In conclusion, it may be confidently said in answer to the question above propounded, that the civilized native inhabitants of the islands ceded to the United States by Spain have all the civil rights, privileges, and liabilities of citizens of the United States, irrespective of their race, color or previous condition. They cannot be regarded as any "white man's burden," because they are not the "subjects" of an imperial ruler; on the contrary, they form a part of the people of the United States, whose rights, as such, every man is bound to respect. Therefore, all the discussions in the public press respecting a mode of government for these islands as Dependencies," and the inauguration of " Imperialism," and "Colonial Rule," are merely idle fancy, and disquisitions upon the impossible, that is to say upon what is constitutionally impossible.

As to the status of the full-franchised American citizen in any of those islands there is no room for question respecting his rights. He is one of the sovereign people in and upon his own domain,- as well in Cuba as in Puerto Rico, or the Philippine, or Hawaiian Islands, and as such he is entitled to all the protection which the Constitution and laws of the United States secure to every other citizen of the United States. Being under that protection it follows that he is under all the liabilities of such citizenship, and that his allegiance has its duties and responsibilities, as well as its rights and privileges.

(Applause.)

Henry E. Tremain, of New York:

Mr. President, I move the thanks of this Association be extended to Mr. Brannigan, for the valuable paper with which he has just favored us, and that the paper, for the use of members, be published in the regular proceedings.

(Carried.)

The President:

You are all expected to be present at the meeting to-night at the Capitol, to hear Mr. Justice Brown, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to bring your ladies. After the address at the Capitol, a reception will be given to Mr. Justice Brown, at the Fort Orange Club, to which you are all invited.

Thomas H. Ham, of Albany:

I move we adjourn until to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock.

(Carried.)

The meeting was called to order in the Assembly Chamber, Capitol, Albany, N. Y., on Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock, by President Logan, who introduced the speaker of the evening, with the following remarks:

President Logan:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.- Ours is a judge-governed land.

In no other country in the world does the judiciary take so important a part in the government as in the United States.

Ours is a land of litigation. In England, with five times the population of the State of New York, there are less. judges on the bench and less causes on their calendars than in this State. This is not because we are a more quarrelsome people than the English, but because we settle our quarrels in a more orderly and dignified way, before the courts.

Ours is a land of liberty because it is a judge-governed land. In the atmosphere of a free and untrammeled judiciary and in the presence of courts where justice is

administered free to all who seek it, the plant of despotism cannot grow.

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the world in the number and importance of the cases which it hears and decides.

The next highest court in the world in the number and importance of its adjudications is not the House of Lords in England or the Court of Cassation in France or any court of continental Europe, but the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

The first judicial city of the world is Washington and the second Albany.

The State of New York and the New York State Bar Association and the citizens of Albany are always glad to welcome a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, but when that judge is Mr. Justice Henry B. Brown he is doubly welcome to our Capitol, our homes and our hearts.

Way off on some distant isle in the South Pacific not ten thousand miles from those Philippines where our soldiers are fighting for our flag, is said to exist a singularly mild and peaceful race of men. Wars are unknown to them and quarrels never occur. They dwell together in brotherly love and harmony. If one meets a stranger at a distance from his home, the salutation is, "Aloha," "I love you." If it is a stranger at his home or a relative or friend anywhere, the salutation is "Aloha, Aloha," "I love you more." But if it is a relative or friend at his home, it is "Aloha, Aloha, Aloha," "I love you more and more."

Speaking for you to-night, I say to Mr. Justice Brown,— As a distinguished jurist adorning the bench of the highest court of the world, "Aloha."

As a citizen, on the bench or off of it, wherever duty has