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The meeting was called to order by President Charles W. Tillett of Char lotte. The address of welcome was

delivered by Walter E. Moore and the

The annual address of President Andrews dealt in part with the coming constitutional convention. Resolutions were adopted urging that at the coming constitutional convention

response by Francis D. Winston, former Lieutenant~Govemor. An address was given on “The Torrens System," by Thomas M. Pittman of the Henderson bar.

A resolution was also adopted asking

Ohio. — At the annual meeting of the

that each county in the state be made a common pleas court district. In all,

the number of Ohio Supreme Court judges be increased to nine, and that the judges be appointed by the Governor.

Ohio State Bar Association, held at

eight proposed amendments to the Con

Cedar Point July 11-13, the annual address was delivered by Congressman

stitution were indorsed, including a rec ommendation that the country justice

Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts, and

shop be abolished and that justices of the peace be made county oﬂicers.

dealt with “Representative as Against Direct Government." He said in part: — “Madison clearly expressed his per ception of the necessity of a republic rather than a democracy.

The makers

of the Constitution were able to consum mate the most democratic movement that had ever taken place on a grand

The following oﬁicers were elected:

President, Judge Frederick L. Taft of Cleveland; secretary, Gilbert H. Stewart, Jr., of Columbus (re-elected); treasurer, Clement R. Gilmore of Day

ton; vice-presidents, ﬁrst, J. Chandler

scale in the history of the world, and

Harper, Cincinnati; second, W. R. War neck, Urbana; third, Hugh T. Mathers,

being statesmen as well as democrats

Sidney; fourth, John H. Price, Cleve

they sought to make their government

land; ﬁfth, Smith Bennett, Columbus;

enduring by guarding against hasty action and the excesses which had so often carried popular governments to destruction. “In order to establish what Lincoln

sixth, Frank Taggart, Wooster; seventh, Thomas A. Jones, Jackson; eighth, D- A. Hollingsworth, calf, Chardon; tenth, Cadiz;Silas ninth, Huron, W. 5. Find Met lay.

called ‘a government of the people, by

the people, for the people,’ they saw clearly the lines over which they might not pass in pretended devotion to the democratic idea without establishing a

government of, by and for the dema gogue, with the certain reaction in favor of autocracy sure speedily to come, for they knew that the men of the race to which they belonged would not long

permit themselves to be victims of mis government." James Harrington Boyd of Toledo

Pennsylvania. — The seventeenth an nual meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, held at Bedford, Pa., June

27-29, was marked by the presentation of some striking papers. The president's address, delivered by Edwin W. Smith, discussed “Law and the Func

tion of Legislation." “Judges make law, and so they should,” said the speaker. “It is a sad time when they are afraid

presented a paper on “Employers’ Lia

to take this responsibility. Let us not hide behind the theory that decisions are always declarations of custom. So

bility Legislation; its Purpose Methods of Enforcement.”

they are sometimes and in that respect they are not new laws, but let us admit

and