the practice of the law and the administration of jusitice", make them to the Committee on Grievances, in accordance with Article 13 of the Constitution of the Association.

Your Committee also offer the following:

RESOLVED, That the Treasurer of this Association procure for the use of the Association and its Committees the Revised Statutes of Ohio, and hereafter the session laws, and that the same be kept on the Island and under the control of the treasurer. All of which is respectfully submitted.

EDWARD H. FITCH,

F. S. MONNETT,

J. H. MACKEY,

JNO. N. VAN DEMAN,

WARNER M. BATEMAN,

Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform.

THE PRESIDENT: Under the order of business, this report will come up for discussion after the close of Mr. Maxwell's address. The next thing in order is the report of the Committee on Legal Education. Mr. Wald, of Cincinnati, is the chairman of the Committee, and he is not here. The next is the Committee on Grievances-David J. Nye, of Elyria, is chairman.

JUDGE NYE: Mr. President; Gentlemen of the Association: I have to report, no injustice has come to the attention of this Committee requiring our investigation, and no injustice has come to our attention which we deem worthy of consideration, even since the report of the chairman who has just taken his seat.

THE PRESIDENT: If there is no objection, the report of the Committee will be considered as accepted. There being no objection, it is accepted.

The next in order is the report of the Committee on Legal Biography. Mr. Harris is chairman.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE CN LEGAL BIOGRAPHY.

MR. HARRIS, Bucyrus: I have no formal report to make. I have been unable to have any conference with the other members of the Committee. It is a matter of congratulation on the one hand that there have been but two deaths during the year, but it is a matter of sadness that both of those were of gentlemen of high standing. Death has struck at the most shining marks we have in our Association. There has been reported to me the death of Charles C. Baldwin, of Cleveland; there will be a memorial prepared and read when the proper time comes, by William F. Carr, of Cleveland. There was also the death of our ex-President E. P. Green; there will be a memorial read in regard to him by Judge C. R. Grant, of Akron. There was also the death of George Spence, of Springfield, a long-time active member of this Association, and there has been a memorial prepared and will be read by Bro. Martin, of his place. There is also the death of William Baker, of Toledo, and there has been a memorial prepared for him by Bro. Barton Smith, of Toledo, which will be read by our secretary. I will say right here that I have been personally acquainted with William Baker from my boyhood; we were associated together in our student days. He was a young man remarkably intelligent, studious, attentive, conscientious; and those characteristics followed him and marked his life up until his death. There is also a memorial in regard to Judge John E. Hanna, of McConnellsville, by Hon. William B. Crew. I understand that he is present, and that the address will be read by Brother Crew. John E. Hanna was the oldest practicing lawyer in Ohio at the time of his death, and I understand that he was in active practice up until the time of his death, or nearly so—at least until his last illness. I suppose that these memorials will follow on the president's call on the judicial districts, for the names of deceased members, and they will be read in that order.

GEN. JONES: I wish to say to the chairman of the Commit

tee on Legal Biography that he has forgotten to call attention to Judge Woodbury.

JUDGE PIKE: And Brother Culbertson.

GEN. JONES: Mr. Fitch has prepared a memorial which I would like to have in that report.

MR. HARRIS: I was not aware of that omission on the part of the report.

JUDGE PIKE: I think it is proper in connection with the subject of legal biography to call attention to a matter that has fallen into disuse; and I am sorry that it has been forgotten. It was early in the history of the Association, at the suggestion of Bro. Jones, we started the collection of auto-biographies. The forms were prepared by Bro. Jones, and a book or books kept, and the older members of the Association will remember, there was quite a valuable collection of biographies, which became of great value to us after the death of some of those whose biographies were at the time in the possession of our Bro. Harris, who not only took care of them, but kept them up as far as he could. I think it would be well to refer the matter to the Committee on Legal Biography, to take steps, if possible, to induce all the present members of the Association to make reports. motion to that effect.

Seconded, and carried, unanimously.

I make a

MR. HARRIS: I would like to say in regard to that book; I was chairman of this committee for quite a number of years. I took scrupulous care of that book during all the time that I was chairman of that committee. I added or procured the biographies I think of some 300 members, and had them pasted in a book. It was very useful indeed, and was of great aid to the Committee on Legal Biography. Last year I was president of the Association, and I turned that book over to the secretary of our committee; and although it hasn't got back into my hands, I have no doubt that it will be forthcoming. It is too valuable, of course,

to be lost, and I hope it is not lost, though it is not returned to my custody.

THE PRESIDENT: The next thing in order is the calling of the judicial districts, for deceased members.

JUDGE HERRON, Cincinnati: I think the only member from the First District was Clinton W. Gerard, who was a member of the Committee on Admissions last year and this. He was at one time prosecuting attorney of our county; at the time of his death had a large practice. He was a young man of very considerable ability.

MR. MCINTYRE, Mt. Vernon: Judge Waight, who is the committeeman from our district (Sixth) has left with me his report. We have the sad duty to report to the Association the sudden and very sad death of our brother, the Hon. W. T. Culbertson, who was hurt by a fall on the streets of Mt. Vernon on the 22d of last December. Judge Waight has furnished me with a copy of the action of our bar; if thought proper, will be handed to the secretary.

MAJOR BRYAN: I saw a notice in the papers during the past year of the death of W. A. Hutchins, of Portsmouth. I don't remember what district he belonged to, but nobody has called. attention to his name. He was a member of the Association.

THE PRESIDENT: The next thing in order will be the reading of memorials.

A memorial on the life of Judge Charles C. Baldwin, of Cleveland, was read by Mr. W. F. Carr, of Cleveland. (See appendix No. 2.)

A memorial on the life of William Baker, of Toledo, by Mr. Barton Smith, was read by the Secretary. (See appendix No. 3.) Judge C. R. Grant, of Akron, read a memorial on the life of Judge Edwin P. Green, of Akron. (See appendix No. 4.)

Mr. Oscar T. Martin, of Springfield, read a memorial on the life of George Spence, of Springfield. (See appendix No. 5.)

JUDGE PIKE: I move that the reading of Mr. Monnett's

paper be made the special order for the first thing to-morrow morning, the hour being so late, and but few being left here.

Carried.

Mr. W. B. Crew read a memorial on the life of Hon. John E. Hanna. (See appendix No. 6.)

Mr. Edward H. Fitch, of Jefferson, read a memorial on the life of Hon. Hamilton B. Woodbury. (See appendix No. 7.)

On motion of Judge Lawrence, the reading of memorials the authors of which were not present was omitted, and they were ordered to be printed in the proceedings.

JUDGE LAWRENCE: I think it probable that to-morrow we will be crowded with the business that will be brought before the Association. I have two matters which I desire that the Com: mittee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform shall consider, which I think will provoke no debate, and I do not wish to discuss them.

MAJOR BRYAN: There is a memorial which I have here on the death of W. C. Culbertson, prepared by Judge Waight, which I ask leave to print. I desire also to call attention to the death of Joel W. Tyler, of Cleveland, and H. M. Carper, of Delaware, who have died since the meeting last year.

Leave was granted to print the memorial on the life of Mr. Culbertson. (See appendix No. 8.)

JUDGE LAWRENCE: These are my resolutions:

Resolved, That the Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform be, and is, directed to consider and report on the expediency and utility of providing by law, that in any cause pending in the court of common pleas involving a difficult and important question of law, not settled by the supreme court, the parties in such action may agree that the question shall be certified directly to the supreme court for decision, and that it shall be so certified, and that the court of common pleas may order such questions to be so certified.

Resolved, That the Committee on Judicial Administration and