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. Lellyett Chairman A. W. Chambliss W. H. Swiggart ... Nashville Chattanooga Union City Special Committee to Urge Passage of House Bill No. 133 14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE TANFORD LIBRAR PROCEEDINGS OF THE Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting OF THE Bar Association of Tennessee Signal Mountain Inn, Chattanooga, Tenn. FIRST DAY-MORNING SESSION. The President: Gentlemen of the Bar Association, we have met here this morning for the purpose of holding our ThirtyFourth Annual Meeting. Most of us remember very pleasantly the good meetings we have had on Lookout Mountain, across the way, and most of us have participated before in the hospitality of this city, famed for its hospitality and entertainment, and its eminent local bar, and no less noted for their solicitude for the stranger within their gates. Those of you who happened to be at Nashville last year will recall the conversation passing between Judge Fairabaugh and Col. Bryan, in which Mr. Keeble participated, in reference to the water in the Cumberland River, and in the old oaken bucket. The Tennessee River still flows around and past this beautiful city. Right at this time, however, the water is muddy, but in order to satisfy any thirst, I want to say, I believe other arrangements have been made to take care of all those who become thirsty. Gentlemen of the Bar Association, the Chattanooga Bar has always entertained this association in keeping with their farfamed hospitality, and most of us have heretofore partaken of this hospitality and know what it is. We will next have an address of welcome from the Honorable W. L. Frierson, President of the Chattanooga Bar Association. Mr. Frierson: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Association: For a good many years in my younger days the attraction of Lookout Mountain and its famous Inn brought this association to our doors every year, and its meetings came to be among the looked for meetings of each year. We had, in fact, come to regard the Bar Association of Tennessee as one of our assets. The destruction of Lookout Inn took from us many things that made Chattanooga a pleasant place to live in, and by no means the least of these was the annual meeting of the Bar Association of Tennessee. Since that time you have come to us only occasionally, and we were beginning to feel that we had no more proprietary interest in this association than could be claimed by other cities of the State; but God and the United States government and foreign capital has done more for Chattanooga than any other place on the face of the earth. The smiling face of good fortune has never deserted her for long. So, before any other place could hold out sufficient inducement to this association to take up another habitat, and while it was still a very pathetic wanderer over the face of the State, Chattanooga has again come into her own. One of our enterprising citizens, possessed of the magic power to bring us the capital to do the big things that are needed in this progressive age, has discovered this beautiful spot on a mountain, not so widely known, but equally as grand, equally as enterprising and equally as historical as Lookout Mountain, and here he has erected Signal Mountain Inn, which, he asked me to say, was built for your special edification, and which, Mr. President, in his name, I tender to you as the permanent home of the Bar Association of Tennessee. Speaking of the Bar Association of Chattanooga, it is my pleasure today, and I simply announce that we are here to attend your house warming, and if during your stay we shall seem to forget that you are at home and shall ourselves exercise some of the rights and privileges of a host, we beg that you will not regard us as officious, but rather that you will remember that we are already beginning to regard you again as one of our assets, and we simply don't know any better. My message, Mr. President, to this association, is simply, Welcome Home Again. The President: Gratitude is one of East Tennessee's many virtues, and ever since that soft impeachment has been made, sne has been ready and willing to plead guilty. She knows a good thing when she sees it, and when she sees a good thing she wants it, and when she gets it she is duly gratified. We expected just such a welcome as we have received. We know Chattanooga is a good place, we have seen it and we want it, and on behalf of the association, I express our appreciation of the kind words Just spoken by Mr. Frierson, and will call on Col. W. A. Hen derson to reply. Col. Henderson: (picks up water bottle from table and shakes it, sets it down again and says): I just wanted to see what was in it. Col. Henderson: Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Bar As sociation: I have been a member of the Bar Association of Tennessee for many years. It has always been an annual delight with me to meet with you. I used to call you friends and fellows, then I begun to call you my sons, and now it looks like I will have to begin to call you my grandchildren. I am to respond to the ornate and pleasant greeting given to us by a member of the Chattanooga Bar welcoming us to this meeting in Chattanooga. The lawyers of Tennessee are theoretically here present to day. Not all of them are here, but the best of them are here. We have come from the mountains on the East, and we have come from Greasy Rock and Big Hatchie River, and we have come here from Knoxville, which by the way is the center of the earth. I sat on a hill and looked all around and you can see it is the center of earth. We are here from Memphis-and Memphis is a mighty nice little town, but it is too far from Knoxville to do much good, but it is doing the best it can. I remember a good many years ago I was on my way to Memphis and I got on a train up at Charleston and met my friend, Judge Key, Postmaster General and Senator. Senator Key was a candidate for re-election. I rode with him to Chattanooga and left him here and went on to Memphis. I was a Key man, and when I got down there to the hotel in Memphis, the town was bragging about the big speech Senator Key had made at the opera house there, and I was very anxious to hear |