HENRY WADE ROGERS.

say at Chicago and at Springfield and possibly at one other place in the State. Examination by commission, constituted as herein suggested, has been advocated by the American Bar Association and has been adopted by such progressive states as New York and Ohio. There can be no uniformity so long as the power of admission is vested in the various courts of a state and when a candidate rejected by one court, can be admitted by another.

When this is possible it is idle to expect either uniformity or high standards. Neither the one or the other can exist, under such conditions. That both are desirable, I cannot for one moment doubt.

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GEORGE W. MILLER.

SPECIAL ADDRESS.

THE BAR AND THE LEGISLATURE.

GEORGE W. MILLER, OF CHICAGO.

Mr. President and Members of the Illinois State Bar Associa

tion:

I may be pardoned for confessing to you a feeling of pride at the opportunity to address this Bar Association, and yet I am not so vain but that I recognize this privilege has not been accorded me because of anything I may say to interest or instruct you, but rather because of the fact that as a member of the last General Assembly I displayed a disposition to be of some assistance to the bench and bar of Illinois.

A glance at your program and the names of the gentlemen who are to participate in the exercises that follow, would be sufficient justification if I had none other for making this talk reasonably brief.

The Bar and the Legislature: The one a co-ordinate branch of the government of this commonwealth; the other, the organization of a great profession; the one enacting our laws; the other, construing and enforcing them (for with the bar I include the bench); the membership of both so linked together that they can and should work hand in hand for the common good of a common people.

To the lawyer, especially the young lawyer, the Legislature affords legitimate opportunities he will not find in any