The age-herald., 1901-08-22
LAWYERS MEET
 IN DENVER, COL,
Session Opened With Large At-
 tendance of Members
PRESIDENT WETMORE SPOKE.
He Discussed Miscellaneous Subjects and Dealt Extensively With Trust and Labor Laws, Also State
 Election Laws.

Denver, August H.-The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Bar As- | sociation opened with large attendance
 of members, and the parquette and gal leries of the Tabor Grand Opera House
 were filled with visitors
 The feature of the morning was the ao- dress of President Edmund Wetmore or New York.
 President Wetmore In his opening ad-
 dress discussed the more important legis-
 Iation of the several states under the foi-
 lowing classification:
 Corporations and trusts, labor, taxation
 municipal ownership, elections, the ao-
 ministration of the law civil and criminal and newly created offenses, educanon' the laws relating to marriage and the re- lation of husband and wife, for the regu- latfon of matters affecting public neaitn' morals or welfare.
 He said: "The incorporation of a com
 pany in one state solely for the purpose | of doing business elsewhere Is not gen orally looked upon with favor In the I states where they are intended to oper-
 ate. and there is a tendency to exact, as
 far as possible, the same guarantees and
 extend the same control over foreign cor porations as over those chartered by the
 state where they do business and even to hold the foreign corporation to a strictsr | accountability
 Subject of Trusts.
 | The subject of trusts has entered into
 the political issues that divide parties in the country. Time and experience, will,
 doubtless, show the expediency of modi- flying much of the legislation that has
 been had upon this difficult subject. It is a striking fact, however, that while
 thirty states of the Union have adopted stringent antitrust laws within the past
 eleven years. yet during the same period | the amount of capital and labor employ ed in the form of consolidated incorpora- tion, to which that name is usually given, l has in those very states steadily and even | enormously increased, which would seem | to show that without trenching upon rights guaranteed by the constitutions of all the states. the abolition of that l form of employment of capital Is beyond | the reach of the legislative power" Treating of labor legislation passed by California Minnesota, Utah, Colorado, Texas Oregon, Illinois, Missouri and | Idaho, the speaker said that the right l to co-operate belongs to all alike that constitutional guarantees secure untram- | meled freedom to every man to give his labor or to employ the labor of others | upon such terms as the parties them
 selves may agree, subject only to the I restraint of such abuses, as, on grounds of public policy and the public right, may
 be properly the subject of legislative in- | reference"
 State Elections. On the subject of elections in various | states, especially those In which the cleo
 ton of United States Senators by the peo- l pie and the referendum idea have been | adopted or suggested, Mir. Wetmore said | such legislation showed a distrust by the | people of legislative bodies The administration of law by various l states, education and the laws relating to
 husband and wife, were hastily touched | upon by the speaker, after which he took | up the laws and regulations relating tc | public health and welfare as passed by
 the several states, MT. Wetmore said
 that general survey showed some de- | fects, among which were over-legislation l opportunist legislation, the evil which 1 produced what Is known as the politica
 boss" In conclusion he said: 1 ''The opponents of extreme doctrines oi | socialism are found not among the toiline | masses. but among authors and student, | and theorists. The preachers of the doc
 trine of discomfort may be met among tn, | educated, the intelligent and well-inten tioned, quite as often as among the self l seekers and the demagogues."
 New Council Chosen. A new general council was chosen, in.
 cluding the following;
 North Carolina, J. Crawford Biggs | South Carolina, Charles A. Woods; Ten,
 nessee. E, c. Camp; Texas, D. c. Diliard l Virginia, s. S. P Patterson; Alabama. J l J. Willett; Arkansas, John Fletcher Florida, R. W. Williams: eGorgia, P. W | Meldrim; Kentucky, E. F. Trabue; Louis
 lana, William Howes; Mississippi, R. H
 Thompson.
 President Wetmore announced the fol l lowing members of special committed | to consider an invitation and memoria | from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition | asking the association to met in St. Louii I in 1s0s eand to Appoint committee o' | 100 laborers to formulate plan for ( | universal law congress at the exposition | H. F. Stevens of Minnesota; James flag errnan. Missouri; W. S. Logan, New York; W. A. Ketchum. Indiana; c. F | Libby, Maine; Hugh Butler, Colorado Burton Smith. Georgia: Adoiph Moses. II
 linols; P. P. Dillard. Texas.
 Charles J. Hughes, Jr.. Of Denver de
 livered an address on ''The Evolution o