The above is the order which will be given the amendments on the separate ballots. 3. Your committee reports that, so far, nothing has been done in regard to the above matter, except as the attention of members of the association may have been called to the pending amendments by the printing and distribution of the proceedings of the last annual meeting. 4. Your committee respectfully recommends that the work be divided as follows: (a) That a special committee be appointed and directed to take proper steps to have the state and county committees of the different political parties give such instructions to the election officers as will insure each voter to receive the printed ballot on the amendments, and the tabulating, counting and certifying of the vote. (b) That either a special committee be appointed and directed, or a proper standing committee be directed to take proper steps to call the attention of the voters to the proposed amendments through the press of the state and through the members of the bar throughout the state. Organized effort in this direction will require considerable correspondence. We recommend that such of the actual and necessary expenses of the committee in the matter of correspondence, such as postage, printing, typewriting, etc., as may be approved or authorized by the executive committee, be paid out of the funds of the association. Respectfully submitted, ALBERT RABB, For the Committee. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you have heard the report. What is your pleasure? MR. E. P. HAMMOND: I move that the report be adopted. MR. FRANK P. FOSTER: Concerning the report just read from the committee on legal education, I would like to move that the secretary of this association be instructed to have printed a number of copies of the second resolution recommended to be passed, and send copies of that resolution to all the courts in the state. The reason I make this motion is, I think it is important in the first place that this question of preparation for admission to the bar be discussed. I don't know in how many counties examinations are held for admission to the bar. I know in our own county no examinations were held until within the last year. They are now being held. I believe, as the report stated, that if examinations were held or required by the judges of the different courts, it would be a splendid thing, and tend to at once raise the standard of admission to the bar. THE PRESIDENT: It is moved and seconded that the second in order of the resolutions reported by the committee on legal education be printed in suitable form by the secretary and distributed to all the judges in the state. Those in favor of the motion say "aye;" those opposed say "no." The motion was carried. THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps, gentlemen, before we pass upon the report of the committee on publications, I should call your attention to the fact that, as I understand it, the report as adopted by the association leaves one matter undetermined. It recommends that either a special committee be appointed or the proper standing committee be directed to take the action suggested. The recommendation is in the alternative. Am I right, Mr. Rabb? MR. RABB: Yes, sir. The committee recommends "that either a special committee be appointed and directed, or a proper standing committee be directed to take proper steps to call the attention of the voters to the proposed amendments through the press of the state and through the members of the bar throughout the state," for the purpose of explaining and getting this matter before the people. THE PRESIDENT: You recommend that the work be divided. MR. RABB: Yes; the first part is that "a special committee be appointed and directed to take proper steps to have the state and county committees of the different political parties give such instructions to the election officers as will insure each voter to receive the printed ballot on the amendment, and the tabulating, counting and certifying of the vote." THE PRESIDENT: That the association has adopted. It has directed the appointment of a special committee for the performance of that duty. Now, for the other, your report does not distinctly recommend whether the work be done by a special committee or a standing committee. Will the association now complete that business by taking some action which will settle that question? Shall that be referred to a standing committee or to a special committee? I think it desirable that that matter be acted upon. MR. WILLIAMS: I would like to inquire of Mr. Rabb if his recommendation called for a special committee of three? Did you name any number? MR. RABB: No, the committee did not name any number, but it probably ought to be a committee of four. MR. WILLIAMS: I move that the special committee called for by that report be four in number, and to that committee be committed all the recommendations of that report, instead of referring part of them to any permanent committee of the association. THE PRESIDENT: That motion, then, gentlemen, will somewhat modify the action that is to be taken. The motion now is that the special committee provided for in that report, whose duty it shall be to communicate with the various political committees in the state and procure those committees to take such action as will secure to the voters intelligent action upon the constitutional amendment, that that committee shall consist of four, and shall be a special committee; and it further provides that to that same committee shall be committed all the work contemplated in that report. That, gentlemen, will involve a little modification of the report, but I think the association understands it. Are you ready for the question? MR. THEODORE P. DAVIS: It occurs to me that the motion of Mr. Williams should prevail, and that all the work contemplated by the report should be performed by the special committee. Of course, the committee can not only communicate with the different political committees, but it can also take the steps contemplated in that report for the purpose of communicating with the voters. I think it would be better than to have two separate committees, as was contemplated by the report. I believe the suggestion of Mr. Williams is a good one, and ought to prevail. The motion was adopted. THE PRESIDENT: That committee will be announced at some time during the session. The next business in order is a report from the committee on grievances. MR. S. A. HAYS: Mr. President, I take it that it speaks very highly for the character and standing of the members of this association for the committee on grievances to be able to report that no complaint of any grievance has been filed with the committee. Therefore, I report that no business has come before the committee, and we therefore have no report to make. The secretary read the report of the committee on admission of members, as follows: REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 10, 1900. To the State Bar Association of Indiana: The undersigned committee on admission of members respectfully reports that they have carefully examined the applications for membership in this association of Samuel R. Artman, Lebanon. George H. Batchelor, Indianapolis. Lee Fenton Bays, Sullivan. Francis Marion Griffith, Vevay. Cassius C. Hadley, Indianapolis. Lucian Harris, Vevay. Richard A. Jackson, Richmond. Fleura F. James, Newport. George H. Koons, Muncie. Ulysses S. Lesh, Huntington. Frederick E. Matson, Indianapolis. Henry C. Morgan, Huntington. John F. Neal, Noblesville. John O. Piety, Terre Haute. George S. Pleasants, Vevay. Robert H. Proctor, Tipton. Jesse S. Reeves, Richmond. |