PROCEEDINGS. 15. Darline Bradford for directing wrappers for annual report 16 of 1901........ Stamps for general correspondence.. 17. 668 one-cent stamps for mailing circulars to members requesting suggestions as to annual meeting of 1902.. 18. Ella Cochran for addressing circulars to members asking suggestions as to annual meeting of 1902..... 19. Salary of Secretary and Treasurer for the last half of 1901.... 20. Auditorium Hotel account of Hampton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, attending annual meeting of 1901 to deliver address 21. Illinois State Journal, for circulars and stationery according to bill attached to voucher..... 22. Expense of Secretary in attending meeting of Executive and other committees at Chicago, January 28, 1902.. 23. Postage stamps for general correspondence... 24. Frank Simmons, for merchandise, (detailed in bill attached 25. 630 two-cent stans for mailing notice of dues of 1902...... 27. 92 two-cent stamps for mailing circulars to Judges concerning 28. Postage stamps for general correspondence.. Illinois State Journal Company, 5,000 envelopes. 30. 50 two-cent revenue stamps for drafts..... 29. 31. 800 one-cent stamps for circulars announcing annual meeting of 1902....... ..... 32. 250 two-cent stamps for mailing second notice of annual dues and notice of drafts........ 3.00 5 00 6 68 2.50 100 00 17 00 10.00 15 55 5.00 5.95 12 60 4.00 184 5.00 8.00 1 00 8.00 5 00 33. Salary of Secretary and Treasurer for first half of 1902. 100 00 36. 35. 700 one-cent stamps for mailing programs.. Amounts paid for clerical work according to receipts attached to voucher...... 37. Binding and rubber stamps according to receipts attached to voucher...... 3 50 7.00 2.50 1 25 38. 39. Express charges according to receipts attached to voucher... Expenses paid on drafts for dues according to items shown in voucher...... 5 16 745 40. Telegrams and telephone service according to bills attached to voucher...... 621 Total expenditures... $1,734 52 SUMMARY. Total receipts, including balance carried forward from last year..$3,249 65 Total expenditures........ Balance on hand July 11, 1902.. 1,734 52 $1,515 13 PROCEEDINGS. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JULY 11, 1902. Mr. J. H. Matheny, Springfield, Ill.: DEAR SIR: In answer to your inquiry I would say at the close of business on this date there is on deposit in this Bank to the credit of J. H. Matheny, Treasurer Illinois State Bar Association, the sum of Fifteen Hundred Fifteen Dollars and Thirteen Cents. Respectfully, JAS. A. EASLEY, Ass't. Cashier. The foregoing report ends with the transactions of July 10, 1902. From July 11, 1902, to September 20, 1902, both dates inclusive, the latter being the date of printing this report, I received the following sums, which will be included in the report at the next annual meeting: MR. MATHENY: Last year we undertook, for the first time in our history, the matter of binding the reports for permanent preservation. Prior to that time, as you know, they had been issued in pamphlet form. The reports are worthy of binding. During the last four or five years there has been a rapid growth throughout the country, in the appreciation of the reports of the various State Bar Associa tions, as literature. The great libraries of the country have. rapidly recognized the importance and value of the series and are taking measures to complete their files of the early numbers and to secure the current volumes. In looking over the reports of the various State Associations as they come to me, I have been much impressed with the resemblance between them in many particulars, and also PROCEEDINGS. much interested in the differences that appear. They seem to suggest the various parts of the country as evidenced in the action of the organizations of the bar, as in different stages of evolution. For example, in Minnesota they are now concerned with the matters of the more prompt publication of the reports of the Supreme Court of that state and of secur ing them to the bar at a reduced price. It was those two evils in Illinois in 1877, that formed one of the objects of the first convention of the bar that led to the organization of this Association. In Ohio they are about as old as we are and about as much developed. A few years ago they had on the program at the annual banquet, this toast: "The Supreme Court of Ohio, an engine formerly portable, but now stationary." And now at the meeting soon to be held they have upon the program for discussion the question of the "methods of work in the Supreme Court of Ohio." In Alabama they are troubled with bad lawyers, and they print, from year to year, as an appendix to the annual report of the Bar Association, an elaborate code of ethics, the idea obviously being that if the bad lawyers are taught what is right and what is wrong, they will do the one and avoid the other. In Colorado they are greatly troubled with bad lawyers, but they deal with the question in a style that is more characteristic of the west, and the grievance committee of the Bar Association of Colorado in one year entertained thirtyone complaints, started eighteen prosecutions for disbarment, brought fifteen prosecutions to trial and secured the disbarment of eight members of the bar. In that same state one of the respondents in disbarment proceedings lately commenced is a Referee in Bankruptcy appointed by the Federal Court. In Texas they are somewhat younger than we, and they are concerned lately with the matter of admissions to the bar, and the Torrens System of real estate titles. In Virginia they are struggling with the Torrens System of real estate PROCEEDINGS. titles, but there the strange argument is brought forth in the State Bar Association that that system, if put in, working order would make the encumbrance and alienation of real estate very much too easy, and one gentleman said upon the floor of the association that if that system became the law in Virginia and were put into successful operation half the . plantations in Virginia would be sold or mortgaged to the sinking point within forty-eight hours. Perhaps the fact that the gentlemen of Virginia cannot be at all times trusted, is illustrated and explained by the statement that in Virginia the annual banquet of the state bar association costs ten times as much as the stenographic report of a three days' session, and not all the money is spent for things to eat. I wish to announce that Mr. Case, who represents the banquet committee, is now in the ante-room with a plat of the banquet tables, and will take pleasure in issuing to the members and the new applicants for membership, tickets for the banquet, and assigning to them seats. He also has the registry book where it is highly desirable that all the members in attendance shall register their names in order that we may have a record of those in attendance. JUDGE BRADWELL: I rise to a question of order. I would ask if this Bar Association is a close corporation? I see that every place where a little air could get in, almost, is shut up, and the members are all wiping the sweat from their brows as if they were about to die with the heat, and I would suggest that some one be appointed to either punch out the windows or some holes in the wall, where we could get a little air. PRESIDENT STEVENS: I think, Judge Bradwell, that-no, there is one window that is not open; we might get that open. We will try and have it attended to. Will some onc notify the janitor to come in here and open up,-give us a little breath? |