Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-25

Program OF the Meeting to Begin in Boston
Tomorrow.
The fourteenth annual meeting Of the Ameri
can Bar Association will be held at Boston
Mass, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
August 26, 81 and 3d. The American Bar Asso
citation was organized in 1873.
Only members Of the bar in good standing
for five years in their respective states are
eligible for membership. There are now 1874
members, representing forty-two different
states. The average attendance Of the mem
bers at the meetings Of the association is about
200 Up to the present time all Of the sessions
OF the association have been held at Sara.
toga with one exception, that Of 1889, when the
association met at Chicago.
The first session will be held Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock, and the constitution re-
quires that the president shall open the annual
meeting of the association with an address in
which he shall communicate the most note
worthy changes in statute law on points Of
general interest made in the several states and
by Congress during the preceding year.
The balance Of the session Wednesday morn
ing will be devoted to the nomination and cleo.
ton of new members, the election OF
the general council, which consists OF
treasurer and executive committee will submit
their reports.
The second session will be held on wednes-
day afternoon at o'clock, when Frederick n
Judson of st. Louis will read paper on 1.-The
Liberty of Private Contract Under the Police
Power" and William B. Hornblower Of New
York will also read paper on THE Lega
Status of the Indian"
There will be no evening sessions.
The executive committee annually appoint
some member OF the association to deliver ar
annual address, and this year Alfred Russell Of
Niphipan wi be a33 I'M p5ox
morning at 10 o'clock. His subject will bt
''The Avoioable Causes Of Delay and Uncer
family in Our Courts"
After the annual address has been delivered
the committees will make their repor@. Al
the last meeting Of the association the bylaw
were amended so as to permit the association t.
award a medal to such person in any country a,
the association on Recommendation and nomi
nation of the committee on award of media
may deem to have merited it by service,
in advancing the science of Jurisprudence
or the administration of justice. This com
mittee is composed of living ex-presidents Of
the association and they will submit their re-
port on Thursday. 1t is not now known to
whom this medal will be awarded and the nomi
nation OF the committee is awaited with grea,
interest
The ex-presidents of the association in the
order in which they served from 1878 to date
are JAS. o. Broadhead. st. Louis, Mo-; Benz. H.
Bristow, New York; Edward J. Phelps, Bur.
lington, Vt; ClarksOn N. Potter, New York; Al
exnnder r. Lawton, Savannah, Ga; Cortlandt
Parker, Newark, NJ; John W. Stevenson, Gov
ington, KY; William Allen Butler, New York
Thos. J. Semmes, New Orleans. La; Geo. G.
Wright, Des Moines. Iowa; David Dudley Field,
New York; Henry Hitchcock. st. Louis, Mo.
Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn.
OF these all are living except Clarkson N.
Potter and John w. Stevenson.
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock there will be
u session at which special committees will sub
NIT reports on various subjects and discussions
will follow.
Friday morning at 10 o'clock the association
will hold its last business session. Tho officers
will then be nominated and elected and all
unfinished business will be disposed of and the
association will adjourn. On Friday evening
the annual dinner will be given at the Parker
House.
The officers of the association are Simeon E.
Baldwin of New Haven, Conn, president; Ed.
ward Otis Hinkley Of Baltimore, Nd, secretary,
and Francis Rawle Of Philadelphia, Pa, treas.
ur0r.