The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-04
GEORGIA ATTORNEYS
GREAT GATHERING OF LAWYERS
AT WARM SPRINGS.
MANY LEADING MEN PRESENT.
SOCIAL FEATURES PROMISE TO
BE ATTRACTIVE.

About $50 Members of the Bar Pres
ent, Many Accompanied by Their
Notwithstanding Papers Read
Yesterday by President Battle.
Secretary Park and Hon. Walter
ID. HiII-QuestiOn of Conditions for
Admission of Graduates of Law
Schools to Bar Threatens Lively
Discussion.
Warm Springs. Ga, July 3.-More
than two hundred prominent lawyers
from all sections of the state are here
to-day attending the nineteenth annual
session of the Georgia Bar Association.
and fifty more arrived tonight. This
years session promises to he an I'M
usually successful one. Great inter-
est was displayed in to-day's proceed
ings and the programme for the re-
mainder of the meeting is just as at
tractive as the one of to- day.
The feature of the meeting to-day
was the annual address of Hon. Charl-
ton Battle of Columbus. the president
of the association. He discussed In de-
tail the boundary dispute between
Georgia and Tennessee. Mr.. Battles
address was heard with great interest
by the attorneys. and the visitors, who
are attending the meeting.
The weather here is warm but not
uncomfortable this evening. Swimming
pools claimed the attendance of the
lawyers this afternoon and tonight.
Many of the lawyers are accompanied
by their wives and daughters, and So
cially this meeting promises to be a
bigger success than any yet held. A
barbecue will be rendered the associa-
ton tomorrow or Saturday. Some of
the attorneys prefer a banquet, but
1t is said that it will be more pleasant
er to have an open air affair.
The customary annual report of
the treasurer Il. ID. Harrison, was
made this morning, showing the finan-
cial condition of the association to be
good. Twenty new members were
elected to-day. Burton Smith of At
lanta will be the next president of the
association. 1t has been an unbroken
| rule of the association to elect the
| first vice president to the presidency,
| and the rule Will be complied with
this year. Hon. p w. Meldrim of
Savannah will be made first vice presi-
| dent o. A. Park of Macon win be
| Reelected secretary and T. ID. Harri-
son of Atlanta viii be made treasurer
again. Orville A. Parks, secretary of
the association, read an excellent pa
| per to-day in which he reviewed the
work of the Bar Associati tons of the
| whole county.
| 1t was necessary to change the pro-
| gramme somewhat for to-day on ac-
count Of the nom arrival of some of
,t.e,x h.. arhA Frv@
| papers and discussions. The report of
| the Committee on Memorials was heard
| tonight as was the address of Hon.
| Walker b. Hill. chancellor of the uni
versity of Georgia.
Judge LurtOn Arrives.
Judge Horace II. Lurton of Nash
vile, Tenn, of the United States Cir
cult Court for the Sixth cir
cult arrived tonight to be
| special guest of the association.
Tomorrow night or possibly tomorrow
morning he will deliver the annual
address of the ASSOCIATION.
Much to the regret of all the law
| yers here former Chief Justice Logan
| e. Bleckley will not attend the ses-
| sion of the associa.ion this year.
| There was a death in his family re-
Gently and on this account. the Judge
| will refrain from meeting with his
| former associates at the bar
1t is seldom that the association dis
agrees seriously over a question. but
! the suggestion and recommendations
! which will be made by the committee
! on admission to the bar will meet
with vigorous opposition. The COM
mittee will perhaps recommend that
| all graduates of law schools, whether
| they take two years or one, should
be required to appear before the state
| board of examiners for admission to
| the bar. The friends of the law
schools here, headed by Glenn P. Steed
| of Mercer University, will fight the
adoption Of the report. There are
| many law school graduates attending
/ the session this year. and they pro-