The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-27
W|CKERSHAM WILL
 FIGHT COMMITTEE
Will Defend Title of Negro
 to Seat in Association
THREE ARE AFFECTED
Executive Committee Presents Spe- cial Report on Action in De-
 claring Vacant the Negroes Seat

Milwaukee Wis, August 26.-'1 deny the right of the American Bar associa- ton, after 1t has once seated member, to oust him on the ground that 1t has been discovered that he is negro,' said Attorney General George Wickersham, who arrived today to attend the opening here tomorrow of the associatlon's thirty fifth annual meeting.
 MT. Wickersham came to defend the title of William 1T. Lewis to a seat in the association. Lewis is an assistant to the Attorney General. His member ship was revoked by the executive com mittee on the charge that the committee elected him without knowing he was a negro.
 Two other negro members similarly are affected. They are Butler R. Wilson, Bos- ton, and William R. Morris. Minneapolis The executive committee, headed by s. S. Gregory, Chicago, president of the as- sociation, has prepared special report declaring it has been against the asso- cations policy to admit negro members, and saying that Lewis, Wilson and Nor rs were seated on recommendation of local councils without the fact that they were negroes being made generally known. The report asserts the eligibility of the men to membership is not affected by the report, and leaves open the ques- ton whether the association wants to admit negroes hereafter.
 Ralph ". Breckenride. Omaha, Neb., submitted a minority report, opposing the committees Action.
 That he would fight any attempt to oust the negro members was made known by MT. Wickersham.
 "Whether the association wants hereafter to admit negro members IS another question: he said, but there is no doubt that the present executive committee exceeded it's power when 1t undertook to rescind its action"
 Those who voted to vacate the seats of the negro attorneys were: Lynn Helm, Los Angeles, Cal; John Hinkley, Baltimore; Hollis R. Bailey, Boston; Aldis B. Browns, Washington. D. C. Edgar IT. Farrar, New Orleans; Sec retary George Whitelock, Baltimore, and President Gregory.
 simon E.. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn. delivered his tenth address as director before the comparative bureau today.
 Governor Baldwin said In part:
 Tt is interesting to compare the work or the great trusts III lHlS touhtiy, ii controlling production and prices, with that of foreign governments acting on somewhat similar lines. proceeding brought recently by the United States in New York, to break up a coffee monop- oly was stopped by official representa- tions from Brazil to the erect that the corner" complained of was being sup ported by public funds.
 "A still more striking instance is fur nished by the International Sugar Com ference, to which the main sugar produc- ing countries of Europe are parties. By d five years agreement known as the Brussels convention, they have limited the production for export of the high con tracting parties Russia, under this, can not export more than 100000 tons of sugar westward in any year. At the meeting of the conference, held at Brussels in Jan uary, 1912, she requested the enlargement of the amount to 50OOoo tons. Germany objected, but England favored it, her ministry having announced in parliament. that she would were the Russian re- quest not granted, denounce the conven- tion at the earliest moment possible, which would be in September, 1913. The president of the board of trade of the British government informed the House of Commons, on August l, 1912, that in view of the action taken by the confer ence this step would now be taken"