J. Weston Allen, of Massachusetts:

Mr. President, and Members of the American Bar Association: This afternoon we have been permitted to turn aside from our accustomed duties. The law is a jealous mistress, but we have deserted her for a moment to sit at the feet of the masters of the other learned professions, and measure our own progress by the achievement of our co-workers in other fields of endeavor.

To Dr. John H. Finley, who is dean in this country, a light in the broad field of education and his present vocation of journalism; to Dr. Frank B. Jewett, who in his laboratories has found. the key which has unlocked so many mysteries of the scientific world; to Dr. William Allen Pusey, who has added new luster to a distinguished name by his leadership in the field of medical research; and to Dr. Ozora S. Davis, who has been a leader of the Federation of the Churches in America, and has found new foundations for faith in applying fundamental truths of religion to the changing problems of the modern world, we bring our full measure of appreciation, and in order that this appreciation may take formal expression, I offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the American Bar Association extends to these honored guests on the occasion of its semi-centennial meeting, the sincere thanks of the Association for their presence and for the noble contributions which they have made to the permanent literature of the Association by their able presentment of the progress that has been made in the past 50 years in the other learned professions which they have so signally served and adorned.

Mr. President, I move the adoption of the resolution.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

The Secretary made announcements concerning nominations for the General Council, the Annual Dinner, and the reception and exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery.

On motion duly made, seconded and carried, the meeting was adjourned until 8.30 P. M.

THIRD SESSION.

Wednesday, July 25, 1928.

The third session convened in the Civic Auditorium at 8.30

P. M., President Silas H. Strawn presiding.

President Strawn:

The Secretary desires to make some announcements.

Secretary MacCracken:

The following have been nominated by the state delegations for the General Council: (Reading the list found at p. 8, supra).

The following have been nominated for Vice-Presidents and members of Local Councils: (Reading the list found at p. 9, supra.)

Thereupon, on motion duly made, seconded and carried, the persons whose names had been read by the Secretary were elected to the respective offices to which they had been nominated.

President Strawn:

It now becomes my great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to present to you the Honorable Harlan F. Stone, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who will introduce to you the speaker of the evening.

Mr. Justice Stone:

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: One of the significant activities of this Association in recent years has been the cultivation of friendly relationships with the Bench and Bar of other lands. That activity reached a culminating point a few years ago when this Association made its pilgrimage across the Atlantic to visit the Bars of London and of Paris. It will, I hope, reach still another culminating point when, in due course, it welcomes here in this country the Bar of England and of its associated commonwealths. In the meantime we have had as guests of the Association the Chief Justice of Canada and last year the Lord Chief Justice of England.

But it has never been our privilege to welcome here a representative of the Irish Bench and Bar. That is a privilege which we especially crave, for, I suppose there is no member of our profession who has not followed with deep and sympathetic interest the establishment of an autonomous government in Ireland and seen there the beginnings of peace and order and prosperity which are the fruits of a government adapted to the needs and sentiments of the people governed.

Some of us, too, had the privilege of meeting within the last year the genial and efficient President of the Irish Free State. The acquaintance we formed with him inspired us with the wish to know better their representatives of that fair land. So it is with peculiar satisfaction that we have with us this year as the guest of the Association a representative of its Bench and Bar. He has come across the Atlantic and now comes across the continent to be with us.

For him we have the heartiest of welcomes, and it gives me great pleasure to extend in behalf of the Association that welcome and to introduce to you as the speaker of the evening, the Honorable Hugh Kennedy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Irish Free State.

Justice Kennedy then delivered his address, "The Character and Sources of the Constitution of the Irish Free State," which will be found at p. 236, infra.

President Strawn:

The Chair now recognizes Governor Whitman of New York.

Charles S. Whitman, of New York:

Mr. President, and Gentlemen: As evidence of our friendliness, sympathetic interest and good will for his people, for the land from which he comes, our gratitude and our appreciation for this masterly address to which it has been our privilege to listen, the affectionate regard which during his far too brief stay among us he has already inspired in the hearts of our members, and our desire that his distinguished name shall, be forever associated with our organization, I do move, Mr. President, the election to honorary membership in the American Bar Association of the Honorable Hugh Kennedy, Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. I ask the election be taken by rising vote.

The motion was seconded, and the members arose.

President Strawn:

Mr. Chief Justice, you are an Honorary Member of the American Bar Association.

Ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude the meeting for this evening. You are now all invited to attend the President's Recep

tion at the Olympic Hotel. The meeting tomorrow morning will be held in the Metropolitan Theatre, commencing at ten o'clock sharp. Please be prompt because we shall have a lot of work to do. Thereupon the meeting adjourned.

FOURTH SESSION.

Thursday, July 26, 1928.

The fourth session of the American Bar Association was called to order by President Strawn in the Metropolitan Theatre, at 10 A. M., Thursday, July 26, 1928.

President Strawn:

The meeting will be in order, please. Consistent with our custom obtaining since the organization of the Association, we are asking the Honorable Chester I. Long, of Kansas, whom you all know as one of our former Presidents, to preside at this morning's meeting.

(Chairman Long assumes the Chair.)

Chairman Long:

Members of the Bar Association: The program of this morning's meeting will be found in this booklet on page 10, but there is a matter of unfinished business coming over from yesterday which is the adoption of the report of the Executive Committee on the new Constitution and By-Laws.

Oscar C. Hull, of Michigan:

Mr. President, there was offered yesterday a resolution to adopt the Constitution and By-Laws as printed. That motion was before the house, but we started through the Constitution and By-Laws taking article by article. In order to get the record clear so that we will be proceeding properly under that, I would ask leave to withdraw the resolution so that we will be consistently acting when we take them up article by article as we have done with the first six.

Thereupon, by unanimous consent, the resolution was withdrawn.

Chairman Long:

We will now proceed with the consideration of the last print of the Constitution and By-Laws as reported yesterday by the Executive Committee.

A Member:

Has there been a print since these were handed out?

Chairman Long:

There has not. We will start with Section 3 of Article VI. We had proceded under Article VI referring to the Executive Committee and had passed Sections 1 and 2.

Thereupon Section 3 of Article VI was approved.

Chairman Long:

Article VII, Section 1. There will be a vote at the end of the consideration of this report amending the Constitution. Under the present Constitution 200 members must be present, and it requires a three-fourths vote to adopt this Constitution. In the consideration of amendments to the proposed Constitution and By-Laws, a majority vote only is necessary, but in the final vote it will require a three-fourths vote of 200 or more members present. The Chair declares 200 present. If you question this count, do it now. There being none, the declaration that there are 200 members present stands in the consideration of the Articles of the proposed Constitution and By-Laws.

There being no amendments, thereupon Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Article VII were approved.

Chairman Long:

Article VIII.

Thereupon Sections 1 and 2 of Article VIII were approved.

Chairman Long:

Article IX. Are there any amendments to Section 1?

Mr. Borofsky:

Mr. President, I move to amend Section 1 by striking out the word "eight" in the second line on page 7, and inserting in place thereof the word "six," so that it will read six dollars instead of eight dollars.