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Show EURO ROOT HEARS BAR ASSOCIATION FORMER SENATOR FROM NEW YORK CHOSEN AT THE SALT LAKE CONVENTION. Patriotism and Solidarity of Country Keynote of Addresses at Banquet Attended by Prominent Men From Every Section. Salt Lake City. Elihu Root, fomer United States Senator from New York, was elected president of the American Bar association on Thursday Thurs-day over Walter George Smith of Pennsylvania. George Whitelock of Maryland was re-elected secretary, F. P. Wadhams of New York was reelected re-elected treasurer and Charles N. Potter Pot-ter of Wyoming, John Lowell of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts and Charles Blood Smith of Kansas were elected to the executive execu-tive committee to succeed William H. Burges of Texas, John H. Voorhees of South Dakota and W. H. Staake of Pennsylvania, "whose respective terms vs members expired. William Howard Taft retired from the executive committee com-mittee and he will be succeeded by Peter W. Meldrim, the retiring president presi-dent of the association. The convention of the American association came to a close Thursday night with the annual banquet. Patriotism, a solidarity of country and a melting pot of judicial thought wherein the United States should become be-come the greatest nation of the earth were the sentiments embodied in the addresses given at the banquet, which is said to have been the best in the history of the association. A former president of the United States, William Howard Taft, seven men who have graced the seats of the senate, and a score of those who have been chosen to represent their states in the lower house of congress, not to mention the judges of the supreme courts of several states who were present, united in an avowal of devotion devo-tion to the constitution, to the country coun-try and to its constituted laws Russia Ordering Steel Rails. New York. United States Steel corporation cor-poration officials have confirmed a report re-port that an order for 65,000 tons of steel rails has been received from the Russian government. |