The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-01-18
Mr.. LAMAR coNFIRMED.

Mr.. LAMAR CONFIRMED.
| Riddleberaer and Two Republican
/ senators Vote for Him.
WAsnfxe1ox. d. e., Jan iG.--L. 2. G. La
mar was confirmed Justice Of the United
States Supreme Court this afternoon, by a
vote of 81 to 2s. Senators Stanford. Of Cali
foania, Stewart. Of Nevada and Riddlcbcrgcr,
of Virginia, voting with the Democrats.
The full vote for Lamar was as follows
Bate. Berry, Beck, Brown Butler, Blosigett.,
Cockrcll, Coke. CALL Colquiit, Daniel, Faulk-
ner, George Gray, German, Harris, Haup-
ton. Jones Ark, Morgan, Mcpherson, Pugh,
Riddlcberger, Regain, Stanford, salisbury,
Stewart, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees,,
walthall, Wilson, lsId) )-32
Those who voted against confirmation
were: Ingalls,, Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bow
| en-, Chase. Cameron. cullom. Dawes, Dolph,
Davis, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye, Farwcll,
Hawley. Hoar, Hale, Hiscock, Mitchell, Pad
dock, Palmer, Piatt, Plumb, Quay, Spooner,
sherman. Stockbridge-2s.
/ The pairs were as follows: Pasco with
Wilson (Iowa), Payne with Morrill,. Ransom
with Chandler Blackburn with Manderson,
Kenna with Sabin, Hearst with Jones New }
Gibson with Teller. Enstis with Sawyer. To-
tai votes case. 60; accounted for by pairs, 10 :.
total vote IN the Senate, 76.
In that distinguished company there was
but one man to stand up for the Presidents
nominee when Elmunds, Eyarts, Sherman,
Hoar, Hawley and Cullom attacked him.
The lone champion was RiddIeberger, who
rose with some difficulty TO say that as an
ex-Confederatc himself lie could no, sit si-
lent and hear Mr. Lamar assailed upon that
ground.
Senator Edmunds, as chairman of the Ju-
dietary Committee, spoke. He put hypo-
thetical case Suppose, said he, g that
Mr. Lamar had been on the Supreme Bench
in 1861 and had violated his oath and gone
into the Confederacy, would his name now
be up for consideration for denomination p
He argued from Mr.. Lamars record that lie
would nave done so il he had been on the
bench; that his opinions upon constitution
al questions would have led him 10 do so,
and that now, with bis opinions unchanged
and his acts of rebellion unrepented, his
words of support and defense of rebellion re
iterated, his name is presented 10 the Senate
and the Senate is asked to Join in cleraring
him to the bench. Senator .Edmunds also
said his age is disqualification, and called
the attention of the Senate to the fact that
Mr.. Lamar had no previous training on the
bench.
Senator Evarts spoke very earnestly upon
the dignity and importance of the office with
its limited membership, its life tenure, its
ultimate authority, and especially its author
ity to eonstrue and interpret the very Con-
stituiion itself, and insisted that the man
who was named To the Senate for its con
currence in his appointment TO such an of
flee should be not only free from the dis
qualifications which had been urged against
Mr. Lamar, but that he should have posi-
tive and indubitable qualifications for its
high duties.
TWO OPINIONS OF ONO LEGISLATORS.
Senator Sherman went over portion of
the ground covered by Senator Edmunds
and cited also the fact that Mr. Lamar had
never had case before the Supreme Court;
that lie had never been admitted 10 practice
even before the Supreme Court of his own
State. He had once been professor of law
in an obscure Mississippi college, but had
not even given that much attention to legal
subjects for many years. He had left his
desk. from which he was expounding law
to school boys, to enter the army of the
Confederaey, and now the President asked
the Senate TO join in recalling him to the
profession and TO place him in the highest
judicial office, and in many respects the
most important office in the Government.
Senator Sherman also read the resolutions
passed by the Ohio Legislature instructing
the Senators from that State to vote against
confirmation and said that whatever course
his colleague might see lit to take he should
respect the wishes of a body which stood
closer to tho people than any Senator.
This brought senator Payne 10 his feet
long enough TO say that however able the
Ohio Legislature might be on mattersof
State legislation, upon question of this sort
than the dictation of partisan majority of
that body,
Tnen the roll was called, and the silent
supporters of the nomination picked up the
fragments of their candidate and pasted him
together into Judge with the great fIvorite
Democratic arsument-the brute logic of a
majority vote.