THE PRESIDENT: Is there any report from the Grievance Committee? THE SECRETARY: No report, Mr. Chairman. THE PRESIDENT: Is there any report from the Committee on Admissions? THE SECRETARY: The Committee on Admissions, Mr. Henry J. Stevens, Chairman, desires me to report the following as the report of that committee: REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADMISSION. The Committee on Admission report the following new memhers during the past year: NEW MEMBERS. Anderson. Wm. H., 330 Stimson Block, Los Angeles. Brun, S. J., 110 Sutter street, San Francisco. Chambers, Wm., 448 Wilcox Block, Los Angeles. Conrey, N. P., 1633 Rockwood street, Los Angeles. Cosgrave, Geo.. Fresno. Davis, W. Jefferson, University Club, San Diego. Dyke, Harry W., Imperial. Ensign, E. J., Los Angeles. Glidden, D. F., 311 Union Building, San Diego. Haines, Charles C., 828 Timken Building, San Diego. Heskett, Frank H., 601-2 Scripps Building, San Diego. Hunter, Ben S., 911 L. A. Trust and Sav. Bldg., Los Angeles. Hynes, W. H. L., Court House, Oakland. Johnson, Elliott, 617 Balboa Building, San Francisco. Keetch, Arthur, 1910 Monterey road, South Pasadena. Lindley, Fred E., 531 Union Building, San Diego. Maloney, A. S., 415-16 Katz Block, San Bernardino. Morrison, Fred W., 611 American Bank Building, Los Angeles. Morrison, Willis I., Court House, Los Angeles. Noland, Dan. Voorhees, El Centro. Noon, Ernest E., 829-30 California Building, Los Angeles. Stephens, Raymond W., 820 Ferguson Building, Los Angeles. Weyl, Bertin A., H. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles. York, John M., Department 5, Court House, Los Angeles. THE SECRETARY: In addition to these, Mr. President, there are a number of applications which the committee has not been able to pass upon. THE PRESIDENT: The report of the Committee on Constituent Associations. Is there any report from them? No report from that committee, THE SECRETARY: Mr. President. THE PRESIDENT: Committee on Legal Biography. THE SECRETARY: That committee has not met, but if it is proper for the Secretary to suggest, to that committee should be referred the matter of the death of seven of our members, which has been reported during the year. THE PRESIDENT: I would like to add in that connection, it is probably not of a great deal of practical importance, but it occurs to me that we ought to set aside at every convention probably an hour, or some proper time, to consider the report of this committee. When a man who belongs here with us drops out from our midst, it seems that we ought to take some little notice of him, pass a resolution or make it enduring in the Association. I know of some societies that do that, and I think it is a very beautiful custom, and one that should be pursued. MR. A. P. BLACK, of San Francisco: Mr. President, in connection with that, you remember that last year we had a most excellent address by Senator Breckenridge, of Omaha. I noticed his death in one of the papers some three months agc. THE PRESIDENT: It is the same man. MR. BLACK: It seems to me that some expression of our sympathy and appreciation of the character of that gentleman should be entered on the record. MR. J. A. GIBSON, of Los Angeles: Mr. Chairman, in connection with the Committee on Legal Biography, I should like to state that, as the committee has no report before the Association, the committee should be furnished with the names of deceased members, and should be requested to make a report in time to have it embodied in the annual report of this meeting of the Association. THE PRESIDENT: And I suppose, Judge, you would not object to including a special resolution with reference to Mr. Breckenridge. MR. GIBSON: None whatever-anything that is appropriate to the work of that committee. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the motion of Judge Gibson, which has been duly seconded. Those in favor of the motion will make it known in the usual manner. (The motion prevailed unanimously.) THE PRESIDENT: The next order, I believe, is reports of special committees. Are there any such reports, Mr. Secretary? THE SECRETARY: Yes, Mr. Chairman. I have a report of a special committee appointed to submit the recommendations of the last annual meeting to the session of the Legislature. Mr. Bolton, who is the chairman of that committee, is present. MR. BOLTON: You may read it, Mr. Secretary. