Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Judicial Administration and Remedial Reform.

F. B. Owen: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Association, I have little doubt that most of you have had the opportunity, and I have more doubt as to whether all of you have taken advantage of that opportunity to learn in advance of the meeting what the report of this Committee would be. I therefore will now read the report of our Committee and since it is made a special order of discussion at two o'clock, I will at that hour, if the president permits, move its adoption to open the way for discussion.

(Report of Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Judicial Administration and Remedial Reform was read.)

(See appendix, page 169).

W. A. Ledbetter: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Association, I am a member of that special committee on Judicial Reform and I had occasion to meet with them once. At the other meetings I was out of the city and I didn't have an opportunity to examine the report which they made until after it was printed, and I, therefore, have taken the liberty to file a separate report expressing my views on what ought to be enacted by the Legislature to relieve the congestion of the Supreme Court docket.

(Minority report of the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Judicial Administration and Remedial Reform was read.)

(See appendix, page 174)

The President: We will now hear the report of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.

(Report of Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar was read.)

(See appendix, page 195).

Julien C. Monnet: Now, of course the program here is very full. There are many other committees to report. There are special orders of business and many subjects requiring discussion. The committee, therefore, asks at this time merely that the report be received and filed subject to be called up at any time by the members of the Association or by the presiding officer.

The President: Let the report be filed. You do not care to move its adoption?

J. C. Monnet: Not at this time.

The President: The next is the Committee on Law Reporting and Digesting, Villard Martin is chairman.

Villard Martin: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Association, I will just read the report of the committee and then if it is in order at this time I will move its adoption.

(Report of Committee on Law Reporting and Digesting was read.)

(See appendix, page 190).

Since the publication of this report the Committee has received a letter accompanied by a statement from the State Reporter, and I will read that statement.

(Status of Publication of Oklahoma Reports by Howard I. Parker was read.)

(See appendix, page 192).

In the letter Mr. Parker writes, in which he encloses

this statement, he says, with reference to that part of the report dealing with the situation of the Oklahoma cases in the Pacific Reports:

"Now, I could, as the very last work on a volume, prepare a table of the cases contained in the volume, giving cross-reference to the Pacific Reporter, and have it inserted in the back of the book, like the Pacific does its blue tinted tables at the back of its volumes. But, as I said in the accompanying statement, I would not be able to give all of such cross-references; (and besides, it would be unusual for the official reports thus to recognize and boost the sale of unofficial reports.) It seems to me that those blue tinted tables published in the Pacific so frequently should suffice to give the service you suggest."

It is suggested by the Committee, if it is practicable, that reference be made to the corresponding cases in the Pacific Reporter. Just how that can be worked out, the Committee don't know. Mr. Howard Parker suggested a plan similar to that adopted by the West Publishing Company in publishing the Pacific Reporter and the Committee is of the opinion that if this can be done it would be very helpful to the Bar and to those who have not access to both volumes to have cross reference in the Pacifics to the Oklahoma and in the Oklahoma to the Pacifics. Some of us have the Oklahoma Reports and haven't the Pacific Reports and others have the Pacific Reports and haven't the Oklahoma Reports, and especially is that true of lawyers away from home who frequently have cases in our courts and particularly in the Federal Courts. They may have Pacific Reports but may not have the Oklahoma Reports. If the lawyers in preparing their briefs could give reference to both Oklahoma and Pacific Reports it would be very helpful, I am sure. It is recommended by the Committee, however, that this be accomplished, if practical, that the cross reference be made

in some way, either in a table of cases at the end of the volume or some other way, to the Oklahoma cases in the Pacific Reports.

Now, Mr. President, if it is in order at this time, I would like to move the adoption of this report.

(Motion was seconded, put and carried.)

The President: The next Committee to report is the Committee on Grievances, Charles F. Dyer is chairman.

(See appendix, page 200).

A special committee was appointed at the last meeting to draft a model act for the government of the State Bar. Judge Sharp is chairman of that committee.

J. F. Sharp: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, what efforts have been made to have a meeting of our committee have failed. Mr. Henry of Mangum has prepared the bill which has been printed. We may be able to have a meeting of the committee some time within the next two or three hours, and if it is agreeable, I would be very glad to have action on that report deferred.

The President: If there is no objection to that order we will pass that report according to your suggestion. The President: I will call on you as a special order this afternoon.

Report on the meeting of the American Bar Association by Frank Wells.

Frank Wells: Mr. President and gentlemen, I have no formal report to make for two reasons. In the first place the American Bar Association has been growing and extending its influence so rapidly and there is so much that takes place at one of its meetings that it is

impossible in the course of a few minutes to give anything like a resume of what has taken place. The Association now has over 17,000 members and it works through some fifteen or sixteen standing committees and they are working committees, nearly every one of them. There are perhaps half a dozen sections like the Judicial Session, composed of all the Judges who have their own problems, as also the section on Legal Education. There are several different conferences, conferences of the Commission on Uniform Laws and delegates from the different bar associations.

In the second place, reports of the association have been published and are in the hands of the members. We have something like 275 members of the American Bar Association in this State who have had reports of the last meeting for a month or two. But, perhaps, a side light or two might be interesting.

One of the main works of the American Bar Association for the last two or three years has been along the line of raising the standard of membership of the Bar of this country both by way of narrowing the entrance to the bar along the lines suggested in the report of Dean Monnet, along which line they have had a very wide influence, and the best law schools of the country are following in line with the suggestions of the American Bar Association today; and in widening the exit from the profession, through strengthening the organization and the solidarity of the state and local bar association. Did you ever think that up to the present time there is scarcely any way of getting out of the legal profession except by death. Now, a plan is being prepared by another committee for the organization of the bar of this state. If we have such an organization, or something similar to that, then we have a way of investigating these