PROCEEDINGS. Hon. John C. Black, Chicago, Ill., before Illinois State Bar Association. Hon. U. M. Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, Washington, D. C., before House of Representatives at Washington. Hon. Horace G. Platt, San Francisco, Cal., at Portland, Oregon. Hon. J. G. Slonecker, Topeka, Kansas, before Kansas State University. Hon. Horace Gray, Supreme Court Justice, Washington, D. C., at Richmond, Virginia. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. Senator, Washington, at Chicago, Illinois. Hon. Horace H. Lurton, Nashville, Tenn., at Nashville, Tennessee. Hon. James M. Woolworth, Omaha, Nebraska, at Omaha, Nebraska. Hon. Peter Stenger Grosscup, U. S. District Court, Chicago, Ill., at Chicago. Hon. A. M. Thayer, St. Louis, Missouri, at St. Louis. Hon. Henry Hitchcock, St. Louis, Missouri, at St. Louis. Hon. James Hagerman, President Bar Association, St. Louis, Missouri, at St. Louis. Hon. Henry T. Kent, St. Louis, Missouri, at St. Louis. Hon. Elmer B. Adams, St. Louis, Missouri, at St. Louis. Hon. Francis M. Finch, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., at Yale. Hon. Wm. B. Hornblower, New York City, at Albany, New York. Hon. Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Albany, New York, at Albany. Hon. Luther Laflin Mills, Chicago, at Detroit, Mich. Hon. Isaac N. Phillips, Bloomington, Ill., before Chicago Kent College of Law, June 2, 1900. Hon. Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Alabama. Hon. Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Cleveland, Ohio. Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, before the Boston Bar Association. Prof. Jeremiah Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the New Hampshire Bar Association. PROCEEDINGS. Hon. LeBaron B. Colt, U. S. Circuit Court, at Providence, Rhode Island. Hon. Neal Brown, Wausau, Wisconsin. Hon. James T. Mitchell, Justice of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Hon. Bartlett Tripp, Yankton, South Dakota. Hon. Hosea M. Knowlton, Attorney General of Massachusetts, at Boston. Hon. John M. Harlan, U. S. Supreme Court, Washington, at Washington. Hon. J. M. Bartholomew, Chief Justice Supreme Court of North Dakota. Hon. W. C. Caldwell, Justice of Supreme Court of Tennessee. Hon. Charles N. Potter, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Wyoming. The expenses of the local celebration were borne by about seven hundred members of the Chicago Bar, aided by some contributions from members of this Association, not of the Chicago Bar. The total receipts of moneys, including the sale of tickets at the Auditorium for the celebration, amounted to $3,965.35. I am gratified to be able to report that, after paying all bills, the sum of $449.82 has remained in the hands of the Treasurer, Judge Holdom, which sum has been devoted to the publication of 1,000 copies of the local celebration, which pamphlet also contains the oration of Senator William Lindsay, and the response of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State. At the time of writing up this report the cost of the John Marshall Day book had not been definitely ascertained. The cost was found to be $606.64 for the one thousand copies, and the deficiency has been made up by a contribution from the Chicago Bar Association. Judge Dillon delivered one of the most notable addresses, before the Court of Appeals of New York, and the same is published in pamphlet form, as well as in the regular proceedings of the State Bar Association. I am also gratified to be able to state that the centennial proceedings at Washington have been incorporated in the regular reports forming the appendix of Volume 181, U. S. Reports. I am also informed, through Hon. Isaac N. Phillips, Reporter of the Supreme Court of this State, that the Court has requested him to embody the proceedings before the Supreme Court, and that they will appear in Volume 191 of the Illinois Reports. Your Chairman desires to acknowledge the aid of Messrs. Callaghan & Co., T. H. Flood & Co., of Chicago, of the West Publishing Company, of St. Paul, and the Lawyers' Co-operative Company, of PROCEEDINGS. Rochester, in the publication of "John Marshall" orations, and giving them wide distribution. Your Chairman cannot conclude his report without mentioning the helpful assistance and advice of the Hon. Jesse Holdom, while discharging the duties as the President of this Association. The movement first received the encouragement of the Illinois State Bar Association, and it finally culminated in an imposing National celebration. It is generally acknowledged to be of lasting benefit. This Association has been rewarded with the acknowledgment of its work in many of the public addresses and in the American press. The pleasant duty remains to me of stating to this Association that the highest expectations entertained by your Chairman, and promulgated to this Association on July 7, 1899, have been fully realized. The educational influence of "John Marshall Day" has been widely acknowledged by bench and bar and the public press, to have been immeasurable. Many letters, congratulations and acknowledgments have reached your Chairman, but it would be tedious to mention them, and I refrain from reading them owing to their personal allusions to your Chairman. But I beg to preserve one compliment paid to this Association by Justice Mitchell, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, spoken