The Chairman:

Next is the Report of Delegates to the Conference of Delegates of the American, State and Local Bar Associations at Cleveland:

Charles A. Boston, of New York:

The report is in print, and I will state simply the substance of it.

The Conference was attended by 119 delegates representing 28 States and 55 local Bar Associations in 32 States and two Canadian provinces. The Conference held three sessions morning, afternoon and evening - and they were well attended and enthusiastic. The Conference adopted resolutions, of which a copy is appended to our printed report. Elihu Root was elected chairman of the Conference, Moorfield Storey, vice-chairman, and Julius Henry Cohen- a member of the New York State Bar Association was elected permanent secretary of the Conference.

Various interesting subjects were before the Conference. The subject of Legal Ethics was on the program for discussion, and Mr. Henry W. Jessup, a member of this Association, and Chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics, prepared a paper on the subject but he was unable to be present to read it.

In the report you will find that I call attention to the number of members of this Association who are connected with the Conference. It shows how members of this Association are interested in studying the gospel of improved laws and improved administration.

Uniform Federal Procedure was another topic considered by the Conference, and an address on this subject was delivered by Thomas W. Shelton, of Virginia, Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on the subject.

The subject of Unnecessary Litigation, was presented to the Conference by Daniel S. Remsen, Chairman of the Committee of this Association on the prevention of unnecessary litigation, and Charles L. Bernheimer, Chairman of the Committee on Arbitration of the New York Chamber of Commerce, also addressed the Conference on the subject.

The evils of contingent fees were considered by the Conference.

There is no recommendation made by your delegates who attended the Conference, but it seems to me that the recommendations of the Conference itself should not be suffered to die a natural death, or a violent death, and that therefore it is not inappropriate if, consistent with the rules of this Association, I move the appointment of a special committee to consider the recommendations which have been made by the Conference in its three last annual sessions, and also such recommendations, if any, as may be made at the next annua! meeting of the Conference, and to report their recommendations to the next meeting of this Association.

On motion duly made and seconded, the report was received and filed and the motion made by Mr. Boston duly carried.

REPORT OF DELEGATES FROM NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION UPON CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES FROM STATE AND LOCAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS, HELD AT CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 27, 1918.

The Conference was attended by 119 delegates representing 28 State and 55 Local Bar Associations in 32 States and 2 Canadian Provinces. It held three sessions - morning, afternoon and evening well attended and enthusiastic. adopted resolutions of which a copy is appended.

It

A more extended statement of its proceedings is as follows:

ADDRESS OF CHAIRMAN

Hon. Elihu Root, the Chairman, delivered the opening address, full of spirit, in which he reviewed the happenings of the last year in relation to the War, asserting that it is a conflict, not for territory, for boundaries, for aggrandizement, for wealth, for trade, for advancement of international political purposes, but it is a conflict between two great underlying principles of civil government and civil and social organization; between the divine right of Kings to govern and hold subject the great masses of mankind and the inalienable right of the individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, to maintain and support which governments are created; a conflict between the ideal of a past which we had supposed to be vanishing and the ideal of a future towards which we have looked forward with hope and confidence; between the pagan scheme of human life and the Christian hope of human destiny.

He directed attention to the conception of the real nature of the conflict which had spread in America, not without credit for the revelation of the truth by the men who had gathered at the conference and meeting in Saratoga the previous year, and left that meeting with their hearts awakened to a new fervor of patriotism.

He noted that the people of the United States have risen to the duty of defending their liberties and the liberties of the world in a degree of power and efficiency not surpassed by men trained for generations in Germany, thus demonstrating the capacity of a free democratic government to defend itself, to maintain itself, to exceed in power the discipline of a docile and servile people. He insisted that the idea of individual freedom comes with a development of power. He pointed out that this is a lawyer's business for it is the basis of the