Association at which they will be addressed by some distinguished member of our profession and impressed with the fact that their opportunity to practice carries with it the dignity and duties of our profession.

COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES.

As heretofore indicated a number of our committees have been very active during the past year and the contribution made by the Committee on Fees and Schedule Charges and the Committee on Office Management to be as valuable and practical contributions to the profession as any ever made by a bar association. They get right into the life of a law office and remove many perplexing questions which the practitioner ordinarily can find no answer in text books.

The Supreme Court dinner given at the Congress Hotel, December 3, 1920 proved to be one of the high lights in the history of our association. Honorable Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, delivered the principal address while the Supreme Court was represented by Chief Justice James W. Cartwright and Justice Clyde E. Stone.

In the short time allowed for the secretary's report it is impossible to detail all the activities of the association during the past year. There has not been a day-no, not even an hour during the year when some sort of an activity of the association has not been functioning and some work being done. The above report is but a poor sketch of some of the more prominent features. In closing, however, a word of appreciation must be said of the unremitting labors of President Logan Hay. He has been on the job all the time and has given the association first call on his time and efforts. With the district meetings and increasing of local bar meetings the office of president of the Illinois State Bar Association has become a real traveling man's job. As we look back over the past year there never was a time when Logan Hay was too busy to be on hand for a conference or meeting and he set a high standard of service in his devotion to the interests of the association.

Respectfully submitted,

R. ALLAN STEPHENS,

Secretary.

THE PRESIDENT:

In connection with this report of the Secretary, I suggest that the Secretary read the report of the Board of Governors.

The report was read as follows:

REPORT OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

To the Members of the Illinois State Bar Association:

Your Board of Governors respectfully represents that during the past year three meetings of the Board have been held.

In view of the fact the American Bar Association was in session at St. Louis in August, President Logan Hay called a meeting of the Board of Governors at the Hotel Statler in St. Louis on August 27, 1920. As one principal matter for discussion at the meeting was the dates and programs for the district meetings the President of each District Federation was invited to meet with the Board and all of them were either present or represented by an officer of their Federation. By this means the Board was able to definitely arrange all of the dates for the district meetings and map out the proper programs.

Owing to the election of Mr. Roger Sherman as Third Vice President at the last annual meeting, a vacancy was created on the Board, and by virtue of Article XVIII of the By-Laws Mr. Rush C. Butler of Chicago was elected a member of the Board for the term expiring in 1922.

At the St. Louis meeting the annual budget as recommended by the Committee on Budget Expense and Audit was considered and with slight changes adopted.

The second meeting of the Board was held at Chicago, December 3, 1920, at which time and place for holding the annual meeting was determined. The proposition of holding election of officers by mail and increasing the Board of Governors to include members elected by the Federation of Local Bar Associations was discussed and the secretary was directed to give notice that the amendment to the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws would be passed upon at the next meeting of the Board.

The election matter came up again at the meeting of the Board of Governors held April 16, 1921, at Chicago and by unanimous vote the Board amended the By-Laws so that the officers of the association are now elected by mail and no one can complain that the Illinois State Bar Association is controlled by the few fortunate members who are able to get to the annual meeting. Under the

By-Laws as amended a member aspiring for office in the Association need only to file a petition signed by twenty-five members with the secretary at least thirty days before the annual meeting and his name will be voted upon by the entire membership or as many as care to take the trouble of marking their ballot and mailing it to the tellers.

As to the amendment providing for an increase in the number of Board of Governors the Board unanimously approved this proposition, but in order there might be no question as to the legality of the amendment the secretary was directed to notify the membership that the amendment to the articles of the association would be submitted to the members at this annual meeting for their approval and it now becomes an order of the business for the annual meeting. If the amendments are adopted the Board of Governors would consist of the officers of the association, the retiring Ex-President, six members elected by the membership at large and seven members elected from the Supreme Court districts by the local bar associations at their annual meeting, providing, that if such annual meeting is not held the district will not be represented on the Board.

