PROCEEDINGS. that is, providing it shall seem advisable to the members of this Association that such union meeting be held. PRESIDENT WOOD: The Chair is under the impression that the Executive Committee, under the constitution-I may be wrong-determines the time and place of the meeting of this Association. If I am correct in that, the Committee of this Association is already appointed. MR. CHAPMAN: It was at the request of a member of the Executive Committee that I made the motion. MR. MATHENY: I made the suggestion; it came to me from members of the States Attorneys' Association that the appointment of such a committee would be agreeable to them. I presume the matter could be referred to a special committee, even although the Executive Committee might act. JUDGE BRADWELL: Is it proposed to put the three into one association, or what is it that is desired? MR. CHAPMAN: No, sir, give them a chance to meet together, save time. JUDGE BRADWELL: Have three Presidents, or one? JUDGE GROSs: All meet in the same house, at the same time, and in the same room? JUDGE BRADWELL: Like a three headed court, is it not? MR. MATHENY: It would be like the different sections of the American Bar Association; that association meets in sections, and other associations often do; I think the idea is a very good one, we would get a good many more here than ordinarily come. JUDGE GROSs: I rise to a point of order. Having a Constitutional Committee already created having cognizance of this matter, the Association has no power to create a special committee to take the duties of the regular Constitutional Committee. I see no necessity, Mr. President, for this. If the Executive Committee of this Association think that anything of that sort is desirable, it can be arranged by that Committee PROCEEDINGS. by correspondence or by conference with the representatives of these other organizations, and if they want to meet with us, want to meet at the same time that we do and listen to our proceedings, we surely have no objection. I think it would not work very satisfactorily. PRESIDENT WOOD: The provision of the Constitution is, that "an annual meeting of the Association shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the Executive Committee." There is an Executive Committee, but the motion is that a special committee be appointed to confer with them. While this special committee would be without power to change the time of meeting, at the same time, it could urge upon these other two bodies the propriety of meeting at the same time as that fixed by the Executive Committee. The Chair is therefore constrained to overrule the point of order, while agreeing with Judge Gross that perhaps it is not necessary, and the motion is before the house as to the appointment of this special committee. JUDGE BRADWELL: If our Executive Committee is not competent to transact the business of this annual meeting, the time and place, or of conferring with these other bodies, then let us turn them out and put another committee in. The Executive Committee have got full power, and I think that is the body to meet and treat with these other bodies. I do not know but it may be a good thing to meet with them, or to invite them, but let it come through our Executive Committee in conference with them. We do not want to disband our organization in this way and appoint another Committee when we have a Committee to do that duty. I move to refer it to the Executive Committee. MR. CHAPMAN: I have no objection to its going to the Executive Committee. I made the motion at the request of our Secretary, and I understood from him that it had been considered by them, and further, that it would be advisable PROCEEDINGS. for these three bodies to meet at the same time. I presume the idea entertained was that the Committee which might be appointed might persuade the other bodies to meet with us, or at the same time that we do. I suppose the object of the Secretary is to get this before the Association and before the other bodies. MR. MATHENY: The suggestion came from Mr. Chiperfield, of the States Attorneys' Association. They gather together some forty or fifty States Attorneys of the State. The County Judges' Association also gets together quite a number of the County Judges; the suggestion made was that if it could be arranged that the three bodies should meet in the same city, at the same time, that much mutual advantage might result. JUDGE BRADWELL: Could not that all be arranged by Our Executive Committee? PRESIDENT WOOD: A motion is made by Judge Bradwell to refer the whole matter to the Executive Committee; that motion is now in order, and is before the Association. you ready for the question? Calls for the question. Are PRESIDENT WOOD: Shall the whole subject be referred to the Executive Committee? As many as are in favor of the motion say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it, and the whole subject is referred to the Executive Committee. MR. MOSES: I move that we adjourn to 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The motion was seconded and carried, and an adjournment was taken to Friday, July 13, 1900, at 10 o'clock, A. M. PROCEEDINGS. FRIDAY, JULY 13. The Association was called to order at 10 o'clock, President Wood in the Chair. PRESIDENT WOOD: If the Committee that was appointed to audit the accounts of the Secretary is ready to report, it will now be in order to receive it. MR. VAN HOORBEKE: The Committee present the fol lowing report: To the Illinois State Bar Association: CHICAGO, ILL., July 13, 1900. Your committee to whom you referred the annual report and accounts of your Secretary, have audited the same, and are pleased to report that they are correct and in excellent condition. G. VAN HOOREBEKE, PRESIDENT WOOD: Gentlemen, you have heard the report; the question is on its adoption; are you ready for the question? As many as are in favor of the adoption of the report will say aye; contrary, no. The ayes have it, and the report is adopted. MR. MATHENY: I am requested by the Chairman of the Banquet Committee to again mention the banquet which is to be held tonight. In the room next west of this one, on the right side of the hall as you go west, there is a plat of the banquet room and of the tables and seats, where seats can be reserved, and the Banquet Committee desires that all gentlemen who contemplate attending the banquet will report there as early as possible and notify the representative of the Committee that they wish to attend and have seats assigned to them. There is one matter that I have been requested to again mention, although it was mentioned on yesterday, and that is, that each member of the Association and applicant for membership is cordially requested to register in a handsomely bound book that will be found in charge of the Ban PROCEEDINGS. quet Committee, and on such registration the young lady in charge will issue, without money and without price, to each member or applicant for membership, a free ticket to the banquet. PRESIDENT WOOD: The next in order is the report of the Committee on Admissions; is that Committee ready to report? MR. PAGE: Mr. Chairman, the following names have been favorably passed upon by the Committee for admission: M. F. Gallagher... Arthur Keithley Isaac J. Levinson Henry L. Stern Josiah Cratty William J. Pell ... Frederick A. Brown Albert T. Lardin Henry C. Ward Louis Fitz Henry . Chicago Chicago .Galesburg Lincoln . Peoria Chicago . Peoria Ottawa Chicago Chicago Chicago .Chicago . Chicago .Ottawa .. Sterling Bloomington MR. PAGE: Your Committee recommends the admission of these members, and moves the adoption of the report. The motion was seconded and the report adopted, and the applicants whose names were reported declared members of the Association. JUDGE GROSs: If it be in order, I desire to move an amendment to our by-laws, the adoption of which will require a two-thirds vote of the members of the Association present. |