The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-02

 CENSURE OF CHOATE
 IS NOT INDORSED The American Bar Association Turns Down Resolution ROOSEVELT A MENACE New Orleans Man Addresses the Con- venfion and Severely Arraigns
 Roosevelt for Policies Out
 lined in Kansas Speech
ROOSEVELT A MENACE

Chattanooga, September 1.-George W.
 Chamlee of Chattanooga was censured
 by the Chattanooga Bar association in
 the meeting of the Bar association to- | day.
 The association adopted an expression of regret discountenancing the action of MT. Chamee in undertaking to attack the professional record of Joseph H. Choate of New York. The local bar looked upon the matter an affront to the associa- ton that while the visiting lawyers were being entertained as guests of the city a lawyer of the local bar, in standing sponsor for serious accusations against one of the leading members thereof was thereby in effect violating accepted rules of hospitality.
 The resolution follows
 The bar of Chattanooga is greatly hu- initiated by the publication in the Chat tanooga newspapers, relating to certain charges pending against the Hon. Jo- seph H. Choate by James R. Watts, through a member of the Chattanooga bar.
 Although c. W. Chamlee, preferring the charges, discaims the statements re- hecting on the American Bar association implied to him, we regret deeply that while the members of the association are our guests a member of this bar should have consented to stand sponsor for charges against an eminent man of the profession in distant city, and we con- demn unreservedly the publication of these charges in violation of the rule of the association.
 This association has always entertained the highest respect for MT. Choate and will be slow to believe that there Is any truth in charges so long delayed and which, if true. should have been pre- ferred in the courts of New York" Breaking into the proceedings of the senior association, the Chattanooga asso- citation entered the room and MT. Frier- son proceeded at once to read the reso- lutions as adopted. When he had fin ished the entire body of visitors broke out in cheers.
 After quiet had been restored MT. Cham lee arose to a question of personal prlvi-
 
 of the association, asked leave to with draw the petition, so far as he was con- cerned. He pleaded he did not know he was violating any ethical rule of the association when he gave out the docu- ment for publication, and he was filled with regret at what he had done and the results which followed.
 Any proposition to withdraw the peti- ton at this stage of proceedings, after all of the furry the document had caused, aroused the opposition of General Will liam A Ketham of Indiana. The veter'n lawyer and soldier secured the ear of the chair and moved in forcible language that MT. Chamlee be not permitted to withdraw his charges, but rather be made to stand by his guns" MT. Lehman of St. Louis moved an amendment to General Kethams motion that the request of MT. Chamlee be re- ferred to the grievance committee along with the petition.
 This amendment was accepted by Gen eral Ketham, and there, covered with the humiliation of legal colleagues and wrath of members of the American Bar 
 association, the charges against Choate, together with the request for withdrawal, lie awaiting a resurrection which is very improbable.
 James R. Watts, the New Yorker who is the claimant in the affair, together with his son, James Watts, Jr, were in terested spectators of the proceedings. The Bar association's meeting came to close tonight with banquet at the Hotel Patten. In an address by E. E. Farrar of New Orleans, the new presi- dent of the American Bar association severely arraigned ex-President Roosevelt for his policy of nationalism. He de- clared that the policies enunciated by Colonel Roosevelt in his Kansas speech yesterday portended danger to the na- tion, and he pleaded with the association to stand out against Roosevelt and Roose- veltsm.
 President Farrar's address created sensation in the banquet hall, as he held up the ex-President as a menace to the free institutions of the country.