The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-02
CONGRESS OF LAWYERS.
state Bar Association to Send Dele
gates to st. Louis.


The Alabama state Bar Association
which Is TO meet in Montgomery July
& and will send delegates to the
Universal Congress of Lawyers ana
Jurists which convenes In st. Louis
September 2S for a session of three
days.
The Congress Is to be held under the
auspices of the Universal Exposition
st. Louis. 1904. and with the. co-opera-
ton of the American Bar Association.
The Congress will be composed OF
delegates named by the governments of
the world, delegates from Bar Associa-
tjons of the United States and kindred
associations of other nations. delegates
from law colleges. named by the con-
stituted authorities thereof and SUCH
eminent judges. jurists and lawyers as
may be specially appointed as dele
gates.
The Congress Is Immediately to sue
coed the annual meeting OF the Ameri-
can Bar Association for 1904, which Is
to be held at st. Louis, September 20.
81 and 2S.
II The American delegates are to be
composed of: All federal judges. and
all the judges of the appellate courts
of last resort In the various STATES
The American Bar Association Is TO
name 100 delegates. Each state Bar
Association Is to send delegates equal
in number to the representation or the
State in the House of Representatives
of the United States. provided, how
ever that each State and Territory
shall be entitled to send at least Ave
delegates In those states where
there are no State Bar Associations, the
highest court of last resort of such
State. or the judges thereof. shall name
delegates equal in number to the rep
resentation OF that state in the lower
house of Congress. provided however.
that they shall be entitled to name at
least FIVE. All American law schools
attached to state Universities. and
those law schools which belong to the
Association of American Law Schools,
are each to send from their faculty
two delegates and two alternates.
The governments of the world. the
foreign law associations and the for
eign law colleges have been requested
to appoint such number of delegates to
the Congress as they may each deter
mine. and advise the Director of Con-
crosses. Universal Exposition, st. Louis
of the number of delegates appointed,
their names and residences.
Among the objects of the Congress
are the consideration of:
First-The history and ef1cacy OF
the various systems of Jurisprudence;
Second-Those questions of interna-
tional, municipal and maritime law,
which concern the welfare of all civil
lized nations.
Third-The hope OF contributing to
greater harmony in the principles and
the forms of procedure upon which the
law of civilized nations should be
based.
Fourth-the bringing of lawyers and
jurists from all parts of the world In
contact for the purpose of exchanging
views on the principles and methods of
just Jurisprudence.
Fifth-The establishing OF closer re-
lations and associations between mem
bers of the profession upon which the
administration of justice depends
The meetings Of the Congress and of
the Association are to be held in the
Hall OF international Congresses on the
Exposition grounds. The proceedings
of the Congress are to be published and
distributed to the members of the Con-
gress and the Association.
Secretary Alex Troy of the State Bar
Association has received a communica-
ton from Frederick Z. Wadhams, Sec
retary OF the New York State Bar AS
ISOLATION urging the Alabama Associa-
ton tosend delegates to st. Louis.
The Alabama Association Is entitled
to eleven delegates in the Congress.