Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-04-07
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD.
EULOGIES ON STANLEY MATTHEWS.
Resolutions Adopted by the Bar Of the United
States Supreme Court.
SENATOR EDMUNDS SPEECH.
Eloquent Addresses by Ex-Governor HOadly,
Of Ohio, and Others.

WASHINGTON, April The meetirg
of the Bar Of the United States Supreme
Ccsrt to-day, to take action upon tie
death of the late Justice Stanley Matthews,
wac inteIfered with By prob bly, the worst
sscrm of The season, and in consequence
the attendance was small. Among those
present were Senator Edmurdsaud Evart0.
ex-senator McDorad, Ger. r D. Massey.
ex' Governor Hoaely, ex-So icitor General
GOO0e, Solicitor General jerks, Geo. Eopa
HuutooD, Assietsnt Attorney General
Msury, ]. a. J. G esswell, w c. P. Breck-
enridge, George Tichnor Curtis, w. 3.
Flippen, VIM. Pinkney Whyts, Judge
Stevenson Burke aud j. W. Ashton SEN
atOr Evsrts, chairman OF the preliminary
meeting held few days ago, called the
meeting 20 order, snd Senator Eimunds.
Tor the committee Appointed at that time,
submitted the following resolutions for
considerations
ResOlred That the Bar OF the Supreme
Court of the United States deeply deplo5e
the decsase Of the late Justice Matthew's,
whereby the country has lo-t sn always
patriotic ard respected cit;zen, alike emf
nent IL his public and p.iva'e career, the
Bar one It's lOng time l-sGers, consp'c-
uoGs % an example Of the best rsls 'ls If
Ouf profess on With the aimi i,trstiop #
Justice, and e Couri itself member
fitted by che aster, temperament, ls,r.-
ing and industry to the place he teld in
tie highest ju icias Il bunal f grett
nation. His neme is rightly en.o.Iei
by those hororec By their cOuntymsn
Resolved, That tbs B'r preesnte to The
family of the departed justice 10 s.rce.e
sympatby end Coz dolence ID ia ir be.etve-
ment
Resolred, That the Attorney General ne
-fquesteu TO present. these resolutions %
the Court Tor such consideration as may be
f..
Resolred, That the Chairman he r quest
ed 20 transmit copy hereof o. Mrs Mat
thews.
Ia supporting motion 10 adopt lhe
resolution, Senator Edmuads spoke at
tone length. He operei with poetic
allusiOn to the fleet Of he sto:m upon The
meeting Nature, be "a d seemed to bs
in sympathy win the mer Orial We cale-
brate 20 day in gloom and eOTow,
but in awhite r0be The spsaker's
first acquaintance with the deceased
wss at the time Of his appearance
before the Electoral Commission in the
room where he was speaking, in the winter
of 1867. His speech at that time, the
speaker said, ras frst end foremost of
strictly legal and co constitutional arguments
which ought to nave and did effect tie
judgment o. these TO whom il was address
ed. To his career il the S nste, said Mr..
E lmunds, Mr. Matthews brought char
acter, capacity, learning, patience, a
self.posseesion and mastery very rare IN
deed. ID that career be illustrated kind
nese, a generosity, faith peculiarly char
acteristic of him, and it was these charac-
teristics, he said, which led him into $3.50
cations in which the cllumny sought 20
be attached 20 lis name by the newspaper
press, had it's foundation.
From that career, continued S'nator
he was nominated 20 place on
he bench OF this cOlrt, with other Sena-
.ors. The speaker said he did not consider
i fit because of Mr. Mstthew's views upon
sceat public questions for him 10 like that
5lsce. Bat he was confirmed and entered
1p0n the discharge Of his duties.
His service upon the bench and mis- de-
,isiOns as \ Judge, justified the President
a insisting upon big domination and
howed that the opposition thereto was our
Mistake and the country's. In conclusion
senator Edmunds had a warm, almost af-
ectionate. tribute to The deceased in his
;ersonal and family relations, in which the
peaker had found him pleasant, lOya6ie
nd true. On his grave, the speaker said,
Il laid the richest tribute his heart could
originate and his lips utter.
Ex-Governor Hoadley folloTed, speak
ng from a close persocal knowledge and
# more than forty years, be-
ginning when they were students together
a tie Office of Salmon p. Chase. He
poke OF the great ardor of his dead friend
II law. letters and friendship AZ the strik-
ng characteristics OF his nature. The
'nly error in life with which Justice Mat
heYs could have charged himself, in the
memory of the speaker, was due 10 the
rdor with which he prosecuted his duties
8 public officer.
Speeches were alsO made by General Z.
}. Mussey, W. D. Flippep, w. O. Breck-
nridge, Ex-senator Mcdonald, and Sena-
Or EYarts. The resolutions were adopted,
I'D Tho -, ,aatin0 al iourued