Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-09-02
BAR ASSOCIATION
MEETING ADJOURNS
Sessions Just Ended
Most Successful
Ever Held
WERE LARGELY ATTENDED
Ball at Palace Hotel Closing
Social Event in Honor of
Visiting Lawyers.

Visiting Lawyers.
President A. B. McMillen of the Bar
Association, in introducing his sue
cessor, e. G. Wade, yesterday after
noon, briefly addressed the Associa-
ton, referring to its growth in men,
bership and importance and the sue
cess of the meeting this year. Especial
ly the presence of the chief justice
and Of every associate justice of the
Supreme Court at every one of the
four sessions, was gratifying fact
and spoke of the cordial relation of
the Bench and Bar in New Mexico
when it can be said too of the Bar
as I remarked Of the Bench, that ev-
cry member is present at every meet
ing of the Association, then indeed will
it become a great power for good not
only to the profession but to the COM
monwealth as WE'LL" concluded the
speaker.
President e. G. Wade in taking the
chair, made few informal remarks
that were well received. He told of
how twenty-five years ago, he was one
of the few lawyers who met in the SUI
preme Court room to organize the
New Mexico Bar Association; that of
those before him, he remembered
Hon. Thomas B. Catron and Hon.
Frank w. Clancy as, having been pres
ent then. He pointed to the great in
huence that the Bar Association has
had upon legislation and affairs: of
its growth and of its honorable con-
duct for a quarter of century. Both
Mr.. McMillen and Mr. Wade were ap-
\ plauded.
The new secretary, Charles G. Cat
II ron, was escorted his place by the
same committee that had accompanied
Mr.. Wade to the rostrum, namely: w.
H. H. Lewellyn, Charles G. Ward and
Frank W. Clancy.
The auditing committee reported
that it had found the records and ac.
counts of the retiring secretary, Ken
meth X. Scott, correct.
Urges Strict Law Enforcement.
The special committee to which had
been referred a resolution in it's tenor
endorsing the Women's Christian
Temperance Union work assisting in
law enforcement in this territory, re.
ported substitute which was adopt.
ed without dissent and which read as
follows:
Resolved: That the education OF
public sentiment in regard to the con
tinued enforcement of the Sunday
law; the law against the sale of liquor
to minors, the law prohibiting
minors from entering and lettering
in saloons, and the anti-gambling and
anti-cigarette laws, is worthy of the
moral and active aid of this associa
tion, and we commend the bench and
the law officers for what has been &C
compNshed In these respects. We urge
the law officers to continued zeal in
support Of the appropriate statutes and
the punishment of the offenders
against them, to the end that infrac
tons of these laws, If there be, may
be chastised, and further breaches de
tered and avoided"
The resolution had been introduced
by A. B. Renehan, and had been cham
pioned in convincing remarks by
Judge John R. Mcie and Hon. w. H
H. Lewellyn
The committee on admissions
through its chairman, Charles G
Ward. reported favorably upon the ap
plication Of Thomas X. D. Madison o.
Albuquerque, and he was elected tt
membership unanimously, thus max
ing sixteen new members added tt
this session to the 1922 members O
the Association.
Resolutions, heartily thanking tn,
speakers, officers of the Association
and the hospitable people Of Santa Fl
we're adopted, and this concluded tn,
business of the Association, which ad
journed to January Of next year t
meet at Santa Fe during the session.
Of the Supreme Court and the Legis
lature, the date and place for tn,
August meeting being left open unit
the January sessions.
Three Fine Addresses.
The first address of the afternoon
was by Colonel w. H. H. Llewellyl
and was an interesting and compre
hensive historical sketch Of the Dc
partment Of Justice, for the data o
which to great extent, Colonel Llew
ellyn acknowledged himself indebte
to former Assistant U. s. Attorne,
General Milton D. Purdy Of Washing
ton, p. G., but now federal judg
In Minnesota. The address appears Il
another column.
Hon J. E. Cobbey of Nebraska,
legal author OF fame, spoke on the sub
ject Of "The classification and Codif
cation Of Statute Law" which was o
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