Application of the Montana Bar Association

Application was made to this court by the petition of the officers of the Montana Bar Association to order the unification and integration of the Bar of the state. The prayer of the petition was that “the Bar of the State of Montana be inte*102grated and unified in an appropriate manner after due consideration of the problems relative thereto by [this court], and further that this Court issue an order: (1) appointing a time and place for hearing this petition with respect only to the preliminary question as to whether or not the Court’s inherent power to unify and integrate the Bar shall be…