Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-27
LAWYERS OF STATE TO MEET
Nebraska Bar Association Convenss in
Omaha Early Next Month.
FEATURES OF PROGRAM ARE ANNOUNCED
Topics of Timely Interest TO the
Legal Profession TO BE Dis
cussed by Leading Mem
bers of the Bar.

The annual meeting OF the State Bar as
ISOLATION will be held in Omaha January 8
and 9, the sessions during the day to be
held in room No. 1 at the Douglas county
court house. The headquarters will be at
the Her Grand hotel, at which place, pre-
vious to the first session, the secretary OF
the association will have an ONCE at which
will be received applications for member
ship, which must be signed by three mem
bers Of the association in addition to the
applicant, and must be presented In time
for the council to pass upon before they are
presented to the convention.
The first session will convene at $3.50
p. m. Thursday, at which time the presi-
dent. S. P. Davidson Of Tecumseh, will de-
liver his annual address. This will be fol-
lowed by the reports of standing commit
tees, as follows:
Committee on legislation affecting the
profession. R. w. Breckenridge, Omaha,
chairman.
Committee on legal education, H. H. Will
son, Lincoln, chairman.
Committee on Law reform. w. D. McHugh,
Omaha, chairman.
Committee on judicial administration, O..
B. Lection, chairman. De-
General business and the reports Of spe-
clal committees will follow. For the enter
tainment Of the visitors the members OF the
Omaha bar are arranging a smoker to be
held Thursday evening, details of which
will be announced later.
The second session will open Friday
morning at 10 o'clock with a paper by c. s.
Lobingier on the subject of "The Popular
Ratification Of Constitutions-Its Origin.
Growth and Legal Necessity" This will
be followed by a paper by Prof. Charles
A DnhhtDo ~ Tho TTntvaraftv nf Nehraaka
on Preparation for the Bar"
Papers on Legal Questions.
Friday afternoon the program will open
with a paper by W. H. Kellinger Of Auburn
on the subject of THE Relation Of the
Telephone and Telegraph to the Rural
Highway" followed by a paper on "A
Point in Insurance Law" by Halleck F.
Rose Of Lincoln, and a paper by James H.
Mcintosh Of Omaha on THE Power Of
Congress to Regulate Industrial Corpora
tlons." The election Of officers will then
take place.
The annual address will be delivered at
S:15 p. M, by DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews,
chancellor Of the State university, who
will speak on the subject Of Socialism"
At $3.50 will take place the annual BAN
quet. Because of the meeting Of the state
association in this city the Douglas County
Bar association has waived its annual oar
quet and will join with the lawyers OF the
state in the feast. The banquet will be
at the Tier Grand hotel and Will be the
occasion Of the opening Of the new ban
quet hall of that house. The tickets will
be, as last year, IS each, and members of
the Douglas County Bar association,
whether members Of the state association
or not, are invited to be present. All who
expect to be present are requested to notify
r. w. Breckenridge at his ONCE in the
New York Life building as soon as pos
sible.
Francis A. Brogan will preside Mt the
banquet and the toasts are as follows:
Nebraska" Hon. e. @. McGilton, lieu
tenant governor; THE Judiciary" Mr.. JUS
tice ~Sedgwick: 1.-THE Profession OF Law"
Charles ]. Greene; Success to Bardwell
ag'in Pickwick," Arthur G. Wakeley; 1.-THE
Statute in Such Cases Made and Provided
Charles o. Ryan.