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any case brought in any court for any other reason, against any member of the Bar Association, he may be expelled from the Association. I will read the article:

"It shall be the duty of the committee-the committee on grievancesto receive and investigate all charges of misconduct justifying suspension, or disbarment, which may be made to it by responsible parties against any attorney of the state. If, upon investigation, probable cause to believe the charges to be true is found to exist, the committee shall cause proceedings to be taken to procure the disbarment of such attorney." Now, that only provides for disbarment from the bar of the state. Now, if it is thought that such a member whose conduct requires such action should not be a member of this Association, we have added an amendment by which we would suggest that the word "expulsion" may be inserted, so that it may read as follows:

"If, upon investigation, probable cause to believe the charges to be true is found to exist, the committee shall cause proceedings to be taken to procure the disbarment of such attorney and his expulsion from the Association."

The question of adopting the amendment being put, the motion prevailed. The President: The temporary chairman of the committee has called my attention to the fact that it was suggested to him that we make some provi sion whereby there should be some representation to this convention from the city and county bars.

Mr. Berger: I desire to present merely a skeleton of an amendment to the by-laws which we desire to have adopted:

"Resolved, That every City and County Bar Association in this state, having an independent organization, may be permitted to send to this association one duly accredited delegate for each County or City Bar Association, which may be represented here."

That is the idea; we will put it in proper wording. I move that such resolution be adopted.

Mr. Bates: It is moved that the amendment provide for the County and City Bar Associations, when accredited, to representation in the meetings of this Association. I support the motion.

Motion stated.

Mr. Sagendorf: It is moved that the whole be amended so as to make the number three instead of one. I think if it was not it would detract from the members present instead of adding to them. We have a bar association of eight or ten, I think, in our town. If a man was not elected as a delegate he would not go, and would it not detract from our membership instead of increasing it?

Mr. Bates: I think the effect would be the other way.

Mr. Davis: I think we did try that for two or three years in Saginaw, and it did have the same effect, that if we elected a delegation of two or three to go the others would not go.

Were the members urged to go, as well as the delegates?

The President:
Mr. Davis: Yes, just the same.

Judge Cahill: Let me make a suggestion. Suppose at the opening of a session of the State Bar Association convention two or three appear as delegates from subordinate associations; that they are accredited from the County Bar to the State Bar Association. You receive them with very great pleasure and accord them all the courtesies that are usually accorded to delegates, you can see how things are done. They would be accredited delegates. Of course, this is not a political convention where the lines are drawn closely, it is a voluntary meeting of the State Bar Association, in friendly relations with all the subordinate bar associations of the state. If they send delegates to us as well as come themselves, is it necessary to say we will permit subordinate associations to send three delegates if you see fit to?

Mr. President: Mr. Cahill, the amendment has not been supported, so that it stands upon the amendment of three accredited representatives.

Mr. Cahill: I move an amendment to the amendment in the form it now is, that every member of a county bar association who attends the State Bar Association as a member thereof, shall be accredited as a delegate from the bar association, and that that bar association be requested to send at least three delegates to the State Bar Association.

Mr. Bates: I will accept that amendment.

Mr. Berger: Then every one at the convention is a delegate.

The President: The amendment now is to notify the various County and Bar Associations that each member coming to the State Bar Association shall be an accredited representative, and that they be requested to send at least three. Are you ready for the question?

Mr. Snyder: I can't see any object then of delegates at all. It only makes our meeting a kind of a convention and don't mean anything. Delegates are sent to vote. Another objection to it would be the matter of votes. Each delegate would be a member of the bar association; would he have a vote as delegate and again as a member of this association?

The President: No, he would stand in the same relation that a member of this association does in the American Bar Association.

Mr. Snyder: If the county association had a right to be represented here by votes, and if he is a delegate, he would have a right to vote as a delegate, then in addition, if he is a member of the Association he has a right to vote as a member of the Association. That would make two votes, one as a member of this Bar Association and another vote as a delegate to this Association.

Judge Cahill: You don't quite get my meaning. I was a member of the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, and I put in the amendment providing that the county and state bars be privileged to send accredited representatives. What motions have been made?

The President:

The original motion was for one, then amended to three; the last was not one, or three. The amendment contemplated that the associations be notified that each member of such association who shall attend this Association shall be accredited to that organization, and they should be invited to send at least three. The matter stands upon that last amendment.

Mr. Sagendorf:

I can't see the necessity for this amendment at all, the last amendment. If I am a member of this Association and have a right to attend and have a right to be heard and vote, so I am here. As quick as you abridge those rights I am not here, and as quick as you ask any bar association to send certain of its members, three, they will undoubtedly do so, and the rest of them will not be there. Now, it may look smooth, but when you come to work it will work out just that way. Now, we have got a large bar, there are here eight or ten, I think, and if you ask us to send three we will send them and the rest will stay at home every time.

Mr. Warner, of Allegan: I move as a substitute for this question that each one of us of the State Bar Association endeavor, and use our best endeavors, as a committee of one, to secure members of the bar from our localities to join the State Bar Association.

