and we thank you for the co-operation and assistance you have given us during the year, and at the present time, in trying to get the brethren of the Bar assembled here for consideration of the matters that come before it. Col. Joseph H. Acklen: Mr. President, there is a little report on the program which we have overlooked. The President: The report of the Committee on Obituaries and Memorials was thereupon read by Col. Joseph H. Acklen, the same being as follows: Your Committee on Obituaries and Memorials respectfully submits the following report: Since the last report submitted to the Bar Association of Tennessee for publication, death has claimed the following members: Judge A. S. Buchanan, Memphis. It has been practically impossible to get correct and sufficient data to enable your Committee to do justice to all. Your Committee has, therefore, hesitated to present a report that, apparently, would show any favoritism. In some instances your Committee, on application for information, has been referred to some other person as best qualified to furnish requisite data, or to prepare a sketch of the deceased member's life, and professional work. Such references generally resulted in no sufficient material being gathered upon which to base such memorials as should appear in our proceedings. It is a most delicate matter to revise and cut down a lengthy memorial prepared by some devoted friend or relative of the deceased. If all were published as thus prepared, however meritorious and deserying, such memorials would fill quite a volume. Without some rule of the Association by which your Committee would be limited to so many words for each memorial, we have deemed it best to report only the names, leaving it to the wisdom of the Association to fix a rule for future guidance. Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH H. ACKLEN, Chairman. The President: , Judge A. R. Gholson: I shall still adhere to my original ruling that the motion cannot be that it is the sense of the Association. Judge Minor: , Mr. President, in order to get the matter beyond dispute, it is not too late to move an amendment. I move an amendment of the By-Laws in the respect which I have mentioned. Judge Gholson: 1 second the motion. The President: The President: his report has been submitted to some of the members of the mmittee, and heartily approved, and I believe Judge Pitts has exsed his approval. udge Pitts: Ir. President, I move that the report be received and filed. The President: - the absence of any objection, the report will be received and and spread upon the minutes. udge H. D. Minor: order to avoid any embarrassment, Mr. President, by acting in mce, I move, with respect to these reports of the Committee Obituaries and Memorials, that this Association adopt the pracof the American Bar Association, and that is, merely a record of deaths and dates. Member: second the motion. he President: is moved and seconded that it is the sense of the Association that fter we merely adopt the practice of the American Bar Asson, and record only the names of the deceased members and dates, -ut more. dge Minor, it seems to me that there is a Constitutional provision that. It would require an amendment of the By-Laws, Judge r, which is, By-Law VII, Section 7; "A Committee on Obituaries Memorials, who shall prepare and submit at each meeting of the ciation obituaries and memorials of all members of the Association have died during the preceding year. So it requires an amendof that by a majority of the members present. Will you shape resolution so that you can amend this By-Law. You cannot it the sense of the meeting. It is moved and seconded that the By-Laws which provide that the Committee on Obituaries and Memorials shall prepare and submit at each meeting obituaries and memorials of all members of the Association who died during the preceding year, be amended by reciting that the Committee shall merely submit, in place of obituaries and memonals , a report of the names of the deceased, and the dates of birth and death. Judge Minor: Just the date, please, of death. Judge Pitts: Mr. President, I would suggest, as an amendment to Judge Minor's motion, that the By-Law be amended so as to read that this Committee shall submit obituaries and memorials of deceased members, consisting at least of the name and date of the death of each, leaving it open to them to say something in addition, if they so desire. Judge Minor: accept the amendment. Age Minor: ell, I move, Mr. Chairman, that it is the sense of this meeting - shall be a sufficient compliance with that By-Law, for the Com on Obituaries and Memorials to report a list of the deaths, with atement of when they occurred, and where. e President: hall declare that motion out of order, because it is in direct conwith the By-Law. ge Minor: e By-Law don't say what kind of report. You have heard the motion of Judge Minor, as modified by Judge Pitts. Are you ready for the question? The motion was put to a vote of the Association, and was carried unanimously. The President: Is there anything further in your hands, gentlemen? If not, we will proceed to the election of officers for the ensuing year. Nominations are now in order for the office of President. The President: It says, shall prepare and submit at each meeting of the Association obituaries and memorials. Judge A. R. Gholson: I shall still adhere to my original ruling that the motion cannot be that it is the sense of the Association. Judge Minor: Well, Mr. President, in order to get the matter beyond dispute, it is not too late to move an amendment. I move an amendment of the By-Laws in the respect which I have mentioned. Judge Gholson : It is moved and seconded that the By-Laws which provide that the Committee on Obituaries and Memorials shall prepare and submit at each meeting