The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-21
THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

holds its nineteenth annual meeting at
Saratoga this year on August ID, 90 and
81, was organized in 1873, "to advance
the science of jurisprudence, promote the
administration of justice and uniformity
of legislation throughout the Union, up
hold the honor of the profession of the
law, and encourage cordIal intercourse
bar" For many years its meetings were
always held in Saratoga, but in 1899 it
met in Chicago, in 1891 in Boston, in 1898
in Milwaukee, and in 1895 in Detroit, and
in the alternate years at Saratoga
The meeting this year will be particu-
lqrly interesting on account of the pres.
ence of Lord Russell, of Killowen,
the lord chief justice of England, consid-
cred one of the ablest judges that Eng
land has produced of late years, whose
annual address before the association
will be on the subject of international
Arbitration" Lord Russell was known
to the bar, of which he was the leader,
rs Sir Charles Russell. He was the leading
counsel for the British government before
the Paris tribunal in the Behring Sea
fisheries case.
Montague Crackanthorpe, Esq, an emf
nent queens counsel, will also read a pa
per on "The Uses of Legal HISTORY
Mr.. Crackanthorpe is an accomplished
legal scholar, and is an honorary fellow
of st. Johns College, Oxford
Lord Russell is expected to arrive in
this country on the 18th of August, ac-
companied by Lady Russell and his
daughter, Sir Francis Lockwood, O. c..
NJ. p, who was formerly solicitor gen
eral, and his wife and daughter Mr..
Crackanthorpe and James Fox, of the
English bar. Sir Francis Lockwood is
also known as the wit of the English bar,
and as an accomplished carcaturist. sc
In the eighteen years of the associa-
TONS existence it has done much to car
ry out its principles. Through its efforts
commissioners have been appointed in
the majority of the States and Territories
to secure uniform State laws on various
important subjects. These commits
sions hold an annual meeting at the same
time and place as the meeting of the
association for the purpose of carrying on
their work. Through their efforts a
number of States have passed important
acts. tending to make uniform the laws
of the various States.
1t Is partly this work of the association
which led the lord chief Justice of Eng
land, in his address to the Inns of Court
in 1895 to speak in terms of commenda-
ton of the high efficiency of legal educa-
ton in the law schools of the United
States.
The association has Il membership of
over 1900 lawyers, representative men
from all the States and Territories. The
present officers of the association are
Moorefield Storey, of Boston, pre- sident
John Hinkley, of Baltimore, secretary.
and Francis Rawle, of Philadelphia.
treasurer. Its first president was james
o. Broadhead of St Louis.
Other presidents, elected annually,
have been: Benjamin H. Bristow, New
York; Edward j. Phelps, Burlington,
VT; Clarkson n. Potter, New York;
Alexander r. .Lawton, Savannah Ga.
Courtlandt Parker, Newark, n. j.; John
w Stevenson, Covington, Ky; William
Allen Butler, New York; Thomas J.
Semmes, New Orleans; George G.
Wright, Des Moines, Iowa; David Dud-
ley Field, New York; Henry Hitchcock,
st. Louis, Mo. Simeon f. Baldwin. New
Haven, Conn; John F. Dillon, New
York; j. Randolph Tucker, Lexington,
Va; Thomas NJ Cody, Ann Arbor
Mich, and james C. Carter, New York
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