The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-08
.Laru q Attenda Upon
Annual Meeting Of the i \:
State B 8AssoCiat atiYO'n.. i !.
ADMIT NINETEEN
u NEW MEMBERS :; |: J
Speeches Of President Phlegars
and Mr. Jackson Features 5ot I'd
the Day General Ayers
Urged BY Friends end to 81
VI ", Accept Nomination
for Congress.

for Congress
(special from staff Correspond dent. ss#
HOT SPRINGS, vA.;, August .----Th nc g
4 eIrbtee1 tf annual session OF the Virginia
II Bar Association, which opened here to-
day y, promises to be tha most Httccessful
3sin point OF attendance that has 81 been heid 70
In years b Members from all parts 3. 81 oi me ~
4 state are registering all the time. ana !,
4 well known Ia 81 gers who have y OF a tteno Z
ed IA session in years are nere. 20 NEE,
@ and mingle with their y ~ ~ 1'
" $conclavc. ~ VI M @ Id 3.. Z, \. B,
tsi nhe number OF wives and daugMhtersI' M y
q Who have accompanied the members B ls
much d Ia rper tina us llal .tiS 7 vo sessions
Il we re- held to- day, the first at lO:So tnls i
Il morning, Lasting Until past noon, l ana " " 9
u second in tho evening. !, 4. -..,
f The a features to-day were tne pres, pres
dents annual ad dress del tyered by 3 Prs ssl
" dent Phiegar, and the address to-nisntt y
4. ~ Mr E. n Hilton Jackson. OF shinse
a Ton. D \. c.. both Of them attracting InuSc4n
III favora BE comment rs Aconsiderablem "A ma asS
n roi,tfne business was transa 60 toI %
y dav Including the admissio on Of nine MIN
n teen new members. The port OF me
secreta ry and treasurer. John ~ y lllo!'
81 Richmond sowed that ne total ~
Il bersl1i.. s. now $40, Including the JUDGES
.ff9 fithe stat who are honora ~ mem bers.i
The financcs OF the $asso zion az ~
8% pood cor1 dftion. the receipts for the past
" Yea r being about three ti1ou sand 8doilals oi
S nd NJ the ex penditures abou
~ hundred dollars. \, Il, ;,
.ss5 a letter from Hon. James =. Harrison, g
of9 panviIle, was read to tn 9 assocla n ~ tion
BY Secretary Minor. sug gestlng tna.tl t!.t lhe e
Il association meet in or near ~ y oriolk Snea. :
2yea ~ ana that the session be devote Ato
n considering the b historyssof the 'l par ana g
the laws OF the Common wealti
A letter from the rector OF old Br1iton
Parish, Williamsburg.vas w as also rea a shs-
& resting tbs. /. the asscciat tion endow IA PEW
II tho church in honor of the a n emory
81 Of George s,Yythe. # $3s
IJon. John Go ode Is one of The honorea 20
d attendants upon conv ie :. 8is h tnee e
u recipient OF much arked attention
General Ayers Urged. S8s3i ss3
ona 81 the most sought after members r
~ 5the association 5sis Hon r utue s q.
& Ayers, or Big Stone g tgf 9 " son.
i stantly surrounde ed by friends nos glng
him ia accept IA nomination to Conereas ~
M the DEM ocrats OF the Ninth Distrlcl
- dnae not want the nomina ton. II u
! believed he could be forced to take III.
SiI r.. undertake 10 men tlon even 3feW a q;
thc distinguished men Of the State who
IA are here would be to give half the al y
tendance. . The session pre- omlses Il to W be
e. remarka ble and enjoyable BY reason o.
other things than numbers
III Associate Justice Brewer, OF the United e!i
& States Supreme Court is her ana VII ~ !
address the n association Tomorrow.
The morning session convened at y lO:3o
\ d, CLOCK In the ballroom at tho home.
e ,teads Immediately after rapping the
body3 10 OF DEF, , Judge Phlegar. the presi.
n dent. announced that ne would proceed
& TO deliver the annual add ress expected e
334 Of the presiding officer,
$R The subject Of Judge PhlegaT.s paper
was ..The Legislature OF 1905, It's Work
and Lesson ~ Judge P hlegar SCI out by
q saving that the Twenty-Five months
y which in tervened between the adjourn
ment o. the Legislature $of 1904 and the
conyening OF the Legislature OF 1905 marx
" ed a period in which Virginia n ad groWn
3 and deye loped more rapidly than during
"a any previous twenty-five months Gl OF
6 history. y, Il. !. \ i, ! - !, I,
4 needs or t least, many desi Tres for hose
d Il hings the Legislature alone could Supply.
.sbS ~ & me q ton ed that Governor Montague
established a precedent by appearing be.
fore the two houses In Joint session and
i delivering his message instead Of sen g.
y ing It In in writing, and that Governor
Il Swanson made his inaugural address his
Il first message to the egislature. 3s
nIt is more than probable, " said judi ge
phIerar. THAT the oral delivery OF the
Il Governors message Will be popular GUS
X tom in this State certainly while the
r;nvernors sneak and read as we'll as the
"A Incumbent OF the Office and his immediate
predecessor
The egislature.
55ij ,rhe paper sums up the work Of the
Legislature of 1906 as follows: The cleo
ton OF seventeen corporation judges,
twelve circuit Judges, five dges OF the
K supreme Court and q United States Sem
ator, the consideration of numerous
y ominat!ons by the executive and !SS
Senate bills and 1855 House bills, besldes
81 number of joint resol W ION ~ 70 %
accomplished In forty-eight WORKING Gays; 2. !;
B5 AS twenty-fi five bills day and more naa
to be considered, It ist plain, me paper y !
says that the constitutional provision '
for the reading OF each bill at leng IN on
three separate days prior 70 & lts pas
\ sage was innpracticabl and that the a.
ternate of dispensing with the readlng
BY a recorded affirmative vote requlr
\ such a number Of rol,calls as to prese1lt
aE impracticable situation,
The result was that the clerk who coulo
I read the greatest number or tltles allu
concluding sentences In the shortest tlme,
b skipping the greatest number OF inter
mediate pages, was the most popular
and useful.
But the result Of this was that fre-
uuently but few understood the pills
which were being enaeted, and there are
many verbal Inaccuracies In the acts
iWhile there Is no reason to charge
said Judge Phlegar, "that any measure
was surreptitiousy got through q COM
mIttee, 1t Is easy to sees that IT would he
! very easy matter for q person with
Z plastic conscience so to do. e
Judge Fhlegar analysed az follows the
work of the I.egls stature ;s a
AZ or the tS27 bills which, became la ws, lS3
were local and private measures. srwen+