The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-22
LAWYERS IN SESSION
MEETING or AMERICAN BAR
 ASSOCIATION.
The Presidents Speech Reviewing the Important Changes in Statute Laws of Nations and
 States the Feature.

Denver, Colo, Aug. 21.--The twenty eighth annual meeting of the American Bar Association opened with a large attendance of members. and the par quette and galleries of the Tabor Grand Opera House were filled with visitors.
 The features of the morning was the address of President Edmund Wet more of New York.
 President Wetmore in his opening address, discussed the more important legislation of the several States under the following classification:
 Corporations and trusts, labor. taxa ton. municipal ownership. elections, the administration of the law civil and criminal and newly created or lenses, education, the laws relating to marriage and the relation of husoand and wife, and laws upon miscellaneous subjects, for the regulation of matters affecting public health, morals or well fare:
 He said: ,"The incorporation of 8 company in one State solely for the purpose of doing business elsewhere, is not generally looked upon with fa- vor in the States where they are tn- tended to operate, and there Is a ten- dency to exact, as far as possible, the same guarantees and extend the same COutIOi ONCI AOACA6h SpAk0As~sA~AsS - over those chartered by the State where they do business, and even to hold the foreign corporation 10 'stricter accountability.
 The subject of trusts has entered ln- to the political issues that civioe parties in the country. Time and ex- perience will, doubtless. show the ex- pediency of modifying much of the legislation that has been had upon this fu Gfr 1HCI. however, that while thirty States of the Union have adopted stringent anti trust laws within the past eleven years, yet during the same period the amount of capital and labor employed in the form of consolidated incorpora- tion. to which that name IS usually given. has in those very States steadi- ly and even enormously increased' which would seem to show that Witn out trenching upon rights guarahteeu by the constitutions of all the states tha aholition of that form of employ ment of capital is beyond the reaeh oA the legislative power.
 Treating of labor legislation passeo bv California, Minnesota, Utan, Coio. rado, Texas, Oregon, Illinois, Missouri and Idaho, the speaker said that the fright to cooperate belongs to all alike' that constitutional guarantees secure freedom to every man 10 give his labor or to employ the lapor of others upon such terms as the narties themselves may agree, supJect only to the restraint of such abuses as, on grounds of public policy ana the public right, may be properly the suo- feet of legislative interference.
 On the subject of elections in various States. especially those in which the election of United States Senators Dy the people and the referenouH luea - nave been adopted or suggested, MI; Wetmore said such legislation snoweu A distrust by the people Of leglsiati'e
 The administration of law by various States. education and the laws reiatins fo husband and wife were nastly touched upon by the speaker al,eF which he took up the laws and regula- tions relating to public health and vel fare as passed by the several states MT wetmore said that general sur vey showed some defects, among when we're oyer-legislation, opportunist ies. islation. the evil which produced whae is known as political boss. III con- clusion, he said ,aAo.e.res of socialism are found, not a.none t .nS. . toiling masses. but among au.noIs hars a students and theorists. The preachers of tbe doctrine of diseontent may pc
 oet among the educated, the intelh- gent and well-intentioned, quite as Often as among the seif-seekers ana the demagogues. ..