you anything to be thankful to God for?" Johnny said: "No, I ain't; he d- near ruined me."

I am glad to say, however, that this is not as bad as it might be. I have found a splendid lot of consolation from gentlemen I have consulted in this matter. I have found one man who threw a little cold water upon my case when I told him how my coat and trousers were torn to shreds by being caught on a loose bolt in a seat upon a Milwaukee passenger car. But he said: "You never can prove it to a jury in our county, because they all know that the Milwaukee trains haven't got a single bolt left in them." Another thing was said, and that is that they send a lot of men to the penitentiary from all over Iowa to the reformatory at Anamosa, and the date of their sentence is supposed to commence from the time they enter the penitentiary; yet they are compelled to travel three or four hours upon the Milwaukee Railway to get there. I don't want to become personal in this matter; I want to maintain my judicial poise, because if the case ever comes to trial, it is going to be tried in my court. Courts are organized to see that justice is done. I am not going to allow an unfair advantage to be taken of me; I am not going to let these men stir me up and spoil my judicial temperament. I feel a good deal like the Irishman fighting with the allies in France. A shell came into the trench, and tore him to pieces. They left him for dead, but finally someone carried him off to the hospital; after some months he lived through it and began to recover. He had one arm gone, was blind in one eye, and a part of his jaw had been carried away. A kind-hearted man came along in the ward and said to him: "My good friend, I am glad you will soon be able to go home." The Irishman says: "I am not going home. I am going right back to the trenches." His friend replied: "This certainly is a wonderful example of the patriotic fervor of these soldiers." The Irishman says: "It ain't patriotism with but I think I know the man that done it." I have much to be thankful for that I am here and alive. I practice the philosophy of the old lady who was an optimist. She said she hadn't much to be thankful for, but still she was thankful; she said: "I have only two teeth but thank God they hit."

me;

The Northwestern and Milwaukee Railways! I ought to appoint a receiver for them tomorrow. I remember the postmaster of Hartford, Connecticut, telling me about a civil service examination they had for city mail carriers for the city of Hartford. There was a fellow working around town who had a fair education, but had an impediment in his speech, and he came to the postmaster and talked with him about the examination and he advised him to take it. He went down to the office to take the examination, but a half hour later the postmaster saw him walking along the street. He called him in and asked him if he had finished the examination. He said, "No-o-o, I did-did-n-n't." He asked him why he didn't. He said: "About the fi-fi-fif-th question they asked me was, 'How many miles of railway has the Chicago Northwestern Railway w-w-wes-west of the Mississippi River?' and I just wrote under it, 'If I have got to travel on that road, you can go to h― with your d-d office'." This Milwaukee is another live one. At the entrance to their main passenger station in Chicago, last year, a man dropped dead on Thursday and he was found on Sunday morning. I do not want to say anything that will prejudice any of you gentlemen against these railways. I insist that they shall have a fair judicial trial, but I shall insist that it shall come out the right way.

In closing, gentlemen, I cannot help expressing my appreciation of this meeting up to the present time. I think this has been one of the best meetings of the State Bar Association we have ever had. The papers to-day have been splendid, splendid in their tone and in the spirit they manifested; splendid and inspiring to every lawyer who has any sense of his obligation to his profession and to his country; and this banquet tonight has been a pleasure to everyone. It has been a double pleasure that in at least one instance I found a man who is fit in every way to be postmaster in a country town.

THE TOASTMASTER: This concludes the Banquet program. Let me bid you all good-night, with the expectation of seeing you all here when the morning program opens.

FRIDAY FORENOON SESSION

9 O'CLOCK

THE PRESIDENT: The Association will come to order.

Yesterday Justice Deemer called our attention to a request made by a society concerned with the subject of uniform laws, asking an appropriation. If there is anything to be done under that head, now is a good time to bring it to the attention of the Association.

JUSTICE DEEMER: Senator Saunders is here and he is a member of that organization and can tell something about it.

SENATOR C. G. SAUNDERS: I think it was two years ago that Governor Clarke appointed Mr. James B. Weaver of Des Moines, and myself, Commissioners from the State of Iowa, to a membership in this body that has been organized, looking to the enactment of uniform laws. One of the measures proposed was with reference to negotiable instruments. This commission has been doing considerable work, but has no way of securing money except through private donations or donations from State Bar Associations. Many of the State Bar Associations have made appropriations for this work. We did one year contribute $100. We have discussed the matter with Judge Deemer and some others and as a result we have reached the conclusion that this Association ought to appropriate the sum of $75.00 to be paid to the Secretary of this organization on uniform laws. I beg to assure the Association that the money is not being used in any improper way. A large amount of stenographic work is necessary, and considerable literature is printed, and also some research work is done. No member of the committee has ever received a cent of compensation.

In order to get the matter before the house, I move that the sum of $75.00 be allowed to the National Conference of Commis

sioners on Uniform State Laws, to be by it used to forward the purposes of that association.

The motion was duly seconded and carried.

THE PRESIDENT: The Committee on Legal Education has not yet reported.

MR. D. D. MURPHY: The Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar has no formal report to make. The secretary has corresponded with the other members of the committee, and aside from a few suggestions made, there is nothing to offer. I would state that the matter of legal education has grown away from the control of the active members of the Bar, although as you know, we have always had a Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, but it always has been a sort of a sinecure. This is a matter of evolution, and legal education has been taken charge of exclusively by a separate and distinct profession, the profession of law teachers. I have been in a position in the past few years to appreciate this probably more than the average member of the Bar, on account of my connection through the State Board of Education with the University and the Law School.

I noted yesterday that Justice Johnson in his address deplored the fact that the old-time methods seem to have gone. It has always seemed to me that we have gone too far. Of course, the old system cannot come back, and legal education will necessarily, I think, be confined to the law schools, in connection with the Universities and will be in the hands of the profession of teachers, just as medicine has now gone into the hands of medical teachers. It is desirable that the Bar should have some connection with the matter of legal education and admission to the Bar. Theoretically we have been supposed to have this in the State Bar Association, but I do not think we have done anything. I would state that there is now being conducted a survey of the law schools of the country under the direction of a commission that was gathered together by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The object is not to dictate, but to gather information concerning law schools and legal education

and admission to the Bar, all over this country, and the matter will soon be published. After that is done, probably the next Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar will have something more definite. In the State University they require two years of college work in addition to the four years of high school for beginning the study of law. Has the time arrived to make this requirement necessary for admission to the Bar? This is one of the questions the Bar Association will probably take up in the future.

A practical suggestion made was this, that for those who wish to make their law studies in the office or somewhere else than in the law school, in order that there may be a record, a statement should be required from those students which should be placed on file in some office, that of the Attorney General or Clerk of the Supreme Court, fixing the time when such student enters the office to begin his work, so that there will be something to check up on when he comes for an examination for admission to the Bar. That is the only practical suggestion that is made now.

THE PRESIDENT: Did you contemplate some action being taken in the matter?

MR. MURPHY: The only thing I would urge would be some action as to the suggestion regarding students who make their studies in the office.

I move, Mr. President, that this Association recommend to the Legislature the following:

That in all cases where a student makes his legal studies or any part thereof in a law office he be required to file in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court an affidavit showing the facts as to the date at which such study commenced, such affidavit to be filed within ten days after such study has commenced, and that a similar affidavit be filed whenever a change is made from one office to another in the prosecution of such study.

The motion is duly seconded and carried.

THE PRESIDENT: Judge Deemer, I will recognize you now on the question of a Judiciary Building.