motion for recess, pending the consideration of other business, shall not be debatable. Absence of Members of Conference. SEC. 13. When any state having a commission shall fail to be represented at two consecutive meetings of the Conference, the President shall notify the Governor of said state of the absence of its Commissioners for such action by the Governor as he may deem proper, and unless the non-attendance has been excused by the Conference. Reports of Committees. SEC. 14. Each committee whose province is some branch of law shall report annually what, if any, recommendations it desires to make; what progress has been made in securing the adoption of bills, within its province, already recommended by the Conference; and what difficulties have been met in securing the adoption of such bills. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to call the attention of the Chairman of each such committee to this rule a reasonable time before each annual meeting of the Conference. Printing, Etc. SEC. 15. All papers read before the Conference shall be lodged with the Secretary. The annual address of the President, the reports of committees, and so much of the proceedings at the Annual Conference as the Executive Committee shall direct, shall be printed; but no other address made or paper read or presented shall be printed, except by order of the Executive Committee. The Secretary shall send one copy of the report of the proceedings of the Conference to the President of the United States, and to each of the Justices of the Supreme Court thereof, and to the Library of the State Department, and of the Department of Justice thereof, and to the Governor, and to the Chief Judge of the Court of last resort of each state, and to the State Librarian thereof, and to such other persons or bodies as the Executive Committee may direct. No resolution complimentary to an officer or member for any service performed, paper read or address delivered shall be considered by the Conference. SEC. 16. The terms of office of all officers elected at any annual meeting shall commence with their election. SEC. 17. The President shall appoint all committees, within thirty days after the annual meeting, and shall announce them to the Secretary, and the Secretary shall promptly give notice. to the persons appointed. SEC. 18. The Treasurer's report shall be examined and audited annually, before its presentation to the Conference, by two members to be appointed by the President of the Conference. Executive Committee. SEC. 19. The Executive Committee shall meet on the day preceding each annual meeting, at the place where the same is to be held, at such hour as the Chairman shall appoint. If, at any annual meeting of the Conference, any member of the committee shall be absent, the vacancy may be filled by the members of the committee present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to make all arrangements for the annual meeting of the Conference, and to endeavor to secure the attendance at each Annual Conference of the Commissioners from the states represented in the Conference; to communicate with the Chairman of each standing committee and each special committee at least thirty days before the meeting of the Annual Conference with the view of securing a statement of the work of such committee since the preceding Annual Conference, and to attend to such other matters as may be from time to time referred to the committee by the Conference. SEC. 20. Special meetings of any committee shall be held at such times and places as the Chairman thereof may appoint. Reasonable notice shall be given by him to each member by mail. SEC. 21. The traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by any committee, standing or special, for meetings of such committee during the interval between the annual meetings of the Conference, shall be paid by the Treasurer on the approval and by the order of the Executive Committee out of such appropriation as to the Executive Committee may seem necessary in such case on previous application in advance of its expenditure. SEC. 22. All reports of committees containing any recommendation for action on the part of the Conference shall be printed, together with a draft of bill embodying the views of the committee, whenever legislation shall be proposed. No legislation shall be recommended or approved except upon the report of a committee. SEC. 23. