The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-02
GEORGIA LAWYERS
CHOOSE OFFICERS
A. P. PERSONS is PRESIDENT.
SELECTED TO SUCCEED PETER w.
MELDRIM.

T. NJ. Cunningham, Jr., of Savannah
Member of the Executive Com
mittee-RecOmme n dntiOns to the
Legislature Made by the As
sOciatiOn-At Least Two Years for
Law students in SCHOOLS May BE
!. Reqaired TO Admit to Iaractice.
Warm Springs, Ga, July 1.-The
Georgia Bar Association this afternoon
elected new officers as follows: Presi-
dent, A. p. Persons of Talbotton; first
vice president, John, L. Hopkins; Sec
ond vice president, ]. J. Strickland;
third vice president, Marcus w. Beck;
fourth vice president, Arthur G.. Pow
ell; fifth vice president, w. S. Davis;
Executive Committee, Washington Des-
sau, chairman; T. A. Hammond, r. NJ.
Cunningham, Jr., and S. p. Gilbert;
secretary, Orville A. Park; treasurer,
L.. D. Hartyson.
President Meldrim appointed the fol-
lowing Committee on Legislation:
Charlton E. Battle, chairman; A. A.
Lawrence, and T. A. Hammond.
Burton Smith of Atlanta, committee
man from Georgia. made a report on
the international congress of lawyers
to be held at st. Louis and expressed
the hope that Georgia would be well
represented. He told of the plans to
form an international association of
lawyers.
Delegates to st. Louis Congress.
President Meldrim announced the ap-
pointment of the following delegates
to the st. Louis congress. one being APP
pointed from each congressional dis
trlct: First District Henry G. Cum
ningham, Savannah; Second District,
]. L. Donaldson, Bainbridge; Third
District, f. A. Hawkins, Americus;
Fourth District, II. r. Goetchius, Co
lumbus; Fifth District, Howard Van
Epps, Atlanta. Sixth District, Wash
ington Dessau, Macon; Seventh Dis
trict, Joel Branham, Rome; Eighth
District, Thomas G.. Lawson, Eaton
ton; Ninth District, II. Y. II. Perry,
Gainesville; Tenth District, ]. G. 9.
Black, Augusta Eleventh District, O.
A. Park, Macon, in the place Of the late
Henry G.. Turner, whose appointment
WAS lldNt ny itelANAiN NANA0iA III ~
fore his death
Judge George Hnyer of Atlanta,
chairman Of the Committee on judicial
Administration and Remedial Proceed
ure, which submitted an important re-
port yesterday afternoon, with the re-
suit that the association referred the
subject matter Of the report to the
same committed TO report again at the
next meeting Of the association, said
L. for a
ton of the action of the convention in
two particulars-the recommendation
as to the salaries of Supreme and Su-
perior Court judges and as 10 the adop-
ton Of the Australian ballot system.
Bills i'm both these matters are now
pending in the Legislature.
Approved Recomme ndntiOna,
The association reconsidered. so far
as these two recommendations in the
report were concerned, and then upon
motion Of Judge Hillyer, the conven-
ton adopted unanimously those recon-
mendations. The recommendations are:
The salary Of Supreme Court judges
should be $4,000 and Superior judges
81 900: the Australian ballot system
should be substantially prescribed.
regulated and required I'm all elections
and primaries, both state and munich
pal.
President Meldrim appointed the fol-
lowing delegates TO the meeting Of
the American Bar Association Hon.
Hamilton McWhorter OF Athens. Louis
r. Garrard OF Columbus, and W. W.
Gordon. .Tr.. OF Savannah.
The admiralty laws formed the sub
iect OF a carefully prepared and valua-
bic paper by T. NJ. Cunningham, Jr.,
OF Savannah. who showed thorough IA
miliarity with the subject.
want No One-Term Lawyers.
II. Warner Hin. chairman Of the
Committee on Legal Education and Ad-
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