Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-08-26

English speaking countries, II Is no
| wonder that the dominant note at the
annual summer meeting of the New
Mexico Bar Association at Roswell on
Thursday and Friday of last week was
protest against federal enCrOach-
| ment upon vested and constitutional
rights and federal meddling in purely
local affairs. Whether the present sit
uation in New Mexico justities this at
titude or not, the spirit manifested Is
the proper one, and from the first ad-
dress, by President A. B. Renehan,
demonstrating clearly the illogical po-
stion OF the federal government in
the Elephant Butte controversy and
| subsequent federal irrigation project,
| to the last address OF the meeting, an
eloquent peroration by eX-Delegate to
| Congress Fl. B. Ferguson protesting
against a form Of government for New
Mexico like that exercised by the Ro-
mans over a distant colony by satraps
! or proconsuls, not even chosen for
their fitness, there was strong and
| inspiring stand for personal and con-
stitutional rights.
Santa Fe Selected for Next Conven.
| tion.
Out of courtesy to retiring Presi-
dent A. B. Renehan, and upon the cor
! dial invitation from the Santa Fe dele
cation, which, as at the convention Of
last year at Cloudcroft, was the larg-
est delegation sent from any New
| Mexico town, Santa Fe was selected
as the place for the midsummer con-
vention of next year, to be held on
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of the
week preceding the midsummer ses-
sion of the New Mexico supreme
court.
| Officers Elected.
The new officers Of the Bar Asso-
citation are: President, A. b. McMil-
Ian, of Albuquerque; vice president,
First judicial district, Paul A. F. Wal
ter, of Santa Fe; Second district, M.
E. Hickey, of Albuquerque Third dis
| trict, E. C. Wade, of Las Cruces;
Fourth district. Charles A. Spiess, of
Las Vegas; Fifth district c. r. Bryan,
of Carlsbad; Sixth district, George B.
Barber, of Lincoln secretary and
treasurer, Kenneth Scott, of Roswell.
Delegates to the National and the
American Bar Associations will be
named by President Mcmillan, A. B..
Renehan, the retiring president, how
ever, being ex-officio delegate, leaving
only two delegates to be named for
each of these national conventions.
The standing committees will be an
nounced by President Mcmillan at a
later date.
The First Days Session.
Although the convention was to
convene on last Wednesday forenoon,
the mishaps to the Albuquerque and
Santa Fe party on the automobile
route between Torrance and Roswell,
set forth in Saturdays Daily New
Mexican, prevented the convention
from being called to order until Thurs
day morning. for in the stranded party
were the president, first and second
vice presidents, the secretary and the
treasurer of the association.
The convention was called to order
on Thursday forenoon by President
Renehan. Besides large number of
members of the local bar, the bar OF
Carlsbad, Portales and other Pecos
Valley towns, there were present
members of the association from
Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Alamogordo,
Lincoln and other more distant towns,
also Hon. Samuel H. Cowan, of the
Texas bar, Judges Ira A. Abbott and
wv. Fl. Pope, of the Territorial SUI
preme bench. The court room in
which the convention met was taste
fully decorated with asparagus vines
and blossoms and there were present
large number of businessmen and
ladies'.
The first order of business, the re-
port of committees, consumed very lit
tie time, the most important report
being that of the committee on law re-
form, which related the active part
taken by the committee in the deliber-
ations of the last Legislative Assemb-
ly and especially the revision of the
laws which is now under way and
which was brought about by the rep
reservations of the committee to the
members of the legislature. The COM
mittee on the dsbarment proceedings
against w. J.. Httson, Of Tucumcari,
charged with unprofessional conduct,
reported that it would present its re-
port to the supreme court at it's ses-
sion this month. The secretary re-
ported large increase in the men,
!, bership of the association and its good
financial condition.
President Renehan's Address.
4 President A. B. Renehan had chosen
for his annual address the subject:
Federal Policy Touching the Rio
IGrande and It's Tributaries 1t was a