out 1500 copies or more of every speech in advance and of the report of every committee, with proper release notices indicating when the same should be published. You will find upon investigation that every newspaper in the country connected with a press association, and every other newspaper which applied in advance for the information, was supplied with it by mail under such circumstances that it could be carefully edited and properly set up to be released at the proper time.

This committee being a special committee and having operated in this way, has merely to suggest in behalf of its successor that if there are any recommendations or any criticisms, or if any one feels that he can aid the permanent Committee on Publicity, which I understand is to become a standing committee of this Association, I know that the new committee will welcome all such suggestions and endeavor to profit by them.

In behalf of the special committee, I suppose it is proper to ask that it be now discharged.

Francis F. Kane, of Pennsylvania:

I want to call attention to something the Chairman has not referred to. Among the other very valuable suggestions which he made at the beginning was the thought that each committee should give a brief abstract of its report as well as the report itself to the Secretary, in order that the newspapers might get an abstract which they could handle, and in order that the really important matters in the report might find their way into the columns of the newspapers. That required the co-operation of the committees. I believe that the work of briefing the reports of the committees was done in this case by the Chairman himself. I think hereafter it would not be unfair for the Association to ask that it be done by the Chairmen of the respective committees. They could do it in a way that the Committee on Publicity could not, because they would be familiar with their reports. In that manner they would lighten the labors of the Committee on Publicity.

The report was received and special committee was discharged. (See the Report in the Appendix, page 590.)

The President:

I will ask Mr. Parkinson if he is ready to report for the Committee on Patent, Trade-Mark and Copyright Law?

Robert H. Parkinson, of Illinois :

The report has been printed and distributed. In substance it is a recital of what has been done by the committee towards the advancement of the bill to create a court of patent appeals, a measure supported by this Association, and it recommends. further efforts in the same direction.

It is quite sufficient for me now to move, that the report be received and the committee continued-subject, of course, to such change in its personnel as will come in the ordinary course of appointment.

James R. Caton, of Virginia:

I second the motion.

The motion was carried.

(See the Report in the Appendix, page 472.)

Lessing Rosenthal, of Illinois:

I have a short resolution that I would like to present:

"Resolved, By the members of the American Bar Association in annual meeting assembled that the address of Senator Sutherland on Constitutional Government constitutes so forceful, logical and convincing an argument and so sound and lucid an exposition of our theory of government that in view of the problems now confronting the people the same be forthwith printed and an adequate number of copies immediately sent to the members of the Association, and otherwise widely distributed."

W. A. Ketcham, of Indiana:

I second the adoption of that resolution.

The resolution was carried.

James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, offered a resolution upon the matter of the creation and removal of United States judges and the abolition of life tenure of office, which resolution was, without reading, referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform.

Adjourned to Thursday, August 29, 1912, at 10 A. M.

THIRD DAY.

Thursday, August 29, 1912, 10 A. M.

The President called the Association to order.

The Assistant Secretary read the names of candidates reported from the General Council for election to membership in the Association.

The candidates were duly elected as members of the Association.

(See New Members marked (‡) in Siate List, page 196.) Joseph B. David, of Illinois:

I rise for the purpose of having corrected, an error inadvertently committed in yesterday's proceedings. The resolution in regard to the increase of the salaries of federal judges was recommitted with instructions to the committee to report next year. In the resolution it was suggested that President Taft should at that time bring the matter to the attention of Congress. As there is a well-founded and reasonable doubt as to whether or not President Taft will be in office and thus enabled to comply with this resolution, I move that where the words "President Taft" appear in this resolution there be inserted the words "The President of the United States."

The President:

Is there any objection to the substitution proposed? The Chair hearing none the Secretary is directed to make the suggested correction in the wording of the resolution.

The program this morning embraces a discussion on the "American Judicial System" as to the judges, the lawyers, and the procedure. I take great pleasure in presenting as the first speaker a distinguished member of the New York Bar and an eloquent advocate-a man on whom, through his long residence among us of the West, we of the West feel we have some claimMr. Henry D. Estabrook.

A paper entitled "The Judges" was then read by Henry D. Estabrook, of New York.

(See the Appendix, page 339.)

The President:

The judges having received attention at the hands of Mr. Estabrook in his exceedingly interesting and able paper, the next speaker will address himself to the lawyers. I take pleasure in presenting a scholarly lawyer, one of the leaders of the Bar of Maryland, Mr. Joseph C. France.

A paper entitled "The Lawyers" was then read by Joseph C. France, of Maryland.

(See the Appendix, page 411.)

The President:

I am sure we all appreciate very much the scholarly paper of Mr. France. The discussion will be continued with special reference to the subject of procedure by Mr. Frederick N. Judson, of Missouri, a well-known leader of the Western Bar, an accomplished and experienced lawyer.

A paper entitled "The Procedure erick N. Judson, of Missouri.

(See the Appendix, page 418.)

The President:

was then read by Fred

The next order of business is a report from the General Council on the Nomination of Officers of the Association.

William P. Bynum, of North Carolina:

I am instructed by the General Council to report to the Association the following nominations for officers for the ensuing year: For President, Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota; for Secretary, George Whitelock, of Maryland; for Treasurer, Frederick E. Wadhams, of New York.

Members of Executive Committee: Hollis R. Bailey, of Massachusetts; Aldis B. Browne, of the District of Columbia; William H. Burges, of Texas; John H. Voorhees, of South Dakota; William H. Staake, of Pennsylvania.

List of nominations for Vice-Presidents and members of the local councils was then read by the Assistant Secretary.

(See List of Officers, page 127.)

The President:

The report will be received and its recommendations will be acted upon in regular order.

As there seems to be some doubt whether special committees shall be continued without notice in each case, it will be ordered, if there is no objection, that all special committees unless otherwise directed by the Association are continued. The Chair hearing no objection it is so ordered.

The President:

I believe there is no formal report from the Special Committee on Increase of Membership. The efficiency of the work of the committee can be judged when I state that the total addition to the membership of the Association this year is in the neighborhood of 1100.

James W. Vandervort, of West Virginia:

I have a resolution that I desire to offer. It refers to miscellaneous business.

It reads as follows:

"In view of the merit of the papers read and their bearing on current events, I move that the addresses of Stephen S. Gregory and Frank B. Kellogg be published in pamphlet form and distributed to members of this Association and otherwise, as the Executive Committee deem best."

I would add that since I wrote this resolution I have heard the address delivered last evening by Senator Sutherland. I think it should also be incorporated in my motion.

These three addresses would constitute a triumvirate, each bearing upon the other, and all treating of the agitation in this country today. It is very important that they should be published together and distributed.

Robert G. Street, of Texas:

I would amend the resolution by adding that the three addresses to which we have listened this morning be included. James W. Vandervort, of West Virginia:

I accept the suggestion.