Show PARDONING POWER IS CONDEMNED BY ii HILDRETH w Then i have hare pus pissed passed d on the gum guilt ot of i man man- irh When their decisIon decisIon Ion ha been 61 J upheld held by th the highe tribunal In the land Und should one mAn rojin overturn o their decision That 1 Is the question n M. M A. A ot of N N. fl D D- a. a delegate to the tho convention of ot the American Bar Bal bak naked asked today when qU questioned as u to his views on the I lynching of ot Leo Fran Frank kAJa k As AJa R. R lawyer luver t I deplore delore lynching said Mid w Hildrelh but I cannot annot condemn the state of ot Georgia in this instance G Georgia Is not the only state In which the populace haa baa taken the law Into its hands In my state opinion aa M to the guilt nt of ot Fr Frank has hai bern ben divided HO ever I many G Georgians 1 I have r recently met mell tell me that Georgia Georgi almost t to e fl 81 man believed in the g guilt of FrankI Frank I II I c cannot ay say what hat the opinion or orI I I feelings of ot the governor were but Inthe Inthe in inthe the face of the jury jurys decision and the support port it was Wu given In the su supreme su- su premo preme court ourt of or the United States State I I. I In the governors governor's place would have haT hesitated r I do io not believe I would have commuted Franks Frank's sentence lie Ho should not have haye ben n lynched That I call an outrage but if the people pee peo pIe wore aa u firmly convinced of his guilt aa it appears they were I cannot entirely blame them The governor Is In part put r responsible for tor overturning the findings pf the courtAt courtAt court At nil all event events Im I'm In favor vor of a 1 pardon board The absolute te power to grant life lite despite tho the findings of ot a 1 Jury or the d decisions of the courts is 18 is in my opinion too much power for one man n to have hav When one tonal considers era the possibilities ties of or such power were it abused one is In favor of ot placing it Jt in the hands hande of a IL board 7 T. T 4 rHo r- r Ho He rend read the names of ot il the e members of ot the association n who haVo have died since the thelast last m meeting Ui g. g The committee commit Commit- tee on the relief fund for tor E European an lawyers reported the the- collection and distribution of 2673 The amount was wan distributed among Belgian lawyer law law- yore yer who made their tray ty to England Bureau Rep Reports rl The comparative law bur bureau au report reported re reported re- re port ported d that Its It's wo k jc had Md been in a aWny away way nu merged with association Journal and that contributions of or the bu bureau au would appear In the American Bar t Association Journal Tb b The corn coOt t to suggest rem remedies and formulate formulate for for- mutate proposed ropo r laws 8 to prevent te de delay delay de- de lay and unnecessary cot cost in litigation litigation litigation tion reported UK its work for tor the year ear and recommended that th th the committee be continued Likewise th the special committee appointed to oppose the tha judicial r recall reported progress and naked aked that the committee be continued continued con con- another year According to the report the climax of ot the judicial recall la is passed The report In this connection says fOy We r are re pleased to report port that t during the past year not only has no advance nce been made b by the but that on th the co contrary tJ r we we have hav b been m compelled to m meet in only a a. few Instances and in the those e successfully tiny any activity from the oth other r side It cannot be said Bald that the judicial re reaU recall re- re taU call is dead So far tar however as All concerns concerns con con- cerns further progress at atthe the present time lime it Is 18 a beaten to a Q al although though that tha may net yet bo be openly admitted by some Bome p publicists t. t whose bent of ot la Js ao so socialistic th that t judicial l 1 recall has haR haRIth with Ith them become a St hopeless chronic obsession The Tho committee te on reorganization naked asked further time to reflect on the matters submitted to it It announced that the meD b members thus far w were re agreed upon oni only one matter and that was that the time Ume of or the annual meeting bo be extended from three days to four tour days CHOLERA IS 13 SPREADING PARIS Au Aug 18 A A Havas HaYa dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch from Zurich says eay that the latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est report regarding cholera made bythe bythe by bythe the Austro Hungarian minister ter of ot interior states slates that the disease IK is spreading in that kingdom SI Six hundred hun hun- hundred dred and seventy aYent new cases ees' have havo been officially reported the he majority In IQ |