The President: I should be inclined to rule that the substitute is hardly germane to the original motion and amendment. The motion before you is upon the substitute presented. I understand it provides that the Bar Associations of the counties and cities be requested to send three of their members to attend the meeting of the State Bar Association. Am I correct thus far?

Mr. Warren: The substitute was that each member of this State Bar Association use his best endeavors to induce at least one in his respective locality to join the State Bar Association.

The President: I presume that everybody will try to do that this year. Of course I don't want to delay the meeting by taking the time to put the substitute, but if you insist upon it I will put the substitute; if not, we will consider the substitute as being out of the way.

Mr. Pringle: I think that this is the first time that it has ever been hinted in a meeting of our State Association that there should be delegates instead of members attending from the localities where other associations are organized. We don't want delegates, we want members.

Mr. Sagendorf: That's right. I think that is what we need; hence, inasmuch as this seems to be the outside of anything that has heretofore been contemplated, and in as much as it seems to substitute something else for what we really want, I move to lay the motion with the amendment on the table. (Motion supported.)

The President: It is moved and supported that this motion for the adop

tion of the amendment as a part of our by-laws, together with the amendment, be laid upon the table. Are you ready for the question?

The question being put, the motion prevailed.

Mr. Berger: This is the last suggestion we have. It was complained of by the preceding President to the one now presiding that there were no records kept of the previous meetings-and there have been quite a number of State Bar Association meetings-and that the earlier meetings are without any record; they have not the programs, they have not the minutes, there is absolutely nothing to go back to. In future years they will be very valuable and they are interesting. So we have incorporated this among the duties of the Secretary:

"The Secretary shall keep full and complete record of the annual conventions from time to time and arrange the same in such order that they may be bound and preserved."

That amendment we deem advisable.

Mr. Bates: I support the motion to amend as made by Mr. Berger.
The question being put, the motion prevailed.

The President: The committee to whom was referred the selection of nominees for officers of this Association for the following year will now report. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON NOMINATION OF OFFICERS. Mr. January: Your committee beg leave to report as nominees for officers of this Association for the next year as follows:

President-R. C. Ostrander, Lansing.
Vice-President-C. L. Collins, Bay City.
Secretary-W. J. Landman, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer-A. C. Denison, Grand Rapids.

Board of Directors-First District, Adolph Sloman, Detroit; Second District, C. E. Weaver, Adrian; Third District, Guy L. Chester, Hillsdale; Fourth District, R. R. Pealer, Three Rivers; Fifth District, F. D. M. Davis, Ionia; Sixth District, E. S. Lee, Flint; Seventh District, Dwight N. Lowell, Romeo; Eighth District, George W. Davis, Saginaw; Ninth District, William Carpenter, Muskeogn; Tenth District, Frank S. Pratt, Bay City; Eleventh District, Charles T. Russell, Mt. Pleasant; Twelfth District, B. J. Brown, Menominee.

The President: What is your pleasure about acting upon them, by ballot, or viva voce vote?

Mr. Cahill: I move the Secretary be instructed to cast the vote.

The President: Shall it be for each office respectively, or consider the nominations as a whole?

Mr. Cahill: As a whole.

The President: I would like to ask whether there are any nominations to be made from the floor in addition to those nominated by the committee? If there are not I will order the Secretary to cast a ballot for the officers named

in the report of the Nominating Committee. There being no objection, it is so ordered.

RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. January: Mr. President-This is a matter that possibly belongs to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform. That committee has been exceedingly busy trying to get some measures through the Legislature with the aid of the Bar Association, and their action has succeeded in a measure. These matters were discussed and in drawing up our report Mr. Patterson and I omitted to put them in. One of the measures at least was emphasized by the President in his address, and some resolutions are suggested for the consideration of the body. The main question is on the subject of divorce. I move the adoption of the following:

"Whereas, The number of divorce suits in this state are increasing rapidly, and in as much as in a large majority the reports show that divorces are obtained; and

"Whereas, It is believed it is fast becoming a menace to the welfare of society and tends to undermine the sacredness of the home, which underlies the foundation of our civil government; and

"Whereas, We believe that through the co-operation of the bar great good can be done towards reforming this evil; it is therefore

"Resolved, That it be the sense of this body that we deprecate the indiscriminate granting of divorces, and we believe that lawyers owe a duty to their clients and that they advise divorce only as a last resort.

"Resolved Further, That the judges of this state ought to scrutinize closely divorce cases which are brought before them and in the event of granting a divorce it simply should be for a limited period rather than an absolute period, and should require the husband in the interim to make ample provision for the care and maintenance of those dependent upon him."

I desire to frame another clause, which I have since considered, and will ask your consideration: That this bar deprecate the idea, and particularly among the younger lawyers, of taking divorce cases. It is a known fact that a large number of young men coming to the bar have their first case as a divorce case; and I think a resolution should be offered discouraging that practice of younger members of the bar.

Mr. Lacey: What do you want? That you old fellows have them all? The President: It is moved and supported, gentlemen, that the resolution as read by Mr. January be adopted as the sense of this Association.

Mr. Lacey: I notice that there is not a majority here, and I think it is rather taking the advantage of us young fellows.

The President: This resolution does not include the suggestion of Mr. January.