PROCEEDINGS. Association have not made a sufficient study of it, and as there is no report prepared by any committee that has made a thorough investigation of the subject, would be, it seems to me, ill-advised. JUDGE GROSs: You make that as a motion? MR. ZEISLER: I do not know that I can now make a motion. I offer the suggestion; somebody else can make the motion tomorrow. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: You do not make it in the form of a motion? MR. ZEISLER: If it is in order, I do. JUDGE BRADWELL: I make the point that the motion is not in order. MR. ZEISLER: I was afraid it might not be in order because the matter has been laid over until tomorrow, therefore I put it in the shape of a suggestion, in the hope that somebody else would put it in the shape of a motion to morrow. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Some one may heed your suggestion from the floor; there can not be anything new brought before the Association at this time. JUDGE CARTER: Is it not in order for the Association if it desires to do so, to reconsider that motion? JUDGE CARTER: I do not know what there is coming up, but I should like very much to talk upon that question if there is going to be any decisive action taken, before it is taken, before I vote on it. I move to reconsider that motion as I voted to lay that over. The motion was seconded. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: I would suggest, as so many who were here, are now absent, the gentleman who made the motion originally and the seconder of it having also gone away. PROCEEDINGS. we might be subject to a little criticism, there being so comparatively few of us here now. There was no dissenting voice at that time. JUDGE CARTER: If we can fix a time for it tomorrow so we can all try to make it a point to be here, I should be in favor of that. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: There is this difficulty about the whole matter, that we are circumscribed for time, and we have a full day's work for tomorrow and several open discussions. A VOICE: Why not reconsider now? PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Well, the motion to reconsider the motion of Judge Gross-Judge Gross is still here? JUDGE GROSs: sidered. I am satisfied that the action be recon PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The motion to reconsider the motion made by Judge Gross, that the consideration of the resolution offered by Judge Church be postponed until tomorrow is before you. Are you ready for the question? Question is called for. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: All in favor of that motion being reconsidered signify the same by saying aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it and the motion of Judge Gross to postpone the consideration of the resolution offered by Judge Church is now before the house for action. tion. tion. JUDGE GROss: It is withdrawn. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Judge Gross withdraws the mo JUDGE BRADWELL: Does the second consent? MR. COLBY: I object to a withdrawal of the motion. MR. COLBY: I object, as a member of the Association. PROCEEDINGS. MR. ZEISLER: Judge Tuley says he will agree to any thing; he agrees to the withdrawal of the motion. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The gentleman, I rule, has a right to withdraw his motion at this stage of the proceedings. The resolution of Judge Church is before the house. MR. ZEISLER: I move you, Mr. President, that the resolution of Judge Church be referred to a special committee of five members of this Association to be appointed by the President, which committee should be charged with the duty of investigating the question as to the advisability and practicability of calling a Constitutional Convention, and report its conclusion to the Association at its next meeting. JUDGE CARTER: I second the motion. MR. HAMILTON: I move to amend that motion by making the committee nine instead of five. The motion was seconded. JUDGE GROSS: Do you care whether it is five or nine? MR. ZEISLER: It is immaterial, except there is more difficulty for a committee of nine to get together than a committee of five and do satisfactory work. Calls for the question. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The question is upon the adoption of this amendment as to whether the committee shall be five or nine. MR. HAMILTON: I suggest that we make it seven, and all agree upon that and I am content. (Many expressions of agreement and no dissent.) PRESIDENT HOLDOM: You all agree? Then the resolution is amended by agreement, to appoint a committee of seven; is that satisfactory, Mr. Zeisler? MR. ZEISLER: It is to me. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: And to you other gentlemen? You have heard the motion, that the resolution of Judge Church PROCEEDINGS. be referred to a special committee of seven persons, to be appointed by the President, who shall consider the matter of a Constitutional Convention-the propriety of it, and report their conclusion at the next annual meeting of the Association. Are you ready for the question? The question was called for. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: All in favor of that motion signify the same by saying aye. Contrary, no. The motion is carried and the resolution of Judge Church referred to a committee of seven to be appointed by the Chair, hereafter, of which Mr. Zeisler will be the Chairman. That virtually disposes, for the time being, of the matter. It puts the whole subject into the hands of a committee to be reported upon by them at the next annual meeting of the Association. MR. MACK: The Committee on Judicial Administration, I understand, did not have its report ready when it was called. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: It was passed. MR. MACK: I understand that they have an interesting report that will doubtless evoke discussion, inasmuch as it bears upon the administration of the law by our Supreme Court, and I move you therefore, that the report of that committee be made the special order of business for two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. MR. ZEISLER: I second the motion. The motion was adopted. MR. PAGE: I move that we adjourn to ten o'clock tomorrow morning. The motion to adjourn was seconded and carried, and an adjournment was taken to Friday, July 12, 1901, at 10 o'clock A. M. PROCEEDINGS. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901. The Association was called to order at 10 o'clock, President Holdom in the Chair. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The first order of business this morning is the report of the Committee on Admissions,Mr. Wallace Heckman. MR. HECKMAN: The Committee on Admissions recommends for membership in the Association the following gentlemen: George H. Karcher..... Quin O'Brien.. ..164 Dearborn Street, Chicago Recommended by Edwin Burritt Smith. ....Reaper Block, Chicago Recommended by Jesse Holdom. Lee D. Mathias.... Clif E. Beach..... .Champaign .Champaign .Princeton .Ottawa Recommended by Clarence B. Chapman. ... Recommended by George W. Gere. David B. Snow..... Richard S. Tuthill Recommended by Clarence B. Chapman. Paxton . Ottawa .Judge Circuit Court, Chicago Recommended by James H. Matheny. |