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JUDGE CHURCH: That would be embraced, would it not, in that resolution?

MR. WILLARD: I make that suggestion as an amend

ment.

MR. ROSENTHAL: I think, Mr. Chairman, that ought to be left largely to the judgment of the Committee. The Committee will undoubtedly, before presentation of this subject, take occasion to talk to one of the Judges, or the Chief Justice, of the Supreme Court and sound the views of the Court on the method of presentation. This criticism is all in the most friendly spirit, and we do not want to make any public demonstration as yet, or get this matter into the newspapers instead of trying as best we can to persuade the Court simply by cold logic and reason and in no other manner. I think the method of presentation ought to be left to the Committee, and can safely be left to the Committee.

JUDGE CHURCH: Question.

The

MR. BALDWIN: Mr. President, it seems to me, if I might be allowed to seem to criticise, that we ought to renew the recommendation of last year rather than to call to the attention of the Supreme Court the discussion of this year. discussion of this year does not amount to anything as a concrete matter, I mean so far as informing the Supreme Court, and therefore I move as a substitute motion,-Resolved, That this Association renew the recommendations to the Supreme Court which were adopted at the 1903 meeting of the State Bar Association, and request the Supreme Court to favorably consider those recommendations.

MR. WILLARD: I second that substitute.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: You have heard the substitute, gentleman, and second; any further remarks?

JUDGE BIGELOW: After hearing the remarks by the gentleman from Iowa, it strikes me that instead of sending a committee to see the Judges of the Supreme Court, we had

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better send a committee to the Legislature, and if it is desirable to adopt the practice of Iowa, we might possibly be successful in that respect. It seems the Supreme Court of Iowa did not do it until they were compelled to.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: Any further remarks? If not, all who are in favor of adopting the substitute for the original motion please say aye. Contrary no.

MR. ROSENTHAL: Mr. Baldwin's substitute?

PRESIDENT CAPEN: Yes, Mr. Baldwin's substitute. The Chair is unable to decide where the preponderance is. All who are in favor of substituting the substitute will please rise and the Secretary will please count them.

MR. MATHENY: Five.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: All who are opposed to the adoption of the substitute will please rise.

MR. MATHENY: There is a majority without counting them.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: Yes, the substitute is lost. Now the original motion.

MR. BALDWIN: Will the Chair please state the original motion?

PRESIDENT CAPEN: The resolution, will you please read it, Mr. Rosenthal?

Resolution read.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: All in favor of the adoption of this original motion will please say aye. Contrary no. The motion is adopted unanimously. I presume this includes the adoption of the report of the Committee on Procedure that was made this forenoon.

The next in order, gentlemen, is the report of the Committee on Legal History and Biography; Mr. Thomas Dent, Chairman.

MR. DENT: I should like to economize the time of the Association, and I presume I ought to do so by presenting

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an abstract rather than by reading the full report which is in my hands. Soon after the appointment of the Committee on Legal History and Biography, a suggestion was made to the Committee that a review of the life and public career of the late Judge Trumbull would be desirable; that although there had been sketches of the life of Judge Trumbull, yet his distinguished career had been such that it would be well to make that a subject for a report to this Association. About the same time it came to the knowledge of the Committee that Mr. Walter Trumbull, the son of Judge Trumbull, and who was for a time upon the New York Sun when edited by the late Charles A. Dana, had left in manuscript a pretty full biography of his father, bringing out many incidents which I think have not come out in the published accounts of Judge Trumbull, and an opportunity was afforded the Committee to look through that manuscript. Upon looking it over it was believed that there were some gaps, possibly some missing chapters, and it was also believed that there were matters in the sketch that probably ought not to be brought out, at least by this Committee. For example, there were opinions expressed in regard to a number of very distinguished public characters which would be very entertaining to the Association, but which probably ought not to be presented in miniature only, but which should be accompanied by the context if presented at all.

For this reason, among others, it was deemed necessary to make a rather sparing use of the manuscript left by Mr. Walter Trumbull, and yet such a use of it as would bring the matter within the compass of the report which would be proper to be published by this Association. Under these circumstances the report which I hold in my hands was prepared, not quite in time to be printed, otherwise I should have been very glad to have spared the Association the necessity of listening to the reading of it. Having stated thus

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much of the matter I will read in part what has been here written:

(The report will be found in Part II.)

JUDGE HOLDOM: I desire to offer a resolution on the death of Mr. Hamline, once President of this Association. Resolution read as follows:

Resolved, That the members of the Illinois State Bar Association desire to record their profound regret at the sudden and untimely death of John H. Hamline, once president of this Association, and their high appreciation of his sterling qualities as a lawyer and a publicspirited citizen.

Mr. Hamline was not only a man of unblemished character and incorruptible integrity, he was an aggressive, active and uncompromising foe of public dereliction in this regard, on the part of any public body or official.

He was an accomplished lawyer of extensive attainments, of tireless industry and of great actual ability.

He never lost interest in public and political affairs and was always identified with efforts at reform, in many important directions.

We are especially sensible of his disinterested and extensive labors on behalf of this Association, and profoundly appreciate the loss we have sustained in his death.

JUDGE HOLDOM: I would like to add something to this resolution, but the time is very short. In this Association we all knew Mr. Hamline, and I know we all regret in our hearts his untimely and sudden taking off. I move this resolution be passed.

The motion was seconded and carried.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: Is the Committee on Nominations ready to report?

JUDGE PAYNE: The Committee on Nominations beg to report as follows:

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried, and the gentlemen declared elected.

MR. PAGE: I have a resolution to present.

Resolred, That this Association heartily endorses the pending amendment to the Constitution of Illinois, to be voted on at the next general election, which contemplates such change in the Constitution as will admit of legislation conferring upon the city of Chicago the power to obtain a number of reforms much needed for its progress and proper government and administration, and urges upon the people of this State the adoption of such amendment.

Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of the resolution.
The motion was seconded and carried.

JUDGE HOLDOM: We have been delighted, entertained and instructed by our guests from Louisiana and Iowa, and following a good precedent that has been made by this Association, I do move you that Mr. Edwin T. Merrick of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Judge Emlin McClain, be elected honorary members of this Association.

MR. BALDWIN: I second the motion.

The motion was carried.

PRESIDENT CAPEN: Mr. Rosenthal, is your Committee ready to report?

MR. ROSENTHAL: The Secretary, in his report, referred to correspondence with Mr. Thomas Barclay of London in reference to the matter of International Arbitration, and especially the adoption of an Arbitration or Adjudication Treaty between Great Britain and this country, and it occurred to me that the matter ought not to be passed over without some action by this Association. I therefore moved for the appointment of the Committee on that subject, and