report of the committee be sent to the members of this Association at least ten days before the annual meeting."

The resolution was adopted.

W. Martin Jones, of Rochester:

I offer the following resolution, a resolution we adopted on former occasions, to facilitate the business of the Association:

"Resolved, That the retiring President, the Secretary of the Executive Committee and the Secretary of the Association comprise a committee to compile and print the proceedings of this meeting, as authorized by the Constitution."

The resolution was adopted.

The Secretary:

I move that the Committee on International Arbitration, appointed last year, be continued this year.

The motion was duly seconded and carried.

The Secretary:

I move that the incoming President appoint three delegates and three alternates to attend the annual meeting of the American Bar Association.

The motion was duly seconded and carried.

The Secretary:

I would like to say that last year a resolution was offered that the necessary steps be taken by this Association to secure at the Court of Appeals more suitable quarters for the lawyers. You will all recall that the present room assigned to the lawyers who attend upon the Court of Appeals is very small and wholly inadequate for the purpose for which it is set apart. I secured from the

architect of the capitol a diagram of the entire south end of the capitol for the purpose of suggesting to the trustees of the capitol certain changes, with the hope that more suitable accommodations could be secured. The room now used by the attorneys is a portion of what was originally one large room. The room is divided now with a temporary partition; the south end of the room the lawyers occupy, and the other end of the room is occupied by the Senate post-office. I presented this matter to Chief Judge Parker last summer, and he very kindly took a personal survey of the situation with me, and he also saw the Governor and informed him of our desires, the Governor being one of the trustees of the capitol. The Governor volunteered to go about with the Chief Judge, and his attention being called to the present room he said it was decidedly inadequate. The Lieutenant-Governor and Speaker have been consulted, and we have the consent of the entire board of trustees that if possible a change shall be made. Senator Brackett has taken the matter up this year, and Senator Brown has also, and they have assured me that they will give me their assistance in having the proper resolution adopted, that the Senate post-office may be moved, and that the room which is now occupied by the attorneys attending the Court of Appeals, and the Senate post-office, will be set apart for a waiting-room for the lawyers who attend the Court of Appeals, and for the use of the New York State Bar Association. It is my purpose to have a clerk in charge of that room, as I have now in the room assigned to us in the capitol. I have also seen several law-book publishers and told them it seemed to me the lawyers would naturally expect that they should give to the New York State Bar Association whatever they publish, at least so far as giving us a general working library of the New York, Hun and Miscellaneous Reports,

and so on, a general working library, such that attorneys who have cases before the Court of Appeals can obtain, in one room, a sufficient library to enable them to sit down there and refer to the cases, to refresh their memory concerning their briefs. All the publishers I have spoken to say they will give us such a library. I therefore anticipate before we meet another year, or as soon as the Legislature adjourns, that there will be provided a room of such a character as I speak of. (Applause.)

I have a matter here which I will present. I don't know but the members have received a certain amount of literature from Mr. A. McDonald, of Washington. This gentleman requests that we adopt the following resolution:

"Resolved, That we are in favor of the establishment of a psycho-physical laboratory in the department of the interior at Washington, for the practical application of physiological psychology to sociological, jurisprudential and abnormal or pathological data, especially as found in institutions for the criminal, pauper and defective classes, and in hospitals, and also as may be observed in schools and other institutions."

I don't dare suggest that you should refer that to the Committee on Law Reform. I move it be laid on the table.

The motion was duly seconded and adopted.

The President:

I will ask the Association to excuse me now for a little while, and will call Vice-President Gilbert to the chair.

Vice-President John I. Gilbert, of Malone, in the chair. Thomas F. Wilkinson, of Albany:

Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of information, I want to ask what distribution is made by the Secretary of the

printed report of our annual proceedings. I ask this because it occurs to me that in view of the many important and educational papers that are read here that the annual report, including those papers, should have the widest possible distribution, and it seems to me, if it is not done, that it should be the duty of the Secretary to send a copy of the printed proceedings and of the papers that are read here to all the Bar Associations of the State and all the libraries of the State. These papers, that we have the pleasure and advantage of hearing read here, contain many very important ideas as to law reform and other measures, and the widest possible distribution should be made of them.

The Chairman:

Will the Secretary please respond to that inquiry?

The Secretary:

Our reports are filed in the State Library, filed in the judges' library in New York city, filed in the library of the City Association of the Bar of New York, and in a large number of libraries throughout the country. Indeed, they are very much sought after. Every State and County Bar Association is provided with a copy; our list of exchanges is very large. If Judge Wilkinson intends to suggest any names that should be on that list I would be very glad to have them.

Mr. Wilkinson:

It seemed to me we ought to have these copies go into every library in the State and in other States as far as might be practicable. I think New York lawyers, in the papers they have presented to us here, are taking a great step in advance for the purpose of law reform and thinking out the ideas of legislation that are worthy of great con

sideration, and will help if they have the widest distribution in developing the reform suggested. I am, therefore, anxious to know, and, I think, many of the members were, how wide a distribution the Secretary makes each year.

The Secretary:

I would be very glad if Judge Wilkinson would formulate and present a resolution. It would make definite my list and would really be of great assistance to me. A large number of libraries write for them, even the Librarian of Congress has very many times written and asked me to furnish him with a complete list. We are asked, I think, on an average of once a month from some educational institution if it is not possible to get a complete set of the reports of this Association.

Mr. Wilkinson:

I move the matter be referred to a committee consisting of the President, the Secretary and the Treasurer.

The motion was seconded and duly carried.

The Secretary:

I would like to propose for membership Hon. Hugh Reilly, of Albany.

S. L. H. Ward, of New York:

The Committee on Admissions will report favorably on the gentleman and move his election.

W. Martin Jones, of Rochester:

I move the Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of the Association for the election of Mr. Reilly.

Carried.

The Secretary cast the ballot.