John L. Bennett.

Elmer E. Beach.

.Ashland Block, Chicago

Recommended by Raymond W. Beach.

..Opera House Building Chicago

Recommended by William L. Gross.

Ashland Block, Chicago

Recommended by Raymond W. Beach.

Your committee further recommend for honorary membership, in view of long service in behalf of this Association, and in connection with the work which it has undertaken, the Hon. William L. Gross, of Springfield; they further recommend, on account of long service upon the bench, of a character such as this Association stands for, and the purpose of which it is to cultivate, the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, and Hon. Murray F. Tuley; they further recommend for hon

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orary membership, on account of long service to this Association and in connection with his great labor and efficiency and thoughtfulness in connection with John Marshall day, Mr. Adolph Moses.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Gentlemen, you have heard the report of the Committee on Admissions, what is your pleasure?

MR. LONGDEN: I move that the report of the committee be accepted and the recommendations concurred in. The motion was seconded and adopted.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: There were some matters left over from yesterday. I will call for the report of the Committee on Grievances, Col. Lowden.

To the Illinois State Bar Association:

SIRS: We beg to submit herewith report of the Association Committee on "Grievances."

Since the last report submitted to the Association, the Supreme Court has ordered stricken from the rolls the names of Deo C. Kreidler, Charles Pickler, and Charles E. George, all of Chicago.

Of the disbarment proceedings pending at the time of the last meeting of the Bar Association, there remains the case of James Marion Miller, of Cook County, Alonzo R. Hill, of Vermilion County, who was disbarred upon complaint of thirty-nine attorneys (182 Ill., 425), made a motion this year for reinstatement, which was denied at the April Term of the Supreme Court.

Miller's case rested upon disbarment proceedings brought in Nebraska, but as the Nebraska court has re-opened the proceedings, the Chicago Bar Association, which has had the matter in charge, has deemed it best to await the result of the proceedings there.

During the last year disbarment proceedings have been brought against Henry M. Coburn, F. S. Hahn, William F. A. Bernamer, and William L. Wallen, of Cook County. The cases of Coburn, accused of extortion of money and attempt to utter a forged deed, and F. S. Hahn, who, it appears, was disbarred in New York in 1882, and convicted here of forgery in 1891, have been referred to Master in Chancery Taylor of the Circuit Court of Cook County to take testimony. William F. A. Kernamer has been so ill that no answer has been filed on his behalf, and it is reported by the Committee of the Chicago Bar

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Association having these matters in charge that it is improbable that Bernamer will ever be well enough to practice law again, even if he recovers from his present illness. Proceedings for disbarment were begun against Wallen at the instance of the State's Attorney's office. Walien then came to the Chicago Bar Association Grievance Committee and offered to surrender his license, and it is understood that a stipulation will be made to have his name stricken from the rolls by the Supreme Court next fall.

At the present time it is obvious that the State Bar Association can do but little more than keep in touch with the local associations of the State. It is gratifying to report that the Committee on Grievances of the Chicago Bar Association during the last several years has been very active and has rendered most effective service.

Mr. Charles F. Loesch, present Chairman of that Committee, states that the Committee meet every week to hear and consider complaints, giving from three to six hours to each sitting.

We do not mean to accentuate the work of the Grievance Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, as contrasted with the work of any other Association in the State, but probably a larger proportion of our brethren in Chicago require the attention of a grievance committee than in any other part of the State.

We believe that the Grievance Committee of the State Bar Association could be made more effective if an appropriation for its use were made, SO as to enable it to co-operate more effectively with the local associations of the State. If it were known to those who are recreant to their professional duty and who thereby become a menace to the public, that the State Bar Association was interested in and would scrutinize their professional conduct, the deterrent effect of this. in the opinion of the committee, would be very great. Such an evidence of interest on the part of the State Bar Association would also enable its Committee on Grievances to keep more closely in touch with the local bar associations of the State, and this would be a great gain. Your Committee has found it difficult to even learn what many of the local associations were doing in this most im-portant matter.

Your Committee, further, cannot refrain from expressing the conviction that the judges of the State are remiss in this, that they do not sufficiently discriminate in respect to character between the different lawyers who appear before them. It frequently happens that a member of the bar may be known to all his brethren as disreputable without the courts apparently having any knowledge of this fact. It is always within the power of the judge to discipline an offending mem

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ber of the bar; yet many instances have occurred where the presiding judge, who must know when a lawyer's methods are a reproach to justice, closes his eyes and refuses to know what all the world knows.

In several instances where lawyers have been disbarred, they have been permitted to practice in some of our courts through dummies for a period of years. The bar knows that the dummy is a dummy and ought to be disbarred, but the courts persist in failing to discover this fact. There is no reason, so far as the Committee can see, why a lawyer elevated to the bench should, for that reason, become indifferent to the purity of his erstwhile profession.

Respectfully submitted,

FRANK O. LOWDEN,

Chairman.

ALMON W. BULKLEY,

W. P. EARLY,

E. R. BLISS,

HENRY B. WILLIS,

Committee.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: You have heard the report of the Committee. The report will be received and placed on file..

A committee was appointed to examine the accounts of Mr. Matheny; is that committee ready to report?

MR. E. B. SHERMAN: Mr. Chairman, it was announced by the Chair yesterday that at ten o'clock we would have the address by Mr. Carson. Many of us who can not be present all day have come here to hear that address. I respectfully move, if it is necessary, that the speaker be asked to proceed with his address.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Will Mr. Tenney please report for his committee.

MR. B. W. SHERMAN: I second the motion.

MR. E. B. SHERMAN: I move you that the Association now listen to the address of Mr. Carson.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: If Mr. Sherman will remain in order there will be no difficulty about it at all.

MR. E. B. SHERMAN: Mr. Sherman is in order and has