The motion was adopted, and Mr. Davis was declared elected treasurer of the association for the ensuing year.

THE PRESIDENT: It is necessary next, gentlemen, to elect four members of the executive committee.

MR. ENOCH G. HOGATE: I nominate Judge Reinhard as one member of the committee.

MR. THEODORE P. DAVIS: I nominate Senator E. G. Hogate. MR. JOHN B. COCKRUM: I nominate Mr. William P. Breen.

MR. ALLEN ZOLLARS: I nominate Judge Howard.

MR. MILLER: I move that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the association for the four gentlemen named.

MR. WILLIAMS: I second that motion.

A MEMBER: I nominate Mr. John G. Williams.

MR. WILLIAMS: I decline.

MR. JOHN B. COCKRUM: I nominate C. C. Shirley, of Kokomo. MR. SHIRLEY: I decline.

A MEMBER:

I nominate Mr. W. H. H. Miller.

MR. MILLER: I decline.

THE PRESIDENT: Are there any other nominations? Now, gentlemen, how is it your wish to cast this ballot? Will you vote one at a time, or will you vote for four candidates, or will you vote for all and let the highest four be declared elected?

THE PRESIDENT: That may be taken by consent, I presume.

MR. MILLER: I renew my motion. I move that the first four names read be declared the choice of the association for members of the executive committee, and Mr. Williams seconds the motion. Mr. Shirley has declined.

THE PRESIDENT: I took it that the nominations superseded the motion, and did not put that motion. Now, the motion is renewed, gentlemen, and it is that instead of taking a ballot, the secretary be directed to cast the unanimous ballot of the association for the first four gentlemen put in nomination. Those in favor of

that motion signify it by saying "aye;" those opposed "no." The “ayes" have it.

THE SECRETARY: Can the secretary cast the ballot on a divided vote?

THE PRESIDENT: I think he can, if he has the physical ability to do so. Gentlemen, the secretary makes the point of order as to whether he can act upon such a vote as that if not unanimous. I have overruled that point of order, and said to him that the majority of the convention controls on that, as upon all other questions. But the case is open for appeal.

Gentlemen, a motion was made yesterday directing the appointment of a committee of four to take in charge the business of taking such steps as might be desirable to procure the adoption of the pending constitutional amendments. That is a very important committee. It will have a great deal of work to do, and it would seem as though it ought not to be appointed without communicating with the gentlemen who are to be appointed and ascertaining whether they are willing to undertake the duties that are imposed upon them. I have not had the opportunity of having any such communication with the gentlemen whom I have in mind, and I ask, therefore, if it be agreeable to the convention, that the appointment of that committee be deferred until the banquet this evening. A MEMBER: Consent.

THE PRESIDENT: I do not know, gentlemen, of any further business commanding the attention of the association. I think a motion to adjourn would be in order.

On motion, the meeting adjourned.

At the banquet the president announced the appointment of the following committee to take charge of the subject of promoting the adoption of the pending constitutional amendments:

1. Samuel M. Ralston.

2. Roscoe O. Hawkins.

3. Frank E. Gavin.

4. Cassius C. Shirley.

THE ANNUAL BAR DINNER

GIVEN AT THE BATES HOUSE, JULY 11, AT NINE O'CLOCK P. M.

SPEECHES.

Toastmaster, PRESIDENT ROBERT S. TAYLOR.

THE TOASTMASTER: It is said that lawyers are among the longest lived of men. I think that one reason for it is that they are careful to provide for their stomachs before they lay any burdens upon their brains, and equally glad when their stomach has been provided for to give some exercise to the brain.

I know that I speak the sentiment of every member of the association when I say that it has been a source of great pleasure to have with us the distinguished guest who sits at my right. [Applause.] We have been strengthened by his magnificent speech; we have been delighted and charmed by his society; we have always loved our sister state, Kentucky, but henceforth we shall love her the more for the sake of Senator Lindsay. [Great applause.]

Gentlemen, I ask you to rise and pledge a health to Senator Lindsay. [Cries of "Lindsay," "Lindsay," "Lindsay."]

I have the pleasure of introducing to you Senator Lindsay. [Applause.]

SENATOR LINDSAY'S REMARKS.

SENATOR LINDSAY: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Indiana Bar Association, I feel very deeply the kindly honor you have been pleased to pay me, and I assure you that I reciprocate your kindly feelings, and shall never forget this occasion so long as I am able to remember the pleasant episodes of life. [Applause.]

When I was a young fellow, reading the history of the great west, I used to wonder why it was that old George Rogers Clark faced the floods and the snows and the Indians and the British to capture and оссиру what is now an Indiana town. Since I have been in Indianapolis I have been able to realize why it was that Clark and his compatriots made all those sacrifices. [Applause.] The truth is, the old soldier looked down the coming time with the eye of the seer, and he saw the great things that he was to bring about, and among the greatest things that he did bring about was the bar of the state of Indiana. [Applause.]

Since I have been here two days, enjoyed your genial companionship and partaken of your hospitality, I wonder why it is that I have lived as long as I have without ever coming to Indiana before [laughter and applause], and I want to say to the bar of Indiana now, that from this time to the end of time, so far as I am concerned, I shall never fail to avail myself of any decent pretext to come back to Indiana. [Applause.]

Now, my friends, I have had my day in court; I have made my speech. I have looked over this list, and I see that we are to have some very interesting pieces of information given us before the conclusion of this banquet, and I realize the fact that each one of the speakers expects that he shall have ample time to make his speech, and that I should go away from here having partially overcome the good impression that I at least hope I have made if I should take up the time that you have set apart to those gentlemen who are to speak to you to-night.

I see one of them is going to talk to you about "The Consent of the Governed." A very pertinent question, and a very interesting question. I want to make only one illustration, and when that is made I shall surrender the floor to the speaker whose name appears first upon the program.

"The consent of the governed" comes generally from the quality of the government. I am old enough to recollect a time when

thirteen states of this union, disarmed, crushed, came back into the union without their consent. Of the intelligent men south of the Ohio river in 1865, there was scarcely one out of five that consented to the re-establishment of the authority of the United States. A generation has passed away, and if there is a man in all the broad land south of the Ohio river who does not consent to the government of the United States to-day, I don't know who it is. [Great applause.]

We not only consent to stay with you, but if you have a seat in congress to bestow, or a seat in the senate of the United States to give away, or a supreme judgeship that you are hunting for some man to fill, a district judgeship or a district attorneyship, we consent not only to be governed by you, but to take either one of those places and help you to govern. [Laughter and applause.]

Now, I in conclusion extend to you my sincere thanks for the courtesies that you have extended to me. My visit here only strengthens the conviction that I have long entertained, that we are all Americans, that we are all brethren, and that free government is never destined to fade from the face of the earth, so far as the United States of America is concerned. [Great applause.]

TOAST "NOT SO BAD AS PAINTED."

THE TOASTMASTER:

Gentlemen, it is one of the arts of the intellectual cooks who prepared these toasts to endeavor to pique our curiosity by the use of such language as will set us to wondering what they mean. We are to have some remarks upon the subject of "Not so Bad as Painted." A man asks himself, in his mind, at once, "What is it that is not so bad as painted?" Is it the bench? the bar? the jury? or the town? [Laughter.] These have all been painted [laughter] at one time or another, have assisted in the decoration. [Laughter.] We are to have light on this subject from a gentleman who is himself an artist

and some of us