Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-11
AN ABLE JURIST STRICKEN,
Justice Samuel F. Miller Paraiyzed-
A Long and Useful Life.

The news Of the paralysis Of Justice Samuel
+. Miller of the United States Supreme Court,
made known yesterday afternoon only through
the MEDIUM Of The STAR. was most surprising
TO the friends OF the aged and senior associate
justice. There were no threatening symptoms,
and the only premonition felt came but
minute in advance Of the stroke. Tho
justice felt unusually we'll yesterday morning
and gave evidence Of his satisfactory condition
by walking from his homo OH Massac husetts
avenue to the Ebbtt House, then feeling come
what tired he boarded u Metropolitan car and
proceeded to the Capitol After looking over
some legal papers he entered Clerk McKen-
| neys Office and enjoyed lengthy and humor-
Gus chat with several of the employees.
Inc marshals Office was also visited
and then the justice walked out to a
l4th street car and started for home
IL was just after alighting from tho carat
Thomas Circle and within $50 feet of his
home-that the old gentleman fell. stricken
with paralysis. He was at once conveyed to
ms nome, where he was attended to by Drs. n.
.. Lincoln and Cook Both of these gentle
men saw the gravity Of the case and neither of
mem held out any hope of recovery. Shortly
after . O'Clock there was a change for the
worse. following a cerebral hemorrhage. The
left side of the Justice was completely par
| alyzed-
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER
Samuel T. Miller comes Of PENNSYLVANIA
stock. His father emigrated from Reading in
1879 to Richmond Ky, where the future Justice
of the Supreme Court was born on April 5. 1916.
His mother was the daughter of parents who
mad removed to kentucky from North Carolina
before her birth. His early years were spent
upon farm, but the drudgery of agriculture
was a source of discomfort to him, and employ
ment In drug store gave him the opportunity
Tor reading medicine. He graduated in the
medical department of Pennsylvania University
when twenty-five years of age. and entered
upon the practice of medicine in Knox county.
by. He had been married in the meantime,
and had begun the study of the law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1917
His political career dates from that time A
member of the wing party he was unable to
follow it in Kentucky into its support Of slavery
aud he quilted that state in 1850 to settle in
keokuk. Iowa. His convictions logically car
ricd him into the republican ranks, and he was
g supporter OF Gen. Fremont for the presi-
dency as far back as 1856 In 1862 President
Lincoln appointed Mr.. Miller as associate JUS
tico OF the Supreme Court and he is today the
sole remaining appointee of Sir. Lincoln OH
the bench except Justice Field.
Judge Mllier's services upon tho Supreme
bench have been various and i,nportant He
was the writer OF the opinion in the New Or
leans slaughter house cases, which settled tho
overruilng power of the thirteenth. fourteenth
anu uItecutn amendments To the Constitution
and which has never been overrulcd or gu es-
toned since its delivery.
Whether asserting the jurisdiction in admir-
atty over water navigation from the sea- or de-
nying to state the right to impose tax upon
passengers through its territory or repud,atiny
the liability of the government upon ne gotiabIe
contracts i'll the hands of bona fide purchasers,
where the law had restrained the authority of
the officer to make snch contracts or asserting
the right OF Congress to regulate railroad
transportation when it extends to moro than
one state. or marking the limit between the
personal rights of a citizen and the Legislative
power OF state. or, as i'll the Kilbourn and
thompson case, indicating such rights from
the usurping authority of Congress, Or in the
electoral commission that gave the presidency
to Mr.. Hayes, severing the adoption CT the
rule that no evidence would be considered ex.
ccpt that submitted to the commission by the
two houses OF Congress III joint convention-in
each and all Of these cases clearness of state.
ment and power of reasoning have marked
Judge Miller as cminentiy qualified for the
place to which he was called by President Lin
coin.
Judge Miller has been on tho bench nearly
twenty eight years-longer than any other
member OF the present Supreme Cortland
has written moro opinions Of the court than
any judge. living or dead and more opinions
on the construction of the Constitution than
any judge who ever sat III the court His repu-
tatlon us a soundand learned jurist has steadily
grown.