The Board of Governors of the Illinois State Bar Association held a meeting preceding the convening of the District Meeting, in the Circuit Court room. All visiting attorneys were invited to attend the Board meeting, and most of them did so.

President Smith called the District Meeting to order in the Circuit Court room at 11 A. M. The Honorable Lawrence B. Stringer of Lincoln, President of the Logan County Bar Association, delivered an address of welcome on behalf of his Association. This speech contained a considerable amount of historical data concerning the former connections of Abraham Lincoln with that vicinity. A response on behalf of the District Federation was delivered by Mr. Franklin L. Velde of Pekin. The President then proceeded to appoint the following committees:

On Nominations-William G. Palmer, Urbana; Roy Geibe Hill, Springfield; Evan Worth, Lincoln.

On Place of Next Meeting-Judge Frank Lindley, Paxton; E. E. Donnelley, Bloomington; Grover C. Hoff, Decatur.

On Resolutions-Wirt Herrick, Clinton; Homer W. Hall, Bloomington; L. E. Stone, Springfield.

The meeting then adjourned to the Country Club for luncheon. The Logan County Bar Association provided cars for transporting their guests to the Club, where the general surroundings were conducive to an active appetite.

Following the luncheon the meeting was continued in the large dining room of the Country Club. The President called upon Mr. Rush C. Butler of Chicago, President of the Illinois State Bar Association, who read an address upon "Aims, Purposes and Work of the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice." Following this address the meeting engaged in a discussion of various possible means and methods for carrying out the recommendations of Mr. Butler.

The President next introduced the subject of discussion, "Shall We Change Our District Federations Into Organizations by Circuits?" To present the subject he called upon Mr. R. Allan Stephens of Springfield, Secretary of the State Bar Association, who explained in detail the reasons and purposes of the resolution which he proposed and the amendment offered to the articles of incorporation of the Illinois State Bar Association.

PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION AT FEDERATION

MEETING

"Resolved, that it is the sense of the lawyers of the Third Supreme Judicial District that Federations of Local Bar Associations should be organized in each Judicial Circuit in the state and that upon the completion of the organization of such federations the Federation of Local Bar Associations of the Third District should be dissolved.

"Be it Further Resolved, that the President of the Illinois State Bar Association is hereby authorized and requested to ap