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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt:...at this time and one that we should start under. If experience should demonstrate that it does not cure all the abuses, why it can be amended, but the thing for us to do if we intend to enter upon this subject, is to have a bill passed at the next Legislature and try it. Now this subject has been before the last four Legislatures of this State. There have been bills presented by different members of the Legislature. Some of those bills were endorsed by some of the bar associations of the State. There has been no concerted effort to get back of any particular bill that has been presented to that Legislature. There have been different men, lawyers, in this State at times who have felt that a law of this kind should be passed and they have done the best that they could do individually to have it passed. Every one of those bills died in the committees of the Legislature; they were referred to a committee and never reported out. If we wish to accomplish anything, in our judgment, we have got to put the force of this Association back of the bill and we have got to co-operate in every way that we can with the local associations throughout the State in order to have a bill passed and we should draft the bill as we want it passed. There is every reason in the world why we, as lawyers, in this instance should draft the bill as we want it drafted, as we believe is right, and if we do not do that we will meet with the same fate that the other bills have met and probably nothing will be accomplished. There is always opposition to a bill of this kind; it comes from many sources, it comes from the bottom and it comes from the top. The opposition from the bottom is more numerous and the opposition from the top is more powerful. There will be considerable opposition from th...