Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-01-12

esting "reminiscences.
A Washington correspondent of The
Boston ADVERTISER whites: At the capi-
tol the other / dropped into the SUI
preme court room. The nine Judges
were on the bench, three lawyers in
side the rail and five spectators on the
benches. IL was as quient as could
be, and the chief interest conferred in a
very lively debate between one of the
attorneys and old Judge Miller. After
congress convenes and the capitol is
.thronged with visitors, the court will
be honored with more spectators. but
the scene of its labor is always drowsy
and filed with heaviness born of
.decorum and stiffness. The judges
are all in remarkably good health, and
daily congratulate themselves and
indulge in jokes based on that fact.
Chief Justice Waite has returned from
Europe with very pleasant remem-
brances of hospitable entertainments
and in better physical condition than
he has been for years. He tells his
friends that he is about resolved to go
on the retired list at the opening of
the next century. AS for Mr.. Bradley,
whose retirement has formed the
theme of gossips for several years, he
is drying up gradually, and is hardly
more than shadow, but he laughs at
the idea of giving up active work, and
really does more real service than al
most any other one CT the nine. He
has suffered considerably from the un-
just attacks made upon him in con-
nection with the electoral commission,
but as Judge he ranks very high with
tho 10 uuarc uhn nrocfioa OF tho l,o
AS for the other judges, it would be
men with stronger faces, or who re-
fleet more unctuously the effects of
good living, than they.
1t is generally believed that the
president will give Atty. Gen. Garland
the first vacant judgeship. Just how
much that has to do with the desire of
the court not to encourage any with
drawals do not know. Garland is
not especially the kind of man that is
welcome in that select and pleasure
loving circle. BY outsiders the chief
qualifications for this Office are sup
POSED to be great legal attainmen;s.
In addition, the judges themselves al
ways do considerable quiet work to
make sure that any prospective new
conner into their ranks is good story
teller, bon UtUant, and an expert at
whist. Otherwise he does not reach
the standard set down in these days.
However digniied and austere the
judges appear in court, they are ex.
ceedingly jolly in their social gather
ings, and they form combination
whist and law club that meets every
week to crack jokes and study Hoyle
over the best Burgundy that can be
had. | have heard some good stories
about the initiation into that charmed
circle OF one OF the justices well known
in Boston but they might be under
stood and tend to impair the public
appreciation of the courts dignity,
and so had better 60 unwritten.
Now Mr.. Garland is not just the
kind of man that would keep up the
time honOred traditions of the court.
He has no frills nor furbelows, and
would look about as natural in his
silk gown as a bear. He despises So
ciety. absolutely never goes to din
ner, has never worn dress coat, and
lives in absolute contempt of the little
piceties which tire supreme court
hold so dear. He likes to study law,
to hunt and fish, but he never looks
particularly well. nor cares how he
looks. On the bench he would break
down all the absurd little punctilious-
ness that the court has established for
itself. and be simply, as now, man
whose only charms are those which
come from naturally big head and
heart But the judges demand some
thing more, and, without saying any
thing. they are known to all the law
yers who are on intimate terms with
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