The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-12
WHITE DELIVERS
ADDRESS BEFORE
BAR ASSOCIATION
With Distinguished Men
Present the Convention
Opens in Mobile
STEVENS OF MOBILE
ELECTED PRESIDENT
Petition for Reforms in Chancery
Practice Presented by White as
Submitted by Leo Oberdorfer
of Birmingham
By RICE GATHER

mot oNeal and Attorney General Rob
ert G. Brickell, the Alabama State Bar
association opened its thirty-sixth annual
convention this morning with 100 dele
!. gates present This is considered one OF
the most successful meetings, consider
ins the number of men present and the
new members received. The delegates
saturday will take a steamer for Point
Clear. where there will be fish Fry
Whites Address Feature
Cant Frank S. White of Birmingham
nreeident of the association, called the
meeting to order at II o'clock. wNen he
lh4ean his annual address. In opening he
Ipaid a compliment to the city and to the
bar of Mobile.
Alabama is becoming pre-emlhehtN an
Industrial state" Captain White SAID III
discussing the legal system OF the state
and the relations of capital and LABOR
are growing in Importance to the legal
profession.
.1rhe state board of arbitration Tor
strike troubles should be in readiness TO
nroceed at once to the locality OIL any
labor trouble declared Captain Whlte'
and ascertain the trouble in order TO
make its award in the premises. PuoHc
oninion would force capital and labor to
abide bv the decisions of the board, ne
said
.1,he law should keep step with the
world in the march of progress, SAID
cantain White, "In making the working
man assume all the burdens Alabama
lawmakers have not been fair.
The speaker said he did not advocate
extending the scope of the employer $
liability act Its tendency Is TO array
one class against another, to froWo Tue
court dockets to lower the standard OIL
the legal profession.
..Tbere is but one remedy left he sald'
"a workmen's compensation act which
: would lessen if not remove many OF the
evils of industrial conditions. Such a
law has worked we'll in England he
, stated. land dozen states of the United
: states have enacted such legislation
3 cantain White made reference to laws
; before Congress advocated by the Ma
tional Bar association affecting the prac-
. [ tice of law in federal courts, and rec
e commended their Endorsement by the asso-
citation. He also presented petition for
reforms in chancery practice submitted
as necessary by Attorney A. Leo Ober-
: dorfer Of Birmingham. He recommended
investigation by proper committees. The
Minnesota rate case decision OF the SUI
nreme court was cited as an important
matter.
.The decision shows that the states
are vet sovereign said captain
White ut gives the states control over
interstate railroad operations as they
are affected by certain intrastate oper-
ations.'
New Members Taken In
Following the close of President
Whites address the names of the foi-
flowing applicants for membership We're
, submitted: J. M. Bonner, Camden D.
n Oensou. Eutaw E. Perry Thomas,
Eufaula; j. r. Bankhead. Jr.. Jasper;
D. b. Lewis, Tuskegee; w. 5. Welch,
Ressemer: j. A. Carnley Elba; c. b.
Hamilton. Greenville; j. c. Burt Tai
ladega: l.. II. Ellis, Columbiana; George
Hegram, Faunsdale; J. II. Webb, Z. r.
Terry, D. ii. Ellington, Robert r.
Smith George e. crWIord, w, v, @ ~,
fey. w. II. Armbrecht, H. /. Sml,h'
Mobile; Frank Capalan. j. nj. Gillespie,
! Sr Rirmingham; Jonn w. Lapsley,
selma; Fred s. Koenig, Columbiana; j.
w. Peach, sheffield; J. Gardner Green
Pell city; John ID. Rather Tuscumbia.
On motion the rules were suspended
and the vote Of the association taken
, electing all the proposed new members.
Another suspension of rules was au-
thorized in order that the address OF
Federal Judge Edward 7. Sanford OF
Chattanooga might be heard before
adjournment
Stevens Elected President
The following officers were elected
by the State Bar association tonight
Thomas NJ Stevens. Mobile, president
Alexander Troy, Montgomery. secre-
tarv-treasurer; vice presidents. Joseph
II. Nathan Sheffield; w. c. Tipps, Biz
mingham: w. b. oliver. Tuscaloosa; e.
| J. Garrison, Ashland; c. S. Dowdell, Jr.,
Eufaula.
Executive committee. Ray Rushton'
Montgomery: Ormond Somerville, Tus-
caloosa: ]. NJ, Foster. Montgomery; w.
| L. Martin. Montgomery; central cou1-
sci. H. u. Sims, Birmingham; w. l..
Pitts, Uniontown; V. T. Rudolph, BIZ
minghaln; w II. Acker, Admission; El
Nv. Smith, Birmingham
Some of Those Present
The following members and visitors
were in the city: Uniontown, W. L.
Pitts, Jr; Camden State Senator Nor
man ID. Godbold; Birmingham W. A.
! Kate Hopkins, d. G.. Rudolph, r. I'll.
Scrivner, John London, Fergus McCar-
lty, Frank S. White, president of the
association; Montgomery. Gov. Emmett
O'Neal, Attorney General r. c. Brick
ell, Frank N. Julian and family, Paul
Stevenson, Leon McCord. A. r. Gill
: christ, w. d. Holliwell, Pat McCauley.
Supreme Court Stenographer George
w. Jones, General Counsel for the
: Louisville and Nashville Alex Troy,
secretary of the association.
: Columbia, L. Fl. Ellis, Fl. c. Koenig
Goodwater, d. H. Riddle, John A. Dar-
den and wife; Talladega, J. c. Burt;
Selma, John w. Lapsel, II. S. ID. Mall
lory. former candidate for governor;
H. f. Reese, j. l.. Clay Julian Smith;
Sheffield James II. Nathan, John H.
! Peach; Huntsville, Lawrence Cooper. j..
| T. Petty: Tuscaloosa, A. S. Wander
| graaff J. II. Vandevoert; Pell City
Gardner Greene and wife; Columbiana,
! H. T. Leeper; Tuskcgee, W. II. Cobb
. M B. Abercrombie; Tuscumbia. John
d. Ratter Jr.; Demopolis, j. ID. Her.
= ron: Faunsdale. George Pegram; Flor
: ence. r. T. Simpson; Scale, DIR. u. G.
. Wardell: Greenville. c. Il. Hamilton
: Evergreen, w. c. crumpton.
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