The President appointed the following on the Committee on Nominations: James W. McCreery, James H. Blood, S. S. Downer, Henry A. Dubbs and Henry McAllister, Jr. Thereupon the meeting adjourned to meet at 8:00 p. m. of same day in the ball room of The Antlers. EVENING SESSION. BALL ROOM, THE ANTLERS, The meeting was called to order by President Platt Rogers. Ladies and Gentlemen, and Members of the Colorado Bar Association: The greatest problem of American life is the government of our cities. Important as are the affairs of the Nation, they affect the individual but little when contrasted with those of our municipalities. The latter are matters of every day concern and influence, for good or evil, our immediate environment. They touch the family at all points. The evils of municipal government, which constantly press themselves upon our attention, do not seem to be necessary incidents of large, urban population, since in the cities of the Old World they are much less in evidence than in America. Their existence here may fairly be attributed to the rapid growth of the country, the mixture of the emigrant races, the universality of the suffrage and the blind rush for wealth and the pleasures it is supposed to procure, which cause us to condone those evils, to remove which would make too much of a draft on the money-making faculty. The city, which, by its size, wealth, social, political and commercial importance commands our unceasing attention, is New York. Its primacy is maintained in the evils which it shelters. In it the contending forces of good and evil rise and fall as with the tide. It is the good fortune of that city that when evil becomes threateningly dominant, there arises from the body of the people leaders of great movements, who arrest the downward progress and in some degree rehabilitate the public conscience. Such leaders are always interesting. In the last struggle of New York to better its condition, which occurred in the fall of 1901, there was one forceful character who always stood at the front, bringing by his unquestioned honesty of purpose and tireless energy a promise to the people that he at least would be faithful to the trust which he sought to assume. That the people to whom he appealed believed in him was witnessed by his election to one of the most important positions in the government of the city. We of the West recognize in such men a kinship in aim and purpose, and it is the particular delight of the legal profession that such leaders are generally drawn from our ranks. We count ourselves fortunate in being able to induce Mr. William Travers Jerome to visit Colorado and to address this Association, not only because of his leadership in New York, but because of the honor which, in his integrity of purpose, he has conferred upon the profession to which we belong. I have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. William Travers Jerome of New York. Mr. William Travers Jerome of New York City then delivered an address. (For address see the appendix.) Thereupon the meeting was adjourned, to be resumed at 10 o'clock a. m. next day in the sun parlor of The Antlers. SECOND DAY MEETING. SUN PARLOR, THE ANTLERS, Wednesday, July 2, 1902, 10:00 a. m. President Rogers called the meeting to order. The President: The first business in order, according to the program, is new business, and if anybody has anything to offer, I suppose it may be heard now. Otherwise, the matter of the election of officers will be the first matter of business, and the committee which was appointed to select nominees will now make its report. James W. McCreery: Mr. President, your committee begs leave to report the following nominations: For President, Horace G. Lunt, of Colorado Springs. For Second Vice-President, Ed. T. Taylor, of Glenwood Springs. For Secretary and Treasurer, Lucius W. Hoyt, of Denver. The committee further recommends that delegates to the American Bar Association be selected hereafter by the Executive Committee. This recommendation is made because we were not advised as to who could go or would be willing to go, and we thought it best to leave it with the Executive Committee, that they might consult with parties to ascertain who might desire to go or could go. This report is respectfully submitted. The President: Of course the report of the committee does not necessarily exclude other nominations. If there are no further nominations, we will vote on the names proposed. The election must be by ballot, but I presume the Sec retary can be directed to cast the ballot of the entire representation. Robert W. Bonynge: Mr. President, I move the adoption of the report, and that the Secretary of this Association be requested to cast the ballot of the entire Association for the gentlemen whose names have been read as officers of the Association for the ensuing year. Motion seconded and carried. The Secretary thereupon announced that the ballot had been cast for the nominees as recommended by the committee. The President: It is now 11 o'clock, and, according to Judge Hallett's way of proceeding, we never take up an address until the precise moment has arrived. We will now listen to an address by Mr. Taylor on "The Torrens System of Registering Title to Land," which is of interest to lawyers, who have no land to hold titles to. Edward T. Taylor then delivered his address. (For address see the appendix.) The President: Before we adjourn I was requested by Mr. Stevens to announce that that room which he has is still open for the registration of titles, and that the registration is optional instead of compulsory. You are all requested to be present-if you are able to after having visited this office for the registration of titles on one side or the other of this building, for the purpose of having your pictures taken. Now, this is not a perfunctory announcement, but it is desired that every member be present so that his face may appear in this picture, which will be one of the mementoes of this occasion. And I want to say, because it is a very striking thing to me, that Mr. Hoyt believes in making the reports of our annual meetings attractive in many ways. The report of this year's proceedings will be much more extensive than formerly, and the idea is that we are gathering material that in the process of time will |