THE CHAIRMAN: Is there a second to this motion that it be referred to the Executive Committee?

The motion was seconded.

THE CHAIRMAN: That is in the nature of a substitute for the other motion?

MR. CAPEN: Yes.

THE CHAIRMAN:

There is a substitute offered for the other

motion, and that is, that it be referred to the Executive Committee.

Calls for the question.

The motion was put and carried.

THE CHAIRMAN: The motion prevails. This entire matter is referred to the Executive Committee.

MR. MCMURDY: I move that this Association tender its hearty thanks to the retiring officers for the very diligent and painstaking manner in which they have discharged their duties, and particularly that we express our great gratification to our retiring President, who has presided over our deliberations with impartiality, under a great affliction and at a great sacrifice. And on that motion I ask for a rising vote.

The motion was seconded.

MR. BUNDY: I suggest the officers who are not retiring as well as those who are. We have one that is not retiring, he is re-elected.

MR. MCMURDY: If he is retiring he is re-elected also.

THE CHAIRMAN: Inasmuch as this motion pertains to the active officers, I will put the question. All in favor of the motion make it known by rising to your feet. Those opposed please rise to your feet. The motion unanimously prevails. Gentlemen, we have now about reached the time to bring our deliberations to a close, and inasmuch as there are so few members present I do not believe it will be wise to launch upon any new subject. And with the statement to you that the banquet will take place in the room in which we held our meetings, in the Creve Coeur Club, this evening at seven o'clock, for the reception and the banquet at seven-thirty, a motion to adjourn will now be in order.

MR. HERRINGTON: I am rather a new member in the Association, but I have a suggestion to make. I think the officers of this Association ought to request all persons who propose to read papers in the future, to limit them to thirty minutes. Thirty minutes will cover six thousand words, two hundred words a minute can be read, and that is plenty on any subject. It is not necessary to have articles as long as a Presidential Message, and when we limit them then we will have time to do all of our business, including the very able report of the gentleman who is now ruled out.

THE CHAIRMAN: I suggest that matters of that character be written to the Executive Committee; they will be quite valuable to them, they make up the program, or to the President of the Association and we will get the benefit of it at the proper time. Gentlemen, a motion to adjourn will now be entertained. The motion was made, seconded and carried.

THE CHAIRMAN: This meeting is now adjourned till seven o'clock tonight, at which time the reception and banquet will be held.

RECEPTION AND BANQUET.

The Annual Reception and Banquet were given by the Association at the Creve Coeur Club on Friday evening, June twentyfifth, and were in charge of the following committee:

The banquet was held in the banquet room of the Creve Coeur Club which was tastefully decorated. Many ladies were present on this occasion. The divine blessing was asked by Rev. Wm. E. Cadmus and after an elaborate dinner the following proceedings were had:

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Our President is unable to be present on this occasion; I regret to say that he has not been in good health for a short time, and was compelled to leave for home. I fear that a serious mistake has been made in the selection of a substitute. The toastmaster is always supposed to be able to tell some witty and appropriate stories on occasions of this kind. I have never been able to think of them at the proper time; they all come rushing upon me like an avalanche the next day, and I will not be able to sleep tonight on account of the great avalanche of appropriate stories that will occur to my mind that I might have told had I thought of them. I did not know that I was going to be called upon to preside tonight until a short time ago, therefore I have had no opportunity to arrange any kind of stories, what I do or say will have to be entirely of an impromptu character, and I do not know but impromptu work on this occasion is just as good as any. I feel somewhat like the young minister who came to a small village to preach. He had but little education, no theological training, and never prepared his sermons, but he had a wonderful success in drawing an audience and congregation. In the same village was a staid old

minister who had a fine classical education, finished and rounded out with a theological training, and he commenced Monday morning to prepare his sermons and continued it through the week for the following Sunday. But he had no such success as his young rival, and he called upon him one day to learn the secret of his success and said to him:

"I understand that you have no particular education, no theological training and that you do not prepare your sermons, while I am quite the contrary. I have a collegiate education, I have had a theological training, I begin early Monday morning in the preparation of my sermons and continue through the week."

The young man said:

"Your mistake lies in your preparation. When you begin work Monday morning the devil immediately looks over your shoulder, sees what you are doing, and gets onto your ways, gets among the congregation and neutralizes all your efforts. With me it is quite the contrary, when I get up to preach Sunday morning even the devil himself does not know what I am going to say." (Laughter.)

Now it is not supposed that a toastmaster is to talk much. At a banquet of lawyers we always have a number of lawyers on the program that are anxiuos to do the talking themselves. We have a gentleman here now from Galesburg who thinks I am encroaching upon his time, he is going to tell you something about the "Powers that Be"; just what he is going to say I do not know, but you will hear from him now. Mr. George A. Lawrence, of Galesburg. (Applause.)

MR. LAWRENCE: Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: I feel tonight a good deal like old Cincinnatus must have felt in coming from the farm, the plow, the waving grain and the lowing kine, to take part in this program. In one respect, however, I differ from Cincinnatus, though I fully expected to be introduced by your toastmaster as George A. Lawrence Cincinnatus. Cincinnatus came, you will remember from the farm to save his country. I came to Peoria, I promise you, to save my life. I was asked some time ago by your Secretary to take some part in this program, and was, without difficulty, able to withstand all his blandishments, but when I heard on Monday morning over the 'phone, that coloraturo soprano voice of the Chairman of the