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OF such a Jurisprudence and remarked
Oh the great blessing ia the profession
IL would ho To have such q work
Gen. fhomas H. Hubbard said stat
utes arc enacted by thousands each year
In the Federal and Statc legislatures
Judicial decisions do and must Increase
with hewildering rapidly. while courts
are compelled Ia deal with multiplying
statutes and the multiplying decisions
OF contcinporaneous courts and the bulk
Of the earlier decisions which so to make
/ ~ the common Law, and must attempt to
reccuci" all these.
Text books treat separate topics with
littlc regard to their symmetrical r-la-
tion OF other topics that make up the en-
tire body OF the law Lawyers courts.
legislatures and the public are burdened
With the effort tn lind what h th. law
and to apply 1t. II must be hunted
through thckets OF session laws and 70
ror's and dlgests and compilations and
I text books"
Francis Lyndc Stetson expressed his
| views to Mr.. andrews as follows:
| AS heretofore I have assured you.
| J share your conviction as TO the vital
importance and necessity of the produc-
ton of the logical and philosophical state
| mcnt o., all our law The necessity
| presses most urgently perhaps upon our
| American bar. facing an overwhs lining
output OF unassimlated opinions from
thousands " Judges, as We'll as the frag-
mentary comments Of hundreds of text
writer's who. with n few fortunate
exceptions, produce commercial trea,lscS
under the pressure Of commercial need
and - the bchest OF commercial pub
fishers. whose commercial instinct in this
particular prescribes the limits for both
the profession and the general public"
While the organizers OF the academy
had announced that last nights meeting
would he fl.y AZ.
on the constitution and officers at the NJ.
ternoon session, and no public meet!n.
was held Thlrty-five OF tho charter
members VINO attended the rdght SEES.
sion elected council, which is to dirac;
the affairs OF the organization for tn.
present The members OF the council
are
William II. Taft. Alton Parker
James DE Witt Andrews t.lihu Root
United states Circuit Judge Henry Wade
Andrews. former dean of the Yale Law
school; Prof. Samuel Williston and Prof
Roscoe Pound OF the Harvard Law School
Waldo q. Morse of New York. Prof H. A.
Hartman, Yale Law School Prof H. NJ
Bates Michigan Law School Frederic L.
; Coudert. James Brown Scott. Washington
H. G.; eX-Sclicltor-C;eneral Frederick w
Lehman. -. Louis: Francis Rawle
phii"deiphia' and Henry St Georg.
Tucker OF Lexington. Va.
The council then elected the followinl
officers:
William ". Taft, president Alton 3
Parker. first vice-prcsldent Frederick "
Lehman, second v.ce-prcsident: James
De witt Andrews. secretary. and Waldo
q. Morse, treasurer.
Proposed constitutions for the academ,
We're drawn. by Judge \. ]. Rodenbecl
Of Rochester, Prof Willstou of Harvard
Prof Hartman of Yale and Prof Bate.
Of Michigan. and the council selected fea.
lures of each suggested constitution ana
finally adopted one which will be mad,
public later. and In which Il is STATED
that "the object Of the academy shall
) be the promotion Of the science OF turls
prudence and the Improvement of tn,
law and Its administration"
At future meetings Of the council nd.
ditional committees will be named Il
: work out the purposes of the organization
and In a short time a bill will be intro.
duced In Congress asking for a charter
for the academy.
Ex-President Taft participated In til.
discussions of the organizers yestsrda,
afternoon but was unable to attend tn.
evening session because OF dinner en-
gagements. Attorney-General McReyn
Odds attended las: nights meeting.