"Look up not down, Look forward and not back, Respectfully submitted, HARRY F. BELL, Executive Secretary. Treasurer John F. Carlisle moved that the report of the Executive Secretary be received and filed, which motion was seconded by Smith W. Bennett of Columbus, and carried. Secretary J. L. W. Henney presented and read the following report of the Executive Committee: REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE To The Ohio State Bar Association: The Executive Committee has held two meetings during the past year. At the first one, held at Columbus, November 12, 1921, the Executive Committee fixed January 27 and 28, 1922, as the date for holding the mid-winter meeting, received representatives of the Akron Bar Association and accepted the invitation of that Association to hold the mid-winter meeting at Akron. At its November meeting the Executive Committee authorized the appointment of a committee to confer with the American Bar Association officers relative to a memorial to the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, and the subjects of a program for the mid-winter meeting, the publication of the annual proceedings and the selection of an executive secretary were determined. The Executive Committee authorized the expenditure of money for the purposes of the Committee on Legal Education and a subscription to the American Association of Law Libraries to assist in the publication of the Index to Legal Periodicals. The Executive Committee also endorsed the Nelson Bill, pending in Congress, providing for the appointment of 18 additional Federal judges. The second meeting of the Executive Committee was held January 27, 1922, at Akron, Ohio, when the committee selected Cedar Point as the place for holding the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association and July 5, 6, and 7th, as the dates therefor. Respectfully submitted, J. L. W. HENNEY, It was moved and seconded that the report be received and filed. At the request of the Chairman of the Committee on Grievances, the presentation of the report of that committee was deferred. Henry Baer of Cincinnati, Chairman of the Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform, presented the following report: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND LEGAL REFORM To the Members of The Ohio State Bar Association: A meeting of your committee was called for June 10th in Columbus, but a quorum failed to attend. Report of the proceedings of that meeting follows herewith. The undersigned members of your Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform beg to submit the following report of that Committee. I. It is recommended that no change be made in the General Code of Ohio which would affect the property rights of women. 2. It is recommended that no change be made in the General Code of Ohio applicable to expert witnesses. 3. It is recommended that there be no revision of the exemptions fixed by the Sections of the General Code of Ohio under attachment and execution. 4. No change or revision of the Probate Code is recommended. 5. It is recommended that Section 10996 and Section 10947 of the General Code of Ohio remain unchanged. Respectfully submitted, HENRY BAER, Chairman, DON C. HENDERSON, Upon motion of Simeon M. Johnson of Cincinnati, seconded by William J. Geer of Galion, and carried, the consideration of the foregoing report was postponed until Thursday morning, July 6, 1922. As there had been no regular session of the General Assembly since the last meeting of the Association, the Committee on Legislation had no report to submit. In the absence of the Chairman of the Committee on Legal Biography, A. V. Abernethy of Cleveland, Secretary of that committee, presented the following report: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY Georgetown, Ohio, July 5, 1922. To The Ohio State Bar Association: As required by the provisions of the Constitution, your Committee on Legal Biography, submits herewith biographical sketches of members of the Ohio State Bar Association, who have passed away in the last twelve months. The committee respectfully requests that the memorials herewith presented, be printed in the records of the Proceedings of the Association. The list of members of this Association who have died in the last year is as follows: Albert S. Fenzel, Middleton, died August 12, 1921. Judge Philip B. Treash, Akron, died January 25, 1922. Judge Stephen M. Young, Norwalk, died November 30, 1921. E. L. DeWitt, Columbus. John J. Stoddart, Columbus, died April 21, 1921. J. P. Purdum, Portsmouth, died June 19, 1922. Judge Stanley W. Merrell, Cincinnati, died February 13, 1922, Judge John C. Hale, Cleveland, died June 9, 1922, William R. Miller, Cleveland, died March 10, 1921. (For memoirs, see Appendix, p. 137.) SIMEON M. JOHNSON, of Cincinnati:- Mr. President, as there are three members upon that list, Messrs. Hale, Paxton and Wheeler, who were former Presidents of this Association, I move that the biographies be read to the Association at some appropriate time. Motion seconded by Smith W. Bennett of Columbus, and carried. It was moved by Allen Andrews of Hamilton, seconded by Henry J. Booth of Columbus, and carried, that the report of the Committee on Legal Biography be received, adopted and ordered printed in the Annual Proceedings of this Association. George W. Rightmire of Columbus, Chairman of the Committee on Legal Education, presented the following report for that Committee: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL CEDAR POINT, OHIO, July 5, 1922. To The Ohio State Bar Association: Your Committee on Legal Education respectfully submits the following report for your consideration and action. Your committee recommends that the requirements for admission to the bar of Ohio be raised so as to meet the following standards: 1.- Every candidate for admission to the bar shall give evidence of the satisfactory completion of two years of study in an approved college, or educational experience which shall be the equivalent of such college study, and such study shall have been completed before the study of the law is undertaken. 2. Every candidate for admission to the bar shall give evidence of the satisfactory completion of three years of study in an approved law school in which he has devoted practically all of his working time to the study of law, and of a longer course, equivalent in the number of working hours, if he has devoted only part of his working time to the study of law. It is further recommended that a special committee of this Association be selected by the President thereof to present these recommendations to the Supreme Court of Ohio and to urge their adoption and incorporation into the Rules of Practice of said Court so far as that Court has jurisdiction to do so; and that said special committee be authorized to urge upon the incoming Legislature of the State of Ohio the proper statutory changes to carry out the purpose of these recommendations. It is further recommended that these proposed standards for admission to the bar shall not apply to any person who, prior to the date when such standards will become effective, shall have filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio the certificate of entrance upon the study of law required by the rules now in effect. Chairman Rightmire, after copies of the report had been distributed, suggested that discussion be deferred until Thursday morning, July 6, following consideration of the report of the Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform. Motion was made by Daniel W. Iddings of Dayton, seconded by Simeon M. Johnson of Cincinnati, and duly carried, that the discussion of the report of the Committee on Legal Education be deferred until Thursday morning. Daniel W. Iddings, Chairman of the Committee on Statutory Organization of the Ohio Bar, moved that the presentation and consideration of the report of that committee be deferred until Thursday morning, July 6, immediately following the consideration of the report of the Committee on Legal Education, which motion was seconded by Treasurer John F. Carlisle, and carried. PRESIDENT MCBRIDE:- In the absence of Judge Frank M. Clevenger of Wilmington, Chairman of the Committee on Memorial to Salmon P. Chase, may I be indulged to explain that subject? |