The sun., 1894-02-22
the silver seigniorage

subject before next saturday.
Washington, Feb. 2O.-The president
to-day seEt to the senate the nomination
of Senator Edward D. White of Louisi-
ana to. be an associate justice of the
Urited States supreme court, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice
Blatchford. The senate had hardly time
10 recover from the surprise which the
1 cmination had caused when the con-
frmation was announced. While months
had been spent in consideration of the
nominations of Messrs. Hornblower and
Peckham, and much time devoted to
them by the senate committee on ju-
dietary, the name of Mr.. White was not
referred to the committee at all, and in
less than an hour after the nomination
had been received the senate had placed
its seal of approval upon the selection
and robbed itself of an esteemed member
and had given the supreme court the one
man necessary to make a full bench.
Edward Douglas White will take his scat
on the supreme bench as the youngest
of the justices, and with the exception
of Justices Field and Harlan. he will
have entered at an earlier period in life
ttan any of the other justices, and will
have the exceptionally long term of twen-
ty-one years to serve before retirement
He was born in the parish of La
Fourche, La, I'd was fortX-eight years
of age last November. He was educated
at Mount st. Mary's, near Emmetsburg,
Nd, at the Jesuit college in New Or
leans, and finally at Georgetown college,
District of Columbia. He entered the
Confederate army, and after the war
was admitted to the bar by the Louisi-
ana supreme court, and practiced his pro-
fession during the troubled years which
followed the reconstruction period. In
1874 he began his political experience as
a state senator, lapsing into the law
again he became associate justice of the
supreme court of Louisiana in 1878, but
again turning to political pursuits, he
was elected to the United States senate
to succeed Senator Eustis, at present
minister to France, taking his seat March
4, 1891. By his appointment to-day he
will leave a vacancy of full two years ia
his senatorial term. The new justice is
a bachelor at present but there is a
well defined rumor afoat that before the
year expires he will espoUse well known
society woman who has been a brilliant
figure in Washington.
The session of the senate was un-
usually devoid of interest Senator Hale
PRESENTED resolution to investigate GER
tSin printing contracts, but the matter
did not even create A discussion in the
serate, although the resolution was
adopted. Senator Daniel opened his argu-
rnent in support of the administration in
the Hawaiian natter, and will conclude
t morrow.
he filibuster over the silver bill in
the house continued to-day, and an ad-
journment was had to give the Democrats
an opportunity to consider the situation
in caucus. An order arresting absentses
was passed
The success of the filibuster against
the Bland silver seigniorage bill, which
has blocked proceedings in the house for
five days, forced the Democratic advo-
Gates of the measure to inv oke the decree
of caucus. There We're present 130
Democrats, but not a Democratic member
of the New York delegation, all of whom
have Joined the obstructive movement,
was present, nor in fact any of the 9TH
ers who joined hands with them. A
resolution was unanimously adopted that
all Democrats record their votes either for
or against the measure This will bring
the bill to a vote tomorrow in all proba-
bility.