will take an adjournment until tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.

The Association then adjourned to Thursday morning, at 10.30 o'clock.

The President:

SECOND DAY.

Thursday, August 22, 1901, 10.30 A. M.

The Association will please come to order. I have the great pleasure of introducing Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine, who will deliver the Annual Address, upon the subject of "The Insular Cases."

The Annual Address was then delivered by Charles E. Littlefield, of Rockland, Maine.

(See the Appendix.)

Additional new members were then elected.

(See List of New Members.)

The President:

The next regular business in order is the reports of Standing Committees, and the first one will be the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform. There appears to be no member of that committee present, and therefore that will be passed.

The next in order is the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

The Secretary:

The Secretary of the Association begs to state that he has received from the chairman of that committee the following

report.

The report was then read by the Secretary.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

The report of the committee will be received and filed.

The next is the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Is there any report from that committee? Henry E. Davis, of Washington, D. C.:

On behalf of that committee I wish to report that the committee has submitted to the Secretary a somewhat lengthy report reviewing the history of law schools and legal education in the country during the past century. I therefore respectfully submit the report without reading it.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

The report of the Committee on Commercial Law. Is there any report from that committee?

Walter S. Logan, of New York:

Mr. President and gentlemen, I value your friendship too much to read the report of the committee. It has been printed and distributed, and you are presumed to have knowledge of it. If any of you are deficient in such knowledge, you will find copies of the report here at the Secretary's desk,

The committee have for two years before the passage of the Bankruptcy Act, and ever since, been wrestling with that law. We have done this by the command of the Association, given to us each year. Before the law was passed we did what we could to secure the passage of an acceptable Bankruptcy Law. We got a Bankruptcy Law. I leave out the word "acceptable." Since its passage we have done our best to secure acceptable amendments. If the distinguished President of this Association had no other title to immortality, he would go down in history as the head of the Patent Law Section of this Association, which has saved the Patent Law of the United States. Now it is the ambition of the Commercial Law Committee to do what it can to save the Bankruptcy Law. The Patent Law was saved by amending it to make it a fair and acceptable law. The only way to save the Bankruptcy Law is

by acceptable amendments, which will make it fair to the creditor as well as to the debtor. The position taken by the committee, and supported by the Association, has been that a Bankruptcy Law, to remain upon the statute books and to be a part of the jurisprudence of this land, must be a law which protects the creditor at the same time that it relieves the debtor. It must not be a one-sided law; it must be a creditors' law as well as a debtors' law, and the amendments which we have proposed and that you have accepted in years past, have been directed to making this a law which will protect the creditor as well as relieve the debtor. Amendments are now pending before Congress which go far to accomplish this result. We have proposed other amendments, and last year this Association stood behind us in support of those amendments. We were able to get no legislation in Congress during the last year, but we hope for a better result next winter. Politics occupied Congress last winter to a very great

extent.

They had too much to do with the Insular Cases to pass bankruptcy laws, but the Insular Cases having been settled this morning, we hope the Bankruptcy Law will receive some consideration from Congress next winter.

The Committee on Commercial Law recommend that the Association shall continue in the future as it has in the past to support the principle of a Bankruptcy Law. We have summed up our conclusion in the words embodied in the report, and ask the approval of the Association both as to what we have done, and what we propose to do.

I offer this resolution:

Resolved: That the report of the committee be accepted and approved; and

Further Resolved: That the Committee on Commercial Law for the ensuring year be authorized and instructed to continue the line of work of its predecessors looking to the perfecting of the Bankruptcy Law.

Sigmund Zeisler, of Illinois :

Mr. President, I second the adoption of that resolution.
The resolutions were adopted.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

Is there any report from the Committee on International Law?

The Secretary:

The report is in print, but I believe none of the members of the committee are present.

The President:

As the report has been printed and distributed, and unless there is objection to the action, the report will be received and filed.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

The Committee on Grievances.

There appears to be nobody present from that committee, and so that will be passed.

The Committee on Obituaries.

Is there any report from that committee?

The report of the Committee on Obituaries was read by the Secretary.

(See the Report in the Appendix.)

The President:

The report of the Committee on Law Reporting and Digesting. Is there any report from that committee?

The report was presented and read by Edward Q. Keasbey,

of New Jersey, Chairman of the committee.

The President:

The report is received and will be filed.

(See the Report in the Appendir.)

The President:

Next in order is the report from the Committee on Patent, Trade-Mark and Copyright Law.

Lester L. Bond, of Illinois :

Mr. President and Gentlemen: I appear to be the only member of that committee present. I would state that we have no report, and our first meeting is called for three o'clock this afternoon. We may hereafter be prepared to make a report, but we have none at present.

The President:

In view of what has been stated by Judge Bond, leave will be granted to that committee to report later, if they so desire. This ends the series of reports of Standing Committees. The Secretary has, I believe, some announcements to make.

The Secretary then read invitations from the Denver Club, the University Club of Denver, the Denver Athletic Club and the Overland Park Club, extending the privileges of those clubs to the members of the American Bar Association for the period of fourteen days.

The President:

The Chair would announce the following gentlemen as members of the Committee on the Dinner:

Francis Rawle, of Pennsylvania.

Rodney A. Mercur, of Pennsylvania.

Burton Smith, of Georgia.

Henry F. May, of Colorado.
P. W. Meldrim, of Georgia.

Adolph Moses, of Illinois:

Mr. President, I wish to record my note of dissent to the general applause which followed the presentation of "The Insular Cases" by Mr. Littlefield.

When the matter came to my attention I looked with a great deal of pleasure to the fact that he had chosen this difficult subject for the information of this Association. I regret to have listened, not to a piece of information, but rather to what I consider an unwarranted attack upon the Supreme Court of the United States, and, as a member of this Association, I wish to record my voice