The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-26

understood from the fact that when
ever the Bar association recommends
a change in the statute it is usually
made.
The subjects which will come before
this convention are varied and will call
forth profound consideration. First,
there comes divorce, a vital subject
which has never been treated satisfac-
torily in the legal procedure of any
nation. Action in improving the pres
ent status of the subject is impera-
lively demanded.
Corporation law, which has assumed
tremendous Importance, will be placed
before the convention for considera-
ton in an address by Associate JUS
tice Brown, of the United States su-
preme court. Justice Browns knowl-
edge and acumen in dealing with this
subject needs only be referred to to
recall the memorable address he lately
made on it before the Yale law school
The Hon. Thomas X. Cooley, of Mich
tgan, who has an extended fame as
writer on railroad and constitutional
law, viii deliver an address on railroad
law. AS an interstate commerce COM
missioner Judge Cooley has had extra
ordinary facilities for striding the
question. international law viii be
treated by ex-Secretary of State John
w L DSLeT. WHO mas d I1lOSL 6AI6uQeQ
experience on that abstruse subject.
New York city's famed advocate.
Joseph II. Choate, will address the
convention on the subject of consti-
tutional law. Interstate jurisprudence
had fallen to the lot of Attorney-Gen-
erai Judson Harmon, but that was
prior TO his elevation to the attorney
generalship. In case he should have
had no time to treat the subject, the
l.
2 paper to be read for him.
The judges Who will attend include
the entire supreme court of Michigan
and no less than seven chief justices
of states. The chief justice of the
United States has conditionally ac-
cepted an invitation to speak. Richard
Olney' has complied with a request for
a paper on contract law which is to be
read by the secretary. That dis
tinguished son OF distinguished
father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr..
speaks upon the lawyer as an arbiter
and he viii be not the least interesting
Of the many members of the bench in
attendance. David B. Hill and VIII
liam 3. Allison are to be among the
senators present. Stevenson Rich of
Michigan will make the address OF
welcome.
James C. Carter of New York, who
VIII preside, said, when interviewed
upon the significance of the approach
ing event: 1T is not necessarily Of an
exclusively professional nature In
republic like ours there should not
exist a class set apart and out of touch
with the people as the bar in other
lands is too apt to become. Laws are
not made for the mere sake of making
the people conform to them, but be-
cause the people demand them A
gathering of lawyers should have the
effect of Interesting our citizens in laws
proposed as well as in laws enacted. It
will be q public benefit We Americans
have a tendency TO complain of laws
that exist, forgetting that if they be
oppressive We were Indifferent to them
during the period of their considera-
ton We are singularly Indifferent to
law that is as yet unmade, forgetting
that if it becomes a nuisance
when put into effect il is all
our fault The ideas preached dur
Ing the coming gathering may soon
nminary discussion, therefore, is i'm
portant"
MIR. Carter was asked about the
money making power of the men who
are 10 meet.
1T is rather a pity that a lawyer
Ssnould be judged by the money he
makes he replied. Some of the
a olest lawyers in the land do not earn
tenth Of the sum gained by others
who are positively incompetent. Some
members of the bar will not take up
certain lines of practice because they
deem them unprofessional. Others pre-
Ter certain lines of practice in which
they feel a particular interest. Still
other are unwilling to have anything
but an Office practice. These and other
considerations are responsible for the
TACT that some very able lawyers make
comparatively little meley.
I'm fact. it does not require an ex-
traordinary amount of brains to make
huge sums at the bar On The other