It is for the counsel to make it easy for the court to see where the justice of the case lies. You may try to serve your client, and deal with the case, but the court is a great thing, and if you can just make it easy for the court to see the justice of your position, why, you will have no difficulty in gaining your case.

But now, just think of a court that is struggling to do justice and has not been advised by counsel how to do it. You cannot imagine anybody in any more deplorable situation, and you must find out that the only method of doing this is through proper laws of procedure. That is where the secret lies. You cannot make it easy for the court to administer justice unless you have proper laws of procedure; and if you will address your minds to that, you will really do more than in any other way.

There is a plenty of law settling substantive principles. It is just now and then on the bench that a new law in this matter of principle presents itself, but constantly you are dealing with administration how you are to get at justice. What is the justice of justice? That is the problem. Now, if you please, find some way to make it easy and practicable for the courts to do what you want them to do, because you all want them to do justice. How shall that be done? We have tried various plans. In the first place, we had strict pleading, and you had to put everything. down; and then we tried liberal pleading, and then it was not liberal enough, and you allowed it without limitation. Very well. When you have got it all down, what is next? Why, you have got to have some rule of administration. You are obliged to have it, and that is what I want you to devise, because your work will be unsatisfactory and fruitless unless you adopt some scheme or other to get at the administration of justice. What it is I do not know. My idea heretofore has been to make it expeditious, chief and certain; but there is a great deal of theory in that, you perceive. There is not much development of the practical in those three words, but that is what you want. You want it to be expeditious, you want it to be chief, and you want it to be certain. Now, this committee to which I belong ought to devise some method of doing it, but committees are not very efficient, especially if they do not have a good Chair

man.

I put it to you as an Association, as a legal body of gentlemen, what is to be done? Let us do it; let us take one step in our generation now, if you please. I am ready for it, and other young people like myself are ready for it,

and I hope you old lawyers will come up to the mark. Let us take some step in advance, and really make progress in this matter of the administration of justice. I beg you to do it. I tell you it is for the interest of all of you. There is a great interest at stake. Suppose it destroys all of us, ruins our business and prospects; that is nothing. Let us make a step, and really find out how it is that we ought to try cases in the court, so as to bring our business upon a level with other business of the age. Now how is it? We go on in this same old way; I rather think we get slower, instead of more expeditious.

Go to the railroad man, or the merchant, or anybody else in business, and they have modern methods. Why should not we have modern methods, and make business move, and administer justice as a practical thing, and not keep suitors waiting from year to year, and generation to generation, almost, to realize the fruits of their cause.

Now, my young brethren-I see a great many faces that are youthful here-I tell you this is work for you, and if the older ones of us do not do it, take it out of our hands and go on and have the business done. The truth about it is that posterity is the hope of the world, in my opinion. (Laughter.) I want you to take hold of it and advance it, and I am ready to give you my youthful energies in the work, and we will go on, if you say so, and we will try to do this thing better. Everybody knows that it is not done right as we do it.

This is my report, not very formal, but I am in earnest in pressing upon you the objects for which I was appointed, although I have done nothing whatever to advance the means to accomplish those objects. (Applause.)

The President: Gentlemen, you have heard the report made by Judge Bleckley for the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure. Will you take any action upon it?

Mr. Bleckley: I hope not; I think we had better leave it to posterity, if you please. (Laughter and applause.) The President: Gentlemen, the next proceeding in order is a paper by the Honorable F. D. Peabody, on the Unanimity Rule in Making Verdicts. (See Appendix No. 7.)

The President: Gentlemen, the next in order is a paper by the Honorable F. H. Miller, on the Dissolution of Corporations by Repeal and Forfeiture. (See Appendix No. 8.)

Mr. Bleckley: Mr. President, I will state to the Asso

ciation that, in my opinion, we need precisely the law that Mr. Miller recommends, and I move that the suggestions of his report be adopted.

Carried.

The President: The next in order, gentlemen, is the report of the Committee on Grievances. The Hon. T. G. Lawson was Chairman of this committee, but as none of the committee were present at this time, a new committee was appointed this morning. I do not know whether that committee has any report to make.

