constitution was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: Article III. Do I hear any objections to Article III as presented? Article III was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: Article IV. Do I hear any objection to Article IV? Article IV of the Constitution was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: Article V. Do I hear any objection to Article V of the Constitution as presented? Article V of the Constitution was duly adopted. President Strawn: Do I hear any objection to Article VI, Section 1, as presented? Article VI, Section 1, of the Constitution was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: Article VI, Section 2. Do I hear any objection? Article VI, Section 2, was thereupon duly adopted. President Strawn: Arictle VI, Section 3. Do I hear any objection? Samuel H. Borofsky, of Massachusetts: Mr. President, I want to move an amendment to this article to include a Committee on Budget. President Strawn: I will say for your information that the Executive Committee has a well ordered Committee on Budget, indefatigable, industrious, working all the time. It seems to me under the spirit of this organization and under the Constitution the responsibility of the finances of this Association rests primarily with the Executive Committee. Therefore, if we had a Committee on Budget it would be simply a duplication of the work now being done by the Executive Committee, which is necessarily a condition precedent to any action being taken by the Executive Committee at any time. Mr. Borofsky: My intention after reading what has been distributed here for the purpose of raising the dues was to suggest by amendment, first, that a Budget Committee be appointed; second, that until that Budget Committee is appointed and reports to this session a year hence that the matter of the increase of dues should be held in abeyance. President Strawn: The subject you are now addressing the Chair upon will be germane when we come to the adoption of Article IX. I shall have to rule you out of order. The question before the Association is the adoption of Section 3 of Article VI of the Constitution. Joseph F. O'Connell, of Massachusetts: Mr. Chairman, it is very evident that the audience cannot participate with any kind of understanding in these proceedings with the condition in which the amplifiers are now working. I have been requested by many members, including many of the officers of the Association, to make a motion at this time that this matter be made the first order of the day tomorrow when we convene in the Metropolitan Theatre, where we can listen with ease and where there can be some understanding of what we are doing. I urge on behalf of all who want to do this thing understandingly that this motion be put at the present time, and I so move. The motion was seconded and carried, and further consideration of the Constitution and By-Laws was deferred until Thursday morning. Secretary MacCracken then announced that state delegations would meet immediately after adjournment to nominate members of the General Council, Local Councils and Vice Presidents of each state, and that nomination cards should be filled out and left at the Headquarters' office in the hotel, so as to be ready for election at the evening session. Thereupon the meeting was duly adjourned until 2.30 P. M. SECOND SESSION. Wednesday, July 25, 1928. The second session of the American Bar Association was called to order by President Strawn in the Seattle Civic Auditorium at 2.30 P. M. President Strawn: The meeting will please come to order. When arranging the program of this meeting your Executive Committee thought it would be advisable to get the views of outstanding representatives of other professions as to the progress made in those professions during the last fifty years. We are fortunate indeed in having with us four speakers of, I might say, not only national, but international reputation in their respective fields. If I were to take half the afternoon I could not begin to tell you about the achievements of the different speakers. Those of you who have access to any American biographies can easily get their history. Therefore, without any comment as to the speakers I shall call upon them in the order in which they appear upon the program. First we shall have the pleasure of listening to an address by Mr. F. B. Jewett, Vice-President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, on "Progress in Engineering During the Last Fifty Years." Mr. Jewett then read his address. (See infra, page 192.) President Strawn: It next becomes my pleasure to introduce my life-long friend, Dr. John H. Finley of New York. Dr. Finley has devoted his life to the cause of education, first as President of Knox College, and then as Superintendent of Instruction of the State of New York. In the interim he was President of the College of the City of New York. He is now editor of the New York Times. Dr. John H. Finley, of New York: Mr. President, Mr. Justice, and Ladies and Gentlemen: Before time begins to run against my address I should like to say a personal word explaining my presence here. A man was asked if he could sing, and he said, "no, but that he had a cousin who could play the German flute." I am not a lawyer. I have never had any legal training, but for a time during a certain period in my life, I swept out the office of a young lawyer, and I distributed the dust so discriminately that he became one of the foremost lawyers in America (the late Edgar A. Bancroft). Also I am a graduate of a high school which has as its most distinguished graduate, one who was then a red-headed boy, but who is now President of the American Bar Association-Mr. Silas H. Strawn. Some of the rest of us went on to college, but he did not, but I hope you will not use that fact as an argument against the recommendation of the committee to which he referred this morning. It argues only that he had greater native ability than the rest of us, and an indefatigable will. If he had gone to college, well, he might be President of the United States as he may yet be. Dr. John H. Finley then read his address. (See infra, p. 206.) President Strawn: It is my privilege to introduce as the next speaker my old friend Dr. William Allen Pusey, of Chicago, former President of the American Medical Association, who will speak to you on the subject "Progress in Medicine During the Last Fifty Years." Dr. Pusey: Mr. President, Members of the American Bar Association, Ladies and Gentlemen: I suppose the first thing for me to do would be to answer President Finley's criticism of the Harvard Medical Students of 50 years ago, but as a matter of fact I do not feel called upon to do so, for I am not a Harvard graduate. I will leave that to some future speaker. Before proceeding to the business of this occasion, may I discharge a pleasant duty which was assigned to me, for I am the bearer to this Association of a message of good will from the American Medical Association, which message is as follows: The American Medical Association in assembly at Minneapolis on June 11 notes with satisfaction that the American Bar Association will celebrate its 50th anniversary in Seattle on July 25. The American Medical Association sends to the American Bar Association its greetings and congratulations, and expresses the belief that the future of the American Bar Association will be as distinguished and successful as its past has been. Dr. William Allen Pusey then read his address. (See infra, page 215.) President Strawn: I heard Henry Ward Beecher say on one occasion that when a man's business was out of order he went to his lawyer; when his body was out of order he went to his doctor; and, when he didn't know what he wanted he went to his preacher. Therefore, I think it is entirely fitting that our next speaker on the program discuss the subject of religion, which will be done by Dr. Ozora S. Davis, of Chicago, "Development in Religion in the Last 50 Years." Dr. Ozora S. Davis then read his address. (See infra, page 226.) |