COMMITTEE ON LAW REFORM. First District..... William N. Cohen, Charles E. Hughes, Second District.... Third District.. Fourth District.. Fifth District.. Sixth District . . . Seventh District.. Eighth District... William E. Curtis. C. A. Collin, Robert F. Wilkinson, H. J. Cookinham. J. P. Allds, Albert F. Gladding, Irvin W. Near, Nathaniel Foote. Adelbert Moot, Henry W. Hill, Maurice C. Spratt. COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS. First District Charles A. Gardiner, John D. Lindsay, John DeWitt Warner, George M. Wright. Second District H. T. Dykman, C. 'W. H. Arnold, William P. Fiero, Irving Brown. Third District - Frederick J. Collier, A. Page Smith, G. D. B. Hasbrouck, Justin Kellogg. Fourth District-Louis M. King, J. Sanford Potter, Irving W. Wiswall, Thomas Cantwell. Fifth District - David Bearup, S. Mortimer Coon, Irving R. Devendorf, Adam J. Smith. Sixth District E. H. Hanford, George B. Curtis, James W. Barnum, H. C. Mandeville. Seventh District - Frederick L. Manning, E. C. Aiken, Charles Van Voorhis, Sol Wile. Eighth District - Edward E. Coatsworth, Loran L. Lewis, Jr., William A. Douglas, Lester F. Stearns. COMMITTEE ON GRIEVANCES. First District—Job E. Hedges, Ernest Hall, James M. Gifford. Second District - William F. O'Neill, H. R. Barrett, Martin Heermance. Third District-Learned Hand, George H. Fitts, John W. Searing. Fourth District - Frederick G. Paddock, C. C. Van Kirk, Clarence W. Smith. Fifth District A. B. Steele, John N. Carlisle, John D. Henderson. Sixth District - A. B. Packer, James F. Rogers, E. W. Cushman. Seventh District John Van Sickle, H. R. Durfee, William B. Hale. Eighth District J. H. Metcalf, Simon Fleischman, Clinton B. Gibbs. COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY. First District - David Rumsey. Second District - J. Hervey Cook. Third District - Alphonso T. Clearwater. Fifth District - William G. Tracy. Sixth District - Edwin H. Woodruff. Eighth District — William H. Hotchkiss. PAUL D. CRAVATH, Chairman. ROBERT F. WILKINSON. JOHN DEWITT PELTZ. THEODORE F. HAMILTON. THEODORE E. HANCOCK. CUTHBERT W. POUND. ALBERT H. HARRIS. HERBERT P. BISSELL. Dated NEW YORK, December 21, 1901. Mr. Peltz: I have the honor to put in nomination the gentlemen named for the offices I have read. The President: Are there any other nominations for any of these offices? Henry L. Bogert, of New York: I wish to nominate for the Committee on Admissions Mr. S. L. H. Ward, from the Second District. He has been Chairman of that Committee for a number of years. He has been constantly present at the meetings of it since I have attended here, and a number of those whose names appear have not attended, and it appears to me faithful attendance should count for something. Therefore, I nominate him in addition to those nominated by the Committee. S. L. H. Ward, of New York: I have been Chairman of the Committee on Admissions for a number of years, and I would decline the nomination. I think somebody else should be nominated. The President: The gentleman has a right to decline. R. J. Moses, of New York: I move the Secretary be instructed to cast one ballot for all the nominees. The motion was seconded and unanimously carried. The Secretary: The Secretary reports the ballot cast. The President: The Secretary reports the ballot cast and all the nominees elected to the various offices as set forth in the report of the Committee on Nominations. J. Newton Fiero, of Albany: Under the order of miscellaneous business, I desire to offer a resolution, and it is with reference to the address of the President. The President made an exceedingly valuable and pertinent suggestion, with regard to legislation, very kindly suggested it should be referred to the Committee on Law Reform. It seems to me that a special committee should be appointed, of which the President should be the chairman, to take charge of this matter. There is no person who can undertake a matter of that sort and carry it through as well as one who has thoroughly investigated it and is thoroughly alive to its necessity. Therefore, I move that a special committee of three be appointed to take charge of the matters set forth in the President's address and petition the Legislature along the lines indicated in the address, and that the present President shall be the chairman of that committee. The motion was seconded and carried. The President: How shall the other two members be appointed, Mr. Fiero: Mr. Fiero: The Chair should appoint his associates. The President: Unless objection be made, that course will be taken. The President subsequently selected Simon W. Rosendale, of Albany, and Louis Marshall, of New York, as his associates on the Special Committee on Amendments to the Constitution and Code. The President: The Committee on Law Reform was called upon for report this morning and the Chairman was absent and we passed it until this afternoon. The report of that Committee is now in order. Mr. Fiero: The Chairman of the Committee on Law Reform, for the first time in a number of years, appears without a report, for two reasons, and one of them, which is not a very good one, but one which we all of us have every year, is that his engagements have been such as to make it absolutely impossible to prepare a report. But the further reason is that the Committee on Law Reform for the last two years has devoted itself more especially to obtaining some further legislation in the way of carrying out and completing the revision of the statutes, and incidentally |