in his address delivered at Philadelphia: "The honor of the first public suggestion belongs, I believe, to the Bar of Illinois. On a bronze tablet in one of the busiest streets of the second city in the Union you may read the date 1812 and recall from the accompanying inscription that eleven years after he took his seat as Chief Justice, all that Marshall knew of the site of Chicago was the dread news that came from the depths of the Western wilderness, that the Indians had massacred the little garrison of Fort Dearborn. History affords no more striking note of the changes a century may produce than that the site of that gallant little outpost, now the home of a larger population than that of the three States of 1801, first summons the Bar of the country to the commemoration of the greatness of the Chief Justice whose work was done for a young and experimental government, but was laid down on such broad and sure and permanent lines that expanding territory and teeming population have not lessened its usefulness, nor in the least impaired its vigor." I desire to return my profound thanks to this Association for the readiness and support which was given me in planning and carrying out this historic centennial celebration. Respectfully submitted, ADOLPH MOSES, MR. MOSES: And I also desire to tender my most pro PROCEEDINGS. I found thanks for the great honor done to me this morning in electing me as an honorary member of this Association. shall always treasure the honor. MR. LONGDEN: In view of the great success of John Marshall Day, I move that the thanks of this Association be tendered to Mr. Moses, and that his report form a part of the records of this Association. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The report forms a part of the work of the Association under the rules. I will put the rest of the motion. The motion was seconded and carried. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The next matter on the program is the report of Delegates to the American Bar Association,Mr. George R. Peck. Mr. Miller, is Mr. Peck here? MR. MILLER: I do not see him. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: Mr. Page was a member of that committee. MR. PAGE: This report was to be made by Mr. Peck, but I understand he is absent. I will only say one word in regard to it. The delegates appointed by this Association attended the meeting at Saratoga and I think they all very much enjoyed it and were very much benefited by that meeting. The only thing I wish to mention in connection with it is the speech made upon that occasion, an address of Mr. George R. Peck which, it seems to me, will be a great addition to the legal and general literature of this country. It was certainly a very able paper and very, very weli received by the Association and it was very deserving of the appreciation which was manifested at the time. ness. PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The next is miscellaneous busi MR. MCCLELLAND: I desire to present to the Association a resolution relative to the action of Congress in pass PROCEEDINGS. ing an act for the purpose of protection of American travelers upon the high seas. There is now no legislation providing a remedy to persons who lose their lives by accident arising from negligence upon the high seas. I will ask the Secretary to read the resolution. Resolution read. Whereas, Under the law and the rulings of the Courts as they now stand, there is no remedy in the United States for the recovery of damages for loss of life on the high seas, arising from negligence on the part of officers and crews of vessels carrying passengers on ocean voyages; and, Whereas, A large proportion of the passengers on vessels sailing the high seas between the ports of the United States and foreign ports, are citizens of the United States, and a large proportion of the carrying trade is in foreign bottoms; and, Whereas, The chief commercial nations of the world have deemed it wise to enact laws for the protection of travelers against the negligence of common carriers on the high seas; and, Whereas, It appears that at the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress Hon. Henry S. Boutell, of Illinois, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives for a Federal Law "In relation to suits against steamship companies and other carriers of passengers and freight," a copy of which is hereto attached, showing its scope and effect, which bill was pending in the House Judiciary Committee, when the Fifty-sixth Congress adjourned; and, Whereas, The American Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States have passed resolutions recommending Federal legislation to effect the objects and purposes of the Boutell bill; Therefore, Resolved, By the Illinois State Bar Association at its Twenty-fifth annual meeting, that owing to the great loss of lives of the citizens of the United States on the high seas, through negligence of steamship companies, the necessity for Federal legislation of the character of the Boutell bill is highly desirous, and we recommend that Congress pass such a law, and we respectfully request the Senators and Representatives from Illinois, to reintroduce into the Fifty-seventh Congress, the Boutell bill, and to use every legitimate effort to secure its passage in Congress and its approval by the President of the United States; |