Respectfully submitted,

R. ALLAN STEPHENS,
Secretary.

THE SECRETARY: And with that I desire to submit the amendments to the Articles of Association, and also the amendment to the By-Laws which is proposed, as follows:

SECTION 1. "The Articles of Association may be changed or amended by a majority vote of the members present at any annual or special meeting of the Association, provided notice of such proposed change or alteration shall be given in writing to each member of the Association in the call for such meeting.

SECTION 2. "The By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Board of Governors provided thirty days previous notice of such amendment shall be given in writing to each member of the Board of Governors."

SECTION 3. "The management of the aforesaid Association shall be vested in a Board of Governors, composed of twenty members, consisting of the President, the ex-President retiring at the last election of the Association, First Vice-President, two additional Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and thirteen others.

"The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be elected annually by the membership. Six of the Board of Gov

ernors shall be elected for three years, two to be elected by the membership each year after the first election, at which time six shall be elected; two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years. The remaining seven members of the Board of Governors shall be elected by the members of the Bar of the State of Illinois, through the various Federations of Local Bar Associations, one such member to be elected by each of the seven Federations organized in each of the Seven Supreme Court Judicial Districts of the State. Each Federation shall elect its member of the Board of Governors at its annual meeting, to serve for the fiscal year of the State Bar Association only, and in event a Federation does not so elect its member of the Board, it shall not be entitled to a representative thereon."

MR. STRAWN: That has already been submitted to the membership in the notification of the meeting, and if it is the proper time I would offer a resolution ratifying the action of the Board of Governors, in proposing that the ByLaws be amended, and the Articles of Association be amended in accordance with the notice given, which the Secretary will read.

THE PRESIDENT:

Gentlemen, you have heard the motion of Mr. Strawn. Is there any discussion? If not, those in favor of adoption will say, aye. Those opposed, no.

The motion is carried.

THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further discussion of any of the matters in the Secretary's report, or in the report of the Board of Governors? We will be glad to hear from any one who cares to discuss any of the matters therein mentioned.

I might speak, with reference to one thing, with reference to the local bar associations obtaining framed copies of the Canon of Ethics adopted by the American Bar Association. I think eight or ten counties have already obtained those large framed copies and caused them to be hung up in the court room in some public place. We think that if all of the counties throughout the state would do that, it would tend to raise the standard of ethics, of conduct of the profession; and the reading of those canons by the public at large would. tend to raise the bar in the public esteem. The cost is only

five dollars, and I hope during the coming year many of the local bar associations will call upon the Secretary for copies and cause them to be hung up in some public place in the court house.

MR. ROBINSON:

I move that the Board of Governors be requested to look into the advisability of mailing out copies of Committee Reports to each member in advance of the annual meeting.

(Then followed a discussion of the motion.)

The motion was carried.

THE PRESIDENT:

Gentlemen, there may be some matters come up that we will want to act upon by resolution, and for that purpose I will appoint Major Edgar B. Tolman, W. R. Hunter and James L. Hicks as a Committee on Resolutions, to which the meeting may order matters referred, and which will be taken into consideration, and with power to report any formal resolutions which they may see fit.

The next is the report of the committee on Judicial Administration.

The report was read as follows:

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION. To the President and Members of the Illinois State Bar Association: Ladies and Gentlemen:

For the past twenty-five years there has been a gradual rise of executive administration of law, which has emphasized itself through various boards and commissions, both Federal and State. Just as early in our history the judicial branch of our Government overcame the supremacy of the legislative branch, so, today, the executive branch in turn seems to be threatening the position of the judiciary. More and more we find quasi-judicial bodies taking over functions of the courts. This shifting from the judicial to the executive administration of justice is a tendency which deserves careful consideration by the Bench and Bar.

The nineteenth century subjected the judicial system to a great burden in the attempt to keep down administrative regulation by