The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-25
AThe Chief Justices Send Off
From Chicago.
HIS VERY ELOQUENT SPEECH
d a Royal Love Feast at the Palmer
House Last Night-Speech oS
Judge Gresham.
The Fuller Banquet.

.dred friends of Melville w. Fuller, the
new Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, comprising not only
members of the legal fraternity, but
DISTINGUISHED representatives OF the
leading professions and business inter
ests of Chicago, met him tonight at
a grand banquet, previous 20 his de-
parture to assume his new duties at
Washington. The scene of the ban
quet was the great dining room OF the
Palmer House, and it was tastefully,
artIstically, and in some instances, res
pIendentlv decorated. The tables were
fairly hid by huge banks OF flowers, this
being particularly the case at the main
table, at the centre of which sat the
guest Of the evening, and at whose right
hand sat Judge Walter Q Gresham.
When the Chief Justice appeared IN
the magnifcently lighted banquet hall,
he was saluted with round OF hearty
applause.
After the good things on the bill of
fare had been disposed of, Judge Drum
mond raped the assemblage to order
and made speech which evoked great
r applause.
At its conclusion all present rose to
their feet and drank to the health OF
Chief Justice Fuller. After this dem
onstration had subsidized, the guest of
the evening began his speech. He said:
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER's SPEECH.
profoundly appreciate the NANTES,
tation of kindly feeling towards me
personally, which accompanies this
tribute to the high Office to which l
have been called. l can conceive OF 10
reward of human endeaVor, no gratif-
cation in the attachments OF
human ambition, which can be com
pared to the affectionate commentator
of the friends, the associates ands the
felloW-laborers of years. Centuries
ago friendship was declared to be the
ONLY thing in regard to the benefits of
which all men were agreed. Many de-
spised riches, many spurned great of
fees, many disregarded what most
thought worthy of admiration, but all
found friendship essential to an endur-
able existence, rendering adversely
more supportable and prosperity more
brilliant. So at the close of more than
80 years of professional exertlon and
daily companionship, this assurance of
the regard OF my brethren and my peo-
PIE Is lDSA 6NoICiOA. AAAN
inmates the remembrance OF the past
and brightens the anticipation OF the
future. In the 80 years the circle,
enIarging as they passed, has known
many aloosened hand, many missing
face. Yet the ties of youth and Of ad-
b vancing age remained fact unbroken,
Z holding the past, the present an the
future in an indlssoluble bond.
When leaving the whispering pines
and hundred-arbored shores OF my
native state, cast my lot with the
busy denizens of the rising city OF the
Imperial West, the members OF the
supreme Court of Illinois were Scates
aud Skinner speedily followed by
Breeze and Walker) and Cston-Caton
the master of the Chicago bar, who has
not yet ceased to enjoy the
Gladstone LIGHT OF THAT JURISPRUDENCE
whose foundation he did so much to
lay deep and broad for the building Of
prosperity. Freat had shortly before
transferred his distinguished services
from the State to the Federal Court
and Trumbull, whom We welcome here
in the full tide of successful practice
had but just entered upon his great
career in the National Senate, having
whose remarkable abilities had already
made his name a household word.
Manniere, who died all too early for his
fame. graced the circuit bench, and the
astute and logical John NJ. Wilson
adorned the court of common pleas;
while PAYNE Freer discharged to en-
tire satisfaction the duties of sole
master IN chancery of Cook County.
Mr.. Justice Mclean, VINO had been
Postmaster General under Monroe aud
appointed to the Supreme Court by
l. Jackson, was our circuit judge,
4 and the beloved friend who
has honored Us by presiding
on this occasion (Drummond) had
for several wears has been informing
the country through the decisions of a
United States court for the northern
district of Illinois that ju 1icial capacity
was not confined to that part of the
country east of the Allegheny
Mountains.E Long may he be spared IN
his we'll earned retirement to find that
'As evening" twilight fades away,
The sky is filed with stars invisible by
day
In our courts appeared from outside
the county, such accomplished LAWYERS
as Abraham Lincoln, Archibald Will
liams, Or William II. Browning, James
f. Noy. n. Il. Purple. Charles A
Lawrence, Leonard Sweet and host o.
others, wnile
OUR LOCAL BAR
was represented by such men as Brock.
with and Arnold, Blodgett and McAllis.
ter, and Hitchcock, and Tom Hoyne
and Sam Fuller, ana Kales, anc
Walker, and Sexton, and Tuley, anc
Anthony, and McCagg, and a httlt
later Jewett and Arlington, and Goudy
and a year and-but l can't go on; the
list would embrace substantially the
role of the bar, for fighting was hot
Every man seemed to be little corpo-
ii -. ion rr,inor annnranu of fhOn hit