The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-09
ALABAMA LAWYERS MEET
In TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

He is an attractive ngure. addressing
an audience. A clean-cut. refined race
with strong mouth and chin and steady
blue eyees il surmounted by CAREFUL
ly kept thatch Of gray hair. HIS inquire
is OF middle height and round without
He made most favorable impress
sion upon his Alabama audience. many
OF whom were ladies, and a generous
mead OF applause was his reward for
AIS The nn feature Of the morning session
next to the address Of Mr.. Busbee. was
the fine annual address Of President
The iawyers will hold their final ses-
sion at Jackson's Lake today. where
an old-fashioned barbecue will be
served.
de Graffenreid, the handsome and i'm
pressive head Of the Association,
mounted the speakers stand and let
fall the gavel.
THIRTY LAWYERS
ELECTED MEMBERS.
Hon. Thomas r. Roulhac, Chairman
of the Central Council, was recognized.
He desired, he said, to present a list
Of names Of lawyers whom the Central
Council desired to recommend to cleo
list contained thirty names, and was
as follows: Thomas L. Sowell. Jasper;
G. 8. Mcdowell. Jr.,- Eufaula: H.. R.
Dill. Birmingham: " L. Allen, Birming-
r. 7. Goodwin. Montgomery: John Nc
Kinley, Eutaw; L. K. Founder. Eutaw;
w. F. Hogue. Marion; e. w. Faith.
Mobile; G. e; Crenshaw. Montgomery;
Fits Fits. rusesioosa; A. 4. D. PITTS. selma;
John B. Talley. Scottsboro: D. S. Haus-
man. Montgomery; P. A. Mcdaniel, Alb
beville; E. H. Foster, Jr, Huntsville;
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Grove. shefield; W. II. standifer, Ems
ley; A. ]. Roulhac, Sheffield; J. L. An
drews, Sheffield: Walker Percy, Bir-
mingham: ]. w. Davidson, Birmingham;
r. H: Wilhoyte. Sheffield; J. r. Thomas.
On motion Of W. M. Blakey of Mont
gomery. the Secretary ywas directed to
cast the vote of the Association for
list.
Judge w. H. Thomas of Montgomery
drew the attention of the Association
to the forthcoming meeting of the In
ternational Congress of Jurists and
Lawyers at st. Louis, September $3.50.
Alabama was entitled to eleven dele
gates and Judge Thomas said that a
delegation of that number of whom the
president should be one. should be
named. The motion was carried and
the president announced that he would
name the delegation later in the day.
was next upon the program.
In his annual communication to the
Association President DeGraffenred
briefly. but forcib1y sketched the i'm
the past twelve months. giving a sue
cinct history of the Russo apanase
war and a resume of the development
in Panama and Columbia which will
canal by the United States. The ad-
dress called special attention to i'm
portant enactments by the legislatures
of other States and it gave the results
Legislature. The views of Mr.. De-
Graffenreid upon the questions which
at present vitality affect the, State and
the United States were given close at
tention.
The address of the president was
clothed in terse, expressive and at
times beautiful English. 1t showed
research, thought and observation. It's
terseness and logic appealed to the
lawyers and the comments upon 1t from
members of the Association were most
complimentary.
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
OF THE PRESIDENT
In opening his annual address Mr.
| deGraffenried alluded to events of the
| last twelve months. that have made
| the world. He dwelt upon the war in
| the Far East. the Alaskan boundry. the
| Hague peace tribunal. the isthmiar
| canal, relations Of the United States
| with Cuba, the treaty between the
| United States and China, Supreme
| Court decisions in election cases. the
regulation of trusts and conflicts be-
| tween Federal and State Courts.
Continuing and referring more ,espe-
| cially to matters in Alabama Mr.. de.
Graffenried said:
I Upon our last Legislature, was i'm
posed duties of more than usual i'm
| portance, for its members were charged
with the responsibility of carrying int
| effect the provisions of the present con-
stitution.
| Before passing TO a consideration OF
| the work done by this body, think II
well to suggest that. as the Legisla-
| ture can now only meet In Quadrennial
session. extraordinary care should be
| taken that the bills as framed and en-
| acted into laws should comply with all
| the constitutional requirements. This
| Is suggested by reason of the fact that
| one of the important measures passed
| the last session. the section of the reve-
nue. bill relating to the inspecting and
| tagging of oil, has already been held
| to be violative of the constitutions; and
| two others. the Jefferson County Con-
| solidated Court BILL which concerns the
| administration of justice In the largest
| and richest county in the State, and al
least portions of the Lusk re-district-
\ ing bill, which concerns the admins
tration of justice all over the State
| are under attack. and grave doubts are
expressed as to their constitutionality
| This last bill so far as the section
| providing for the waiver of Jury trial
unless demanded is concerned, has been