an everlasting robe of righteousness in a home peaceful with the perennial beauty of blessed immortality.

I ask that the report be spread on the minutes, and that the committee be allowed to obtain formal memorials to be also recorded in the archives of the Association.

(Seconded and adopted.)

Mr. E. Hilton Jackson, of Washington, D. C.: Mr. President, I would like to offer the following resolution.

WHEREAS, It has come to the knowledge of this Association that members of the American Bar Association will be given an excursion to Mt. Vernon on October 21, 1914, by the District of Columbia Bar Association during the meeting of the former association to be held in Washington next October, upon which occasion an address of welcome will be delivered on behalf of the Virginia Bar by Judge James Keith, President of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and,

WHEREAS, It is the desire of this Association to take official part in the welcome to the American Bar Association upon the occasion of its first official visit to this historic spot,

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the incoming president be and he hereby is authorized and directed to appoint a committee of five within easy reach of Washington to assist in extending a welcome to the members of the American Bar upon the occasion in question on behalf of this Association.

The President: In connection with that celebration, I beg to say that I received a communication addressed to me as President of the Association enclosing a letter from Mr. Kellogg, who has been appointed chairman of a committee to secure attendance on this celebration in Washington on the 21st of October. I was requested to make known that fact to the Association, with a view to creating interest in the occasion and obtaining as large an attendance as possible.

(Mr. Jackson's motion was seconded and adopted.) The Association then took a recess until the next day.

SECOND DAY.

HOT SPRINGS, VA.,

Wednesday, August 5, 1914.

The Association was called to order at 10:30 o'clock A. M.

The President: The first business this morning is the report of the Committee on Admissions.

Colonel Stickley, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, read the third report of that Committee, which, on motion, was adopted.

(See report at end of minutes.)

The President: The next report is that of the Committee to Recommend Officers.

Judge L. L. Lewis, of Richmond: Mr. President, I am instructed by the Committee to Recommend Officers to report as follows:

For President: Honorable Legh R. Watts, of Portsmouth.

For Vice-Presidents: Raleigh Colston Blackford, of Lynchburg; H. W. Kern, of Winchester; Robert L. Pennington, of Jonesville; Bernard Mann, of Petersburg; S. O. Bland, of Newport News.

For Members of the Executive Committee-Captain John A. Coke, of Richmond; Mr. Lewis C. Williams, of Richmond.

For Secretary and Treasurer: Mr. John B. Minor, of Richmond.

On motion, the report was adopted as a whole, and the members named therein elected officers of the Association.

Secretary Minor: Mr. President, I request that that Committee be requested at a later meeting to recommend the names of three delegates to the American Bar Association. This is not the committee which was provided for in the resolution adopted yesterday evening, which committee was supposed to be appointed for the purpose of representing this Association at the reception at Mt. Vernon; the delegates to the American Bar Association are an entirely different proposition.

(Adopted.)

The President: Ladies and Gentlemen-I have the pleasure and honor this morning to present to this Association Professor Charles A. Graves, of the University of Virginia, who has consented to read a paper. His subject is, "The Forged Letter of General Robert E. Lee." There is no subject with which the name of Robert E. Lee is connected which does not at once arouse and attract the attention of an audience like this, and it is difficult for me to conceive that there was anyone mean enough to forge his name to any paper. We will hear this paper, and then will no doubt fully appreciate the subject selected.

Mr. Graves then read his paper.

(See Appendix.)

The Association then took a recess until 8:30 o'clock P. M.

EVENING SESSION.

HOT SPRINGS, VA.,

Wednesday, August 5, 1914.

The Association was called to order at 8:30 o'clock P. M. The President: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Association, we are met to-night to hear a paper to be read by a former Vir

ginian, one who was born in the county of Rockbridge, or, perhaps, I ought to have said, in the Virginian phrase, who has the honor to have been born in Virginia. It is true he strayed off for a while and spent some years in the West, but I am glad to know he is on his way back and has gotten as far as Washington, where he occupies the high position of Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the United States. I have not been informed of the subject of his paper, but he himself will very soon let you know what it is. I introduce Mr. Samuel J. Graham, of Washington City.

Mr. Graham: Mr. President, Members of the Virginia State Bar Association, Ladies and Gentlemen-I object to being called a former Virginian. I think anyone who has once been a Virginian is always a Virginian, and while I have been away from Virginia, and wherever I may go in the future, my heart will always be back in Virginia and among the highlands of old Rockbridge; and it was that feeling that brought me here this evening in the state of unpreparedness in which I appear before you now. I received the flattering notice of a request to address this Bar Association on Monday forenoon, after a busy day, and thinking it over, with the temptation to renew old acquaintance and to come back to Virginia once more, I could not resist; and I am here, having enjoyed my renewance of acquaintance immensely, but without the address I would have liked to present to you. In feeling around that night for a subject, I was very much in the condition of the young preacher who was urging his congregation in a very eloquent sermon to have faith; and he said, "My friends, a man without faith is like the captain of a crewless ship on a shoreless sea, moving on inevitably, and happy will he be if he lands his cargo." I felt very much like that when I approached the question of a subject. I cannot dig you any Graves, as my honored friend did this morning; I cannot give you the finished, scholarly address which he gave you; that takes a gifted man. That reminds me of a sailor I heard of once, who was on board a train in England, and was swearing in a most eloquent, magnificent, forceful way. So great was he that an English bishop, sitting next to him, could not resist

the temptation of speaking to him, and he said, "My friend, you will pardon me, but will you tell me where you learned to swear?" The sailor said, "You can't learn it, it is a gift."

Now I have selected for my subject this evening, "The Establishment of Justice." When I came to Washington, I was very much impressed with how little I knew about the Department of Justice, and it occurred to me that a few facts in regard to the history of that department and its present work might be of some interest to this Association. I have selected the subject "The Establishment of Justice" because that is what I conceive to be the purpose and should be the aim of the Department of Justice.

Mr. Graham then read his address. (See Appendix.)

The President: On behalf of the Virginia State Bar Association, I desire to express the thanks of the Association for the very instructive and interesting address to which we have just listened.

Secretary Minor: Mr. President, there was made, as you remember, the special order for this morning, immediately after the paper was read, the consideration of the proposed amendment to the Constitution which struck out the provision that the annual meeting should be held in July or August. I have heard a number of members of the Association express a great deal of uncertainty in their own minds of the wisdom of adopting this amendment. The gentleman proposing it is not in attendance on this meeting. I think it would be wiser for us to postpone consideration of this amendment until the next annual meeting, and I therefore move that further consideration of it be postponed and be made the special order of the second day's meeting, immediately after hearing the paper of that morning.

(Seconded and adopted.)