can be obtained at the Secretary's desk after this meeting shall adjourn this afternoon.

The next thing in order will be an address by Judge Baker, of Indiana, who I understand is present, although I have not had the pleasure of being introduced to the gentlemen.

Judge Baker was escorted to the rostrum and introduced to Mr. Nash.

The President: I take great pleasure in introducing to you Judge Baker, of Indiana, who will address you. Judge Baker: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Bar Association: The title of my paper is The State Corporation as a Party in the Federal Courts, and if in presenting this one phase of the interesting and delicate question of the proper relations between the state courts and the federal courts I should seem to lean too far to the state side and not to have that proper greed of jurisdiction which I understand was so much deplored by Judge Ryan, I beg you to remember that for three years I was a member of the state court; and if on the other hand to some of you it should seem that I am inclined too strongly to the federal courts, you may attribute it to an unconscious acquirement of appetite during the last two years. (See Appendix to Part I.)

The President: We will next listen to a paper or an address by Associate Justice J. B. Winslow of our own supreme court, on the subject of Edward George Ryan, Jurist and Scholar. I have the pleasure of presenting Judge Winslow.

Judge Winslow: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Bar Association: It has been remarked and unquestionably with great truth, that the early bar of this state abounded in men of great brilliancy, ability,

and of picturesque character. If any excuse were needed for rewriting perhaps something in regard to one of the characters of that bar who was certainly one of the most brilliant if not the most brilliant, certainly one of the most picturesque and able, the excuse must be found in the fact that as I look before me I see such a large proportion of the bar who have come upon the stage since most of those men have passed away. It is well for us I think, to review at times, and from time to time, the history of some of those men, and that is the reason why this paper has been prepared.

(See Appendix to Part I.)

The committee on legal education, then presented the following report, which was received and placed on file.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGAL EDUCATION.

The Committee on Legal Education begs leave to report:

That in looking back over the reports which have been from time to time submitted to the Association, it is gratifying to find that substantially all the recommendations which have been made by the committee upon the system of legal education in this state, upon the admission to the bar, and the changes which should be made relative thereto, have now been adopted and that no serious defects are apparent calling for correction or changes in our present methods of legal education, or of admission to, or dismissal from the bar. The standards of admission by diploma from the law department of the state university and by certificate of the state board of examiners are as nearly uniform as it is practicable to make them, and there is now afforded to the law student a fair and

equal opportunity of entering the profession by which ever course may best suit his convenience or his circumstances. Your committee, therefore, does not feel called upon in its report this year to suggest any changes in or offer any criticism upon the system which now prevails in this state for fitting young men. to enter our profession.

Your committee was requested by this Association to make further investigation upon that portion of our last report pertaining to the apparent want of knowledge of the profession on the subject of procedure, or the apparent defect in our system of trials and reviews, whereby so many cases reach, or are disposed of by the courts of last resort, on mere questions of pleading, practice or evidence, instead of the real merits of the controversy. The subject is an important and intricate one. It merits more attention than the present committee has been able to give to it in order to make an intelligent and satisfactory report in relation thereto. It begs, therefore, to resubmit the questions suggested in the report for the consideration of the members of the Association or for a more detailed and critical discussion and elucidation of the subject in a future report of the committee or some other committee especially appointed for that purpose.

President:

Respectfully submitted,

GEO. H. NOYES.

There is a little business that can be

quite speedily finished up. The first thing we will listen to is the report of the temporary Committee on Membership, Mr. Houghton, chairman.

Mr. Houghton presented the report as follows:

To the State Bar Association of Wisconsin:

Your committee on membership would respectfully report that they have received and had under consideration applications for membership in said Association of the following named persons, and herewith report such names together with their applications and recommend the persons hereinafter named severally for membership in said Association: Neele B. Neelen

Milwaukee.

Mr. Houghton: I move that the rules be suspended and the secretary instructed to cast the ballot of the Association for these several proposed names collectively, to become members of this Association.

Motion seconded and unanimously carried and so done, and members declared duly elected.

Report of committee on nominations was then presented by Mr. Sanborn as follows:

Your committee on nomination of officers respectfully recommends the election of the following officers of the Association:

For president, Hon. George H. Noyes.

For vice-presidents:

1st circuit, Thomas M. Kearney.

For Secretary-Cornelius I. Haring.

For Treasurer-Stanley C. Hanks.

For Chairman of the Committee on Legal Education Howard L. Smith.