The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
OPPOSITION TO
COLONIAL POLICY
FROM LEADERS OF THOUGHT.
COL. p. w. MELDRIM RETURNS
FROM LAWYERS MEETINGS.


Perfecting Bill So That Wholesale
Merchants VIII Have Same Law
in Many observation-disclosures
Ask That Receipts BE Prepared
which Can BE Used as Collateral
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Exhibit at
Exposition CreditabIe.
Col. p. w. Meldrim returned yester-
day morning from st. Louis, where he
has been in attendance on meeting of
the American Bar Association and
auxiliary bodies.
When Col. Meldrim left here he had
started to go to his farm in North
Georgia. While in Atlanta Gov. Ter
rell requested that he go to the ma
neuvers at Manassas, and two or three
days were spent there with the Gov
enor.
Returning to Atlanta he was ap-
pointed a delegate to the meeting of
the bar association at st. Louis
The first meeting I attended" said
Col. Meldrim, was that of a commits
sion on Uniformity of Laws. We
took up Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day preceding the meeting of the Bar
Association, in a discussion of the
general sales act The object of this
commission is to induce the several
state legislatures to adopt uniform
law upon certain things which are
common to all the states.
For Sellers and Buyers.
he 1at 1e
states are i'll conflict. and we have
spent this session perfecting a bill
which will be introduced in legislatures
of several states. so that merchants
in San Francisco or Chicago who sell
goods in Georgia will know precisely
what their rights are. and the buyer
will also know his rights.
The warehousemen's association has
donated $1,000 to the commission to
be used in expert work in getting up
uniform law upon the Warehouse
mems liability. and to prepare a form
of warehouse receipt.
Millions of dollars worth of goods
are held in warehouses of the coun-
try and the receipts used by ware
housemen are used as collateral in
banks. The object is to make uni
form the laws of the several states
as to the rights of the warehousemen,
as well as the rights of the depositors
of the goods, and to adopt a uniform
warehouse receipt. so that it can be
used as collateral anywhere. This IS
the work of the committee on uni
formity OF law.
Opposition to Colonial Policy.
1.-THE American Bar Association met
last Monday. 1t is composed of over
1000 lawyers from all over the United
le1Y 4
the meeting being held at Festival
Hall on the Exposition grounds.
ION Wednesday they adjourned and
the Congress of Jurists and Lawyers
convened, with Mr.. Justice Brewer of
the United States Supreme Court pre-
siding. A number of foreign jurists
were present, the body adjourning on
Saturday.
1.-THE interesting fact to me, both at
the meeting of the American Bar AS
sociation and at the congress, was that
in the addresses the underlying
thought of men like Mr.. Hagerman,
the retiring president of the bar as
ISOLATION, and Mr.. Justice Brewer, and
of Mr.. Foster, who delivered the prin-
cipal address, was the opposition to
the colonial policy of the present adj
ministration.
1T indicates a very widespread OPP
position to the colonial policy and it
is remarkable, for the fact that the
opposition comes from men of the high
est thought and of the largest expert
ence in public affairs of this country.
Georgia Exhibit CreditabIe.
$50 far as the exposition itself is
concerned, it is on the most stupen-
dous scale, as everybody knows. The
Georgia exhibit is exceedingly credi-
table, and though not as extensive as
it might have been, and as it ought
to have been. considering the COM
paratively small amount of states ap-
preparation, it makes a very good
showing.
Some of the states appropriated as
much as a half million dollars. while
the Georgia exhibit was at a cost of
$4,000, supplemented by the gener-
osity OF certain persons and communi-
ties.
eve went to st. Louis Wednesday,
Sept. 81. and remained until Friday
evening, Sept. 30. Gov. Terrell left
with us Friday evening at AIS o'clock"
Col. Meldrim was accompanied by
Mrs. Meldrim.