New-York tribune., 1900-12-12
FIRST TIME IN IT'S HISTORY
ING OVER ELECTION OF NOMINA-
TION CONIMITTEE-LED BY
YOUNGER MEN.

For the first time in it's history the Bar AS
sociaton had contest last night over the cleo
ton of a Nominating Committee. The cause of
the disagreement was the desire OF the so-called
younger element to have more voice in the
selection of the associations officers and COM
mittees. 1t was said by several Of the younger
lawyers at the meeting last night that the asso-
citation had been run too long by clique of the
older and more conservative members of the BAR
and that the younger men in the association had
no voice in the management of affairs.
Accordingly a rival ticket was placed in the
field at the monthly meeting last night. when
the time came for electing the nominating COM
mttee that is to make recommendations for
ticket to be voted at the annual meeting IN
January. The balloting lasted for an hour, and
it took nearly another hour to count the votes
Then it was discovered that the younger ele-
ment" had been Outvoted, 231 to 149. but had
succeeded in electing four Of the nine members
of the nominating committee through a provl-
sion which allows member of the Associa-
tion to vote for only five members of the noml-
mating committee at an election.
John f. Parsons, the president of the assocla-
tion, was in the chair usual last night wheh
the meeting began, and it was observed that
there was an unusually large number of mem
bers present. information of the coming con-
factions 10 have large representation ready
TO vote After the routine business Of the meet
ing had been transacted, George w. Wickersham
arose and moved the election of the Nominating
Committee the Auditing Committee and the
inspectors of election. There was opposition
to that. and then Albert Stickney placed in
nomination the following members of commit
tees:
Nominating Committee-Augustus c. Brown'
Almon Goodwin. George Zabriskie, Lewis Cass
Ledyard, William P. Dixon, Eugene A. Philbin'
John S. Sheppard ]. Mayhem Wainwright and
Thomas n. Rhinelander.
Auditing Committee-WiIlam F. Dunning. Ed
win ". Coggeshan and Robert Shaw Minturn.
inspectors and Canvassers of Election-George
S Coleman. Abraham /. Elkus and Jordan j.
Rollins.
MIR. Stickney explained that in voting for
members of the Nominating Committee each
member Of the association could vote for only
FIVE names. Herbert Smyth then placed in
nomination the candidates of the younger ele-
ment'' Cor members of the Auditing Committee.
naming only five. as follows: Edward C. James,
Rastus S. Ransom. George NJ. Pinney. jr.. James
NJ. Clifford and P. Tecumseh Sherman.
After the nominations had been closed Peter
B. Olney said he desired information If a ticket
containing only five names was a valid ticket,
and then he disclosed the reason for his ques-
tion by suggesting that only the first five names
on the mine name ticket nominated by Mr..
Stickney be voted on. There was good natured
laughter by the opposition, and IL was increased
when President Parsons said that Mr.. Olney
was correct in his supposItion that votes need
be cast only for the first five names. It was
decided to keep the polls open for an hour. Be-
fore beginning the balloting, however. the men
nominated for members Of the Auditing Com
rnitt nd for nj ed
unanimously.
After the balloting began the members of the
association transacted a little more business. A
year ago the Bar Association appointed a COM
mittee consisting of George c. Holt Lewis Cass
Ledyard, Henry W. Taft. Frederick H. Belts,
Albert Stickney, William A. Jenner and Arthur
H. Masten. to confer with committee appointed
by Congress to revise and codfy laws relating
to the organization and jurisdiction OF the
United States courts. Upon the motion Of Mr..
Stickney last evening. President Parsons was
authorized to appoint eight additional members
of the associations Conference Committee and
he named William G. Choate, william B Horn-
blower, Wallace Macfarlane H Galbraith Ward.
Edmund WetmOre, Edward B. Whitney, Samuel
b. Clarke and Ernest E. Baldwin.
About 1870 p. m, after the balloting in the
side room had ceased, the association voted TO
take recess and it nearly an hour later
when the tellers were ready to announce the re-
suit of the ballOting. The names of the men who
had beer elected members of the Nominating
committee were fed0, Win tHe NUMBER Oh NoleS
which each had received, follows: Augustus
c. Brown, 230; Almon Goodwin, 219 George
Zabriskie 231; Lewis Cass Ledyard, 227; Will
lam p Dixon, 211; Edward c. James, 149; Ras-
tus S Ransom III; James NJ. Clifford. 49, and
p. Tecumseh Sherman, 143.
AS soon as the result of the baIloting was
announced the meeting adjourned. 1t was ap-
parent that the contest, while it had been
spirited, had left no i'll feeling
In the early part of the meeting Lewis l..
Delafeld reported for the Executive Committee
that there mad been presented to the association
some pictures and busts. and that member
had given $4,000 to the library fund. but had
desired to have his name kept from publication.
The treasurer reported that the association had
,657 members in good standing and that the
receipts of the association in 1900 amounted to
over $4,000.
SPANJARD ARRESTED on 4THOS