The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-27
THE BAR ASSOCIATION.
ITS FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEET
ING OPENED IN BOSTON.

Reports of Ot1cers-Mr. JudSon'S
Peper on "The Individual Liberty of
Contract Under the Police Power"
BosroN, MASS, Aug. .26.-The fourteenth
annual meeting of the American Bar Asso-
citation, the first held in New England, was
onened this forenoon in horticultural hall
Nearly 200 members were present.
After the president. Simeon E. Baldwin of
Vale College, had called the assemblage to
order welcome was extended to the visi-
tors bv Hon. John Lowell, president Of the
Boston Bar Association.
The nresideut responded, stating that the
association felt pleased with the warmth of
the reception accorded it in this old historic
town. Though Philadelphia was first a
city. Boston long hung to the town system
anf its old and venerated customs.
fter these brief remarks he proceeded to
deliver the annual address. The constitu-
tion of the association made it his duty to
take as his subject the most noteworthy
changes of statutory law during the past
year.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
In opening his address Prof. Baldwin
smoke Of the great diversity of matters
treated by the federal and state govern
ments, ana said:
No cne who has undertaken the labor which
this task involves, deeply interesting as it is as
a study OF social science, will regret that other
provision of our constitution which makes the
President ineligible for second term 1t calls
for review of q large part, perhaps the best
mart OF the history of the world since last we
met: for where is history more truly written
than in the le2 islation of the times, and what
new field of legislation is entered upon in
this age, in any quarter of the globe,
that is not soon known and Travelled in every
other? Here, in America, are fifty distinct and,
for most purposes independent governments.
each with legislature expected and desirous
10 add something of value to the institutions of
its people, am between which climate and soil
and history have made
WIDE DIFFERENCE OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
There is the frontier territory, Offering boun-
ties for the destruction OF lions and panthers;
the river states with the levee systems: the
dry season states, with their plans for irriga-
ton and artesian wells; the south, with its igno-
rant and half helpless masses of cOlored labor
eTs; one state, where commerceis a main object
OF regard; another where mining, another where
manufacturing Is; some rapidly increasing in
wealth and population, some stationary, some
going backward, some still overrun with In
dams and some built up on usages and ira
ditions that have been the slow growth of
nearly three centuries. No land in human his
tory has presented such a diversity of social
forces working in different ways towards the
same end and under common principles and
attachments. Our own country has not, before
the past year. which brought the number of
our states up To forty four.
Prof. Baldwin thea proceeded in a
m s.erly way to review the acts of con-
gresS and Of the legislature of the different
states.
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
He closed his address by saying:
Our American system of government has
been distinguished from all others by it's giving
through IT'S written constitutions such guaran-
tees OF individual right as no sudden chauge in
nubc sentiment sudden PNlgpnpy in ulIhllp
affairs, could break over or break down. But
constitutions are nothing, unless they are
forced in the spirit in which they we're con
Ceved. In them, more than in any other thing
oi human instil lutOn. THE letter klleth" The
courts may be relied on for their faithful inter
probation. but that our Legislators may be
equally true, can be secured only by the
constant lnslstence on the part OF our
profession, as the great leader of public
opinion at least as put in form by legislative
action that no constitutional principle ought
ever to be undermined or evaded in statute Law
on plea OF public necessity. There is no neces-
slty SO imperious as that of supporting the con
Stltuton to which We are doubly bound by our
Oaths as citizens and our oathS as members of
the bar. It's formalities, its delays, its limita-
tonS are the best fruits of thousand years of
anglo Saxon history. The omnipotence of the
British parliament our fathers refused to re-
produce on American soil and it belongs to us
10 Keep 1t out in substance, as it is in form.
NEW MEMBERS REPORTED.
At the close Of the address, which lasted
an hour and half the general council re-
ported on the nomination Of new members.
Ohe huLdred and sixty names were pre-
sented, of which number 101 are from
Massachusetts, and thirty one from Con-
nectlcut. There being no objection, all were
constituted members.
THE GENERAL COUNCIL.
Inc nominations for the general council
were as follows: Alabama, D. s. Troy;
california, James a. Gibson; Connecticut,
ylllus B. Curtis; Delaware, E. G. Gulf ;
District District OF Columbia, D. A. LAMBERT; ;
Illinois, E. B. Sherman; Iowa, r. R. Bald
WIN; louisiana, Thomas Balm; Maine,
Aimon A. Slocut; Maryland, Joho
!. Mason; Massachusetts. M. p.
Diickenson; Michigan, Alfred Russell :;
MISsourl, William q. Hammond; Missis-
SpPi' robert A. Hill; New Hampshire, w.
:; feiiows; New Jersey, R. Parker; New
FonS, FGTk, george A. Peabody; Ohio, Martin D.
66oHettee; Pennsylvania, Richard Vaux:
hhode Island, Amasa Eaton; South Caro-
1na; Clarence S. Wetles; South Dakota. J.
W. wright; Tennessee, E. +. jackson: Vir-
Emu, ~ Page: Wisconsin, Bradley g.
TTGaaiayi Washington, Charles f. Sheppard.
IA nere no new names were presented the
Viu members hold over.
THE sECRETARY's REPORT.
Aai'er the committees on reception and
gEI1oIcation had been appointed, Secretary
mu~ard Otis Hinckley Of Baltimore. Md,
Laue lis report. Niue hundred and forty
@ .iee memoers we're printed in the last re-
~" ~ and l6O more were added to-day. The
IIoCiatIon So has now membership of over
o,t. ~. Inc secretary also reported on a few
''ger matters of interest to the body.
treasurer Francis RawIe of Philadelphia
se9Pp1rted s9pIr balance Of $2, ,S22, a net gain of
The executive committee reported after
maatiue oi the treasurer's report, and the
tho tbng adlourned, except the members of
LEVY CHOSEN general council, who met.
nlotoI loeu nlchard Vaux chairman and oom-
P'oteu the organization,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
a1 tne afternoon session Frederick N.
s.Tt s.TTISon OF st Louis delivered an address on
'ne Police Power.n '''' = ''N'0'
MR. JUDsoN'S ADDRESS.
defrabP Poce @ power Of the state is said TO be un-
Cooley - @ @uuennaole In the words of judge
neI 80, IL mbraces the whole system of Inter
se kulation, by which the state saeks 70 ne
the ststa. cic order and prevent offenses against
peryads.' anu, ike the power of taxation. IL
REACHES . every department of business and
proft or Every interest and every subject of
1.-THE oJtuJoyment. Chief Justice Taney said.
less tbar powers ore nothing more nor
in every Inc tue power of government inherent
dorninia1. soserelgnty TO the extent of its
tS;,llI .ndLiohs' the power 10 oovern Ioan "a ond
ShaR,. mt, 'uu t IN the words OF Chief Jusrice
reaiz. IN - always easier to perceive and
than 10 80 e11istence ana sources of the pover
limits of its "a = ~ boundaries and prescribe the