should be the duty of our legislators to say that in matters in which foreign governments must deal with the United States and cannot deal with a State, the legislation should be made which should give the government of the United States the power to answer that the judicial power of the United States has been exercised in reference to that matter, and that the foreign government must take the result as we take the results of the judicial tribunals. You cannot argue from England to our government. When we make a claim from England to our government. When we make a claim upon England for damages for any injury caused to an American citizen in England, England can never say, why we have no power in that matter, because England has no dual government as we have, and the courts of England are the courts of England, and if the courts of England do not move, England must be responsible. We, having this dual government, must take the burden of it with the excellence of it, and we cannot expect but that foreign governments will say, Oh! simply because you have a dual government, you cannot put us off in that way. Your government under international law must either show that that matter has been investigated by your legal tribunals, or you must pay to us. a government compensation. I understood that there is no question about that being the principle of international law. Therefore, Mr. President, I should be opposed to the adoption of this resolution, and certainly opposed to its adoption, based, as the report so largely is, upon an assault upon the provisions of this particular bill which was not before this Association when this matter was referred at all, and is really outside of the question. I hope the resolution will not prevail. The President: We have other business to dispatch to-night, and I would suggest that, as the hour is late, if there is to be any further discussion of this report, it go over until another meeting. C. C. Lancaster, of the District of Columbia: In view of the importance of this subject, and because I believe it is well to give it that careful consideration which it deserves, I move that the resolution and the whole subject be referred back to the committee for report at the next annual meeting. George H. Bates: I only wish to say, from my experience, that if this matter is postponed for ten years and taken up seriatim at every meeting, there never will be any better opportunity to discuss it than there is now, and it is now a question which has vitality in it. At the next meeting it will probably be, as a practical question, dead. If this Association intends to express any opinion upon it, as a member of the committee, at least, I should very much dislike to have this discussion cut off in such a summary way. The further consideration of this matter was then postponed until the morning session. The President: The next business is the report of the Committee on the Award of Gold Medal. Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut : At the request of the chairman of the committee, who is the President of the Association, I present the following report. (See Report in the Appendix.) I may add that the medals struck off in obedience to the vote of the Association last year are now in the room, and any one can see them on application to the Treasurer. The Executive Committee have arranged to have bronze copies of the medals struck from the dies, if they are desired by any member of the Association as mementoes, and if there are any considerable number who wish them, they will be furnished at cost on application to the Treasurer or the Executive Committee. The report was accepted and ordered on file. Cortlandt Parker, of New Jersey: Mr. President, a single word on this matter. Last year, after the conclusion of our debate about these medals, I moved a resolution that the regulation under which medals were dis tributed, or to be distributed, should be rescinded and abandoned, and in view of the fact, however, of the action that has been taken, and its seeming perhaps not exactly the gracious thing at that time to carry such a motion, I asked that the motion be postponed until this session, and that was done. Now, I am confronted with the accidental fact that these medals are yet incomplete and the situation seems to me to remain the same. Therefore, having come here very much on purpose to advocate the rescinding of that regulation, I consider it now to be right to say again that I will not myself press it now, but will, God willing and I living, be here and do it next year. The President: The next business in order is the report of the Special Committee on Uniform State Laws. Lyman D. Brewster, of Connecticut : The committee have no report to make except progress. am authorized to state that they have started very harmoniously and have made a good beginning. The report of progress was received, and the same committee continued under the same powers. The President: The next business in order is the report of the Special Committee on Salaries of Federal Judges. I will say that I was chairman of that committee. I have no report to make, but I desire to present this resolution instead: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that the present salaries of the Judges of all the Federal courts are inadequate, even those of the District Judges, which alone were dealt with by the last act of Congress on that subject, and that the salaries ought to be substantially increased. That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by the secretary to the President of the United States with a respectful request of this Association that he will again recommend such increase in his message to Congress, and that a copy of this resolution be also sent to the judiciary committee of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives, and this Association earnestly hopes that they will favorably consider the same and secure an enactment accordingly. J. M. Dickinson, of Tennessee: I move the adoption of that resolution. Charles A. Peabody, of New York: The resolution was adopted. The President: The next business is the report of the Committee on Expression and Classification of the Law. I am in receipt of a letter from Mr. Hornblower, of New York, stating his illness, and also mentioning the fact that he has a letter from Mr. McLain, the chairman of the committee, saying that he is unable to complete and prepare a final report in time for the action of this body at this session. R. D. Benedict: I move that the committee be continued with the same powers for another year to report at the next meeting. Charles A. Peabody : I second that motion. This motion was adopted. The President: The next is the report of the Special Committee on PanRepublican Congress. John D. Cary, of Illinois: With a view of ascertaining what there was of this matter, I called upon Mr. Bonney, the President of the auxiliary congress and matters connected with the world's fair, and inquired in regard to it and he informed me that there had been a discussion upon the subject, and that it had been deemed inadvisable that they should attempt to have a Pan-Republican Congress at the fair, for the reason, as I understand him, that all sorts of governments had been invited to take part, and they thought it would be hardly respectful to them to propose a Pan-Republican Congress. For that reason there would be nothing of that kind at the fair. I have, therefore, not called the committee together, and there is no report to be made. The committee was discharged. The President: The next is the report of the Special Committee on Indian Legislation. Henry Hitchcock, of Missouri: I am instructed by the committee to make the report, which I will now read: (See the Report in the Appendix.) George H. Bates: I move that the committee be continued under the same power to report at the next annual meeting of this body. Henry Hitchcock : I ask to be relieved from further membership on the committee. There are reasons why I do not think I can render very effective service next year, and I therefore ask to be excused from serving another year. James B. Thayer, of Massachusetts: As a member of the committee, I very reluctantly agree to Mr. Hitchcock's leaving, but I am satisfied that he ought to be relieved. That being so, I may be permitted to suggest, and I think Mr. Hornblower would agree with me, that another chairman of the committee be appointed. The President: Is it the pleasure of the house to relieve Mr. Hitchcock from service upon this committee? It was so voted. The President: The chair recollects very well the debate at the last session, and recollects the warm interest which General Sanborn, of Minnesota, took in it. He lives in the section of the country |