Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-12
Of America Will Meet
Aug. 26 at Portland
Ambassador Bryce Of England
to Be Principal Guest.
Other Distinguished Men Are to
Be Present.

Portland, Me-, Aug. 11.-Right Honor
able James Bryce, ambassador oil
Great Britain to the United States, Will
be the principal speaker at the 3oth an
nual meeting of the American Bar AS
ISOLATION, which will be held in this city
beginning Monday, Aug. 26. His sub
ject will be 1.-THE Influence of National
Character and Historical Environment
in the Development of the Common
Law" This address will be delivered
as the feature Of the meeting on
Wednesday.
, The meeting will be called to order
by the president of the association.
Former hief Judge Alton Il. Parker Of
g.lhe New York stale court of appeals, al
6g.i0 A. M. Aug. z6. at which time he will
y deliver the presidents address. COM
mnnicating the most noteworthy
Changes in statute law on points of
general interest made in several states
and by congress during the preceding
: year. 80
2 Monday evening at 8 o'clock Charles
+. AEiidon, United States district at
torneys of the district court OF North
& Dakota will present a paper on THE
Nation and the Constitution which
: win be followed By one by Charles \.
J. Prouty, Of Vermont. member of the
United States Interstate Commerce
Commission. on "a Department of Rail-
seways: Its Legal Necessity"
On Wednesday morning the annual
address will be delivered by Ambass2-
dor Bryce.
The annual dinner will be given by
/ the association to its members and del
egltes at s O'Clock Wednesday even
I ing. On Thursday the association Will
l be the guest of the Cumberland Bar,
Ersict will give an excursion hy steam
~ among the islands of Casco bay.
The officers Of the American Bar As
ISOLATION are: Pres. Alton r. Parker. Of
New York; secretary. John Hinkley,
Baltimore: treasurer, Frederick WadS-
ham. Albany.
At the invitation of the American Lar
Association the International Law AS
sociation will hold its meeting at Port
land on the three following days, Aug
90 20 and 81. This association consists
of distinguished members of the bar.
iurists and publicists of all countries
of the world. 1t was formerly known as
the Association for the Reform ana
Qualification of the Law of Nations. Inc
object for which it was organized at
Brussels in 1873 just after the work OF
the Geneva tribunal was finished, was
: the advancement of international arpl-
tration. Among it's presidents>haVe been
David Dudley Field and Simeon r..
Baldwin. former presidents OF the
American Bar Association; NJ. Ausguts
yessohers of Brussels: Sir Travers
Twiss, @. c.; Lord Alverstone anu
! Justice Kennedy of London: Common
b dato- p. Rosclli of Turin; DIR. X. koch.
Berlin: DR.. Frederick Sieveklng, Ham
burg. and F. V. n. Reichmann, Tr"nd-
Ehtem The honorable Sir Walter G. r.
ssphillimore, Judge of the high court OF
SAJustice of I.ondCn n, is now the presl-
Sdent of the association.
The Joint meeting of the American
Bar Association and the international
Law Association n parallel to which
can he found only in the worlds con-
gress of lawyers and juristS ana tiie
meeting Of the American Bar ASsocia-
ton at st. Louis in 1904. will bring mere
brilliant representation from me
bench and bar of the civilized w"rid
and will add n page of interest ana I'M
portance to the history of the Amer
lean Bar.