Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-27
AMERICAN BAR MEETS
ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS $50 AS
soCIATIoNs REPRESENTED.
General Council Named by States-Ad-
dress by Sir. Frederick Pollock
Of England.

Dispatches from Hot Springs Va, where
the American Bar Association is in ses-
sion, give the proceedings yesterday after
the close of President Rawles address.
which appeared in yesterdays Star.
Secretary John Hinkley of Baltimore read
his annual report. 1t showed that all the
states, except Nevada, and nearly all the
territories are represented in the associa-
don Thirty-nine states. two territorial
and 319 local bar associations are repre-
scented. On motion Of Burton Smith OF
Georgia a recess Of ten minutes was taken
to allow state delegations to nominate
members of the general council, which Is
composed of one member from each state.
The following were elected:
The General Council.
Alabama, Oscar R. Hundley; Alaska ter
ritory, Melville c. Brown; Arizona terri
tory. Everett e. Ellinwood Arkansas. John
Fletcher; California, Charles Monroe; Col
orado. Lucius w. Hoyt: Connecticut, E. E..
Baldwin; Delaware, Anthony Higgins; Dis
trict Of Columbia, Melville Church: Florida.
r. w. Williams; Georgia. P. W. Meldr'm;
Idaho, William w. Woods; Illinois, e. B..
Smithy; Indian territory, c. L. Jackson;
Indiana. William P. Breen; Iowa, w. p.
Caldwell: Kansas, John D. Milliken; Ken
lucky, William H Mackoy; Louisiana. p.
]. Herman; Maine, Charles F. Libby; Mary
land, John P. Poe; Massachusetts,, J. b.
Ames; Michigan, William L. January; Min
nesota, Hiram F. Stevens {chairman); Mis-
sissippi. r. III. Thompson: Missouri, F. w.
Lehman: Montana, Wilbur F. Sanders;
Nebraska, R. W. Breckinridge; New Hamp-
shire, Joseph Fellows: New Jersey. James
J. Bergen; New Mexico territory, Thomas
B. Catron; New York. Walter g. Logan;
North Carolina, j. Crawford Biggs; North
Dakota. A. A. Bruce; Ohio, Francis B.
To lob U Acn
Oregon. Charles H. Carry; Pennsylvania,
Henry Budd: Rhode Island, Amasa NJ.
Eaton; South Carolina, q. w. Mordecai:
South Dakota. Col. 1. Crawford; Tennessee,
Charles s. Varian Vermont. Elihu B. Taft;
Virginia. A. A. Phlegar: Washington, c. H
Hanford; West Virginia. George E. Price;
Wisconsin, r. M. Bashford; Wyoming,
Charles N. Potter.
Dues Nearly $4,000.
The report of the treasurer, Frederick E.
Wadhams of New York, showed a balance
in the treasury of IS, 1876. The total amount
Of dues the past year was s8,945.
Henry H. Ingersoll of Tennessee intro
duced a resolution providing for a stand
ing committee on uniform state laws. The
resolution went over until tomorrow.
The committee to secure uniform legisla-
ton by the state held it's last meeting. The
report of the president. Amos M. Eaton OF
Rhode Island, showed that twenty-five
states have enacted uniform law govern
Ing negotiable Instruments. Several states
have adopted uniform divorce law, which
provides that parties cannot secure divorce
in any state for cause which would not
entitle them to divorce in the state where
they reside.
Sir Frederick Pollock's Address.
Sir Frederick Pollock read a paper on
law reporting in England last evening. He
gave an entertaining review of the methods
of law reporting In England and paid a
high tribute to an American. He said:
Il will not speak again Of the history and
merits OF the early reporters, for therein
your countryman, John Williams Wallace,
reporter Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States from 1868 to 1876 is our
mon law lawyers, the late Mr.. Justice
Willes. who sent me to Wallace more than
thirty years ago."
After discussing the organization and de-
tails of the law reporting as 1t Is handled in
England, he concluded by saying:
Our work is quite unknown to the gen.
eral public: 1t is perhaps rather obscure
even to a large humber OF the profession;
a great deal Of what we publish Is, by the
nature of current litigation and legislation,
merely local and transitory. What is to
ton of a new street? Nevertheless, you
know, and we know, that we are about a
work the English-speaking world cannot do
without. In our modest and ministerial field
Of operation we are helping to maintain a
national and more than national heritage,
the ancient and still vital growth of the
common law"