The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING.

The members Of the Vermont Bar Asso-
ciaton met Tuesday afternoon in the grand
jury room OF The court house. The session
was very brief, however, and an adj urn
meut was taken unil 1880 In the evening
when the annual literary exercises were
held IN the court room proper. THIS meet
Ing WAS OF n public nature but WAS attend
ed almost exclusively by the members, to
the number OF nearly a hundred. The
judges Of the Supreme court were escorted
by q. W Wing, the secretary, to seats just
inside the bar.
The following names were presented for
me m bership, and the secre airy, being 10 in
9 ructed, cast an electoral vote for them.
Iha new members are: Frederick l.
HOuRhton, Edward M. Goddard, Silas w.
Finn, Frank A. Bailey, Edward A. Buck,
Alvslette George; j. W. Page, BRISTOL; G..
W Morse, Waterbury; Fred b. Thomas
and William N. Theriault, Montpelier;
John W. Redmond, Newport; ID. A. Guilt
name, Bennington; Elmer johnson, Enos-
burgh.
The chief feature of the evenings exer.
clses was the annual address delivered by
Hon q. III, Darling, the president, who
took Tor his subjec Municipal Indebted
ness" The address showed deep study
and careful thought and treated Que of the
vital issues of the day, namely, the relation
OF capital to labor He depicted the grow
lug endency of municipalities to exempt
from taxation for q term of years certain
industries in order to encourage their estab-
ltshment The speaker held that, while
this practice was beneficial to the town or
city, ~ did not stand in the same relation as
bonding for railroads, which have been de-
clared by the courts to be public highways
Che former act amounts to the same as
tn ugh the town voted to give ths owners
OF the industries so much money, which
would be wrong; since in tightening the in
dividuaPs burden II adds to that OF his
neighbor in the same proportion. The fun
dAmental principle OF taxation Is that all
shs be taxed in proportion to their wealth,
aud the exemption OF one in the same class
from taxation and the refusal to do the
same by Others is in direct violation of this
principle. The speaker illustrated this
point with the case Of Cotton q More
against the city Of Montpelier
Robert Roberts Of Burlington read an in
teresiing memorial sketch OF his father, the
late Daniel Roberts
+. W. Baldwin Of Barton read memo
rial on the life of the late Judge L. II.
Thompson Of Itssburgh, which was written
by w. w Miles OF Bar ton, for m4ny years
law partner OF the dec 'ssed. rne paper,
though brief, wildly emphasized the strong
and admirable traits in the character of the
late ju lat.
This closed the exercises of the evening
and the members repaired to the Pavilion
where he annual banquet was held.
A business meeting was held on Wedues-
day at the county court house.
Inc report Of tide committee on higtory
and biography WAS read and adopted. II
was cd to amend the constitution 80 as
TO 81, he annual dues of members back to
the old p ice Of So The secretary was an
thorzsd 10 have printed not less than 1000
copies Of the proceedings of future meetings
OF The association.
The following officers we're elected:
President, Jonathan Ross, OF St. Johns
bury Vice-Preudents, W. &c. johnson of
Woodstock, A. A. Hall of st. Adams and
f. l.. Fisk Of Vtrgennes; secretary, g. w.
Carleton Of Montpelier executive commit
tee, the president az ex-officio, j II. Sehter
OF Montpelier. j. l. Martin OF Brsttleboro
f. g. Fleetwood Of Morrisvile ald e. W.
Smith OF Wells River The standing com
mittees were resppointed. The meeting ad'
journed until Friday morning.