COMMITTEES 1912-1913 Finance. W. B. Kollmyer, San Francisco, chairman; H. C. Wyckoff, Santa Cruz; W. T. Craig, Los Angeles; John P. Coughlan, San Francisco; Lucius K. Chase, Los Angeles. Grievance. Archibald Yell, Sacramento, chairman; Arthur C. Huston, Woodland; Frederick Searls, Nevada City; R. S. Gray, San Francisco; Curtis H. Lindley, San Francisco. On Admission. H. J. Stevens, Los Angeles, chairman; T. W. Robinson, Los Angeles; O. K. Cushing, San Francisco; Joseph Scott, Los Angeles; Percy V. Long, San Francisco. Constituent Associations. L. L. Cory, Fresno, chairman; Frank R. Devlin, Vallejo; James Lanagan, San Francisco; John F. Ellison, Red Bluff; I. B. Dockweiler, Los Angeles. Legal Biography. John M. Fulweiler, Auburn, chairman; Terry W. Ward, Merced; Albert Lee Stephens, Los Angeles; W. V. Ginder, San Diego; C. W. Oddie, San Francisco. SECTIONS 1912-1913 Section A-Constitutional Amendments. James A. Gibson, Los Angeles, chairman; A. F. Jones, Oroville; Bradner W. Lee, Los Angeles; E. W. Britt, Los Angeles; W. P. Butcher, Santa Barbara. Section B-Criminal Law and Procedure. A. P. Black, San Francisco, chairman; George F. Jones, Oroville; A. H. Ashley, Stockton; Samuel B. McKee, Oakland; H. T. Dewhirst, Redlands. Section C-Civil Procedure-Pleading and Practice. Oscar A. Trippet, Los Angeles, chairman; J. J. Wells, Red Bluff; L. M. Peter, Quincy; R. Platnauer, Sacramento; R. S. Gray, San Francisco. Section D--Amendments to Substantive Law. A. Haines, San Diego, chairman; Henry Eickhoff, San Francisco; Eustace Cullinan, San Francisco; Force Parker, Los Angeles; A. M. Drew, Fresno. Section E-Trusts and Corporations. L. T. Hatfield, Sacramento, chairman; Emil Pohli, San Francisco; Arthur P. Will, Los Angeles; F. C. Woodward, Palo Alto; Lester H. Jacobs, San Francisco. Section F-Legal Ethics. Charles S. Wheeler, San Francisco, chairman; Henry J. Stevens, Los Angeles; Warren Olney, Jr., San Francisco; Frank P. Deering, San Francisco; John F. Ellison, Red Bluff. Section G-Uniformity of State Laws. Walter Leeds, Los Angeles, chairman; Scott Hendricks, San Francisco; Guerney E. Newlin, Los Angeles; W. A. Sutherland, Fresno; W. J. McGee, Jackson, Cal. Section H-Legal Education. Orrin K. McMurray, Berkeley, chairman; Frank C. Porter, Los Angeles; D. S. Ewing, Fresno; Walter Perry Johnson, San Francisco; Garfield Jones, Los Angeles. PROCEEDINGS THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION California Bar Association FRESNO, NOVEMBER 21, 22 and 23, 1912. FIRST SESSION-2 o'clock p. m., Thursday, November 21, 1912. The third annual meeting of the California Bar Association was called to order by President C. E. McLaughlin at 2 o'clock p. m. THE PRESIDENT: The first matter on the program this morning is an address by Mr. Frank Short, of Fresno. Gentlemen, Mr. Short. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. MR. SHORT: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow Malefactors of the Law: It occurred to me, in thinking over this matter, that several very unusual things are happening today. I think I have made every sort of address in the English language and other dialects except an address of welcome, but I don't remember to have ever before been asked to deliver an address of welcome. But an address of welcome proceeds from the heart and not from the head, and from my limited abilities in one direction, and the largeness of my heart in the other, it seems to me that perhaps I have just come into my own and that I always ought to have been delivering addresses of welcome instead of a more serious type of speech. In the next place, this is the first time in the whole history of the world that a State bar association ever met in the city of Fresno-and no first bar association can ever meet here again. So if you gentlemen who compose the members of the profession from abroad should notice people looking at you with unusual interest, you will understand that they are not suspecting you of playing fan tan or smoking opium, or anything of that sort, but that perhaps unless they are old enough to have seen some of the great lawyers who used to come down here to try our criminal cases, probably they have never before seen a great lawyer-a real lawyer. So you want to move slowly and give them a chance to look you over, because they are enjoying every minute of the time. So, naturally, we are glad to see you here in Fresno. Now, I want to get the geography of Fresno straight before we proceed to welcome you to Fresno. Nobody seems to understand the geography of Fresno. The size of California is illustrated by the fact that everybody in the north. thinks we are way down south, and everybody in the south thinks we are away up in the north. If you meet a man down south, he says, "Do you go out Saturday afternoon fishing in the streams of Oregon?" and if you meet a man in the north of the State, he inquires, "Are you close enough to the line to be in danger when the insurgents are shooting over the Mexican border?" The fact is, Fresno is neither north nor south; it is the immediate, actual geographic center of the State; and to us probably in future years will come the difficult heritage of keeping peace and acting as arbiters between the contending factions that believe everything in the State is south of Tehachapi or north of San Francisco. And we will try to perform the job of peacemakers with the expectation that we will get the worst of it most of the time, as peacemakers usually do. It would, of course, be entirely inappropriate to make a welcoming speech without the usual bragging about the usual advantages of this locality-its advantages and its beauties. Now, that is true of every part of California. Wherever you go, every man in California brags. And the beauty of it is, every man can make good. And so can we. This central portion of the State is supposed to be the hottest place in all the world, not always referring to politics. either, but sometimes to climate. And a great many people have an idea that it is one of the most undesirable places in the world. I want to say to you that you do not see here the unusual weather that you usually have down south or up north. But we have just about nine months of the year when the weather is just like that of today-it just goes by so beautifully that you forget all about it. And the other |