The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-16
AMERICAN BAR SOCIETY
Judge McGrath Tells of the
Meeting Recently Held
in Milwaukee.

Judge John A. McGrath, OF this city,
who recently returned from the annual
meeting Of the American Bar Association
held in Milwaukee. chatted yesterday
with . JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter about
the doings OF the Association aud his
very pleasant trip ~ "~BeeroDolis,'' az the
City OF Milwaukee 10 not inaptly ter med.
Iu former years the annual meeting
was held IN Saratoga, but IL Ia The lntep-
tion now Of meeting tp different cities
each time. Milwaukee was the trst place
chosen after SARATOGA. aud as one lawyer
loosely put Il. .at was eminsutiy proper
that the lasfabers Of the Bar should tnegt
10 Milwaukee. which 10 famed for Its
liquid product"
OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
"Well." began the Judge. '0ar 1850
citation, which IS you know Ia largely
composed OF the best legal minds In the
country, desifes to bring about uniform.
ftysin the law. We wish 70 make the
laws OF marriages aud divorces nnifornl
throughout the States; ataend che mari
and 10 general seek to make our iurispru-
dence as perfect az possible. ! might
parRphrase The famous saying OF Terence
and add that nothing pertaining to the
law and its practices 10 mn worthy Of our
sympathy aud attention.
BRAfHY MEMBERS.
~ told you that 0ur association is ON
posed Of eminent jurists.l OF course there
are q few Of the members, myself for In.
stance. OF humber pretensions, Du the
bulk of them are big wigs. The President
Is Judge Cooley Of Michigan, author Of
Cooley's Constitutional Limitations and
other WORKS Of . high legal sssndard.
Lord Chief Justice Baron Coleridge Of
England In an honorary member. Then
there are men like ]. Randolph Tucker Of
Virginia. Past President; Ed. o. Hinkley
of Baltimore, n. NJ. Rose of Arkansas.
aud Henry B. Brown Of Michigan. ALI
able lawyers. Messrs. Cortlands aud
Wayne Parker of Newark are members
and were at this reunion.
RECEPTION TO MEMBERS.
when we arrived IN Milwaukee we
were met by the local Bur Association
and rendered q cordial aud hearty wel-
come. These gentlemen were extremely
attentive to MS and By their courtesy add
ed largely TO the pleasure OF delight
ful visit. On the evening OF the day Of
arrival we were entertained by Messrs.
larRs garden brilliantly illuminated.
BEAUTIFUL MILWAUKEE.
II was surprised at ths city-vsry agree
ably surprised. With 90 many canals
RAINING through 1t; the citv Is wonder
fully clean. The streets are we'll laid out
and the buildings handsome. found TO
my delight that people could spesk an
my friends had been telling me ! almost
expected 10 see 10 store windows, Eng
Iish Spoken Here Yes, seriously though,
the city Is evidently under good munich
pal management, aud no wonder siuce
the Democratic have cnutrol there.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETINGS,
The first days work was msre dry
YAr1ffnn ksAlnA~a Ar ..4~-~r.
OF reports. In the evening Of that day.
August 80. we listened to . paper by
Henry Wade Rogers of Illinois "a THE
Treaty Masking Power, and Que by w.
w. MacFarland Of New York, on THE
Evolution Of Jarispruaencs.'
"The following day WIS a very busy n
We had a long discussion. In which I
took part, concerning treaty oblig stions
aud a proposnl 60 amend the United
States law protecting Foreigners. Ssna-
tor Bates, of Delaware, made m excel
lent speech showing hat b foreigners
had the same right under the law ns a
citizen. aud there vas no need to give
him rights beyond that. We deciaed
that such being the case. as tho Senator
ssatsd. there was no necesst.v to ask
Congress TO pass any further law. The
evening OF this day was spent 10 hearing
rspott t. on uniform state law. classified
tion of the law. salaries Of federal Judges.
federal code Of crimiusl procedure and
matters pertaining to Indian legislation
After the election Of officers Cd the fol-
lowing day we wound ul onr husiEAss
with q banquet NJ Hoscf Pfstsr, aud said
good bye To our hospitable friends.
ADVANTAGES OF THE ASSOCIATIONS.
1.-The American Bar Association l q
worthy OF every lawyers attention. Il
does NOT cost mnca to Join. Gully SS q
year, and the benefits AecsutnR from It
think are incaiculsbla, II GIVES an p2
portunity to near dissertations on legal
matters by emiuent 5urists not to be
obtained In any other way"