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners from each state to endeavor to procure the enactment by the legislature of their state of each and every law recommended by the Conference, and the Secretary shall furnish them with copies of each and every recommendation and draft of bill when there shall be such draft; and whenever this Conference shall by resolution recommend the enactment of any law or laws, the Secretary shall, as soon as possible, furnish a copy of the resolution to the President of each State Bar Association with the request of this Conference that such State Bar Association shall cooperate with the Commissioners of that state in having a bill introduced in the legislature of their state containing the subject matter recommended by such resolution, and use proper means to procure the enactment of the same into law. In every state where there is no State Bar Association, a copy of such resolution, with a similar request, shall be sent to the President of the Bar Association of the principal city in such state; and in every instance where the form of bill has been recommended with the resolution, a copy of such form of bill shall also be sent with the resolution. SEC. 24. These By-Laws may be amended at any Conference of the Commissioners by a majority vote of the Commissioners present at such Conference. LIST OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS. 1907. Compiled by the Secretary of the Conference from replies to his circular letters to Secretaries of States and from replies to the later circular letter to Secretaries of Governors. ARKANSAS.-John Fletcher, Main and Markham Streets, Little Rock. *ALABAMA.—Frederick G. Bromberg, 72 St. Francis Street, Mobile; Henry Gonsmiers, Mobile. ARIZONA.-Edward Kent, Phoenix; E. E. Ellinwood, Bisbee; J. M. Ross, Prescott. CALIFORNIA. John F. Davis, 530-534 Crossley Building, San Francisco; Charles Monroe, California Club, Los Angeles; Lynn Helm, Los Angeles Trust Building, Los Angeles. COLORADO.-Thomas H. Devine, Opera House Block, Pueblo; Gerald Hughes, Denver; Willis V. Elliot, Denver. CONNECTICUT.-Talcott H. Russell, New Haven; Walter E. Coe, Stamford; Erliss P. Arvine, New Haven. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-F. L. Siddons, Bond Building, Washington; Aldis B. Browne, 1419 F Street, N. W., Washington; Walter C. Clephane, Fendall Building, Washington. FLORIDA.-Robert W. Williams, Tallahassee; John C. Avery, Pensa. cola; Louis C. Massey, Orlando. * GEORGIA.-Peter W. Meldrim, Savannah; A. C. Pate, Hawkinsville; Reuben R. Arnold, Atlanta. ILLINOIS.-John C. Richberg, 1304 Rector Building, Chicago; Arthur A. Leeper, Virginia, Cass Co. INDIANA.-Thad. Talcott, South Bend; H. C. Sheridan, Frankfort; * IOWA.-Emlin McClain, Iowa City; H. O. Weaver, Wapello. LOUISIANA.-Thomas J. Kernan, 414 Third Street, Baton Rouge; W. MAINE.-Charles F. Libby, 57 Exchange Street, Portland; Frank M. Higgins, Limerick; Hannibal E. Hamlin, Ellsworth. MARYLAND.-Milton G. Urner, Frederick; George R. Gaither, Jr., Baltimore; Stevenson A. Williams, Bel Air. MASSACHUSETTS.-James Barr Ames, Harvard Law School, Cambridge; George E. Gardner, Worcester; Frederick H. Nash, 199 Washington Street, Boston; George W. Weymouth, Fairhaven; Samuel Ross, New Bedford. MICHIGAN.-Charles W. Casgrain, 1009 Hammond Building, Detroit; George W. Bates, 32 Buhl Building, Detroit; Wesley W. Hyde, 613 Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids. * MINNESOTA.—Charles E. Flandrau, St. Paul; W. S. Pattee, Minneapolis; W. W. Billson, Duluth; Rome G. Brown, 1006 Guaranty Building, Minneapolis; Frederick V. Brown, Minneapolis; Daniel Fish, Minneapolis; Howard S. Abbott, Minneapolis; Frank D. Larrabee, Minneapolis; T. R. Kane, St. Paul; Albert R. Moore, St. Paul; John D. O'Brien, St. Paul. * MISSISSIPPI.-R. H. Thompson, Jackson; S. S. Calhoun, Jackson; W. V. Sullivan, Oxford. MISSOURI.-Seneca N. Taylor, St. Louis (specially appointed by Governor Folk to act as Special Delegate to the Conference). * MONTANA.-J. B. Clayberg, Helena; T. C. Marshall, Missoula. * NEBRASKA.—Roscoe Pound, Lincoln; John L. Webster, 826 N. Y. Life Building, Omaha; Ralph W. Breckenridge, 711 N. Y. Life Building, Omaha. NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Henry E. Burnham, Manchester; Ira A. Chase, Bristol. NEW JERSEY.-In the year 1895 Mr. J. Franklin Fort, Mr. Joseph D. Bedle and Mr. Frank Bergen were appointed commissioners on uniform state laws for a period of five years; since that time Mr. Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth, has been re-appointed and Messrs. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton and John R. Hardin, Prudential Building, Newark, have been appointed in the place of Messrs. Fort and Bedle. The act under which the appointments were made in 1895 as construed by the Attorney-General's Office does not authorize more than one re-appointment; consequently, if that is the correct view of the law, the terms of all the commissioners expired two years ago. The Governor, however, has requested the commissioners to continue to act until legislation can be obtained to remove the doubt as to his right to re-appoint them or others in their places. No doubt an act will be passed for that purpose next winter. |