Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-21
AMERICAN BAR Meeting.
MAN. Eminent Lawyers Meet in Denver in
Annual Session.
President Wetmore Introduced by
General Mand erson Makes Address
ON Corporations and Trusts.

Denver, Colo. Aug 21.-The Ameri-
can Bar association opened its twenty
fourth annual meeting at the Tabor
grand opera house this morning with
very large attendance Of members, and
the opera house well filed with WISH
tors.
Gen. Charles II. Henderson, OF Ne
braska, president of the association last
year. introduced Edmond NJ Wetmore
in brief speech. Welcoming addresses
we're then given by Plat Rogers, for
the Colorado Bar association, ana
Ruth Butler for the Denver Bar as
ISOLATION. A brief response was made
by President Wetmore, after which he
delivered his annual address.
He discussed the more important leg
islation of the several states under the
following classification: Corporatiors
and trusts, labor. taxation. municipal
ownership elections, the admlniatra-
ton OF the law, civil and criminal ana
newly created offenses, education, the
laws relating TO marriage and the reia-
ton OF husband and wife. and laws up
on miscellaneous subjects for the reguia-
ton of matters affecting public health
morals or welfare.
CORPORATIONS and trusts, President
Wetmore said, continue to occupymuen
legislative attention. lie SAID;
'The incorporation Of company IN
one state solely for the purpose OF. 40
ing business elsewhere Is not generally
looked upon with favor In the states
where they are intended TO operate
and there is a tendency TO exact, as
| far as possible, the same guanant~s
and extend the same control over tor-
ejgn corporations as over those chart
cred by the state where they do busl-
ness and even to hold the foreign cor,
poration to a stricter accountability
Mr.. Wetmore also said
1.-THE subject Of trusts has entered IN
IN the political issues that divide par
lies in the country Time and expert
ence will. doubtless. show the expeai-
| ency OF modifying much Of the leglsla
| tion that has been had on this difhcuit
| subject.
ut il a striking fact, however. that
while thirty states OF the Union nave
adopted stringent antitrust laws within
! ne mast eleven years yet during the
same period the amount OF capital ana
labor employed in the form OF CONSOLE
| dated incorporation, TO which that
| name is usually given, has In those
| very states. steadily and even enor-
| mously. increased. which would seem IL
show that without trenching upon
rights guaranteed by the constitutions
| M ali the states, the abolition OF That
| form OF employment Of capital Is be-
yond the reach OF legislative power
Treating OF labor legislation passed
nv California. Minnesota. Utah, Colora-
| do, Texas, oregon Illinois, Missouri
and Idaho, the speaker SAID that the
right 10 cooperate belongs TO all alike,
that constitutional guarantees secure
untrammeled freedom to every man to
give his labor or to employ the labor
Of others upon such terms as the par
ties themselves may agree. subject only
10 the restraint Of sucl abuses as. on
grounds of public policy, md the pub
| lie right, may be properly the SUBJECT
of legislative interference
on the subject OF elections In vari-
| aus ytates. especially those in which the
| election OF United States senators by
the people. and the referendum Idea
| have been adopted or suggested, Mr..
Wetmore said such legislation showed
a iistrust by the people Of legislative
| bodies.
The administration OF the law by var
ions states education and the lawNre-
| ls ting 10 husband and wife were hastily
touched upon By the speaker. after
| which hc took up. the laws and resul1-
lions regarding the public health and
welfare as passed by the several states
| Mr. Wetmore said that a genera sur
| ycy showed some defects. among which
| were oyer-leglslation, opportunist legis-
lailon. the evil which produced what Is
known - the political boss" In con-
clusion he said:
THE opponents OF the extreme doc
,r,nes Of socialism are found not among
The toil,ng masses. but among authors
and st,dents and theorists. The preach
| ors ~ the doctrine OF discOnteat may
no met among the educated, the intelli-
cent and well inteniioned. quite as Of
len as among the self-seekers and the
dema~ogues."
eecv. John Hinkley announced that
tho executive council had approved the
annlIcatlons Of 1874 new members repre-
srnlinr p states and territories. Oi
these Ga are from Colorado, They were
declared members OF the association.
President Wetmore then announced
committees 60 audit the treasurer's te-
port on publication and on reception.
The selection Of new general coln-
ell was take w. ~; u G following gen
,lemen were chosen. Alabama. Joseph
j wlcii; Arizona. Everett Z. Elm
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