The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-02
STATE BAR REYIVEs
The Association Holds the Largest
Meeting in Years.
LIVE SET OF OFFICERS CHOSEN
The business Meeting Followed by
an Evening Banquet at the
Aberdeen.

Presidential B. Weber, Winona.
Vice-Presdent-F. v: Brown, Minneapolis.
Secretary-W. R. Begg, St. Paul.
Treasurer-C. w. Gail, Saltwater.
Governing Board--First district, Lafayette
French, Austin; second w. Z. Young Man
kato; third, A. e. Whitford, Hastings; fourth,
Stiles w. Burr, ST. Paul. fifth, Rome G.
Brown, Minneapolis; sixth, H. e. Barker,
Cambridge; seventh, E. r. Young, Appleton;
eighth. w. G. Crosby, Duluth; ninth, S. C.
Wilkinson, Crookston.
Never in the history of Minnesota has
a meeting of the state bar association
succeeded in bringing together more
representative body of attorneys than
were present at the annual meeting held
IN the house of representatives, St. Paul,
yesterday afternoon. The attendance eX
ceeded 300, and lawyers were present from
all over the state While a large part of
the attendance came from Minneapolis
and st. Paul. other districts We're well
represented, and the meeting, together
with the banquet at the Aberdeen hotel,
which followed it, was declared to be the
most successful ever held by the asso-
citation. total membership of $50 was
reported, and the new officials hope to
double this before the next annual meet
ing.
Henry d. Estabrooke of Chicago delv-
cred the address of the day. He spoke
on Hamilton, the Lawyer" to whom, he
sad, this country owed more than to any
other one man, with the possible eXcep
ton of George Washington. Said Mr..
Estabrooke:
1t Is impossible to separate Hamilton the
lawyer from Hamilton the statesman, Hamil-
ton the soldier, Hamilton the financier, and
especially Hamilton the controversaist. 1t
was to his legal mind that he owed his vari-
1iy,a rI,oJ ;,,I
thing more than a storehouse Of legal lore:
something more than an index of cases or
plgeonhole of files. The law is not simply the
latest guess OF the supreme court. 1t is that
rule of action which must prevail If justice
is to obtain and he is the greatest lawyer
who, in the light Of the greatest knowledge
of whatever is movable, most clearly per-
ceives the just principle and most persuasvely
advocates it. The legal mind is the scien
tlfic mind with kink in it.
What is the equipment of the ideal lawyer?
First, I would place the texture and quality
of mind; second, an encyclopaedia knowledge
based upon accurate study; third, tempera
ment; fourth endowment, physical and men
tai, with the gift of fuency and lucdty OF
speech; fifth, habit; sixth, character; seventh
personality. The legal mind must be dis
tinguished from the judicial mind. The law
yer must explore, discover, invent exploit.
The judicial mind is the common mind I'M
commonly lightened; it is sanity enthroned.
Washington was -eminently judicial. He
relied largely upon the advice and wisdom of
three great lawyers-Randolph, Hamilton and
Jefferson Oftentimes they differed among
themselves, but if Hamilton ever failed to
carry his point do not recall it. He the
greatest lawyer of the three.
Continuing, Mr.. Estabrooke spoke in
eulogy of Hamilton's character; of his
devotion to his clients, which had i'm
PEELED him to postpone his duel with Burr
until after court had closed for the term
so that the interests of the men who had
employed him might not suffer whatever
the result of the meeting; of his moral
courage, and Of his ability. The address
was heard with the closest attention and
the speaker literally applauded at it's con-
clusion. ...s 49,. .s-t i .t... .
H. F. Stevens, outgoing president of the
association, delivered an address on In
dustrial Feudalism,' in the course Of
which he argued that trusts were neces-
country, and predicted that by lowering
the cost of production they would make
this country supreme in the markets of
the world. Ultimately he thought they
would disappear as did feudaism in
Europe after it had served it's purpose.
The president was authorized to appoint
a committee of five to cooperate with the
mittee to confer with the supreme court
reporter and endeavor to secure the more
prompt publication of supreme court re-
ports at a lower cost than now obtains
balance of $3.50 was reported by the
treasurer.
The Evening Banquet.
Judge Daniel Fish presided as toast
master at the Aberdeen banquet, and in
troduced the various speakers. Toasts
We're given as follows Hiram E. Stevens
state Bar Association Redivivus'';, Nor
ton Barrows, Saints as Lawyers and
Vice Versa; "The Supreme Court" JUS
Lawyer, State Senator Peter McGovern;
Lawyers of the Minnesota Valley, Past
and Present M. j. Severance; and
Something from Minneapolis-M Any
thing Judge w. A. Lancaster.
Among those present were Justices
Start, Brown, Lovely and Collins of the
state supreme court: State Senators
Young, Snyder, Horton, Sheehan, Lord,
McGovern and Collier, Representatives
S. Hammond and Carroll s. Nye of the
state normal board, Judge Daniel Fish,
Thomas J. Knox and Hiram F.. Stevens
Of the statute revision commission, and
the following attorneys from Minneapolis:
Howard S. Abbott, Charles S. Albert, Isaac
A. Barnes, r.. r. Beemap, James 1. Best, f.
H. Boardman, Alfred H. Bright, F. V. Brown,
Rome G. Brown, C. w. Burlington, F. H.
Carpenter, Walter n. Carroll, E. c.. Chat
field, s. lR. Child, L. P. Chute, Albert c.
Cobb, j. r. Corrigan, Henry Deutsch, c. 3.
Elliott, G. M. Ferguson, Douglas A. Fiske
w. E. Hale, NJ. F. Hanley, A. NJ. Harrison
Robert A. Hastings, Edward w. Hawley, ].
c. Haynes, Frank Healy, F. N. Hendrix,
Frank R. Hubachek W.. A. Kerr Thomas
Kneeland, William A Lancaster, F. B. Lane,
J. H. Larimore. F. D. Larrabee, Claude B.
Leonard, William Lochren, l.. l.. Longbrake.
w. A. Mcdowell, John J. McHale, F. D. Nc
Millen, H. V. Mercer, William r. Morris
Robert G. Morrison, Frank P. Nantz, H. H.
Potter, Fred w. Reed. William P. Roberts
James Robertson, George r. Robinson, c. J.
lockwood, Edwin S. Slater, C. j. Traxler
Edward F. Waite, Jonas Well J. o. P. Wheel
wright, H. r. Woodland. r,