REPORT OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING STANFORD LIBRAR OF THE American Bar Association HELD AT BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS AUGUST 29, 30 and 31, 1911 BALTIMORE: THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August 27, 28 and 29, 1912. 165176 TRANSACTIONS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE American Bar Association HELD AT BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS August 29, 30, and 31, 1911. Tuesday, August 29, 1911, 10 A. M. The Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association convened in Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, August 29, 1911, at 10 o'clock A. M., President Edgar H. Farrar, of Louisiana, in the Chair. The President: I have the honor to announce that words of welcome are about to be spoken to us by a distinguished son of this commonwealth, himself a lawyer and now the President of the Massachusetts Bar Association. I have great pleasure in introducing Hon. Alfred Hemenway. Alfred Hemenway, of Massachusetts: Mr. President, brethren of the American Bar Association, ladies and gentlemen: With a continent before you where to choose it is complimentary that you have come to Massachusetts for your Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting-the more complimentary because your Fourteenth Meeting in 1891, twenty years ago, was held in Boston. So opportunity has knocked twice at our door. On behalf of the Massachusetts Bar Association it is my welcome duty to thank you for your acceptance of its most cordial invitation. The fiction which gives a corporation an entity independent of its membership is fortunate for me; otherwise, as a member of both associations I should be talking to myself. At one of your annual dinners at Saratoga, Emery Storrs, speaking of Chicago, said that men were still living who rocked the cradle of the infant city. So I can say, borrowing the metaphor, that I at least was present at the rocking of the cradle of your Association at its birth in 1878. I am as proud of it as was Wendell Phillips, that when a scholar in the Boston Latin School, his hand was shaken by Lafayette. In telling the story Mr. Phillips holding out his hand used proudly to say, "This hand has touched the hand of Lafayette." But I am not here to tell the story of your Association-I am not here to tell the story of Massachusetts or of Boston and its great Bench and Bar―I am not here even to catalogue our places of historic interest. It is my privilege to extend to you the welcome of the Massachusetts Bar Association. When royalty visits, it commands its host and allots its time. Your days are crowded. Each hour has its duty. We would do more for you if we were not precluded by the inexorable limit of time. You are royal guests and have set bounds to our hospitality, but be assured that as loyal hosts we will treat you royally. When Webster, more than sixty years ago, spoke at a dinner given in his honor by the Bar of South Carolina, he closed with this sentiment, "The law-it has honored us, may we honor it." Again the Massachusetts Bar Association thanks you for coming to our Commonwealth. It honors you because you have honored the law. The President: Mr. Hemenway, will you accept for the Massachusetts Bar Association, for the people of this commonwealth and for the citizens of this historic city, the thanks of the Association for your very cordial welcome. In the thirty-four years of its existence the American Bar Association has tasted the hos |