AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. CURRENT MONTHLY EXPENSE ACCOUNT CHICAGO OFFICE. Dr. Cash on hand July 1, 1922. $134.74 July 6 Cash received from Frederick E. Wadhams, Treasurer, 252.26 Journal 150.00 $537.00 Cash received from Frederick E. Wadhams, Treasurer, from 3,820.81 Re-prints of articles furnished authors.. 14.70 Miscellaneous office expenses for light, ice, towels, postage, 322.69 $3,830.81 (Certificate of Auditor attached to original report.) REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., August 29, 1923. To the American Bar Association: The Executive Committee respectfully reports that under Article III, Section "d," of the Constitution providing for election of members between meetings of the Association, the committee has elected 3238 members of the Association, upon nomination by a majority of the Vice President and Local Council of the respective states. The Executive Committee has also, by virtue of authority conferred upon it by Article III of the Constitution, elected to honorary membership, Lord Shaw, of Dunfermline, Scotland, and M. Henri Aubepin of Paris, France. The Executive Committee met at Hot Springs, Arkansas, January 15 and 16, 1923. Many matters of detail in the work of the Association were brought before, and passed upon, by the committee, as more fully appears from the minutes of these meetings. The committee has kept in close touch with the Board of Editors of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, now completing its third year as a monthly periodical. In January, the committee conferred personally with the Board of Editors of the JOURNAL. The committee at the beginning of the current year, upon request of the Board of Editors of the JOURNAL, placed at the disposal of the board an allowance not exceeding $30,000, for the year ending, August, 1923. The board reports regularly to the committe concerning receipts and disbursements. The expense of publishing the JOURNAL for the year has amounted to $36,530.25, whereof $10,261.13 has been repaid by advertising and subscriptions, making the net expense $26,269.12, or an average net expense of $2189.09 per month. The committee elected Edgar A. Bancroft of Chicago, member of the Board of Editors of the JOURNAL, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Lowell of Massachusetts. The committee passed resolutions favoring certain proposed legislation pending in Congress and authorized the President of the Association and respective committee chairmen to take appropriate steps in support thereof, as follows: 1. Senate Bill No. 4066 and House Bill No. 13074, both providing for uniformity of procedure in practice in Federal Courts. 2. Senate Bill No. 2610 abolishing writs of error and substituting remedy by appeal. 3. Senate Bill No. 1012 and House Bill No. 10143, both concerning declaratory judgments. Under the authority of the committee, the President has appointed or continued the following special committees: 1. Committee on Marking the Grave of Chief Justice Chase, composed of Messrs. Selden P. Spencer, Andrew Squire and Guy W. Mellon. This committee has brought about the erection of a monument over the grave of Chief Justice Chase, which was suitably dedicated on May 30, 1923. Chief Justice Taft delivered an address which was published in the June JOURNAL. The monument bears an inscription stating that it was erected under the auspices of the American Bar Association. 2. Committee on Judicial Ethics, consisting of Chief Justice Taft, of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Leslie C. Cornish of Maine, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of Pennsylvania, and Messrs. Garrett W. McEnerney and Charles A. Boston. This committee has prepared preliminary and final drafts of a proposed Code of Judicial Ethics, which have been approved by the Executive Committee and will be submitted to the Association at this meeting by Chief Justice Taft, Chairman of said committee. 3. Committee on Co-Ordination of State and Local Bar Associations, consisting of Messrs. C. A. Severance, Elihu Root, John H. Wigmore, Wendell H. Cloud and Nelson C. Hubbard. The report of this committee will be submitted at a later session. 4. Committee on Uniformity of Size of Records and Briefs, consisting of Messrs. Thomas W. Shelton and Edgar B. Tolman. No final report has yet been received from this committee. 5. Committee to consider the Classification and Increase of Dues, consisting of Messrs. Francis Rawle, John Hinkley, E. B. Tolman, Frederick E. Wadhams and W. Thomas Kemp. This special committee has reported that the dues of $6.00 per annum should be continued, but that an amendment to the Constitution should provide for life membership as provided in the amendment to the Constitution hereinafter proposed for adoption by the Association. 6. Committee on Blackstone Memorial, consisting of Messrs. John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Frank B. Kellogg, Frederick E. Wadhams, Beverly L. Hodghead, Charles Warren and Roger Sherman. No report has yet been made by this committee, which was appointed to consider the feasibility of providing for the erection of a suitable memorial to Sir William Blackstone in Middle Temple, London, including the solicitation of funds therefor, with full power to the committee in the premises. 7. Committee on Kent Anniversary in 1923, consisting of Lindley M. Garrison, Moorfield Storey and Harrington Putnam. The report of this committee recommends the erection of a suitable tablet in the Court of Appeals Building at Albany, to be dedicated with apropriate ceremonies, and the publication of a monograph to be written by Hampton L. Carson, who has consented to prepare such memorial. 8. Committee to investigate the registration and practice of so-called "attorneys " in the Patent Office and Internal Revenue Office, with a view of discontinuance of misleading designations and improving the practice in these offices. The committee consists of Thomas Ewing, Charles Henry Butler and Charles E. Brock. No report has yet been made by such committee. 9. Committee on Increase of Judicial Salaries, consisting of Messrs. A. B. Andrews, J. Harry Covington, Adelbert Moot, William L. Day and James M. Graham. The report of this committee has been printed and distributed, and will be submitted at later session. 10. Committee to Consider London Invitation for 1924, consisting of Messrs. John W. Davis, William Brosmith, Thomas W. Shelton, Frederick E. Wadhams and W. Thomas Kemp. This committee has collected much information and data, which will be submitted to the incoming Executive Committee. The committee will report to the Association at a later session. 11. Committee to Consider Feasibility of Incorporating the Association, consisting of Messrs. John B. Corliss, W. O. Hart and A. T. Stovall. The report of this committee has been submitted, accompanied by a bill to incorporate the American Bar Association by Act of Congress. The special committee presents the following resolution which this committee recommends to the Association for adoption: WHEREAS, The functions and membership of the American Bar Association have become national in character and of potent influence in promoting uniform state and otherwise laws, the administration of justice and in upholding the integrity and honor of the legal profession and judiciary of the country; therefore be it resolved, That the Congress of the United States be requested to approve the accompanying bill for the incorporation of the American Bar Association. 12. Committee to attend the funeral of Albert N. Eastman, late Vice President of the American Bar Association for Illinois, consisting of Messrs. Nathan William MacChesney, John T. Richards and Frederick A. Brown. 13. Committee to attend the funeral of Warren G. Harding, late President of the United States, consisting of Frank B. Kellogg, Alton B. Parker, Francis Rawle, Charles Henry Butler and John Hinkley. The members of the committee accepted the invitation of Elihu Root, Chairman, and William Draper Lewis, Secretary, of the Voluntary Committee on the Establishment of a Permanent Organization for the Improvement of the Law, to attend a representative gathering of the American Bar in Washington, D. C., on February 23. This meeting resulted in the formation of the American Law Institute, which is now actively engaged in the re-statement of certain branches of the law, as will be more fully explained to the Association by the Director of the Institute, at a later session of the Association. The committee in August, 1922, established a budget system which has been in satisfactory operation during the past year. The budget allowances to sections and committees are referred to later in this report. A copy of the budget was sent to the Chairman of each standing and special committee. " The committee further reports that, in accordance with ByLaws X and XII, and in pursuance of the Budget for the current 1 |