New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-17
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AT ALBANY
ADDRESSES BY JUSTICE BROWN
AND MR.. LOGAN.

Noany Jan. 16.-The State Bar Association at its
meeting to-day elected the following officers; Presi
dent, Francis NJ. Finch, of Ithaca; vice-presdents,
First District. Edmund Wetmore, of New-York
City; Second District. Theodore F. Jackson, OF
Brooklyn Third District, Albert Hessberg of Al
bany; Fourth District. John I Gilbert OF Malone;
Fifth District. Eon R. Brown of watertown Sixth
District. John P. Grant, of Stamford: Seventh Dis
trict, De Merville Page, OF HornelIsviIe; Eighth
District. John G. Milburn. Of Buffalo; secretary
Frederick E Wadhams, Of Albany; corresponding
secretary, George Lawyer Of Albany; treasurer
Henry A. Peckhar, of Albany
The association meetings during the day were
prolific in pointed discussion and addresses. In
opening the session President Logan made an ad-
dress on THE Limitation OF Inheritances' in
which he said:
The characteristic Of our age and civilization is
the presence Of mighty fortunes among us; the
the mighty power that follows therefrom in few
hands The question to which now ask your at
law making power to permit these accumula-
tlons and this power to be freely transmitted from
father to son and from generation to generation.
or whether the law making power Of the State
limitations upon such transmission.
Mr.. Logan then advocated a $4,000 600 Limitation,
and gave as his reasons for advocating it the fol-
lowing:
First-There is at the present day no good pur-
pose to be served by giving man power to trans
5 s ghGR 2 great fSos se2 5a
inherit the wealth as to those who acquire it by
their exertions
Third-No vested right would be infringed and no
injustice done to any by the proposed legisla-
ton.
Fourth-A great deal can be done for the
anehoratiOn of social conditions, the betterment
of the masses of the people and the enhancement
OF civilization with the money which would come
TO the treasury if the State were the heir of the
surplus of every mans fortune above s10,O00,000
The principal address before the association at
its meeting in the Assembly Chamber tonight was
by Justice Brown, of the United States Supreme
Court, upon The Liberty of the Press" in which
ne severely denounced what he termed sensational
journalism. In opening his address, Justice Brown
admitted that much could not be said in
praise of the daily papers as news gatherers. Their
enterprise in that direction superior to every
obstacle No quarter of the globe too re-
mote; no expense too great Their news columns
were refreshing contrast TO the deadly dulness
Of the Continental papers. All this, however did
not blind the people TO the fact that many of
these papers were guilty of grave abuse of their
privileges. ugly stories are told" he said. of
the methods resorted to to create sensation or
to advertise a paper. Of correspondents sent to
Washington with instructions to blacken the
character of particular men regardless of facts; of
editorial space sold for much a line; Of spies
put upon houses to unearth domestic scandals or
upon the steps of public to ferret out politi-
cal secrets