Special Session on Legal Education of the Conference of Bar Association Delegates; Held Under Auspices of the American Bar Association, Washington, D.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Mokning Session. Friday, February 2h, 1922,10 A. M. Chairman Goodwin: The Federal Bar Association of the District of Columbia has sent a copy of the resolution which they desire to offer to each member of the Conference. Of course there can be no time given to any suggestion that is not on our program. This, however, is a resolution with which we have sympathy, and I am going to ask if I may have unanimous consent to take a vote on it. If there is any objection or any difference of opinion we cannot do it, of course, because we have no time to discuss it, but if we are unanimous we can express that opinion. The resolution is: Resolved, That this Conference recommend that the Congress of the United States in its consideration of the pending bill providing for a classification of civilian positions in the government service should establish schedules which will tend to attract and retain the services of the best legal talent. (The motion, having been duly seconded, was put and carried without dissent.) Some years ago a lawyer, the son of a Tennessee judge, who had had some connection with affairs of importance and had had been instrumental in connecting the City of New York with the great State of New Jersey, was brought into the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the war there was an obligation cast upon him greater in character, larger in extent, than had been put upon the shoulders of any Secretary of the Treasury in the history of the country. It was an obligation to be responsible in a way for furnishing the means, not merely a financing the war so far as we were concerned, but so far as our Allies were concerned. He was also given the obligation of assuming the burden of unifying the great transportation facilities...