them and where we were holding them. At every meeting we have had a resolution passed thanking the University of Pennsylvania for the room that they have given us. In this room there are now stored over 2400 pictures of the Bench and Bar of the State, and also of the Appellate Courts in ten of the thirteen original States. We have now the photographs of forty-one of the Court buildings out of the sixty-seven counties of the State. Of group pictures of the Bar of different counties we have gathered in about eighteen. The room in which they are kept is open during the entire session of the Law School, and is in the care during that time, from 10 to 5, of some law student of the University who is selected for that purpose; and for the information of the members of the Bar from other portions of the State, who come to Philadelphia to attend upon the Supreme Court or for any other business, if they have time, we will be very glad to have them come out to Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets and see the collection that we have there. I might add that a very valuable collection, as you will recall from the former reports, was that of the purchase made from Mr. Rosenthal of the Attorneys-General of the United States and of the Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court-a collection that we considered of such value that the Association paid for it $400 or $500. Mr. Carson knows something of the value of that collection. I make this statement in answer to a question, so that you may know that we have those upon the walls of this room at the University, and we would be very glad to have the members of the Association come to see it. EDWIN M. ABBOTT, Philadelphia: I have one other matter I would like to bring before the Association, and that is in support of the Law Association of Philadelphia in its stand for a Municipal Court or an Intermediate Court. The congestion of the Courts of Philadelphia has reached such a condition that it must receive the assistance of this body and force through legislation to some effect, if not to the establishment of a Municipal Court, at least to the establishment of an Intermediary Court of some kind. Allegheny County, at the last session of the Legislature, was assisted by the creation of an Intermediary Court in the Powell bill. Whether that act will be held unconstitutional or not it is not for me to say, but it is certain that there can be a Court created which will relieve both in Philadelphia and Allegheny, as well as in any other section of the State where congestion needs relief. I therefore present the following resolution: Resolved, That a Committee of Seven be appointed to consider the creation of an Intermediary or Municipal Court in cities of the first and second class, to draft a bill for the establishment of the same, and report at the next meeting of the Association. Duly seconded, and agreed to. JOHN B. COLAHAN, JR., Philadelphia: There are two appropriations usually made at this meeting; one is of $125 for renewal of dues of the Association in the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association, and the other is that of a sum not exceeding $750 for the Committee on Legal Biography. I move that those appropriations be made. Duly seconded, and agreed to. On motion, adjourned. THIRD DAY, AFTERNOON SESSION THURSDAY, June 29, 1911. The Association re-assembled at 3 o'clock p. m., Presi dent SMITH in the Chair. THE PRESIDENT: Is the Committee on Nominations ready to report? WILLIAM U. HENSEL, Chairman, Lancaster: The Committee on Nominations unanimously agree upon the following nominations: ANDREW A. LEISER E. L. WHITTELSEY H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS NICHOLAS M. EDWARDS B. FRANK ESHLEMAN HARRY KELLER PAUL A. KUNKEL JOHN D. DORRIS J. BENJAMIN DIMMICK Union. Washington. Clinton. Erie. Mercer. Philadelphia. Bedford. . Allegheny. . Luzerne. . Clearfield. . Lancaster. . Centre. .Dauphin. . Lackawanna. THE PRESIDENT: What is your pleasure, gentlemen, upon this report? JOHN B. COLAHAN, JR., Philadelphia: I move the report be accepted, and that the Secretary cast the ballot of the Association for the gentlemen named for the respective offices. Duly seconded, and agreed to. THE PRESIDENT: The Secretary reports that he has cast the ballot of the Association as directed, and I declare the gentlemen named duly elected for the respective offices for the ensuing year. dent. The next business in order is the nomination for Presi HAMPTON L. CARSON, Philadelphia: Mr. President: The hour has come when the mantle of authority which you have worn so gracefully must pass to the shoulders of your successor, and this Association bestow upon another the most exalted and dignified honor within its gift. The high standard of character and achievement which has been illustrated by those who have hitherto held the office of President admonishes us that our selection should be judicious, and that no one unworthy of the distinction of this high place should be chosen. I rise to nominate a gentleman who, having studied law at the Albany Law School as far back as 1862, was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of New York, subsequently went to Luzerne County and was admitted by the Honorable John N. Conyngham on motion of a man equally distinguished, the late Honorable Stanley Woodward. The gentleman I have in mind has held no public office; but his position at the Bar and ̧ his entire career as an active practitioner has established his leadership in the eyes not only of his own immediate locality but of the entire State, he being counsel for the mining and the railroad interests which have done so much to develop and sustain the strength of the Commonwealth; and his name will be found as leading counsel, generally, as the author of most luminous and most useful arguments through very many volumes of reports. I have the honor of naming the Honorable George R. Bedford, of Luzerne. HENRY C. NILES, York: The kind Providence that supervises the affairs of this Association is benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent. It is a part of my professional religion to as nearly as possible keep in harmony with that inerrant guidance, and so it is a matter of duty that makes me, at the designation of Judge Staake, arise at this place to second this nomination. I am delighted that it is more than a duty in this instance. I consider it a pleasure and a privilege to participate in the handing of this our highest prize to this worthy of our members. I know of no example that is of more importance to the profession and the citizen than that of fifty years of devotion of a high spirited, able, bright, candid scholar, exclusively to his profession, to justice, whose minister he is. For, as I understand it, over fifty years Mr. Bedford has given himself exclusively to this science which we believe is the fundamental of all sciences, he has never had the itch of office; he has been a lawyer and a high spirited, nonpartisan citizen. He has never wanted anything except to do his duty as a lawyer and a patriot, and therefore he has never bent his knee to the demagogue or the boss. He has followed his duty, and he has made a record that it does profit and honor to adorn by this our laurel wreath. I am glad to second this nomination. H. J. STRAUSSs, Luzerne: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Bar Association: I rise with a great deal of pride and of gratitude to the Association for this message of good-will and fellowship that has come to us in Luzerne from the knowledge that it is the pleasure of this Association to advance Mr. Bedford to the Presidency. If we of Luzerne were looking for a man to put into this place, we could find no one better at that Bar. As has been said here, for fifty years he has graced the profession. He has been |