Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-01-24
JUSTICE LAMAR is DEAD
HE DIED AT MACON. GA LAST
NIGHT.
The House and Senate Adjourn
Out of Respect to the Memory of
the Ex-COnfederate ana Jurist-
His Death was Sudden.

MACON, Ga, Jan. 24.-Justice Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Lamar died here
at $50 o'clock last evening of Bright's
disease. His death was sudden. for al
though he has been ailng for some time,
he appeared to be gradually gaining in
health yesterday.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Jan. 24.-When
the United States Supreme court met as
usual at noon today the chair between
Justices Gray and Brown, draped IN
mourning, again told the story that, be-
tween the adjournment of court yester-
day evening and its reassembling, there
had passed away one of it's members.
The death of Justice Lamar was not
startling to his associates, for they had
| realized w en- he left the CITY for the
South, that. in all probability, would
not resume his seat on the bench, yet it
! was a shock to them, for the ast.news
| they had had from him was to the effect
that he was improving and getting
| along quite nicely.
| The bar and the audience quarters of
the court were filled this morning when
the Justices filed into their places and
court opened. Chief Justice Fuller an
nounced Justice Lamar's death in a few
words. saying:
| at again becomes my melancholy duty
to announce the death of a member of
| this court. Justice Lamar died at Macon,
Ca, last evening at fifty minutes past
eight. No business will be transacted. L.
Coult will adjourn until Monday next. "
The court crier at once declared the
court adjourned. The justices, with few
exceptions, will attend the funeral OF
Lamar. Marshal Wright has telegraph
ed to Macon, Georgia. to ascertain when
and where the funeral services and inter
ment will take place, and will make ar
rangements for the members of the court
to attend.
Justice Field. who is in feeble health
and perhaps some other of the justices
will remain here, but the majority of the
court will make the trip.
The House refused to agree to the mo
tion to take up the sundry civil bill. Their
as a mark of respect to the memory o
the late Justice Lamar, the House ad
journed.
In the Senate the Vice President laic
before the Senate a communication from
Chief Justice Fuller, announcing thu
death of Justice Lamar. After eulogis
tic remarks By Senators Waltham ant
Gordon, on motion of Mr.. Wilson, rep.
Ia, the Senate. as mark of respect tt
the late Justice. adjourned.
Il L. O. c. Lamar, son of the noted juris
, of the same name, was born in Putnam
county, Georgia. Sept. 1, 1925. He re
ceived part of his education at Oxforc
Miss, but graduated at Emory college
Georgia. studied law in Macon and wa
admitted to the bar in 1S47. For
time he was professor of mathematics
e the University of Mississippi In 1S5
1 he resumed the practice of law in Gov
, ington, Georgia. was elected to the Les
), islature from there i'll 1853 and served i
the National Congress from 1857 t
i 1860. when he resigned to enter the s.
n cession convention of his State. II
h enterered the Confederate army, but h
r health failed him. and he resigned. A
the close of the war he returned to Mi
e sissippi. was elected to Congress in 1877:
II reelected in 1874, and then to the SCI
n ate in 1877. In March 5, 1885, he b
,. came Secretary of the Interior in Pres
4 dent Cleveland's cabinet, and in 1SS
e was appointed Justice of the Supren
J. Court by President Cleveland. Preside'
Harrison now has the opportunity
l. appointing his successor.