SARATOGA, Aug, 24.—The American Bar Association closed its sixth annual meeting here to day, and partook of a dinner this evening. The lawyers say that it has been an unusually largely attended and successful meeting. The papers read before the association have been exceptionally able and interesting and there have been large accessions to its membership. The President, Mr. Lawton, of Savannah, read a paper yesterday on the legislation of the past year in the various States—an annual resume of which is made the duty of the President. Among the “curiosities” of legislation some amusing instances were cited. For example, in one of the States a law was enacted forbidding, under extreme penalties, the transportation through the State on railroads or steam-boats of ‘any liquid nitro-glycerine in a congealed state unless it was accompanied by the shipper in person. Next year the law will doubtless be so amended as to require the shipper to occupy a seat upon his box of “congealed” glycerine “in a sitting posture.” West Virginia enacted a law forbidding any man summoned as a witness in a legislative investigation to refuse to answer "any question that may be asked him.” It was suggested that it would be a good thing for the stockholders of “Keely's motor” to have the inventor of that famous machine subpoenaed as a witness before the next investigating committees of that State. This morning William Allen Butler, of New-York, offered a resolution extending a cordial welcome to Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge. The resolution was unanimously adopted. The following gentlemen were elected officers of the association for the ensuing year: President—G. Cortlandt Parker, New-Jersey: Vice-Presidents—D. A. Troy, Alabama: G. B. Clark, Arkansas; A. P. Hyde, Connecticut; T. F. Bayard, Delawars; H. H. Wells, District of Columbia; E. MM. Randall, Florida; L. N. Whittle, Georgia; C. C. Bonney. Illinois; Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; G. G. Wright, Iowa; W. Preston, Kentucky: E. P. Poche, Louisiana: N. Webb, Maine; S. Wilmer, Maryland; G. O. Shattuck, Massachusetts: H. B, Brown, Michigan; G. H. Cole, Minnesota; L. E. Houston, Mississippi; 8. Barclay, Maryland: J. M. Woolworth, Nebraska; W. 8S. Ladd, New-Hampshire: A. Q. Keashey, New-Jersey: J. F. Dillon, New-York; T. B, Keogh, North Carolina: R. King, Ohio: G. W. Biddle. Pennsylvania; W. P. Shefield, Rhode Island; H. E. Young, South ‘Carolina; A. Allison, Tennessee; R. G. Street, Texas; D., Roberts, Vermont; J. BR. Tucker, Virginia; E. B, Knight, West Virginia, and 8. M. Pinney, Wisconsin; Secretary—Edward Otis Hinkley,. Baltimore; Treasurer—E. Francls Rawle, Pennsylvania; Executive Committee—Luke P. Poland, Vermont, Chairman; S. E. Baldwin. Connecticut; William Allen Butler, New-York. C. C. Bonney, of Chicago, urged that the association meet next year in Chicago, and after a discussion in which Gen. E. F. Bullard presented the facilities of Saratoga as the place for holding the convention, the matter was laid on the table by a vote of 54 to 20. The Executive Committee has the matter in charge. The report of the committee appointed to consider the subject of delays in the United States Supreme Court, and the various plans for the relief of the same, was referred to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure. A paper by Judge Thomas, of Missouri. on ‘The Abuses of the Writ of Habeas Corpus” was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence: and Law Reform, the committee to report at the annual meeting. Resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, were passed by 2 rising vote, and the convention adjourned sine die at 1:15. [Published: August 25, 1883 Copyright © The New York Times]