Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-20

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comes from one of the large sugar section!
| and is said to be one of the most vigorou.
opponents to changing the sugar schedule
OF the tariff. The appointment to succeed
Senator White will be operative but few
months, as the Louisiana legislature meets
in May.
1t will have the unusual task of filling
three senatorial terms. The first will bt
to name II candidate for the uneXpireG
term of Senator Gibson, for which the gov
ernor appointed Senator Gallery. The next
Will be to name candidate for the full
term after March, 1895. The third will bi
to name successor to Senator White
Practically, therefore, there are three sen
atOrships to be assigned at that time
Mr.. Blanchard's congressional associates
considered his choice as senator certain
and they everywhere greeted him as 'Seu
ator Blanchard. When Representative
Boatner of Louisiana was asked half an
hour after the nomination who was the
strongest candidate for Senator Whites
seat, he replied that in his opinion Repre-.
sentative Blanchard stood the best chance
for the succession.
Chief Justice Fuller was at the state de,
partment in consultation with Secretary
Gresham when the news of the nomination
and confirmation of Senator White reached
him.
The chief justice was very much pleased
both at the character of the apoointm
and at the prospect that when the supreme
court meets again on March 5 it will be
with a full beach, thus enabling the tribu-
nal to pass upon some very important cases
which have been held in allegiance in order
that their decisions should have the weight
of the recorded opinions of all of the JUS
tees.
Justice Whites Career.
Edward Douglass White will take his
seat on the supreme bench as the youngest
of the justices, and with the exception of
Justices Field and Harlan he will have en-
tered at an earlier period in life than any
of the other justices and will have the ex-
ceptionally long term of 81 years to serve
before retirement. lie was born in the
parish of La Fourche, La, aud was IS
years of age last November. He is n man
of striking physical characteristics-tall
and robust, of rather forid complexion,
high forehead, ii square, firm chin and
mouth, marked by character and decision.
His movements are quick, without show
of nervousness, and Detray the great ener-
gy which is one of the characteristics of
the man.
Justice White was educated ut St Mary's,
near f.mmetSDurS, Md, at the Jesuit col
lege in New Orleans and finally at George
town college, District of Columbia. He is
a CathOlic-tEu only one on the supreme
bench at preSent-and with the exception
of Chief Justice Taley he will be probably
the only Catholic who ever sat on the SUI
preme bench. At least that is the recollec-
ton of some of the oldest practitioners be-
fore the court. He entered the Confederate
army and after the war was admitted to
the bar by the Louisiana supreme court
and practiccd his profession during the
troubled years following the reconstruction
period. In 1874 he began his political ex-
perience as state senator. LapSing into
the law again, he became associate justice
of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1873
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 I, 1891
BY his appointment he will leave a vacan-
Cy of full two years in his senatorial term.
Since he has been III the United States
senate Mr.. White has earned high repu-
tation. Since the tariff bill has been be
fore the senate finance committee Senator
White has been making most determined
effort to secure the imposition of Il tax on
sugar, and beyond doubt his appointment
to the supreme bench will prove to be Il
loss to his state interest 5 in this particular.
The new justice is a bachelor at present,
but there is Il we'll defined rumor atloat
that before the year expires he will marry
n we'll known society lady who has been a
brilliant figure in Washington.