MR. BANNON: I move that the report of the Treasurer be received, approved and filed. Motion seconded and carried. MR. BANNON: Now, Mr. President, I move that for the next year the salary of the Treasurer be placed at one hundred dollars with an allowance of $25 for all clerical and stenographic work. Motion seconded and carried. MR. BANNON: Now, Mr. President, I have another matter that has been suggested here, and I prepared a resolution after conferring with other members, looking towards an increase in membership of this Association; and I hope that this plan will be efficient. I will present the following resolution: "Resolved, That a special committee of two, both of whom shall reside in the city of Columbus, be appointed by the Executive Committee sixty days previous to the annual meeting to invite lawyers to become members of this Association. Such committee shall be empowered to incur the necessary expenses in carrying out the objects of this resolution, which will be paid by the Association." I move, Mr. President, the adoption of this resolution. Motion seconded and carried. MR. H. B. ARNOLD: As a member of the committee that has had the question of securing legislation for lengthening the terms of judges of Supreme Court, it seems to me that we could do more effective work if we had a larger committee. I therefore move you that the regular committee be enlarged to nine, to be appointed by the President. Motion seconded. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the motion that the committee appointed to labor with the Legislature to procure the lengthening of the term of the judges of the Supreme Court be increased from five to nine? You who are in favor will say aye. Motion carried. MR. WELDY: The Committee on Admissions have more applications for membership. THE PRESIDENT: That is always in order; we will hear the report. Mr. Weldy, the Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, then read the applications of the following persons for admission to the Association: Admission: George H. Clark, Canton. U. C. DeFord, Lisbon. Theodore E. Faxon, Elyria. John T. Harrington, Youngstown. E. E. Roberts, Warren. D. C. Westenhaver, Cleveland. John Q. Adams, Toledo. MR. WELDY: I move that the persons whose applications for membership have just been read be elected to membership in the Association. Motion seconded and carried unanimously. THE PRESIDENT: I am requested to announce that the standing committees which have not organized will meet in this room at 12:30, for the purpose of perfecting their organization. THE SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, I just received the following communication from Mr. McCreary, the manager of the hotel company. I will read it: PUT-IN-BAY, O., July 12, 1905. Mr. E. B. McCarter, Secretary Ohio State Bar Association: DEAR SIR: I wish to present to the Ohio State Bar Association a cordial invitation to hold their 1906 meeting with us. I assure you that we appreciate your patronage and look forward with much pleasure each summer to your coming. You well know our facilities for taking care of you and our endeavor to make your meeting successful. Trusting we may have you with us at your next annual meeting, I am, Yours truly, T. W. MCCREARY, General Manager. MR. SMITH BENNETT: Mr. President, I move that this be referred to the Executive Committee. Motion seconded and carried. MR. JOHN N. VANDEMAN: I move you that the Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform be instructed that in the preparation of any statute to be presented to the Legislature in connection with the Third paragraph of the committee's report, they eliminate the exercise of any of the powers named by any of the probate courts in any county of the State. Motion seconded and carried. JUDGE GILBERT N. STEWART: As I understand it, the Association is now at a point where miscellaneous business is in order, and this matter which I desire to bring before the Association is of that character, and if I am in order I would like to present a motion. I desire to move, Mr. Chairman, that the Executive Committee be instructed to eliminate from the printed report of the proceedings of the Association everything except the business transacted by the Association and the set speeches which are delivered. That all report of speeches made upon the reports and all discussions made on the floor be omitted from the report. If I have a second, I will say why. Motion seconded. THE PRESIDENT: Are there any remarks? JUDGE STEWART: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I think any one who has been as familiar with the proceedings of the Association as I have been from the inception until the present date must admit that once in a while something is said in the course of the discussion on the formal notices and reports that is worth preservation, but that is the exception and not the rule. As lawyers we ought to be aware that we cannot speak. upon any subject without preparation, and when we come here, giving you my own personal judgment, and attempt to discuss questions which are presented to us by this Association for the first time, we show ourselves to be decidedly amateurish, and I think it is folly to preserve this evidence of our own ignorance of the subjects which are before the convention in the form of a printed record. As I understand it, the record of the Association should state all the business which it transacts. Of course those who come here with set speeches, and those gentlemen who have been requested to deliver those speeches have prepared themselves and they have always done credit and honor to the Association in the addresses which they delivered. They should be preserved. But all other speeches should be eliminated, and the report, in my judgment, should be confined to the business transacted by the Association. Motion carried. THE PRESIDENT: The first thing on the regular program is the discussion of the following subject, recommended by the Special Committee: "What changes, if any, can be made in the law defining the purposes for which corporations may be formed, and regulating their management, which would operate for the benefit of the public and obviate the necessity for Federal action on the subject?" The discussion will be opened by Mr. Thomas H. Hogsett, of Cleveland, whom I now have the pleasure of introducing to you. (Great applause.) (For Mr. Thomas H. Hogsett's address, see Appendix.) THE PRESIDENT: The discussion will be continued by Mr. Charles T. Lewis, of Toledo. (Great applause.) (For Mr. Charles T. Lewis's address, see Appendix.) THE PRESIDENT: The subject will be closed by a paper from Judge Howard C. Hollister, of Cincinnati. (Great applause.) (For Judge Howard C. Hollister's address, see Appendix.) THE PRESIDENT: Just one moment, gentlemen. I want to announce one or two committees. The committee on the matter of the lengthening of the term of the judges of the Supreme Court is as follows: Simeon M. Johnson, Cincinnati. THE PRESIDENT: The Treasurer requests me to call attention to the fact that less than one hundred persons present at this meeting have as yet paid their membership dues which are due at this time, and will save both labor, postage and correspondence if you will kindly pay him your dues while you are present here. JUDGE E. B. KING, of Sandusky: Mr. President, I move the thanks of this Association be tendered the gentlemen for the three able papers that have been read upon this important subject. Motion seconded and carried. Motion made to adjourn until Friday morning. Motion seconded and carried. FOURTH DAY THE PRESIDENT: Come to order, gentlemen. The Secretary desires me to announce that he has twenty-five of these bound copies of the last year's report here, so that if any of you have not received your reports and desire them you can get them. THE PRESIDENT: Is there any miscellaneous business you desire to call up before proceeding with the regular program of the morning? MR. THOMAS B. PAXTON, of Cincinnati: The name of Wilbur King, of Columbus, was proposed for membership in |