Show OAR UR URGES S SAR BOARD AR TO 10 DEFINE SIAm Recommendations Will Be Made to Coming Session of Legislature I I An An act providing for the creation of ot a board of commissioners of ot the Utah state bar who shall define those persons who may practice law I in Utah will be presented to the leg legislature slature along with other measures measures meas mona ures urea which the association passed at a special meeting Saturday y af afternoon nt- nt at the Hotel Utah Barristers from various parts of t the state assembled Saturday to hear of or committees which b to conduct Investigation Investigation gation s-atlon into these matters and to tor r report port their findings The meeting was in charge of pf A A. A E. E Bowen lowen president and L. L A A. A Miner 1 secre secre- tary tan An amendment of the statutes providing for a nonpartisan j I tion lion of the Judiciary was urged in inthe inthe the report of tf the committee The lawyers want waat to have the names of ot prospective c candidates for office placed in a column b by themselves which will not designate which party they may belong belons- to URGE HIGHER PAY Another resolution urging the the- enactment by the legislature of a law fixing the tenure of district court judges at nt six years years' instead of four lout which is Is' Isnow now the practice Continued on page 5 v I UTAH UTAH JAR BAR URGES BOARD TO DEFINE DEFINEd d' d l' l LAWYERS' LAWYERS STATUS I I Continued from page 1 was passed The Tile committee under unde the tile chairmanship of Charles R R. Hollingsworth recommended that tha the tile salary of supreme court judges judge be raised to a year Members Member of the association declared that this amount was insufficient and passed passe a resolution urging that the salary salar be fixed at The present salary salary salary sal sal- ary is per annum The Tile salary salary salary sal sal- ary for district court Judges judge was wa fixed by the committee at a year but the association voted t to raise it i to This position pays pay ays a year The salaries of jud judges es were fixed in 3 and have not rot been amended amende since while every other othet state of office of- of flee fice has had the salary raised Secretary stated NAME COMMITTEE Tile Thc The following committee was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed to make a report to th the th legislature on the organization o othe ot of the state bar and the creation creaton o oa of ofa ofa a board boad of commissioners who will wll wl stop all aU unethical practices cf lawyers lawyers law law- rs Rl Richard nard W W. chairman charpan chair chair- char char- man and former president of th the pan association D. D W. W Moffat judge judge- elect President Bowen Dowen rank Prank BStephens B n. Stephens and Judge II I. I II I. I Henderson Headerson Render Header son of Ogden The board of ot commissioners o othe of the tile Utah State Bar association 1 If i appointed will wi consist of three thre members for terms provided provide am and until their successors arc elected and qualified The rho bill bi provides provide that the tile board boad of commissioners b be granted grante the power to establish rules rule governing procedure to discipline attorneys and that they shall define what hat is unlawful practice in the state tate and provide penalty for such Under the measure it i will wl be unlawful unlawful unlawful un un- un- un lawful to practice In Utah without having havin become duly admitted and licensed And if i for any reason the license shall have terminated either by disbarment suspension failure to pay the tile license or assume to to act actor ac acor actor or hold himself out to the public as a person qualified to 10 practice he heshal shall be guilty under the tile act am amon and andon andon on conviction may be fined not to exceed or bo be imprisoned for lor a peri period d not to exceed six months or both If I having been admitted to practice law he shall bo be e in addition addi tion ton subject to suspension EXPLAINS WO WORKINGS KINGS I A. A I L. L Merrill terri a member of the board of commissioners of the Idaho D Ear Bar association explained the tile workIngs work- work Ings of tho board boad and declared it i was the only way to stop stol tho un unethical Ul ethical practice of law Following Is the resolution passed passe concerning tho the election electon of the Ju Judiciary ju- ju Resolved That the state bar association of Utah hereby Indorses indorse hc tile enactment by the 1029 1929 Utah legislature of a Jaw law amending sections sec see tons 2208 2203 and 2216 compiled compie laws of or Utah 1917 providing for the election eleton of supreme a and ald d district court COUt Judges by placing all aU nominations nomi nomi- nations of the political parties partes or of petitioners of candidates for those hose offices in a n separate c on the ballot under the heading of ot Judicial Ticket without party emblem emblems or circle cirle with subheadings designating the candidates for tor the supreme court ard for the tho district court arranged by byname name names and Instructing the voter in voting for the candidates for such offices to place a cross opposite the names of the person or persons for whom he desires to vote yote |