members within a year. We hope and trust that the men who come after them may live up to their ideals and properly fill their places, but no honest-minded member of the profession can but feel that in the loss of Vann, Haight, Gray and Cullen, the judiciary of the State has been grievously hurt. (Applause.) The personal relations of the Chief Judge to his subordinates in the lower Courts has been of the most charming, the most affectionate, the most kindly. When I, for instance, tried to show him the error of his ways in sticking to the past, insisting in this modern day in adhering to the rule laid down in Pope against the Terre Haute Railroad Company, he spanked me with a precision which was exact, but a kindness which was sweet and well tempered. (Laughter.) I can only assure him that there is no member of our Court that has not had for him, through every reversal, and especially through every affirmance on the opinion below, the kindliest and the most affectionate feeling. (Laughter and applause.)

The President:

Before hearing the other half of Governor Glynn's speech (laughter), I want to refer to the fact that we had a most delightful meeting of the American Bar Association at Montreal this year. (Applause.) In all its history it never had from any city or from any citizenship so wonderful a greeting from the moment the members arrived until they took their departure. At the very head of the host was Sir Charles Davidson, the Chief Justice. of the Province, and I want now to ask all of you to join. in drinking the health of the Bench and Bar of Canada with whom we have intimate relations.

The members drank to the health of the Bench and Bar of Canada.

The Chief Justice was not invited to speak until he came to the table this evening, but I ask him to say a few words. (Applause.)

Sir Charles Davidson:

Mr. President and gentlemen: I stand before you in the pains of speech birth.

Last evening, after a dinner at which the absence of Jeffersonian simplicity was as marked as was the presence of Lucullusian excellence, Secretary Wadhams said to me, "Chief Justice, you will make some remarks to-morrow night." "What about?" I queried. With a lightsome wave of the hand which would have done credit to an airy, fairy Lillian, he replied, "Oh! about anything."

Well, you may be a democratic people in name, but I can surely assert, from my forty hours of communion with you and some past experiences, that there is no doubt about the imperialism of your hospitality.

It has been so fervent, so continuous, that I have had no time for thought. Judge Cullen referred, a moment since, to an Irish orator, who was advised to finish one sentence ere he began the next but one after. I see my wife above us. I impose the instruction upon her that when, on our return home, I fall into my first sleep, there must be no summons to awake again, until the day after the then to-morrow. (Laughter.)

I sincerely rejoice to be with you. In the first place, because your President is an old and, if he permit me to say so, a dear friend of mine.

Of nation-wide reputation, McGill University, ever parsimonious of its Degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa last autumn classed him with the Lord High Chancellor, the Chief Justice of the United States and other men of great note. We clad him in robes no less brilliant than

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were those worn by Solomon himself. I begged him to so garb himself to-night that he might excite the profound admiration as well of yourselves as of those who are looking down upon us. (Laughter.)

I further rejoice in being present upon an occasion which is marked with a touching tribute of affection and respect to the retiring Chief Judge of your Court of Appeals.

Ere hearing the markedly eloquent speeches of your Judges, I thought of suggesting a rule for your observance which would prohibit, under pain of misdemeanor, any Judge of ten years' standing and any Chief Judge, what-· soever, from addressing a meeting of this kind. And this because our faculty for making after-dinner speeches falls into decrepitude. (Laughter.)

I have been profoundly impressed with the loss which the retirement of Chief Judge Cullen brings to the judicial life of this State.

His powers of concentration, his resolution, his profound learning, and his fervent desire ever to do what is right, are a message to us who are still in harness. They are a message which bid us ever to remember that the more we advance, the more we develop, the more ought we to remain the same as regards our holding fast to the loftiest ideals of justice. (Applause.)

His experience has been that while the fundamental principles of law are as old as the hills the Science of Jurisprudence is, as was also said by my learned brother on my left (Judge Werner), ever progressive, ever keeqing step with the marvelous developments of our day, and ever dealing with a perfect hurricane of problems, which it is our ambition, I hope our lofty ambition, to broadly and bravely solve.

And I further rejoice that I am privileged to be in the presence of this distinguished Association.

It and its fellow associations of other States, working in harmony with the great central bar association of all the States, are ever laboring, working, with vast influence, toward the development of your Constitution, the improvement of your laws and uplifting of your profession.

When you all came to Montreal, last autumn, we sought as fervently as we could you must remember that we live for five months in the year in cold storage-to show you how very welcome you were. The more than generous appreciation of our efforts to which your President gave expression comes as music to us. Unconvinced though we may be he has surely caught the ear of the Court.

That meeting was of far-reaching importance in many ways. We Canadians learned much from the papers read, the consequent discussion thereon and your effective business methods.

Uniformity of laws was, for example, dealt with. While it is a subject which, as treated, largely belonged to your own country, it becomes international as touching the field of Comparative Jurisprudence.

I am, to my great personal benefit, still perusing the reports of the meeting, and with the added interest of feeling that I had the honor of being made a member of the American Bar Association.

That meeting was also of far-reaching importance in this other respect.

ours.

It told the story, in graphic way, of the absolute friendship and good will which exists between your people and Never was it forgotten, in any speeches, to tell of how, in great measure, we are of the same race, of how we speak the same language, of how we are governed, so far as initial sources are concerned, by the same laws, and

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of how we are, above all things, ambitious to develop the well-ordered liberty which, under God's Providence, you and we enjoy.

We, who come from Canada to be your guests, are deeply moved by the great, spontaneous welcome you have extended to us. We thank you from our hearts. (Applause.)

A. T. Clearwater, of Kingston:

Mr. President, following the gracious custom of our Association and a precedent of the American Bar Association at its meeting in Montreal last September, there has been delegated to me the honor and the pleasure of proposing for honorary membership in the State Bar Association our distinguished guest, Sir Charles Davidson.

The motion was carried unanimously.

The President:

I intended to bring here to-night a letter from Mr. Choate. (Applause.) We invited him to be one of the speakers this evening some time ago, and he wrote a letter expressing great regret that he was not to be with you to-night, but saying he was getting better and he wanted to assure you he would be with you at the banquet next year, and the motion is now made and seconded that he be invited by this Association in mass meeting assembled to speak to us at the banquet next year. All those in

favor of it say aye.

The motion was carried unanimously.

I am quite sure he heard it all the way up home. I now have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Justice Crane, who was drafted yesterday.