PRESIDENT PARKER: The next number on the afternoon's program is a paper, "Political Recognition of Women the Next Step in the Development of Democracy," by Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, of Milwaukee. I take pleasure in presenting Mrs. Benedict.

MRS. BENEDICT: I imagine a great many of you are thinking that I slipped in on this program under false pretenses. You braved the summer heat and came on here to South Bend for the purpose of discussing weighty subjects-progressive legislation, constitutional interpretation and legal theory-and here you find half of your first afternoon devoted to "Votes for Women," a thoroughly frivolous subject which you have always connected in your mind with millinery, women's clubs and pink teas, your only knowledge of which has been by way of the comic cartoons and funny papers. But, gentlemen, if you feel this way about it, do not blame the chairman of your Program Committee, and don't blame me. He wrote and asked me to give a paper here on any subject of interest to the legal profession. I chose this subject, which I consider, honestly and seriously, the most fundamentally important subject before the American people today, and he stuck to his bargain. So you see me here today; very glad to be here in spite of the July heat; proud of the honor you have done an obscure and inexperienced lawyer of another city; and, I may add, confident that I can justify myself and the gentleman who was brave enough to invite me to come, in our belief that the political recognition of women is a subject of immediate interest to the legal profession. (Mrs. Benedict's paper will be found on page 257.)

SECRETARY BATCHELOR: I do not think it is necessary for the Committee on Program to apologize for having Mrs. Benedict put this paper over on us, but I want to suggest that the

real reason why she was able to do it was because the committee knew that when we got her here we would get some little discussion out of her on Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation, so I cordially invite you all to be here tomorrow afternoon and hear Mrs. Benedict discuss some phases of that subject when it comes up.

PRESIDENT PARKER: The next business before the Associa tion is the Reports of Officers and Committees. We will now have the Treasurer's report.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 6, 1912.

To the State Bar Association of Indiana:

I beg to submit the following report as Treasurer:

I am debtor, July 7, 1911, to amount on hand at date of