The Washington critic., 1890-02-03

elected member Of the Virginia Lugis.
laturc lie was killed by lightning in
Richmond. Volumes have been writ
ten Of Justice Marshall, and 1t has been
said Of him, 'none but himself can be
his parallel His intimate friend on
the bench, Judge Story, wrote his life
and also the following to be inscribed
on q cenataph.
"To Marshall reared the great the good,
the wise,
Born for all ages, honorcd in all skies"
There is much of interest in the ca
recr Of Roger b. Taney who succeeded
Marshall as Chief Justice. lie was
born in Calvert County, Maryland, in
lii1, Of Welsh ancestry. Although his
people were Catholics, he was educated
at Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa.
He became the leading lawyer of Balti-
more and was appointed Attorney Gen.
eral by jackson. He exchanged this
for The Treasury portfolio but the Sen
ate refused to confirm. Then Jackson
appointed him an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court. The Senate again
refused confirmation and Taney went
back to Baltimore. His fellow citizens
received him with triumphal process
SION anu DunuucJ.
When a short time later Chief jus
tice Marshall died. the stubborn aud
persistent Jackson sent in the name of
Roger B. Tancy to be Chief Justice
Again the autocratic Senate objected
and consideration of the appointment
was indefinitely postponed. However.
a reconsideration resulted in gratifica-
ton. Justice Taney lived through the
exciting years of the war and his decis-
ion in the Drcd.Scott case made him
hated by all Northern men as he was
unquestionably swayed by his Southern
affiliations. He was 90ycars old when
he died and should have retired years
before, as should be done by the older
men now on the bench, who hold on
merely TO retain social position for
their families.
The history of Samuel Portland
Chase, who succeeded Taney. was
succession of ambitious triumphs, and
he died disappointed man because he
did not become President. He was
born and brought up an aristocrat, and
when lad went TO his uncle, Bishop
Philander Chase, the famous Episco-
palian bishop, who founded Kenyon
College, Ohio. In the early days of
the State young Chase studied
law in Cincinnati, and became at once,
not alone a lawyer of distinction, but,
by his marriage and wealth, was an
aristocrat of very dignified manner and
considerable exclusiveness. He went
to the Ohio Legislature, also to Con
gress. after he had been as young
man clerk in the United States
Treasury.
This place had been secured for him
by his uncle, then Senator from New
Hampshire. He warned Chase to get
out OF such place and come back some
day as Secretary of the Treasury
himself, which he did in 1S4S. Chase
was elected United States Senator, then
became Governor of the State and when
! the war began went into Lincoln's Cab
met. He died in 1874 and his body
was in the vault of Rock Creek ceme-
terry until 1887, when Kate Chase, his
famous and,beautiful daughter, had it
removed TO Cincinnati.
Chief Justice Morrison r. Waite was
appointed in 1874 by General Grant
lie was native of Lyme, Connecticut,
and was born in 1916 He graduated
at Yale in 1887 with Senator Evarts and
/ l-NWulu ltC DCOutiC
lawyer in Northwestern Ohio. and in
1850 moved TO the then promising vii
lagc of Toledo.
lie served in the Ohio Legislature
with Senator Payne and helped elect
Chase 10 the U. S. Senate. He was dc.
fcatcd as Whig candidate for Con
gress, and decided to leave politics
alone. He became noted lawyer and
was with his old classmate, Evarts. and
Caleb Cushing appointed on the Coun-
Gil Of Arbitration which met to consider
the Alabama claims at Geneva. He
died two years ago, and was buried al
Toledo. His wife, who was Miss
Amelia Warner, survives him, while
his eldest son is president of the Hook
ing Valley Railway, with his home al
Columbus, Ohio. The appointment of
Chief Justice Fuller and his history is
fresh in the mind Of every reader.
There have been altogether forty-seven
| Associate Justices who have served on
the bench, Justice Brewer being the
last appointee.
FRANCIS 3. GEssNER.