said board before examination. Upon such certificate, if the chancellor shall find that such person is of good moral character, he shall enter an order licensing and admitting him to practice as attorney and counselor in all the courts of the state. Race shall constitute no cause for refusing any person examination or admission. Any fraudulent act or misrepresentation by an applicant in connection with his application or admission shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of his license by the chancellor granting the same. Such board shall render, during the month of January, an annual account of all their receipts and disbursements to the secretary of state. The supreme court may make such provisions as it may deem proper for admission of persons who have been admitted to practice in other states or countries.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That sections 3967 and 3968, Meigs & Cooper's Code of 1858, and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

This bill was introduced in the session of 1895 of the assembly, but defeated. At the last meeting of the bar association, the bill was again approved, and a committee appointed to urge its passage.

It was introduced in both houses at the last session of the legislature, and, though defeated, it was only by a narrow margin. It was recommended for passage by the judiciary committee of both houses and supported almost unanimously by these members who belonged to the legal profession, irrespective of party.

The bill is modeled after the New York statutes as enacted upon the same subject, and has been approved by the American Bar Association, and this, or similar measures, adopted in many of the states, and giving perfect satisfaction.

Your committee found no opposition among the members of the legislature to the bill itself, but to the passage of any bill re

quiring a more rigid examination for admission to the bar. This bill has met the universal approval of the lawyers, so far as your committee has been able to learn, and the bar, with a few exceptions, have done all in their power to secure its passage. Your committee believes the early passage of this, or a similar measure, can be secured. The benefit which would be derived from the passage of any bill tending to elevate the standard of admission to our profession, is manifest.

July 28, 1897.

JOS. G. BRANCH,

Chairman.

The report was ordered to be received and filed and printed in the proceedings.

The report was discussed by Messrs. H. H. Ingersoll, S. A. Champion, John Allison, J. M. Anderson, C. W. Metcalf, W. B. Swaney, Thos. H. Malone, and Jos. G. Branch.

The following resolution was introduced by Hon. H. H. Ingersoll, which, upon motion, was adopted:

Resolved, 1. That the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar be instructed to correspond with persons in other states, and report to the next meeting of this association the standard of requirements for admission to the bar throughout the union, together with such recommendation as may seem best to secure an elevated and uniform standard throughout the state.

2. That said committee inquire and report also the standards of admission required by the law schools of the state, with appropriate recommendation.

The association then adjourned until Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.

(On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the members of the association were tendered an excursion by the Nashville bar to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition).

SECOND DAY.

Thursday, July 29, 1897.

The association convened at 10 A.M., President Swaney in the chair.

The President introduced to the association the Hon. Seymour D. Thompson, of St. Louis, who delivered an address entitled "Mr. Justice Jackson." (See Appendix.)

The report of the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure was then submitted by the chairman, R. E. L. Mountcastle, of Morristown. The report is as follows:

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND REMEDIAL PROCEDURE.

To the Bar Association of Tennessee:

At the last meeting of this association, by the former committee on this subject was presented an able comparative analysis of our criminal laws and procedure, and in the Jarvis bill, the legislature just adjourned has made a great and most hopeful advance toward proper, efficient, and cheaper administration of the criminal law, which subject will be handled before this association by the committee appointed specially to look after the reforms recommended, but, in our opinion, while the defects and vices inherent in the administration of the criminal laws are the most glaring and burdensome, and therefore perhaps the readiest remedied in fundamental respects, still there are great defects in the laws regulating the administration and procedure as affecting our civil law, often pointed out at this time, pending the discussion of the constitutional convention, and, while we are not optimistic enough to suppose that such defects as exist will be remedied, or be even admitted, as a result of new ideas upon the subject, or by new suggestions, even if complied with by proper action of the authorities, yet we do hope, by calling attention to such defects and by our suggestions,

whether good, bad, or indifferent, to at least awaken some interest in the matter or call forth some better suggestions, to the end that, eventually, something may be accomplished toward the right result-to wit, the proper, efficient, and economic administration of justice through the courts.

That our judiciary does good, arduous, and satisfactory work in the main will not be disputed, yet that the general results attained are disproportionate to the number, and also to the expense, of judges engaged in the administration of our civil law, the comparisons usually and often made, here briefly stated, clearly show.

We will point out the comparative situation and suggest such measures of reform as we think will be calculated at least to reach some measure of correction.

From the investigations of Mr. J. H. Cantrell, of Chattanooga, we select the following facts as to the number of judges in Tennessee, and the amounts of their yearly salaries:

In the state of Georgia, the following shows the number of judges and their yearly salaries:

In other words, Georgia, with a larger population than Tennessee, pays $68,000 per year less than Tennessee, and North Carolina pays $76,250 less for judicial salaries alone.

Tennessee, to care for her 1,767,518 of population, pays $21,250 more than Georgia and North Carolina together for their 3,455,300 of population.

Unless the business necessarily handled by our judiciary is greatly disproportioned to wealth and population, there must be some fundamental defects in our judicial system, which defects have been overcome by our sister states with improvements which meet the demands of their people, and are more suited to the times in which we live. Georgia has recently added to the supreme court some additional judges.

It is possible, but hardly probable, that the litigation in Tennessee exceeds that of both our sister states, and needs all of our judiciary to accommodate and handle the people's business, in which event the people should pay fair and adequate compensation, and the remedy would be to devise some plan to prevent such of this litigation as it is desirable should be prevented, if any, and we suggest later on in this report some improvement which might be made on this line. In fact, while our supreme court, for the last four or five years, has decided about 1,200 cases yearly, the supreme court of North Carolina yearly decides about 700 to 900 cases, and the latter is not behind with its docket, as we learn from correspondence with North Carolina lawyers, but, of course, this comparison is not always indicative of the actual work devolved upon the court, because it may take ten times the amount of labor and research to decide properly one complicated and important case than ten smaller or less important, and it is practically impossible to make such investiga