And thereupon the President declared the Association adjourned until 10:30 a. m., Friday, July 11.

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.

July 11, 1902.

The President called the Association to order at 10:30 a.

m., pursuant to adjournment, and said: The Chair will appoint under the resolution adopted by the Association yesterday, the following committee to confer with the Governor and assist him: John W. Warrington, Cincinnati; Judge E. B. King, of Sandusky, and T. H. Hogsett, of Cleveland.

The first thing in order this morning will be the Report of the Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Association. General Jones, the chairman, has the floor.

GENERAL JONES: Mr. Chairman, your committee beg leave to submit the following report and recommend for president John W. Warrington, of Cincinnati; for vice presidents, first district, John W. Herron; second district, O. T. Martin; third district, W. H. Snook; fourth district, U. L. Marvin; fifth district, C. O..Hunter; sixth district, W. Stilwell; seventh district, D. W. Jones; eighth district, D. A. Hollingsworth; ninth district, Theodore Hall; tenth district, J. F. Burkett; secretary, Smith W. Bennett, of Columbus, and treasurer, H. W. Bannon, Portsmouth.

Respectfully submitted.

I move the adoption of the report and the election of the persons named.

MR. VAN DEMAN: I second the motion.

And thereupon the motion was adopted unanimously.

THE PRESIDENT: The next in order will be the report of the election of officers of standing committees. Have these been submitted to the Secretary?

SECRETARY BENNETT: There are only three reports that have been made, the Grievance Committee, Admission and Election, and Judicial Administration and Legal Reform.

THE PRESIDENT: I suggest that the committees make their reports to the Secretary.

The next in order will be the appointment of three Delegates to the American Bar Association. The delegates to the American Bar Association are Judge James L. Price, of Lima; Judge J. A. Kohler, of Akron, and James O. Troup, of Bowling Green.

Is there any further business?

MR. VAN DEMAN: Mr. President, I desire to offer a resolution:

"Resolved, That the Executive Committee of this Association be and hereby is instructed to provide some other place for the next meeting of this Association, unless it is fully assured that this Association will not be interrupted or embarrassed by the meeting of any other organization upon either of the days selected for the sessions of this Association, unless such other association be composed wholly of lawyers."

I move the adoption of the resolution.

THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you have heard the resolution and motion; are there any remarks?

W. W. HOLE: Mr. Chairman, I am not in favor of this resolution, I think those suggestions are good ones and should be referred to the Executive Committee, but to absolutely instruct it that it shall not select this place I think would be wrong. I think we can safely trust the Executive Committee to make the arrangements, and I am not in favor of an absolute instruction of this kind to the members of that committee.

MR. W. H. A. READ: Mr. Chairman, I certainly hope that this resolution will not be adopted. We are here under

peculiar circumstances at this time. The contract that was to have been made by the Executive Committee was delayed in its making and then was not put in writing or signed because the chairman of the committee (it having become so late, for some reason or other), declined to sign it. The arrangement with the hotel, as I understand it, was for a three days' session until very recently, but the hotel had no notice that we were to have anything but a three days' session, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. By a fortunate line of decisions recently in the Supreme Court they have doubled our attendance and if they will give us a good opinion sometime during the coming year we may have a larger meeting next year. That has increased the attendance here much more than any person anticipated, or that this hotel could calculate upon. Last year we had a longer session, upon paper, and upon contract, than we really had. The hotel had prepared for two or three hundred members of this Association, but we crowded the last day's work into the preceding day and we left this hotel without having treated it as we should have done by staying here another day. They had preparations for us, for our entertainment in the way of food and other things for another day which were left upon their hands. They have treated us as well as they could under the circumstances. We have been crowded in with other people but it is these conventions that are making this hotel what it is and enabling the State Bar Association to have a fine place to hold a convention, the finest place that we could possibly have it in this state, or for that matter in any other state in the union. Let us refer this resolution to the committee and advise them of what we desire to have them do, but let us not tie them down by an iron rule.

JUDGE MARVIN: I hope that the resolution will be adopted. It is well to have attention called to this. Mr. McCreary said to me that he had expected that we would practi

cally wind up yesterday and his idea was yesterday about where we are now. Of course we were delayed in the opening of the meeting by the death of Judge Williams, but while we are talking about this I think it would be well for the Executive Committee to be sure that it knows what contract it does make. I am told that the hotel agreed to make a contract for the rates that are here published, but a lawyer told me that they said that they never made any such contract, that they never authorized the publication here made as to rates. There should be no mistake made in that, because if they advertise to take care of members at a certain price the members ought to be given entertainment at that price. It is a very serious matter that that mistake should have been made. I do not know whether there is any agency at the hotel for the validating of tickets. Somebody told me that he had been delayed a half an hour down. town to get his ticket validated. I see it stated on this publication that there would be an agency maintained here. I was told this morning to go down to the docks and be there on time if I wanted to get my ticket validated.

THE PRESIDENT: I wish, gentlemen, while you are discussing this matter, you would consider whether it would be fair to the two hundred and fifty or three hundred members who have been in attendance to now take action of this kind when but fifteen or twenty are present.

MR. VAN DEMAN: I will say, Mr. Chairman, that I drew this resolution at the suggestion of several members, and we felt that it was a matter that ought to be called to the attention of this Association. I have no desire to urge the adoption of this resolution, and I am perfectly willing to make a motion to refer it to the Executive Committee. There is no doubt some reason in the excuse given by my friend, Mr. Reed, from Toledo, but that does not fully satisfy the complaint. Delegates to this other Association commenced to arrive here on

Wednesday, and even if this Association had been expected to close on Thursday we would still have been embarrassed and crowded by the other organization coming in before this organization had finished its work.

JUDGE MARVIN: How would it do for you to change your motion, that we instruct the executive committee to have a definite contract made so that we will know just what we have, not to come here if we can not get a certain rate? Suppose we fix it in that way.

MR. VAN DEMAN: I am quite agreed with you. I think the Executive Committee ought to make a definite contract, and I am perfectly willing to amend it in the manner which Judge Marvin suggests.

THE PRESIDENT: Let me suggest that if you put the word "request" instead of the word "instruct," it would be all right. The resolution of Mr. Van Deman now is in effect that the Executive Committee be requested to find another place for the meeting of this Association unless they can make such arrangements here as will entirely conserve the convenience and comfort of the Association. That is the effect of the resolution.

MR. TROUP: I have a communication this morning from Mr. McCreary. I did not know that this matter was to be brought up:

"PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO, July 10, 1902. "To the Secretary of the Ohio State Bar Association now in session at Hotel Victory.

"DEAR SIR: I desire to present to the Ohio State Bar Association through you as secretary, a most cordial invitation to hold your summer meeting at the Hotel Victory next

season.

"I hope that the members of your Association will overlook any irregularity that may have occurred during this