Mr. McCord: Mr. President, will you permit me to stop the progress of the Association for a moment. The report of Mr. Miller, under the adoption of it by the Association, upon motion of Judge Bleckley, means nothing more nor less than the adoption of the report. I desire to go one step further than that, with the consent and approval of this Association. I am not sure to what committee the recommendations ought to be committed. It might be that a bill in the nature of an amendment to that bank section of the Code, allowing the remedies to all these corporations might be made, or in the nature of an original bill in conformity with the admirable views of the author of that paper; but I should like, if it is proper, for the Executive Committee, or the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reforms my friend Mr. Thomas says the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reforms-I would like to move a reference of that paper to that committee, looking to bringing it before the Legislature.

Mr. Thomas: Mr. President, I offer an amendment that Mr. Miller be requested to prepare a bill, or bills, embodying the suggestions of his address, and that he hand it to this Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform.

Mr. McCord: I accept the amendment.

Mr. Jordan: Mr. President, I offer this amendment: that Mr. Peabody be also requested to do the same; that a bill suggested by his admirable report be also referred to the same committee. I make that as an amendment, to the motion suggested by Mr. McCord.

The President: It is moved, by way of amendment, that the suggestions contained in the paper read by Mr. Peabody this morning be also referred to that committee.

Mr. McCord: I have no objection to that coming up in a separate form, but as that involves a constitutional

question, and necessarily involves a great deal more delay and consideration, and so on, I think it would be better to dispose of this subject-matter first; it is not at all akin to the subject-matter by Mr. Miller.

Mr. Jordan: I will withdraw it. If this was a legisla tive body I would see the force of the objections, but as it is only an Association, I cannot. I withdraw it.

The President put the motion of Mr. McCord as amended. which was carried.

Mr. Jordan: Now, Mr. President, I offer my amendment as an original resolution; I move Mr. Peabody do the same, and give it to the same committee.

Secretary Akin: Mr. President, the Constitution, Art. 7, provides for three committees: One on Jurisprudence and Law Reform; one on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure, and one on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar; and after assigning some duties to each, provides as follows:

"It shall be the duty of the foregoing standing committees to consider the suggestions made in each address and paper presented at each annual meeting of the Association which fall within the scope of the topics confided to said committees, and to report thereon at the next annual meeting."

I do not oppose either this resolution, or the one offered by Mr. McCord, and I desired merely to read this for information, to show that these papers, by the Constitution, are already referred to these committees, and it is the duty of these committees to take action and report upon them."

Mr. Thomas: Mr. President, I understand the constitutional requirement read by the gentleman from Cartersville requires these committees, in a general way, to consider these things. The motion of Judge Bleckley and of Col. Jordan, in instructing this committee to do à certain thing, and therefore differing from their general duties, and this resolution offered by Col. Jordan, ought to be passed. I would suggest, however, that it ought to go to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure: his motion was to refer it to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform.

Mr. Jordan: I would move to refer it to the proper committee, and I am willing for the Chair to determine that committee.

Secretary Akin: Mr. President, I think one trouble with our Association is that we have the idea of the gentleman

from Athens, that it is the duty of these committees to examine these papers in a general sort of way. I think if the committees understood it differently from the way in which it is understood by the gentleman from Athens, and examined them in a particular sort of way, and submitted a particular sort of report at each meeting of the Association, that it would be productive of more good and better subserve the purposes of the Association. I do not wish to be understood as opposing either the gentleman from Sparta (Mr. Jordan), or the gentleman from Augusta (Mr. McCord), but I desire to take this opportunity of calling the attention of the Association and the committees to the particularity with which these committees are charged to consider and investigate addresses, etc.

Mr. Hill: I beg to amend by suggesting the Committee on Judicial Administration.

Mr. Jordan: I accept that.

Carried as amended.

Mr. W. M. Reese: You asked awhile ago for the report of the pro tempore Committee on Grievances?

Mr. Reese then presented the report. (See Appendix No. 9.)

Mr. Thomas: Mr. President, I move that the report be received, and that consideration of it be postponed until the afternoon' meeting. I see here, glancing over the programme for this afternoon, that we are not likely to have much business. This resolution may evoke some discussion. I, therefore, move that consideration of it be postponed until afternoon; it will afford business for the after

noon.

A Member: The resolution is simply that this Committee on Grievances for the next year shall look into this thing. It does not decide anything, and it could not do any harm, and being a mere direction for investigation it is hardly likely that it will be opposed.

Mr. Thomas: If that is the case I withdraw my motion. Mr. Jordan I move the report be received and adopted by the Association.

Carried.

The President: That, gentlemen, concludes the busi