BAR ASSOCIATION

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

¿Congee "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 513

JANUARY 23, 1924

Serial 6

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. George S. Graham (chairman) presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, we will now take up the bill to incorporate the American Bar Association, which I introduced by request. It is No. 513, and is as follows:

A BILL To incorporate the American Bar Association.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Robert E. Lee Saner, of Texas; John W. Davis and Frderick E. Wadhams, of New York; W. Thomas Kemp, of Maryland; Thomas W. Blackburn, of Nebraska; William Brosmith, of Connecticut; S. E. Ellsworth, of North Dakota; Thomas W. Shelton, of Virginia; A. T. Stovall, of Mississippi; Chester L. Long, of Kansas; Gurney E. Newlin, of California; Frederick A. Brown, of Illinois; Charles S. Whitman, of New York; Edgar B. Tolman, of Illinois; Honorable William Howard Taft, Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, Honorable George Sutherland, Honorable Pierce Butler, Honorable Edward T. Sanford, James M. Beck, J. M. Chamberlain, E. B. Parker, and Charles Henry Butler, of the District of Columbia; Elihu Root, Alton B. Parker, Charles A. Boston, Henry W. Taft, Julius Henry Cohen, of New York; George T. Page, J. M. Dickinson, John T. Richards, Nathan W. MacChesney, Thomas Francis Howe, of Illinois; Paul Howland, Province M. Pogue, John M. Garfield, F. M. Clevenger, of Ohio; Thad M. Talcott, junior, Charles Martindale, C. C. Shirley, George H. Batchelor, Paul G. Davis, of Indiana; Thomas C. McClellan, E. H. Cabanies, J. K. Dixon, of Alabama; T. G. Norris, Cleon T. Knapp, of Arizona; Frank Pace, George B. Rose, J. H. Hamiter, of Arkansas; Charles S. Cushing, Bradner W. Lee, of California; T. J. O'Donnell, John A. Ewing. Fred W. Stow, of Colorado; George E. Beers, C. L. Avery, of Connecticut; W. O. Hart, of Louisiana; Hollis R. Bailey, Samuel Williston, of Massachusetts; Cordenio A. Severance, Frank B. Kellogg, and John Junell, of Minnesota; Thomas H. Reynolds, Selden P. Spencer, James H.