Proceedings of the annual session of the Bar Association of Tennessee Volume 39 - Tapa blanda

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. 1920-01-01 Excerpt: ...Committee, and out of the Bar Associations of about forty States only four of those men were present last year. You can see how it is that people don't take any interest in it, even if they hold an office. Last year a resolution was passed to change this, because the State Bar Associations didn't pay any attention to it. If the suggestion of Judge McClellan would bring about the result hoped for, I would be for it as strong as any one, but I don't think it would, and I believe it would be detrimental rather than beneficial. I will accept the amendment of Judge Anderson. Col. Pilcher: I want to make a suggestion of a concrete fact that seems to me to bear on the question. I am not going to call any names, because that might be invidious, but any member of the American Bar Association that has the minutes can run over them and verify the facts I am going to state. It is this, and I think that is what the resolutions are aimed at; for two or three successive meetings of the American Bar Association there was a particular citizen of Tennessee that was made a member of the Local Council. I happened to be in attendance on each one of those three occasions, and I didn't know that man as a lawyer at all, and as a matter of fact I suppose he never had a case in court. He was not known in his home town as a lawyer. He was an important business man and a very nice gentleman, as far as I have anything to suggest, but he made it a point to be there and he always got there first and he always got on the Local Council, and he was very proud of it, as he well might have been, if he had been a lawyer, but he was not a lawyer. There is just a good deal of that sort of thing that exists. I don't think it would exist where you have a meeting at which you get, say ten or ...