obituaries and memorials of all members of the Association who died during the preceding year, be amended by reciting that the Committee shall merely submit, in place of obituaries and memorials, a report of the names of the deceased, and the dates of birth and death. Judge Minor: Mr. President, I would suggest, as an amendment to Judge Minor's motion, that the By-Law be amended so as to read that this Committee shall submit obituaries and memorials of deceased members, consisting at least of the name and date of the death of each, leaving it open to them to say something in addition, if they so desire. Judge Minor: You have heard the motion of Judge Minor, as modified by Judge Pitts. Are you ready for the question ? The motion was put to a vote of the Association, and was carried unanimously. The President: Is there anything further in your hands, gentlemen? If not, we will proceed to the election of officers for the ensuing year. Nominations are now in order for the office of President. a coming year, it will require all of our energy and a great deal of our . I ask your help. I earnestly request your help, and I trust The new President here took the Chair. I believe the next order of business is the nomination and election dent. Col. Joseph H. Acklen: 1r. President, I desire to place in nomination for the office of sident of this Association a gentleman well known to us, one our prominent lawyers of Nashville, a man who has endeared elf to every one in the State of Tennessee who has had the ssure and honor of knowing him, Mr. Thomas H. Malone. udge H. Dent Minor: Ir. President, on behalf of West Tennessee, I want to second nomination. he President: -re there any further nominations? A motion is in order to close nominations. lotion to close the nomination was made, duly seconded and ed. ol. Joseph H. Acklen: r. President, I move that the Secretary be instructed to cast the of the Association for Mr. Malone. ne motion was duly seconded, put to a vote of the Association, unanimously carried. ne President: r. Secretary, you are instructed to cast the vote of this AssociaFor Mr. Thomas H. Malone of Nashville, as President of this ciation for the ensuing year. e Secretary accordingly cast the vote of the Association for Thomas H. Malone. . Elias Gates (Retiring President): . Malone, I extend to you a hearty welcome. Col. Acklen and Minor, will you escort the newly elected President to the chair? - Malone was accordingly escorted to the chair. -Gates: atlemen of the Association, I present to you your new PresiMr. Thomas H. Malone, of Nashville. I congratulate you, Talone. sident Malone: ow members of the Association, I can not say, owing to a lack of reticence on the part of the Memphis press, that mes as a great surprise, but I will say that, perhaps for that the honor is all the more appreciated. I feel that, to be as the successor of such men as McFarland, Metcalf, Heiskell, her illustrious ornaments of the Memphis Bar, at a meeting ed largely of Memphis lawyers, is indeed an honor. If we out the program which has been mapped out for us during the Mr. Gates: I move that the nominations be closed, and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for Mr. Stuart for Vice President of the Association, for East Tennessee. The motion was duly seconded, and unanimously carried. The next order of business is the election of a Vice President for Mr. Gates: These middle Tennesseans seem to be very modest and rather bashful . I nominate Mr. Frank M. Bass for Vice President for Middle Tennessee. The nomination was duly seconded. I move that the nominations be closed, Mr. President, and that the Mr. Frank M. Bass is elected Vice President of the Association for Middle Tennessee. The next order of business is the nomination of a Vice President for West Tennessee. Nominations are in order Mr. Abe D. Waldauer: Mr. President, I desire to place in nomination the name of Mr. Auvergne Williams, of Memphis, for Vice President for West Ten nessee. coming year, it will require all of our energy and a great deal of our time. I ask your help. I earnestly request your help, and I trust that with your help I will be able to carry out, in a manner not unworthy of the preceding administration, which has so gloriously come to a close, the measures advocated by this Association. I thank you. The new President here took the Chair. I believe the next order of business is the nomination and election of a Vice President for East Tennessee. Nominations are in order for that office. Mr. Walter P. Armstrong: Mr. President, I nominate Mr. D. Sullins Stuart for Vice President. Mr. Gates: I move that the nominations be closed, and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for Mr. Stuart for Vice President of the Association, for East Tennessee. The motion was duly seconded, and unanimously carried. The next order of business is the election of a Vice President for Middle Tennessee. Nominations are in order for that office, Mr. Gates: These middle Tennesseans seem to be very modest and rather bashful. I nominate Mr. Frank M. Bass for Vice President for Middle Tennessee. The nomination was duly seconded. I move that the nominations be closed, Mr. President, and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the unanimous vote of the Association for Mr. Bass. The motion was duly seconded, was put to a vote of the Association, and unanimously carried. The President: Mr. Frank M. Bass is elected Vice President of the Association for Middle Tennessee. The next order of business is the nomination of a Vice President for West Tennessee. Nominations are in order Mr. Abe D. Waldauer: Mr. President, I desire to place in nomination the name of Mr. Auvergne Williams, of Memphis, for Vice President for West Ten nessee. |
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