GRIEVANCES. OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS. One Year Term. C. W. Metcall. ...........Memphis Two Year Term. Milton J. Anderson.. Memphis Charles H. Smith.. Two Year Term. Three Year Term. W. W. Farabough.. J. T. Baskerville.. Miss Elizabeth Miller, Secretary.. ..Trenton „Bristo Johnson City Three Year Term. Jas. M. Greer, Chairman....... Memphis JURISPRUDENCE AND LAW REFORM. „Memphis Knoxville ..Memphis One Year Term. C. N. Burch. W. T. Kennerly. Walter P. Armstrong.. Two Year Term. J. B. Sizer... L. D. Bejach. H. M. Carr... Three Year Term. G. T. Fitzhugh, Chairman. I H. Peres, Vice Chairman. W. H. Swiggart, Jr. .Chattanooga ..Memphis „Harriman „Memphis ..Memphis Union City Three Year Term. .Memphis .Memphis ..Savannah Judge Ben Capell, Vice Chairman, Judge D. B. Puryear... Judge J. W. Ross... PUBLICATION. Chattanocga One Year Term Memphis SPECIAL COMMITTEES. CODIFICATION, Nashville E A. Price, Chairman. Somerville H. C. Moorman, C. L. Sivley.. ..Memphis R. I Moore.. ..Memphis J. H. Watson. .Memphis Jos. H. Acklen ..Nashville Jno. Cantrell. .Chattanooga N. Smithson. Knoxville A. W. Chambliss. ..Chattanooga Committee to appear before Supreme Court in support of resolution as to more stringent qua:ifications for admission to the Bar: Jno W. Judd, Chairman.. .Gallatin T. A. Wright.... .Knoxville Robert F. Spragins.. ..Jackson COMMITTEE ON NEW MEMBERS. West Tennessee. W. H. Biggs.. Giles L. Evans.. Middle Tennessee. Jackson J. J. Lynch.. Fayetteville East Tennessee. ...Chattanooga WORKMANIS COMPENSATION. Chattanooga Memphis CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AS TO APPELLATE COURT. Judge Jno. W. Judd.. Gallatin Jackson Two Year Term. Memphis John A. Chambliss. Je Three Year Term. Member of General Council for Tennessee. P. D. Maddin. „Fourth National Bank Building, Nashville Local Council, A. S. Buchanan.. Memphis ..Memphis ..Chattanooga Chattanooga HISTORY OF TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION. Percy Maddin, Chairman. ...Nashville Jas. H. Malone.. Memphis Foster Brown... Chattanooga W. B. Swaney.. Chattanooga Jno. W. Judd. -Gallatio PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF TENNESSEE OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION 1918-1919. HELD AT Signal Mountain, Tenn., August 7th and 8th, 1918 President. George T. Page........... MORNING SESSION, AUG. 7, 1918. Secretary. .Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md. George Whitelock....... Assistant Secretary. .Mansey Building, Baltimore, Md. W. Thomas Kemp.. Treasurer. .78 Chapel Street, Albany, N. Y. Frederick E. Wadhams... Vice President for Tennessee. The meeting was opened by the singing of “America,” led by Mrs. Reta Faxon Pryor. PRESIDENT WATKINS: Gentlemen of the Convention, and Ladies and Gentlemen-We will now have a prayer by the Rev. Dr. T. H. McCallie, and I ask you to stand during the prayer. Dr. McCallie then pronounced the invocation. PRESIDENT WATKINS: Now, ladies and members of the Association and visiting gentlemen, our exercises will not be tedious, and we feel highly honored at the attendance of the ladies and gentlemen who do not belong to the Association, and we shall be very glad to have you with us at any time during our sessions. The first thing on our programme is an address of welcome by the Hon. B. E. Tatum, of the Chattanooga Bar: R. F. Jackson Member of General Council for Tennessee. „Fourth National Bank Building, Nashville P. D. Maddin A. S. Buchanan.. Elias Gates..... John A. Chambliss....... James H. Anderson.. Mr. Tatum then addressed the Convention as follows: Mr. President, Members of the Bar Association, Ladies and Gentlemen: Upon leaving home this morning the cook overheard some con. versation between Mrs. Tatum and me in which she got the idea that I was going to attend the Bar meeting, when she remarked, They aint no more bars; I guess he is going to a bootleggers' meeting.” I have been assigned the very pleasant and agreeable duty of saying to you a word of welcome. Our distinguished President notified me some weeks ago that I would be called upon to deliver an “Address of Welcome” on this occasion. He immediately and very frankly informed me that the success and pleasure of meetings of this kind were often destroyed by alleged "welcome addresses," and that he did not intend that any man who could speak, or even thought that he could speak, should have that place on the programme for this meeting, and that therefore I had been selected; that I would be expected to simply say to each and all that you were welcome here. I have therefore concluded, from the admonition given, that the real speech of this session will be heard when we reach the topic, “Address of President." The President, as you know, had much to do with preparing the programme. The members of the Chattanooga Bar appreciate the honor of again having you as our guest, and we sincerely trust that these meetings may afford you