The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-28
bar ASSOCIATION
TO MEET TUESDAY
Legal Lights from All Over
the Country to Attend
Boston Convention.
(National News Association)


BOSTON, Aug. 2S.-Legal lights
from every section of the country are
gathered here to attend the thirty
fourth annual convention of the Am
erican Bar association which opens
at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology tomorrow.
Exceptional interest is attached to
the reports of the standing commit
tees. E.,
The most interesting of these is the
report of the special committee to sug-
gest remedies and formulate proposed
laws to prevent delay and unneces-
sary cost in litigation to be delivered
Wednesday morning. This committee
has embraced it's activities under
three heads: Trial practice, prac-
tice in appeal and equity procedure.
For judicial Reform.
At the last meeting of the American
Bar association this committee was
the proposed judicial reforms. The
bill was introduced in Congress where
| it was referred to the Committee on
Judiciary. The discussion of the bill
attracted widespread attention. 1t
passed the house but died in the SEN
ate committee. 1t is to revise these
measures SO that they will present
themselves to the conservative legisla-
, ture in a stronger and more plausible
light that this committee will again
ask the consideration of the delegates.
The report of this committee is
looked forward to with universal in
terest, for SO favorable was the opinion
expressed by the individual members
of the United States senate that it Is
believed that the bill would have pass.
ed had it been reported out of the
senate committee. BY cheapening and
lexpediting the process of the law these
bills, if passed, will save litigants mil
lions of dollars annually.
Scarcely of less Importance to
the millions who yearly have recourse
to civil proceedings are the other com.
mittee reports scheduled to follow the
opening addresses of President Edgar
H. Farrar, tomorrow morning. These
embody the reports of standing COM
the committees on Jurisprudence and
Law Reform; Judicial Administration
and Remedial Procedure; Legal Edu-
cation and Admissions to the Bar;
Commercial Law; International Law;
Grievances; Obituaries; Law Report.
ing and Digesting; Patent: Trade
Mark and Copyright Law; Insurance
Law; Uniform State Law; Taxation
and Comparative Law Bureau.
On Wednesday morning, following
the Tuesday night reports of the
above mentioned committees, a paper
will be read by Justice Henry B.
Brown, of the United States supreme
court, retired, on THE Federal Judi
cial Code" (Act March 8. 1911 The
presentation of this paper will be fol-
lowed by the reports of special COM
mittees and discussion thereof on:
The Prevention of Delay and Unneces-
sary Litigation; Compensation for In
dustrial Accidents and Their Proven
ton, the Presentation to Congress of
Bills Relating to Courts of Admiralty
and Government Liens on Real Es-
tate.
cee-t: serw pranfioflh(o the. C
| Address on Trusts.
The Wednesday session of the asso-
citation will be concluded with an ad-
dress by William B. Hornblower, New
York. on Antitrust Legislation and
Litigation"
The Thursday session of the assoc
citation will be given over to the dis