The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-24
BAR ASSOCIATION
FINISHES ITS WORK
Completes LabOrs and Adjourns
at Denver.
HONOR FOR SALT LAKER
FARLEY L. WILLIAMS IS CHOSEN
A VICE PRESIDENT.

meeting this afternoon ana the annual
dinner occurred at the Brown Palace
hotel tonight.
The general council reported the fol-
lowing nominations this morning;
President, u. NJ. Rose, Little Rock;
secretary, John Hinkley, Baltimore;
treasurer. Francis Rawle, Philadel-
phia: executive committee: L. NJ.
Rose president ex-officiO; Edmund
WetmOre, retiring president ex-otilclo;
John Huxley, secretary eX-offlclo;
Francis Rawle, treasurer ex-cnlcio;
William A Ketcham, Indianapolis;
Henry St George Tucker, Lexington,
Va; Charles F. Libby, Portland, Me-;
Rodney A Mercur. TOwanda. Pa
James Hagerman. St. Louis, Mo.
The following vice presidents were
also announced: Alaska, j. w. Price;
Arizona, John 5. Herndon; Arkansas,
James F. Read; California, Charles
Monroe: Colorado, Moses Hallett; Con-
necticut. Washington T. WILCOX; Del
aware, George Gray; District of Co
lumbia, Melville Avery, George Burton
Smith; Idaho, William NJ. Wood; Hi
nOis, AdOlph Moses; Indian Territory,
l. c. Jackson; Indiana, Samuel ..
PiCkens: Iowa, J. O. Crosby; Kansas,
Charles B. Smith; Kentucky, Sterling
b TOney; Louisiana, Ernest b. Kreut-
sChnitt; Maine, L. a. Emery; Mary
land, s. d. Schmucker; Massachusetts,
NJ. T. Dickinson, jr., Michigan, George
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Mississippi. c. B. HOwey; Missouri,
Charles Clafiin Allen; Montana, John
w COtter; Nebraska, EleaZer Wake
ley; New Hampshire, o. 2. Branch;
New Jersey, Charles Boscherling; New
Mexico, T. B. Catron; Walter s. Lo-
gan; North Carolina, John l. Bridg-
ers; North Dakota, James H. Boshard;
Ohio, Henry c. Ranney; Oregon,
Charles H. Carey; Pennsylvania, W.
U. Hensel: Rhode Island, James Til
linghast; South Carolina, George Lamb
BUST; South Dakota, Bartlett Trip;
Tennessee, James S. Pitcher; Texas,
Robert G. West; Utah, P. L. Williams;
Vermont, vacant; Virginia, W. A.
Glasgow, jr.; Washington, George M.
Forster; West Virginia, W. P. Hub
bard: Wisconsin, w. p. Bartlett; WyO-
ming, John A. Riner.
John Marshall Day.
The nominees were all unanimously
elected. The report of the committee
on John Marshall day was read by
Henry E. Davis of Washington. The
report told of the various exercises
over the country in celebration of the
centennial anniversary of the birth of
the great Judge"
The action of the general council IA
Voring a constitutional amendment adj
dOrSed. After brief address by Pres
ident-elect Ross, the convention ad-
jOurned sine die.
The executive committee met this
afternoon and decided that the next
meeting of the association shall be
held in Saratoga, n. Y, on Aug. q, %
and %, 1902.
The final meeting of the section of
legal education of the American Bar
association was held this afternoon.
The following officers were elected for
the coming year: President Z. W..
Huffcut, New York; secretary, Charles
NJ. Hepburn, Ohio.
The papers read were as follows:
Undergraduate Study of Law" by
Nathan Abbott of Leland Stanford, jr
university, read by J. P. Hall of the
same institution; Legal Education
D. Ashley of New York university;
Graduation Examinations in the Law
School," by Raleigh G. Minor of the
University of Virginia.
These papers were discussed at con-
siderable length, after which the as
ISOLATION adjourned sine die.
Lawyers at Banquet.
The annual dinner tonight was at
tended by most of the members Of
the association in the city. A large
number of tOasts were responded to.
W. L. Hensel Of Pennsylvania was
POSTMASTER.
The most notable response was by
Judge William X. Townsend of the
United States district court New
Haven, Conn.,, who originally decided
the Porto Rican tariff cases, the de-
cision of which by the supreme court
has caused so much comment. In his
address tonight he said:
Mr. Chairman: 1 was greatly inter
ested yesterday in the satirical, though
forcible, address of the eminent gem
tleman from Maine. / honor his cour-
age 4 bilffW and fndanandaF,ra b,,4 81
j listened IN vain throughout the en-
tire address for any statement OF law
or fact to support his assertion that
the decision of the supreme court was
contrary to precedent and authority.
From the time of the Louisiana
purchase, in 1S03 down to the treaty
of Spain in 1898, the treaty making
power OF the government has exercised
the right to deal as it saw Mt with the
status of the inhabitants of coded fer
ritory and, as Mr. Justice Brown saws
IN his opinion, the statutes passed i'm
pursuance Of the Louisiana purchase
snow the view of congress that a dis
examination in favor of foreign vessels
trading with the ports of a newly ac-
CURED territory, is no violation of the
. clause OF the constitution that declares
that no preference shall be given to
the ports of one state over those of
another. The same practical CON
struction was put upon the constitu-
ton in the case of the purchase of
Florida and in the annexation of Ha-
waii.
Now, gentlemen, 100 years ago the
supreme court of the United States
said that cOntemporaneous constriIc-
ton, especially when long acouefsced
IN, was very strong, if not controlling
with reference to the provisions Of
the constitution In insurance comma nv
vs.. Cauler, Chief Justice MarshaiY
expressly left open the question wherh-
er any act of congress was necessarv
| TO incorporate the inhabitants of new
! ~ acquired territory. For 100 wears
/ we nave acted on the theory that s1Icl,
act or congress was necessary tbat
/ the imposition of different rates Of
! DUTY was not in violation of the con
sututlon, and in our civil war We
/ stamped out the heresy that the con
sututlon followed the flag.
And so gentlemen. 7 rejoice in this
/ great decision of the supreme court
{ mat this country should not come forth
( porn as cripple into the family Of
/ nations but that she should Dossass
/ al the essential attributes of sover-
/ eighty which would enable her To sro[--
/ efn her possessions according 10 the
/ pest interests Of the American naonIe
/ and subject only to those prohjbIfive
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