Sausalito News, Volume 38, Number 3, 21 January 1922 — NOTED LAWYERS AND JURISTS MEET AUG. 6 [ARTICLE]

NOTED LAWYERS AND JURISTS MEET AUG. 6

Assembly of Brilliant Legal Minds to Discuss Nation's Problems San Francisco. — California's united campaign to bring the 1922 convention of the American Bar Association to San Francisco has been won. Word has been received here that the executive committee of the national body, meeting in Tampa, Fla., voted unanimously to hold the sessions in this city during the week of August 6. In point of personnel the convention will be one of the most important ever held in San Francisco. * It will attract leaders of the American bench and bar from all sections of the country. Already word has come that Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes has been invited to deliver the aanual address, that Lord Shaw of England, member of the House of Lords and notable figure at the -English bar, will be the guest of the association, and that Elihu Root has announced his intention to attend. Judging from correspondence with members of the local committee, Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court will be present if it can be arranged. He has expressed a keen desire to come. It was the Bar Association of San Francisco, of which Jeremiah F. Sullivan is president, that originated the campaign to secure the convention.. In its forty-four years of existence the association has never come to this city, and the idea appealed strongly to judges and lawyers throughout the State. .-» Edgar D. Peixotto, prominent local attorney, attended the 1911 convention of the association, held in Cincinnati, and planted the seed. He found sharp competition for the honor from the middle west and east, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Atlantic City entering the lists. Distance, time and expense were the obstacles that the Californians had to overcome. Peixotto returned and secured the co-operation of the Los Angeles Bar Association. At its Riverside meeting last October the California Bar Association took up the standard, appointing a special committee consisting of Beverly L. Hodghead of San Francisco, chairman; Bradner W. Lee of Los Arfgeles, William Thomas of San Francisco, Henry Eickhoff of San Francisco, Charles S. Cushing of San Francisco, Henley C. Booth of San Francisco, E. W. Camp of Los Angeles and Edgar D. Peixotto.