pleasure as well as profit. It has been our hope, our desire, that these meetings be attended by an unusually large number of the lawyers throughout the State. This is the second annual meeting of our Association since our country has been engaged in awful war, a conflict so gigantic and so cruel that the minds of men can but stand appalled before it all. Every true, loyal American citizen is proud, almost beyond expression, of the most splendid record made by our brave, intelligent and heroic soldiers on the battlefields. Our citizens of every walk in life have responded loyally, readily and heroically to our Nation's every call, and will contine so to do until víctory is ours. I am proud, and so are you, of the services rendered, the work accomplished and of the sacrifice made by the members that I was going to attend the Bar meeting, when she remarked, Thay aint no more bars ; I guess he is going to a bootlegg-s' meeting.” I have been assigned the very pleasant and agreeable duty of saying to you a word of welcome. of the Bar from one end of this great country to the other. There is no class of men who have been more willing to do their all than the lawyers. Many and great have been the responsibilities and duties assigned to and performed by them. The American lawyer has ever played a most important part in the history of our country. I but speak the truth when I say that he has been more responsible than any other class in making the United States the greatest nation on the earth. Our distinguished President notified me some weeks ago that I would be called upon to deliver an “Address of Welcome” or this occasion. He immediately and very frankly informed me that the success and pleasure of meetings of this kind were often destroyed by alleged "welcome addresses," and that he did not intend that any man who could speak, or even thought that he could speak, should have that place on the programme for this meeting, and that therefore I had been selected; that I would be expected to simply say to each and all that you were welcome here. I have therefore concluded, from the admonition given, that the real speech of this session will be heard when we reach the topic, "Address of President." The President, as you knor, had much to do with preparing the programme. The lawyer has been the leader in each community, town and city, in making, molding and giving expression to a healthy public sentiment on all questions vitally affecting the interest of the Nation. It has been largely through his efforts that all important public questions have been correctly settled. He has studied government and governmental affairs more thoroughly than any other class of men, and therefore the better knows the needs of his fellow-man. The members of the Chattanooga Bar appreciate the honor of again having you as our guest, and we sincerely trust that these meetings may afford you pleasure as well as profit. It has been our hope, our desire, that these meetings be attended by an unusually large number of the lawyers throughout the State. While it is true that in the past he has most nobly played his part in the construction of our great republic, there are, to my mind, graver problems to be solved, greater duties to be performed by him in the not far distant future thau in the past. When this awful human conflict has been ended; when the terms of peace have been signed, and when our victorious armies return to us—God bless them all the American people will be confronted with serious, grave and all-important questions. The future greatness and prosperity of our country will in a very large degree depend upon how these questions are met and solved. This is the second annual meeting of our Association since our country has been engaged in awful war, a conflict so gigantie and so cruel that the minds of men can but stand appalled before it all. Every true, loyal American citizen is proud, almost beyond espression, of the most splendid record made by our brave, intelligent and heroic soldiers on the battlefields. Our citizens of every walk in life have responded loyally, readily and heroically , to our Nation's every call, and will contine so to do until victory is ours. I am proud, and so are you, of the services rendered, the work accomplished and of the sacrifice made by the members It will be our privilege and our duty to carefully study and calmly consider these momentous questions and to cautiously and wisely assist in creating a healthy public sentiment affecting all vital and necessary legislation. It is a well-known fact that for many years there has been a spirit of unrest throughout the land. The employer and employe have grown to look upon each other as his enemy. The rich have grown richer and the poor have grown poorer. The spirit of radical socialism has permeated large masses of our people. One class has been asking the government for protection а |
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