Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-07
ALABAMA BAR ASSOCIATION
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Met at LakevieW Pavilion Yes
terday Morning.
THE BRAINS OF THE STATE
Were There in Full Force and Carried Out the
Usual Programme-The Officers
Elected.

The Alabama Bar association held its
morning session yesterday in the pavil-
ion at Lakeview. AT 1920 O'Clock the
meeting was called to order by the act
ing president, Gen. Richard C. Jones.
Some forty members were present, quite
an increase over the attendance on the
first session the evening before.
Mr.. John p. Tillman moved that a COM
mittee of five be appointed by the chair,
whose duty 1t should be to recommend
to the association officers to be elected
for the ensuing year. On that commit
tee the chair appointed the following
gentlemen: Mr. Tfllman, Hon. Thomas
Watts, Mr.. Collier, Judge Roulhac and
Mr. John V. Smith. Judge Roulhac
arose and requested to be relieved from
service on the committee and Mr.. Will
son was substituted on the nominating
committee in place of Judge Roulhac.
The Hon. John V. Smith proposed the
name of Hon. II. l. Bullock for member
ship. The rules were suspended and the
secretary authorized to cast the vote of
the association for Mr.. Bullock and he
was elected to membership.
The Hon. II. G. Tompkins of Mont
gomery then read a paper on Judah p.
Benjamin, the great lawyer, statesman
and author. The paper was an elegant
ly prepared, concise sketch of the life,
character and achievements of that
greatest and most successful of lawyers
1t was read by Colonel TomplNins in his
elegant and mastery style The body
was highly entertained, as was Witness
cd by the liberal applause.
The next in the regular order of bust
ness was the report of the committee on
legislation. Capt J. e. Webb of Bir-
mingham came forward to make the re-
port
On motion of Hon. w. A. Walker the
regular order of business was suspended
in order that the Hon. Alexander H. King
of Atlanta, who had been invited by the
association to deliver the annual adj
dress, and who was present, might pro-
coed to deliver the address. Mr.. King
was presented by Acting President,
Jones and delivered very able address.
The subject of the address of the annual
orator was 1.-THE Growth of the Consti
tuition of the United States
1t was q superb article and delivered in
a most pleasant style. Mr. King re-
ceived the very closest attention through
out the entire reading of his address from
every one present. He was heartily APP
plauded. Many expressions compliment
airy of the address and the speaker We're
heard after its delivery. On motion OF
Mr.. S. d. Weakley of Birmingham the
thanks of the association were rendered
Mr.. King for his able address. Mr.. King
was then, by unanimous vote, elected
an honorary member of the association
The meeting them on motion, took re-
cess of ten minutes, during which the
members attempted to find relief from
the very warm weather by imbibing lib
orally of ice water. At the expiration of
the ten minutes the president again
raped the body to order.
Capt. J. e. Webb arose to make the re-
port for the committee on legislation,
when Secretary Troy moved that the
meeting adjourn until o'clock p. M, to
meet in the rooms of the Commercial
club.
Before the motion was put the Hon.
John w. Tomlinson arose and on the
part of the local bar announced that the
visiting members of the association were
cordially invited to attend a banquet at
the Hotel Morris at o'clock p. M, to be
given by the local members of the bar in
honor of their visiting brethren.
At 1 o'clock the meeting adjourned to
meet again at o'clock
Afternoon Session.
At the hour appointed a goodly num-
Der were on hand in the rooms of the
Commercial club on Twenty-flrst street.
"A few minutes past o'clock Acting
President Jones called the meeting to
order. There was some falling off in at
tendance from the morning session, sew
eral visiting members having left the
city on trains leaving before that hour
rather than to remain in the city over
night.
The first order of business was the re-
port of the committee on legislation.
Capt. j. e. Webb, chairman of that
committee, took the floor and in his usual
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