question be taken up at the district meetings and discussed. Is there a second? The motion was seconded and carried. MR. JOHNSTON: I will renew my motion, with the amendment suggested. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the motion, that a resolution be passed that the local bar associations be requested to pass resolutions, sending copies of them to the Secretary of the State Bar Association and to the members of the legislature in the several districts. Those in favor of the motion, say aye. Those opposed, no. The motion was carried. MR. STEPHENS: Just one other thing, and that is about the local bar association meetings. There has been a remarkable increase in the activity of the local bar associations. In fact, we have now, I would say, a dozen or fifteen of the bar associations outside of Cook County who hold regular meetings and having a regular program for the winter. Mr. Clarence Heyl has been Chairman of the Committee on Local Bar Organizations for many years, and he advises me that he, likewise, has run somewhat low on ideas, and if you have any suggestions as to a good thing which you put over in your local bar association, I am sure he would be very glad to hear it and carry it back to the other counties. Have any of you any suggestions to make as to that? MR. E. L. COVEY (Peoria County): In the Peoria County Bar Association we have made it a practice that when a lawyer has been admitted in the state, or practiced in the county for fifty years, to put on a banquet in his honor. Those have been very well attended, and the interest is very great in them. I think that is one of the best things our association has put on. THE PRESIDENT: If there is nothing further to come before the meeting, we will declare it adjourned. |