Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-02-07
ALWAYS THE FAVORITE.
Enthusiastic Reception Given ENPreS-
ident Cleveland i'll New York.
Address at the Centenary Celebration
of the Federal Judiciary.
Banquet in the Evening Pronounced a
Most Elegant Affair.

| the last few days at Washington dimmed
| considerably the celebration of the cen
tennial of the federal judiciary that was
| lnaugurated this morning. The attend
| ance at the Metropolitan opera house was
| the most noted that ever filed that mag
nihcent building. The interior of the
| building was elahorately decorated. On
the right of the stage in the front row
we've seated the members of the
| United States supreme court.
| Others seated ON the stage in
cluded ex-President Cleveland, ex-Justice
| VIM. Strong, Sen. EvartS. T. Semmes. of
New Orleans; Gen. sherman, Noah Davis,
| Chauncey NJ. Depew, w. W. AStor, Chas.
| ?. Daley, and David Dudley Field.
! When ex-PreSident Cleveland, who was
chairman. stepped forward to open the
meeting it was some minutes before ne
| could speak, because of the applause.
| Bowling his Acknowledgements and express
| sing his appreciation of the generous wei
come accorded him. Mr.. Cleveland adj
| dressed them, the following being a brief
synopsis:
We are accustomed to express on every
| fit occasion our reverence for the virtue and
patriotism in which the foundations of our
| Republic were laid and to rejoice in the
! blessings vouchsafed to us under free in
stitutionS. Thus we have lately celebrated
| with becoming enthusiasm, the centen-
nials of the completion of our Constitution
and the inauguration of our first PreSi-
I dent
To-day we have assembled to comment
| crate an event connected with our begin
ming as people. which more than any
| other gave safety and the promise of per
! petuity to the American plan of govern
ment. and which more than any other,
| happily illustrated the wisdom and en-
| lightened foresight of those who designed
our national structure
In the work of creating our Nation. the
! elements of free government were sup
| piled by concessions of sovereign states,
| by surrender of accustomed rights, and by
the inspiration of pure and disinterested
patriotism If from these elements there
had not been evolved that feature in our
| federal system, which is our theme to-day,
the structure might have been fair to look
upon and might have presented a semb-
lance of solidity and strength; but it would
! have been only a SembanCe: and the
| completed edltce would have had
within its foundations, the inhrmity of
| decay and ruin.
| 1t must be admitted that it is hardly
within the power of human language, so
| to compass diverse interests and claims
within the lines of a written constitution,
| as to free it entirely from disputes of con-
| structiOn: and certainly diverse Construc-
| tions were apt to lurk in the diction of
a constitution declared by the President of
| the Convention which formulated it, to be
''the result of a spirit of amity and of that
mutual Difference and concession which
the peculiarity of our political situation
rendered indispensable. ="
| 1t Is fairly plain and palpable, both
| from reason and review of events in our
! history, that without an arbiter to determ-
Inc finally and conclusively, the rights and
! duties embraced in the language of the
| Constitution. the union OF states and the
! lite of the American Nation must have
been precarions and disappointing. In
deed, there could hardly have been we'll
grounded hope that they would long sur
vive the Interpretation of the National
! Compact by every partyupon whom 1t rest
ed, and the lnsIstence of each to the last eX-
tremlty. upon such an Interpretation as
would secure coveted rights and benefits
and absOlve from irksOme duties and obli
cations.
In the creation of the world, the earth
was without form and void and darkness
was upon the face Of the deep, until
God said, Let there be light, and there was
light.
In the creation of the new Nation, our
free institutions were without the form
and symmetry of strength, and the dark
ness of hOpelessness broOded over the as
pirations of our people, until light in the
Temple of Justice and Law, gathered from
the Divine Fountain of Light, ilumined
the work of the fathers Of the Republic.
On this centennial day we will devOutly
thank Heaven for the revelation to those
who formed our government, of this source
of strength and light, and for the inspira-
tion of disinterested patriotism and con-
secrated devotion which established the tri-
bunal which we to-day commemorate.
Our fathers had sacrificed much to be
free. Above all things they desired free
dom to be absolutely secured to themselves
and their posterity. And yet with all
their enthusiasm for that sentiment, they
were willing to refer to the tribunal which
they devised, all questions arising under
their newly formed Constitution, affecting
the freedom and the protection and safety
of the citizen. Though bitter experience
had taught them that the Instrumental
| ties of government might trespass upon
| freedom, and though they had learned in
| a hard school the cost of the struggle to
wrest liberty from the grasp of power,
they refused, in the solemn work they had
in hand, to take counsel of undue fear or
distracting perturbation; and they calmly
| and deliberately established as a function
of their government, a check upon un-
authorized freedom and a restraint upon
dangerous liberty. Their attachment and
allegiance to the sovereignty of their
states were warm and unfaltering; but
these did not prevent them from contrib
uting a fraction Of that sovereignty to the
creation of Court which should guard
and protect their new nation and save and
perpetuate government which should in
all time to come bless an independent peo-
pie.
| deem myself highly honored by the
| part assigned to me in these cOmmemor-
! ative exercises. As In eloquent and fitting
terms we shall be led by those chosen to
address US. to the contemplation of the
history Of that august tribunal organized
one hundred years ago; as the lives and
services Of those who In the past Rave pre-
| sided over its councils are rehearsed to US
as our love and veneration for our fellow
| countrymen who now fill It's high and
sacred places are quickened; and as we are
| reminded of the manner in which our
| National Court has at all times illustrated
the strength and benefcence of free insti-
tutions, let US be glad in the possession Of
this rich heritage Of American citizenship.
and gratefully appreciate the wisdom and
patriotism Of those who gave to Us the
! Supreme Court Of the United States
Rev Dr. Morgan Dix, of Trinity church,
followined with an invocation.
Ex-Judge William Harnoux, chairman
Of the judiciary centennial committee of
the New York state bar association. next
delivered brief address Of welcome TO the
court
The principal address of the day by the
veteran lawyer, William Allen Butler, was
entitled The Origin of the Supreme
/ Court of the United States, and Its Place
In the Constitution. It was frequently
applauded.
| Mr.. Butler, In opening said:
The new order OF things established by
| the federal constitution, adopted by the
convention September II, 1851, came
very gradually into being. The ratifca-
! ton By eleven Of the thirteen states was
/ not completed until July, 1788. The first
| congress summoned to meet In New York,
as the seat Of government, On the 4th Of
/ March, 1789, did not convene until the
beginning Of April, when. after counting
| the votes of the electoral colleges, IL de-
| clared Washington the president-elect
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