Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-28
THE BIG WIGS.
\ Look at the Men who Compose the court
 of Last Resort.

| II. J. Ramsdell ID Philadelphia Press.
 I dropped in on the Supreme court a ! day or two ago. What a jolly old set | There was the Chief Justice, witt iron gray hair, thick and stiff, and whiskers | just the same, q big nose an a big mouth, wrapped in a black silk gown, but looking very little like Chief Jus
 tice. But he attends to his business, leaves politics to the dogs, and is re-
 spected by his associates. On his right, oldest in commission of any one on the bench, Is Justice Miller, round and fat, and 64, little bald and closely shaven face. On the bench he IS as cross as hatchet, for he hates circumlocutiOn and shams land half the bar IS made of them); but of the bench he Is as jolly.
 and kiEd and gentle as any man you
 ever saw. He has been regarded for ten
 years the ablest man on the bench.
 The three last appointments on the
 bench may change this, but l doubt 1t.
 On the Chief Justices left IS Justice
 Field, appointed as Republican, but
 now a peski old Democrat. He IS tall,
 bald-heaGed, spectacled, full bearded,
 with a Jewish cast os countenance. Smart
 he is, too, as all the Fields are. He
 writes strong opinions and IS popular.
 He IS a most entertaining companion,
 and a great traveller and scholar. Drink?
 Yes, once in a while. Miller and Field,
 respectively, are the two oldest Judges
 in commission on the bench. Justice
 Bradley IS the next in point of rank-a
 thin, refined, closely shavsn, gray haired
 scholarly, judicial looking old gentleman,
 who doesn't seem to have much to say
 kl.
 rank (excepting, of course, the Chief Jus
 tlce) is a specimen hentuckian-a giant in his way. Big body, big head, big
 hands, big feet, long legs, long arms and long hsRded, without a doubt. He Is at least six feet six inches m height. He reuts furnished house from friend of
 mine, and my friend had to have made, especially for the great Kentuckiau, a nine-fOOt bedstead, with mattress, blankets, sheets, etc, to correspond, and also one for the son of the judge, who IS as tall. Judge Harlan was strong ac quisition to the bench, and IS popular on the bench and of Chew tobacco dld 1 you say? Well, 1 should think SO, and 1 he knows a glass of Bourbon when he 1
 tastes it. There IS not much known of | Justice Wood. He is a grizzly, | slouchy man, whose personal bear. | ing and appearance are not at | all striking. He IS a judge by ap- | pointment, but he d1esn't look like one. | Justice Stanley Mathews IS built on big model, physically and mentally. As I an intellectual force he scarcely has su- peiiOr on the bench. He IS q'iiet in his and does not care to extend 1 hIs acquaintance. Justice Gray is tall, white haired, properly old bachelor, who snaps up everybody and had rathe' quarrel than win cause. When he first came on the bench here he was nearly killed with h avy eating and drinking, but that time IS over. As the old Judges are very tenacious of the right 1f seniors, he Is not likely to be pOI uiar. Judge Blatchford, the last appointment, looks like your own George W. Childs, and is, therefore, clean, genial, affsble, and kindly Batured-else
 Ooks dO not count.
 Chief Justice Waite lives in a hand ,Ome house on Rhode Island avenue; Judge Miller owns house on Massa- ,husetts avenue. Judge Field has a arge, well built house on Capitol Hill present from his brother Cyrus-a plr- ion of what was once known as the old Capitol prison. In this building Clay presided three terms as Speaker of the House. In front of It James Monroe md John Quincy Adams were inauRn- ated President. John c. Calhoun lied ,ies S;.s 4-Ouse on 1 s,ewns and Was rs C to General Grant, and lfolfir hich le was first inaugurated. General Sherman then became the owner, and rom him Judge Bradley purchased it. Judge Harlan lives in costly rented lsuse; Judge Woods boards on G street; Iudge Matthews k building a very i'm posing and costly mansion on Connecti- ut avenue. opposite the British lega- ion; Judge Gray boards at Wormley's; md Judge Blatchtord has just purchas- ,d S5U,OO0 residence on K street The of time affect even tho Su- 1reme court, for of the bench twenty -ears ago not a single Judge remains III dead. Only two Judges of the bench ,f twelve years ago remain, namely, Mif- CT and Field; all the others are dead, except Davis, now in the Senate, and Swayne, retired.