SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Commissioners to act as counsel for the Bar Association of Tennessee in prosecution of lawyers alleged to have been guilty of unprofessional conduct:

John T. Lellyet, Chairman

A. W. Chambliss

W. H. Swiggart

Nashville Chattanooga

Union City

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Bar Association

of Tennessee

HELD AT

Nashville, Tennessee, June 11th and 12th, 1914

The thirty-third annual meeting of the Bar Association of Tennessee was called to order in the assembly room of the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, at 10:30 o'clock on the morning of June 11, 1914, by President John Bell Keeble, of Nashville.

Mr. John T. Lellyet presented a report for the Central Council, recommending the following for membership in the Association:

Upon motion of Joseph H. Acklen, duly seconded, the report of the Central Council was adopted and all of those recommended for membership were duly elected as members of the Association.

I now have the pleasure of presenting the Hon. M. T. Bryan, who will speak the welcoming words to the visitors, on behalf of the local bar.

Hon. M. T. Bryan-Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Bar Association of Tennessee, and Ladies. On behalf of the Nashville Bar, I have the Honor to welcome you to Nashville. Our welcome is not a mere formal or conventional one; we welcome you to our hearts. We do this in a knowledge and an appreciation of the worth and of the deserving of the Bar Association of Tennessee, composed, as it is, of leading members of our profession, one of the learned professions. It could not be other than it has been, an association for the betterment, not only of its members through the high ideals it has erected and maintained, but also for the betterment of the State.

The typical or representative lawyer, in whatever community he may live, is always a representative citizen; he is usually the first citizen in the community, in the life of the community, and in his work he stands for the best. The representative lawyer is ever a conserver of peace; he is the one who holds high ideals of character and worth, and the ethical relations of his profession to which he dedicates himself, always have the tendency to uplift the profession and to benefit his fellowman.

The work that has been done by the Bar Association of Tennessee for thirty-three years is itself a monument of worth and of praise and of credit. It is true that the weather here

today is hot, and our city, legislatively speaking, is dry, but the warmth of the weather is but an expression of the warmth of our welcome, but, as to the dryness, the Committee has made provision for an ample supply of Cumberland River water, so no one may remain thirsty.

Gentlemen of the Bar Association, again voicing the unanimous sentiments of our Bar, in an appreciation of your character and worth, and the gladness we all feel in having you in our midst, I again bid you a most cordial welcome.

President Keeble:-I will now call on Judge W. W. Farabaugh of Memphis, to make the response to Col. Bryan's welcoming words.

Mr. W. W. Farabaugh Mr President, gentlemen of the Bar Association, and Ladies. In response to the beautiful words of welcome of. Judge Bryan, I desire to say I have no speech prepared; but I know that the beautiful sentiments he expressed eame for his heart, and he expresses the sentiments of all of the people of Nashville, and all the lawyers of Nashville welcoming this Bar Association meeting here.

Permit me to say, gentlemen of the Association, just at this point, Judge Bryan referred to the Cumberland River. That was a proper remark in more senses than one. I do not believe in waiting until a man is dead before putting flowers upon his grave, but I always had an idea it was well enough to hand him. a flower while he lives, and I want to say this in reference to Hon. M. T. Bryan. He is due as much credit and he has done as much, if not more, than any other living man in Tennessee, for the beautiful Cumberland, to make it a highway of commerce.

The enterprise and energy exhibited by him, and other citizens of Nashville, and of this community is somewhat akin to that gigantic enterprise of continental surgery that dividing the hemispheres, making a new ocean, and causing the blue of the gulf to mingle with the gold of the Pacific.

Gentlemen of the Bar Association, permit me to say, a good many things have been said about the grand old City of Nashville, but the subject has never been exhausted. I have never lived in Nashville, but have always regretted the fact that I have not, and I say it here, in this presence, not in a spirit of flattery or as taffy, but after a careful study of the citizenship of the cities