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. To the President and Members of the California Bar Association: Your Legislative Committee submits the following report: Proposed legislation of the same character and wording as the legislation proposed by the last session of this Association was adopted by the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bar Association. A legislative committee was appointed by the Club and also by the Bar Association, composed of the same gentlemen. Mr. Charles S. Cushing and Mr. Henry E. Monroe were members of that Committee. Mr. Lester H. Jacobs, who was a prominent and active member of this Association, was also on that Committee. After his death the labor of that Committee fell upon Mr. Cushing and Mr. Monroe. Soon after the Legislature met there was a conference of your Committee and the Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association and the Commonwealth Club, together with some of the members of the Legislature. After mature thought and Consideration, a conclusion was reached not to press the Negotable Instruments Act or the Bill of Lading Act, as it appeared impossible to enact them into laws at that session of the Legislature. The other bills were introduced and received in the main the hearty approval of the members of the Legislature and esperially the lawyers. Senator Boynton in the Senate and Mr. Sutherland in the House especially cared for the passage of the acts. All the more important provisions were adopted by the Legislature. The act providing for the record in the Appellate Court, as the members will remember, provided that it should be typewritten. Altruistic printing trades representatives and the press cf the State began a campaign against this bill in the Judiciary Committee. When it was reported out of that Committee it had leen amended so as to provide that all records in the Supreme Court should be printed. It was in this condition when it passed. The acts went to the Governor for his approval, and at a time when a failure to approve would defeat the same. The various parties interested in these acts and having them in hand, felt that it would be better that the present provision of providing of what the record in the Appellate Court should consist, should be left unchanged, than a new method making it necessary to print the whole Supreme Court record. After the bills had reached the Governor the Committees having them in charge presented the matter to the Governor. At the time of this presentation the Supreme Court was in session in Sacramento, and several of the members of the Supreme Court accompanied the Committee. The Governor was asked not to approve the act providing for the record in the Supreme Court. He was, however, urged very strongly to approve the other bills, especially the bill practically changing the present method as to motions for new trial. The Committee regrets to be compelled to report that all the bills died in the pocket of the Governor for want of constitutional approval, and is unable to report any reason assigned by the Governor why there was lack of constitutional approval. Up to this time, so far as your Committee is advised, no reason has been assigned by the Governor. Respectfully submitted, A. E. BOLTON, Chairman. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report of the committee, gentlemen. What shall we do with it? MR. A. P. BLACK, of San Francisco: I move it be placed on file. MR. J. A. GIBSON, of Los Angeles: I second the motion. (The motion carried unanimously.) THE PRESIDENT: Any other special committee reports? THE SECRETARY: At our last session, as appears upon the report of the Secretary, a special committee of five, together with the then president, Mr. McLaughlin, was appointed with reference to procuring funds and having the portrait of Chief Justice Beatty painted and hung in the Supreme Court. Of that committee, you are the chairman, Mr. President. THE PRESIDENT: The picture has been purchased and now adorns the walls of the Supreme Court room in San Francisco. THE PRESIDENT: It will be necessary to appoint one other member of Executive Committee, if I can do so according to law, in order to pass upon the proposed amendment of the by-laws, which has been offered by Judge Bledsoe. If there is no objection, I will appoint Judge Graham upon that committee, and, Mr. Hunsaker, will you confer with Judge Graham, the new member I have just appointed, in regard to this report? MR. HUNSAKER: I will. mittees ? Are there any other special com THE SECRETARY: At the last meeting of the Association there was appointed a special committee, as appears from the report of your Secretary, for the purpose of securing the meeting of the American Bar Association to be held in San Francisco during the year 1915. I believe Mr. Bolton was on that committee. THE PRESIDENT: We will be glad to hear from Judge Bolton by way of a report. MR. A. E. BOLTON, of San Francisco: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Association: There is very little to report. You are probably all aware that the National Bar Association is a very large body of men, something like 7000 or 8000, and having something like 1500 members present at the last meeting. The work of that Association is largely done by sections. The place of meeting is fixed in January or February of the year in which the meeting of the Association is held. The first move of the committee was this: it so happened that I was in Washington last spring, and I got together with your Secretary and Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Brown, of the firm of Britton & Gray, who probably is as active as any man in the United States in National Bar Association matters, and we dis |