Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28
CAPITAL TO INVITE
BAR ASSOCIATION
Burkart Will Head Delegation
to Present Bid at Meet
ing in Buffalo.

Washington, through President Jos.
eph A. Burkart of the District Bar
Association. will strive to bring to this
city next year the greatest gathering
of legal minds of Great Britain. Can
ada, France and the United States in
the history of the country, through
the medium of the American Bar AS
ISOLATION, which opens its annual SEES
sion in Buffalo next Wednesday.
The local delegation. headed by Mr..
Burkart, is authorized by the local
legal organization to invite the mem
hers of the bench and bar of the
United States to hold their annual
meeting here next year. in the event
that the invitation Is extended to the
British and French bench and bar for
1929. or. in event Of other plans. then
at the time for which it Is decided to
extend such invitation.
Burkart to Present Invitation.
The invitation will be presented to
the convention by Mr.. Burkart with
the explanation that the logical place
for the convention during the year
that the foreign legal organizations
will attend is the National Capital,
where the heads of the executive. leg
islative and judicial branches of the
Government of the United States are
located, with the resultant facilities for
entertaining the foreign delegates in
the most formal and impressive man.
ner.
Word reached Washington a short
time ago that Charles Evans Hughes
of the committee on invitation for the
foreign bench and bar had informed
President Charles S. Whitman of the
American Bar Association that 1t was
the desire of the bench and bar Of
England and France that the invita-
ton to attend the American Bar AS
ISOLATION convention be for not earlier
than 1929.
The local bar association accordingly
laid plans for the convention in Wash
ington during the period when the
foreign delegates would be entertained.
The invitation will be a reciprocal
act Of courtesy for the visit which the
American Bar Association paid to Lon
don and Paris in 1924. American at
torneys returned from that trip glow
ing with qualification at the reception
rendered them.
A garden party was given in their
honor in the grounds of buckingham
Palace by the King of England; the
various inns of court entertained at
banquets and dinners in London, high
dignitaries of the British Empire con.
Quoted various receptions and func.
tons for them, and then they went to
Paris for short period of what was
described as magnificent entertain
ment.
Wish to ReciprOcate.
1t was understood at the time that
the American Bar Association would
not accept such honors without the
privilege of returning the compliment.
General plans for the entertainment of
the erstWhile hosts, accordingly, were
drawn up.
At the convention this week it is
expected that these plans will crystal.
lie and that the invitation will be
extended to the foreign barristers and
solicitors to meet in the seat of gov
eminent of this Nation in 1929.
Here, it Is planned, reception by
the President in the White House
grounds could be given, the justices
OF the United States Supreme Court
could assist in the general scheme of
entertainment and all the agencies for
the proper reception of visiting attor-
wye @tOAh Sdudud, I<uSIdIlu ana
France could be brought into activity.
In addition. the visitors could inspect
at first hand the working machinery Of
the Government Of the United States.
These are the reasons for the selec-
ton of Washington which will be
urged by Mr.. Burkart.
Washington Delegation.
In the Washington delegation at
tending the American Bar Association
convention in Buffalo with Mr.. Bur.
kart will be Julius l. Peyser and John
Lewis Smith as delegates, and Jesse
c. Atkins, William C. Sullivan and
Charles F. Carusi as alternates. Fred
s. Tyler, resident vice president of the
American Bar Association In Washing
ton, also will be in the delegation.
Former Justice J. Harry Covington
and Levi Cooke will accompany the
local attorneys to Buffalo, where they
are scheduled to read papers before
the convention-the former on the use
of the word attorney" and the latter
on the proposal to change the date of
March as Inauguration day. Charles
V. INLAY, A. Coulter Wells and James
Brown Scott are others who will ac,
company the local delegation.