The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-24
NOTES FOR THE LAWYERS.
Bar Association Announcement Tells
Interesting Things.

ton that may yet develop into a boom
for an Iowa man for the presidency of
the United States-in 1908 or later. Mr..
Valentine springs Governor Cummins
of Iowa as a presidential possibility of
the future.
This suggestion is made in the annual
bulletin of the State Bar association
which has just been issued by Mr.. VAL
entine, and which he is today sending
out to the lawyers of the state. He
says:
Governor A. B. Cummins, of Iowa,
will deliver the annual address, subject
not yet announced, but considering that
the governor is a fine lawyer of much
actual experience, an orator worthy Of
high place among the many orators of
his state, a politician of the highest
grade who is exploiting a new idea, a
genial gentleman, the choice of sub
ject does not matter much. It will be a
good one and he will treat it boldly
and as an orator should. Here is a
splendid chance for the lawyers of
Kansas to meet a man who has a ma
tional reputation and who may some
day be president of the United States,
if this idea strikes the popular fancy
The bulletin issued by Mr.. Valentine
contains much interesting information
about the coming annual meeting of the
bar association which will be held in
the supreme court room at the state
house on January 81 and %. Among the
paragraphs of information which Mr..
Valentine turns loose are the following:
Every reputable lawyer of the state
who has practiced in the lower courts
for one year and who has been admitted
to practice in the supreme court is
eligible to membership. To accommo-
date those who have not been admitted
to practice in the supreme court, a short
session of the court will be convened
for the special and only purpose of en-
tertaining such motions.
President Slonecker has not yet de-
116 a1 hot hi loot he will toll hi &
address, but the secretary hazards the
guess that it will be a good one and
timely.
Last year one of the most successful
features of the most successful meeting
the associa ton ever held was ''Ques-
ton box" Tor county attorneys, con-
Quoted by Judge ]. S. West. 1t is to be
duplicated this year. the same gentle
man doing the heavy work. About
twenty county attorneys were then in
attendance; twice that number at least
should be here this year. AS a matter
of fact, los could best serve themselves
and their counties by taking the time
to attend Time and money could not
be more proftably employed, not to
speak of the pleasures inciden tally in
volved. Maybe an association of coun-
ty attorneys can be organized this year
to raise salaries. 1t would be a good
opportunity to try.
FOUNDERS Day" was a fzzle last
year; maybe it will be this year, for the
society is entirely too wide-awake too
modern, too much interested in too
many live subjects to take up remi-
niscences at this time. However, it will
be called up, and If either Judge Gill
patrick, Judge Graves or Judge Clark
A. Smith, or all of them, are present,
there will be something doing along
this line. This was the committee
which failed to report last year and
was continued.
The association is twenty-one years
old and has Clxinnad q
1t has accomplished much these years;
there is much to be accomplished of in
terest and benefit to the craft.
Special effort will be put forth to in
terest the judges of the district courts
this session. Some of the leading
judges are talking about an organiza-
ton looking to a raise in salary of all
the judiciary. Every judge should lend
moral support at least to the move
ment and be present ready to partici
pate and cooperate.
The regular annual banquet will be
held the evening of the second day at
the Copeland hotel. A splendid pro-
gramme is being prepared. For years
this has been the only state social
gathering of those learned in the law.
1t affords splendid opportunity for
ripper acquaintance under most favor
able circumstances. This banquet is
free to members.
There is to be a national congress of
lawyers in ST. Louis next summer
which congress will be the most i'm
portant meeting of lawyers ever held
on earth. Kansas lawyers should get
ready for it by attending their state
association and becoming acquainted
with the project.
There are state bar associations in
every state in the Union, barring four,
and every territory. barring some of
the far away islands, has an associa-
ton of its own. There are 345 lawyers
| organizations similar to our own, ex-
| elusive of state and territorial, in the
United States. It pays to affiliate and
| become one of the procession.
| The association has standing and
special committees as follows, with
chairman as named, who will be expect
| ed to make reports in writing. These
reports are open to discussion and are
really very interesting features of the
various sessions:
Executive Council-L. H. Perkins,
Judiciary-John F. switzer, Topeka.
Amendments to Laws-J. H. Stavely,
Lyndon.
Legal Education and University Law
School,. S. Dean, Marion.
Memorial-T. E. Dewey, Abilene.
Membreship-A. L. Berger, Kansas
City.
Probate Courts-G F. Grattan, Nc
Special committee on universal con-
gress of lawyers and jurists-J. G
/ Slonecker. Topeka.
! Local bar association-D. S. Afford
/ Lawrence.
The total cost, membership, dues one
year and banquet, is but IS.
The Kansas Bar association is solely
| wholly and entirely responsible for the
new law relating to admissions to the
bar. There has been one session of the
board of examiners held under the Law
and the rules adopted by the supreme
| court Everybody nearly or remotely
I oonnontoI with "a or the hoard is
proud of the way the first examination
passed off. The secretary of the board
| Mr. L. H. Perkins, Lawrence, has kind
" promised to explain the object, aim
and workings of the same, together with
all else that may be of interest to the
fraternity touching this subject
| Annually the senior class of the state
| university sends I'D a man who writes
the hast 1,arer in cnrnnetition for the