New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-20
Judge Billings ard the Alumni OF Yale.

TIE following is from the Washington
correspondent of the New York Mail:
The confirmation by the Senate, yester-
day. of Mr Edward Coke Billings, of New
Orleans. as United States district judga Of
the Eastern District Of Louisiana, in con
junction with the coming Yale banquet, of
which | made brief mention yesterday,
suggests the topic Of the relation of college
bred men TO the government, as Mr. B!l-
logs was ona OF the must brilliant mem
bers Of the renali iahy brilliant class
which graduated at lale College in 1893;
class Of which your District Attorney
Phelps, Mr.. George c. Smalley, the 1Ti-
bll1es well knosn London correspondent;
MIR. Bromley. al editor Of the Tribune; ana
Mr. Edmund c. Stedman, the poet; Andrew
u. White, Percy Cowell, Randall Lee Glib
son, member of Congress from Louisiana;
and Wayne McVeigh ex-Unted States nit
lister to Turkey, were also members. This
class. in the opinion OF college men OF
that day. gives promise OF rivaing the la
nous i ale class of 1887, of which Governor
| Tildep. Mr.. Evsrts, Chief Justice Waite
| and Attorney General Pierrepont were
members 1t has been commonly asserted
that college bred men weretoslng their in-
| tiuence in matters of government That
| this may seem to be, IN measure, relative
| " true is plain, since formerly colleges were
| tew, and every graduate II pubic iite was
! known, New, however, colleges are nu-
| merous and their graduates who happen TO
| be in public life are by no means generally
| known as college graduates, Here il WASH
| ington the alumni associations OF tho diff0c-
| erit colleges give evidence that there must
| be some graduates ameng the officials.
The Princeton Alumni recently held q
| BANQUET here. Next Wednesday those OF
| Yale propose similar reunion. Inquiry
I Inv rInaNC A.
| yates of Yals now in the city either pr3c-
tic:ng their professions and resident or tem-
| porsrily here holding some relation to the
| government.
Three Justices of the Supreme Court, in
| clud;ng the Chief Justice, the Attorney
! General, an Assistant Secretary OF the
| Treasury, Senators, members OF the House
! of Representatives, officers OF the army ana
| navy, men in high position in each OF tho
| departments. as we'll as younger graduates
| holding clerkship aaG pursuing their pro-
| fessional studies in some one OF the various
| professional schools here, arc found, all
with the diploma of Yale College, and, go
far az known, the college and the country
have no reason to be ashamed OF their
| record.
| ton of Judge Billings This appointment,
| as ia the case with all Louisiana appoint.
,oeuts, has met with bitter opposition, and
been subject to the most unscrupulOus at
| tacks and ample opportunity was afforded
by the Judiciary Committee to allow every
person to prove all adverse charges that
! could be brought against this candidate.
II ia due to him 10 say, and to the President
who appointed him, and to the distinguished q
Gentleman who urged his appointment,
that an opposition, extending now for over
wear. that has found willing tools IN Ger
tain of the Nor 1thern papers. that mas pug
lished lies Wholesale, and that mas e&lloit
ed an industry worthy better cause anu
malignity worthy the Satanic creations o'
Milton, has utterly failed to proonce OF Nel
ity single charge against the irtegfity c'
personal character OF this man. ii's aoiA'S
all concede.
rassed urscatbed through such q searching
nrdeaI. will be gratifying to his many
friends in ths GonneCticut river valley
recion of Massachusetts, where he wa:
horn and reared; 70 his old and true college
friends scattered ali over the cosntrS; ant
| most Of all, to those citizens OF Loplslsns
who know how true he HIS ever been to III
convictions Of right ard duty. hrhiian
advocate, a consistent and true irienl I.
the cclofed people, an Outspoken i. puol'
can, he has been charged with no iault tina
has for moment stood the test OF lhVet
tigatiop, save the previous one OF oeiog
Republican. the black mans frlend-henc
| he has encountered bitter opposition trOI
! the Democratic who see III determined In al
cases to draw party and color line. 5
much has appeared in the papers. advers
to Judge Billings character that deeme
it but proper and just to thus testify to tn
things that know.