New-York tribune., 1890-01-29
ANOTHER BIG CENTENNIAL.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR CELEBRATING THE ONE
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGAN
IzATIoN OF THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT.

Preparations are now almost completed for
the celebration next week of the centennial
OF the organization of the Supreme Court
Of the United States. The arrangements are
now in charge of Executive Committe, OF
which Grover Cleveland is chairman. and Of Com
mittee Of One Hundred. of which William H. ArnouX
is chairman and William b. HOrnblower secretary.
There is also a Cooperating Committee from the
American Bar Association. of which David Dudley
Field is chairman and Charles Henry Butler secretary,
and from the New-York Bar Association. OF which
Clifford A. Hand is secretary. Among the sub-com-
mittees is that on Finance OF which Joseph Larocque Is
chairman; that Oh Entertainments. of which James
c. Carter is chairman, and that on Commemorative
Exercises, of which Robert Sewell is chairman.
Chief Justice Fuller and all the Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court will attend in body, and VIII
come in special train from Washington on FEBRUARY
3. President Harrison and most Of the Cabinet VIII
also he present Governor Hill and all the judges Of
both divisions of the Court of Appeals will also attend
The exercises on the morning of February VIII be
in the Metropolitan opera House. and the speakers
will he President Cleveland, who will preside Judge
Arnoux william Allen Butler Henry Hitchcock, OF
St. Louis; Thomas J. Semmes, OF Ncw-Orleans; ex-
Minister E. j. Phelps, and President Harrison.
On the same evening, Tuesday, there will be a
banouet in the Lenox Lyceum, Fifty ninth-st and
Madison-ave, which is in charge of a special COM
mittee on banquet consisting of William S. opdyke,
Samuel A. Blatchford and Charles Henry Butler.
Covers will be laid for 500 people, thus making
the banquet one of the largest given in this city
At the guests table will be seated Mr. Carter who
will preside; the President and exPresidents of the
United States Chief Justice and Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court, Governor Hill, Mayor Grant,
the speakers at the morning exercises and the pres
dents Of the bar associations.
On Wednesday evening the New-York City Bar
Association will give reception to the supreme Court
The arrangements are placed In the
hands OF committee consisting of Fred
eric r. Coudert Clifford A. Hand, f. Ellery
Anderson, Austin G.. Fox and William e.. Wilson.
This reception will conclude the celebration and the
official party will return to Washington on special
train on the following day.
Among those who have accepted invitations, besides
the official party from Washington, are William
Strong, exAssociate Justice of the supreme Court
J. C. Bancroft Davis, j. H. Mckinney, Vice President
Norton about thirty United states District and Circuit
Court Judges, about fifty Judges of the Courts of
Appeal of the different states. and al the presiding
Judges of the different departments of the supreme
Court of the state of NewYOrk
Beyond doubt this will be the largest gathering of
iudres ever seen i'm this country. Tickets to the
banquet will be issued application to members Of the
New-York State Bar Association. American Bar AsSo-
citation and New-Yorl City Bar Association, on the
payment of $40 each