Arizona republican., 1906-01-10
THE TERRITORIAL BAR
 ENDORSES JUDGE NAVE
A Further Allusion to the Legend of
 the Constitution and By Laws.

The annual meeting of the territo- rial bar association was held yester- day. There was not a very large at tendance and the president not ap- bearing, the meeting was called to or der by Vice President Norris. Secre- tary Ingles recalled attention to the circumstance that he was short of data regarding the association, of which there was only a name. He 1Iad no in- formation concerning his duties; there was no constitution, and there were no bylaws. He had not sent out mo- ticeS of this meeting for two reasons. One was that he did not know wheth- CT it was his duty to do so, and, be- side, he said he did not know to whom to send them.
 He had consulted his predecessor about sending out notices of dues, and ne had been told that there was only one thing to do-that was to send mo- tices to all lawyers in the territory by counties and that most of them would pay.
 Thus was brought up the perennial question of the constitution and by laws. Several years ago, after the as sociation had been in existence for some years, it was discovered that the body was without either. A commit tee was appointed to prepare them and report one year hence. At that time 1 the committee neglected to report. Az ter a lapse of several years, some of 1 the members remembered that there had been such committee, but they had forgotten what the committee had done. After the lapse of a few more fInttoy,f hat hoN membered that the committee had brought in the constitution and by 1 laws and that they afterward got lost. Many of the members are of the firm opinion that the constitution and by laws actually exist somewhere if they could only be found. But there is not one member who remembers that he ever saw the fundamental law of the thing contained in it. The constitution and bylaws are believed by many to be wholly legendary.
 After some time had been consumed 1 in the discussion of this matter the association proceeded to the election of officers. Vice-President Norris was made president. He now enjoys a monopoly of the presidencies of terri torial bar associations, since not long ago he was elected president of the Northern Arizona Bar association. | In accepting the presidency yester- day Mir Norris regretted that the law yers of the territory did not know more of each other than they do Their vocation brings them together in a spirit of antagonism, so that many of them pass from the stage without ever | hay hn6 ci oh of he cid nf their colleagues. There ought said MT. Norris, be a more friendly intercourse between the members of the territorial bar. The annual banquet in part brought them together in a friendly way, but that is only once year. The association. if it were profitably enl- ployed, he believed, might result in the establishment of a friendlier feeling and the establishment of sentiment of higher respect among the members of the bar.
 Walter Bennett was elected vice. president and Paul Ingles secretary. In bis absence, E. w. Lewis was elected | treasurer. To those familiar with the inside facts this is an expression of confidence in an official seldom mani fested, for it is remembered that at the last meeting or the dSSOClallOn NIT. Lewis reported that there were in his | hands funds to the amount of thirty nine cents. He offered no detailed statements of his receipts and dis bursements; no schedule showing how ne came to be possessed of this sum. l Nor was he seen about the court house while the association was in ses- sion to make an accounting. For all the association knew at the time it re- elected him, he might have become an absconder.
 Captain J. w Crenshaw offered the annual motion for the appointment of a committee to procure n constitution and bylaws and report at the next meeting. This motion differed from it's predecessors ill the substitution of