Association regularly.. We have had the appearance now and again of men who are real leaders of the Bar of our State, but it has not been a continuous or consecutive attend ance. Now, if this interest that Mr. Kane has referred to could be taken by the Bar of this State, I know that it would not be long before we would have, as the President of the American Bar Association, one of the, former Presidents of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. ALEX. SIMPSON, JR., Philadelphia: My friend Mr. Abbott, who is sitting beside me here, is so very bashful on account of having introduced a number of resolutions this morning, that he has asked me to introduce one, which I will now read: Resolved, That a special Committee of Five be appointed, whose duty it shall be to consider and report whether or not it is wise to have uniform rules in the Courts of record of first instance in this Commonwealth, and if so, to what extent and what is the best means to attain the end sought. I move its adoption. Duly seconded, and agreed to. THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further business before the Association? JOHN B. COLAHAN, JR., Philadelphia: I move that we now adjourn. Duly seconded, and agreed to. Adjourned. THE BANQUET The Banquet was held on the evening of Thursday June 29th, and was an occasion of good cheer, thoroughly enjoyed by all of the participants. The menu was excellent, the various courses were well served and the eloquent responses to the toasts were of the highest order and won the plaudits of the members and guests of the Association. As Toastmaster, the retiring President, Edwin W. Smith, proved himself a master of tactful introduction, and those he introduced were inspired to climb the "Heights of Olympus" in responding to the assigned toasts. The "United States of America" gave ex-Governor Andrew Jackson Montague, of Virginia, an opportunity to show that his State had contributed to the nationalism of America. His art and native eloquence charmed his hearers and won great applause. In the absence of Governor John Kinley Tener unavoidably prevented from being present― ex-Attorney-General Hampton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, called to service in the late hours of the afternoon, responded in words which will ever be remembered-with a ringing tone of masterful oratory, in showing what Pennsylvania had done in the founding and maintaining of the nation. Another ex-Attorney-General, William U. Hensel, spoke for the "Judiciary," and never had the wearers of the ermine a more eloquent and earnest defender and advocate, in showing the important place, which in the United States of America the Judiciary had in maintaining and defending the Constitution and laws of the country. The . "Bar" was responded to by Warren I. Seymour, Esquire, of Allegheny, who passed from prose to poetry in presenting the claims of his profession, while "The Junior Bar," in the person of Samuel B. Scott, Esquire, of Philadelphia, had a thoughtful, scholarly and earnest representative, whose intelligent presentation held the interest of his hearers until this memorable occasion came to a close. A MORE EFFECTIVE CABINT Address before the Pennsylvania Bar As.onet By Hon. ANDREW J. MONTAGE Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Po The success and duration of Americar braons depend less perhaps upon the official th be tcrined the unofficial statesmanship of the nati is unofficial group has not such a concrete sibility in the workings of our institutions, yet by te personal detachment it is mainly the creative nolitical ideals and of our standards of admire. ciency. The American lawyer is no negligible me.', class, and especially do the achievements of the batt imperial Commonwealth confirm its title to au exalted in this unofheial but formative and constructive force in national life, a full appreciation of which inspres nye fidence that this forum is not inappropriate for t'a tation of the subject which I would discuss. it rue that the lawyer of to-day exerts upon politics le ence than in former years. The interesting e of this decline, while not wholly creditable to ori shall not now discuss, but shall, in passing, observe i matters of constitutional domain, and in leg lot. strative and juridical procedure, our profe wields a dominant influence. We may not a constructive judgments of Mansfield, Mar Shaw, the eloquent illuminations of Erskine 1. Webster, or the entrancing philippics of Black. The genius |