thirty-nine who were received into membership last year have up to date failed to pay their membership fees. In view of our constitutional provision on this point under which the membership fee is required to accompany the application for membership I would hereafter suggest that that rule be complied with. Respectfully submitted, FRANK T. NASH, Treasurer. Upon motion duly made the report of the Treasurer was received and placed on file. THE PRESIDENT: According to the Rules, the Auditing Committee was appointed ten days ago to audit the books and accounts of the Secretary and Treasurer, Major John F. Lacey is Chairman of that Committee. We will now hear that report. REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE MAJOR LACEY: The Auditing Committee have gone through the accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer. There are three unpaid vouchers in the hands of the Secretary for delivery to the parties who are entitled to them. Those checks have not yet been endorsed and cannot be endorsed by anybody except the parties to whom they are issued. With the exception of those three vouchers everything has been paid and returned. Those vouchers now stand out, signed by the President and Secretary of the Association. We recommend that the account be passed and approved. This leaves a balance of five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and some cents in the hands of the Treasurer at that time. That does not include the receipts coming in during the present meeting. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report of the Auditing Committee. What will you do with it? Upon motion duly made the report was adopted. THE PRESIDENT: As Mr. Small, our Librarian, was not able to be present at this meeting, he has sent his report and I will ask the Secretary to read it. REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN As your librarian, I have considered well the interests of the Association in the care and distribution of the proceedings in my possession. I received the proceedings for 1912 from the secretary and have sent a copy to all the State libraries, the larger law schools and Bar Associations throughout the country, and to some of the secretaries of the State Bar Associations; in fact, to all those whom I knew would care to receive them. I am receiving on exchange account the proceedings from almost all the different Bar Associations, including the American. Quite a number of the States follow the example of Iowa in making the State Law Librarian the librarian of the State Association, and through that source exchanges are made and proceedings received. This is most desirable, in that it establishes a permanent library for the Association, and the librarian can use the exchanges to a good advantage in securing the proceedings from other States, making them accessible for the profession and the laity. Of the reprints of 1874-1881, I have sold three copies at $1.00 each. I have also sold reports of the Association to the amount of $6.50, and herewith give a financial statement. Received from sale of Iowa State Bar Association Proceedings (Early, 1874-1881) 1912 Sept. 24, Banks Law Pub. Co., New York City, 1 volume .$1.00 Feb. 24, J. H. Arnold, Law School Harvard University, Boston.. 1.00 $3.00 (Proceedings, present) 1912 Oct. 19, Lewis Miles, Corydon, 1895-1906, 12 vols., 50 cents each, $6.00 .50 $6.50 Total receipts $9.50 As there will be a gradual demand for the reprints as well as the regular reports, it is desirable to conserve the distribution. Libraries are increasing, Bar Associations are being organized, and future generations should be taken into account. The State Law Library is increasing in number of volumes and for completeness and efficiency will rival almost any other library in the country. It is the policy of the trustees to purchase all recent publications and in every way keep the library up-to-date. Out-of-print and rare volumes and sets are being filled, thereby making the library of still greater usefulness to the legal fraternity of our State. Recently an exchange of statute laws was effected with the Kingdom of Belgium for those of Iowa. Negotiations are now under way for an exchange of laws with the imperial government of Germany. The library is enlarging its scope of usefulness by entering into exchange with countries other than English speaking. These words concerning the State Law Library may seem out of place in my report as Librarian of the Bar Association; but, what is desirable for one, is to the advantage of the other, and it is the wish of the trustees and the librarian to keep the attorneys of our State advised as to the progress of our Law Library, constantly reminding them that the library is for practical use, and that the bench and bar of the State are most cordially invited to use it freely. Respectfully submitted, A. J. SMALL, Librarian. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report, and if there is no objection, it will be received and placed on file. The next will be the report of the Committee on Legal Biography. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY To the Iowa State Bar Association: Your Committee on Legal Biography submits the following report: During the past year deaths have occurred in the legal profession in the State of Iowa as follows: Charles H. Amos, Knoxville. Jerome D. Carskaddan, Muscatine. George E. Draper, Sidney. Geo. C. Hull, Boone. John Lindt, Council Bluffs. Edward T. Morris, Des Moines. Attached to this report and as part thereof will be found a very brief sketch of the life of each of our brother lawyers named above. Through the press and by the action of committees in the several counties of their residence permanent record has been made of their lives, their attainments, public service, and private and professional character. It is to such records chiefly that the historian of the future must turn but it is also proper that this Association preserve upon its files some expression of our consciousness of the passing of these men who have worked side by side with us in fulfilling the exacting demands of our profession. Some of them have lived useful but quiet lives, secluded and remote, their activities apparently touching immediately but the limited circle of a rural neighborhood; others full armored and eager for the fray were ever in the front rank engaged in strenuous legal conflict, taking and giving hard blows-resourceful, persistent, courageous, and constructive, they have created last ing precedent and enduring legal history. Many coming to the State as part of that marvelous home-loving, home-seeking generation of the early fifties and sixties helped to lay firmly and well the foundations of our constitutional system. Such lived to see the State become rich and powerful by reason of their labors and have blessed and enriched the life of the Nation with the strong and sweet qualities and spirit of a time less complex than our own, more elemental and nearer to the soil. And again, there are those who, listening to the siren voices that ever haunt the hearts of men of whatever profession, have wandered into other fields and in journalism or diplomacy or statecraft have swayed public sentiment, untangled the snarls of our international relations or left in the statutes of the land the lasting impress of their conception of a just principle of government. In all your committee has found illustration and confirmation of the greatest fact in American life, namely, the wonderful opportunity that has inhered in our national history and is our greatest democratic tradition-young men from some remote farm or workshop or from the peasant villages of the old world, finding themselves intellectually in the free air of American life and under the spur of ambition and an equal opportunity rising to lives of professional distinction and enduring service. It would be a pleasure to not only name these men but to recount at length their character and achievements but we can here but note their passing and give brief expression to our love for them and our pride in the honor they have reflected upon our common profession and our beloved State. In the transition period in which we now live, the relation of the lawyer to the stability of our institutions is more important than ever before. Practiced in those judicial qualities of mind that are the direct product of the training of the lawyer he is peculiarily fitted to preserve, while marching onward with the army of progress, that sense of equal justice and calm inquiry without which Might usurps the seat of Right and constitutional government becomes a farce. As your committee has examined into the lives of our brother lawyers lately deceased we have found there all those qualities of mind and heart that have given a proud distinction to our profession and strength and virtue to |