The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-04
SOLDIER LAWYERS ORGANIZE.
The Bar Association of United states
Volunteers

Volunteers.
The Bar Association, United States Vol
unteers, has been organized. The organ
ization took place March "a, at Camp Co
lumbia, near Havana. by a meeting Of
the officers and men of the Seventh Corps,
who are members of the bar. Thirty
nine lawyers. representing eleven states,
participated in the meeting, when con-
stitution was adopted and officers were
elected for the ensuing year.
The objects of the association are to
perpetuate the memory of the friendly
professional associations formed during
the Spanish American war and for mu-
tual benefit purposes to render 90 each
other hereafter such social and profess
sional assistance and courte>sies as oppor-
tunities may offer; and also to publish an
nually a roster or list of its lawyer MEN,
bers and to arrange for annual meetings.
The qualification for membership shall
be that the applicant must have been
soldier or sailor of the United States dur.
ing the Spanish-American war OF honor
able military or naval record. and who
is member of the bar of any state or
territory, or who may become such mem
Der of the bar. Civilian employees of any
military or naval department of the gov
ernment during the late war and who are
members of the bar, are also eligible. Mem
beTship is not restricted to those who
have served with the Seventh Army Corps,
but. on the contrary, is intended for MEM
bers of the entire army or navy who may
at any time have served during the Span
ish-American war
The constitution provides for the follow
ing officers, the first OF whom were duly
elected for the present year:
Commandments. ]. f. Bloom, assist
ant adjutant general Second Brigade, Sec
ond Division, Seventh Army Corps, New
York city and Havana.
Lieutenant Commander-Maj. s. e
Clapp, Forty-nlnth Iowa, Toledo, Ia
Adjutant-Lieut r. f. L. Watkins. Com
pany I, Fourth Virginia, Franklin, Va.
Quartermaster-Corpl. Edmund Burke,
Company D. Fourth Illinois, Belleville. Ill.
Board of Strategy or Supreme Execu-
tive Committee-Commander ]. e. Bloom
and Adjt. r. E. L. Watkins ex-ofieio;
Lieut.. w. e. Hart, Forty-nlnth Iowa,
Wenkan, Ia; Capt. A F. W Macmanus.
First Texas, Corpus Christi, Tex; Captain
and Commissary of Subsistence w. b.
Hale Hartsyille Tenn.
Aids-de-Camp zone for Each State)-
Lieut.. c. Gillespie Sixth Missouri Bloom
field, Mo; Private j. N. Burrier. Second
United States Engineer. Dayton, o.; Lieut..
w. l.. Hillyer Company c, Fourth Vir-
ginia, Newport News, Va; Sergt. T. IL.
Toolen, Second Illinois, Chicago. ILL.,: Pri-
vate ]. II. Allen Company F. Forty-ninth
Iowa, Laurene, Ia; Private A d. Jones.
Second United States Engineers, New
Harmony Ind; Lieut. Guy Green. First
Texas Athens, Tex; Lieut.. c. H. Dock
cry, Jr.. FIRST North Carolina, Raleigh.
". c.; Brigade Qusrtermaster Clerk d. II.
Harrison, Lake City, Fla; Maj William O.
Nortrees, Fourth Tennessee, Nashville
Tenn; Private ], A. Foster, Second United
States Engineer Manistque, Mich.
Aide de camps for other states will he
appointed hereafter Applicants for mem.
bershtp can address any of the above
named officers at their home address or
Capt J. E. Bloom at Camp Columbia
Havana, Cuba. The membership fee has
been fixed al 50 per year, payable 81 every
four months in advance, but there is ne
initiation fee at present
The first roster of members will be pnb.
hshed on July l, by which time il Is ex.
pected that most of the members of the
war who have served in the army or nav,
VIII have been enrolled The headouar.
tiers Of the association will be at the resi-
dence of the commander. The hoard m
strategy has the general powers of ar
executive committee and of the boarl
of directors with authority to adopt bv.
laws
The organization owes its origin to tb,
EFFORTS of Capt j. f. Bloom. which wer,
ably seconded by Lieuts. Hart and Wat
kins. II was established on an inforna
notice of two days and while many of IN.
troops at Camp Columbia We're busy pre
pairing TO embark for the states. The mex
meeting of members of the bar presen
in camp viii be held at the quarters o
Capt. Bloom at Buena Vista, near Ha
Nana