MONDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1922.

HIS HONOUR SIR JAMES AIKINS, K.C., LL.D., President, in the Chair.

THE CHAIRMAN: We will now come to order. The Honourable Mr. Justice Morrison.

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MORRISON: Sir James, ladies and gentlemen, I have a letter from the Lord Chancellor dated from the House of Lords as follows:

"I have sent by the hands of Lord Shaw, my warmest greetings to the Canadian Bar Association. Lord Shaw is well-known to you all. He has sat for many years on the judicial committee of the Privy Council; he goes to you now to express in person, far more vividly than I can do on paper, how strong a sense of unity we on that tribunal feel with that great Dominion, which he is now visiting. Lord Shaw's wisdom came to maturity

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in expounding the law in Scotland. Now his great experience guides me and my English colleagues when we are adininistering that law on appeal, and is of equal service when we deal with the law with which we have been familiar throughout our legal career. Thus he brings to the judicial committee a versatility of knowledge which fits him well to sit in judgment on cases originating under many different systems and in many parts of the globe.

Sir James, ladies and gentlemen, I have very much pleasure in calling upon Lord Shaw of Dunfermline. (Applause.)

THE CHAIRMAN: Lord Shaw, may I introduce to you the members of the Canadian Bar Association.

LORD SHAW: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I am merely on show at the present. (Laughter, applause.)

THE CHAIRMAN: I will now introduce to you Dr. E. Lafleur, K. C., vice-president for Quebec. (Applause.)

DR. LAFLEUR: My Lord Shaw, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure and privilege of presenting to you this morning Maître Aubepin of the Paris Bar. He is a member of a very old and illustrious corporation, which through the centuries amid all kinds of dynastic changes through revolutions and restoration, has maintained its high ideals, its reputation for science, for integrity, for courage and devotion. We are greatly indebted to Maître Aubepin for the great effort he has made in crossing an Ocean and Continent to come and bring us the fraternal greetings from that great institution. I have very much pleasure in presenting him to you this morning.

THE CHAIRMAN: I present to you, Maître Aubepin, the members of the Canadian Bar Association.

MAITRE AUBEPIN: Sir James, ladies and gentlemen, I bring to the Canadian Bar Association the greetings

of the Bar of Paris which I have the great honour to represent here. (Applause.) It was not an effort for me to come here, it was a great pleasure, and I thank you very much for the good reception. (Applause.)

THE CHAIRMAN: My Lord Shaw, ladies and gentlemen, you all know the origin of the Canadian Bar Association. Its beginning was inspired by a meeting of the American Bar Association which came to Montreal in 1913. The influence was felt all over Canada and as a result of that the Canadian Bar Association was formed. There was present at that birth, and when it was christened, two representatives of the American Bar Association, Mr. Charles Thaddeus Terry, who is with us today and was at that time the President of the Conference of the Commissioners on Uniform Law, and Mr. Walter George Smith of Philadelphia who was subsequently the president of the American Bar Association.

From that time on the American Bar Association has taken a great interest in this young child; I will not say that it is theirs, but they have acted as the foster-parents for it and on every occasion have sent distinguished representatives from that Association to our annual meeting.

May I say something else in connection with that; in the year 1914, a rather memorable year for Canada, quite a number of Canadians from the Canadian Bar Association went over to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association at Washington. The Canadians at that time were wonderfully well received, notwithstanding the fact that the president and government of the United States had declared that in words and actions they would be entirely neutral. When the Canadians entered the hotel and were given a luncheon, they heard the rather familiar strain of those days, "It's a Long way to Tipperary." An opportunity was given to your representative to speak at a dinner for the Judicial Section of the American Bar Association and subsequently in Chicago in 1916,

at the annual banquet of that Association. Let me assure you gentlemen, that, although those gentlemen did not say anything about the war, one could feel the 1 pulsations of sympathy expressed in every way by the American Bar. (Applause). We realized the influence when we came back. From that time, as I have mentioned, great interest has been shown in Canada and the Canadian Bar by our friends from the south. We have to-day with us as excellent a representation as it is possible for the American Bar to send. We have with us the Honourable Mr. John W. Davis, (Applause), who showed himself in true sympathy with the British Empire when he was the Ambassador from the United States to England. I shall not call him a British-American, but I think I will call him an American-Britisher. (Applause). Also, we have with us the late president of the American Bar Association, Mr. Severance. (Applause). He comes from a neighboring city to Winnipeg, and consequently we are very friendly to one another, although the two cities are 500 miles apart; also we have with us, as I mentioned before, Mr. Terry. Now, I will ask these gentlemen, in order, as Lord Shaw said, to be on show for a moment, to kindly come to the platform. (Applause). Gentlemen, may I introduce you to the Canadian Bar Association.

We have a neighbor just across the water, Japan, represented by Dr. Masujima and Dr. Hanaoka. I will ask these gentlemen to come forward and also give you the opportunity of thus being introduced to them. (Applause). Japan can set an example to Canada and some other countries for patriotism. (Applause).

The representative of the Crown in British Columbia does not require any introduction and consequently may I call upon His Honour LieutenantGovernor Nichol. (Applause).

Mr.

HIS HONOUR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR: President, My Lord Shaw, ladies and gentlemen, it affords me great pleasure to be here this morning at