The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-02-20

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SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHITE.
Hornblower and Peckham, and much |
time devoted to than 10y the senate com J
mittee ON judiciary, 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, had robbed itself of an esteemed
member, and had given the supreme court
the one man necessary to make a full
bench
The nomination was received through
Private Secretary Pruden shortly before 3
o'clock, while Senator Daniel was engaged
in speech ON the Hawaiian question.
Soon after its receipt Senator Gallery, Mr..
Whites colleague, was seen to make his
way between the desks to seat immedi-
ately joining the desk from which Mr.
Daniel spoke, and as soon as the latter,
who was uniformed of the fact that the
nomination had been received. paused for
a moment MIR. CalIery informed him of
what had Isu.pired Heimmediately an
nOuucad a. willingness to suspend, and
upon his duug SO Mr.. Caffery moved an
executive session.
| The senate had been sitting behind
closed doors less than half an hour when
| it became known that the motion to con-
| firm without reference had carried with
| out opposition There was no show of OPP
position to proceeding in this manner, and
the vote was unanimously and heartily in
favor of confirmation. The proceedings
prior to the casting of the vote consisted
entirely of the delivering of eulogistic
speeches 10y members of the senate iudic-
iary committee and by Senator Gallery.
There We're two speeches made by Demo
cratic members of the committee, and two
by the Republican, Senators Pugh and
Hill speaking for the Democratic side and
Senators Hoar and Teller for the Republi-
can. All the speeches We're congratula-
tory both to the president and Mr. White,
and the tenor of all that was said indi-
Gated a great feeling of relief that the ,e-
lection had proved to be one to render it
.nO longer necessary to continue the contest
which has been a somewhat distrusting
feature for tine past three or four months
While the senate acted promptly and
without hesitation upon the nomination
Iit is stiu "a fact that it was great sur
prise at the Capitol. The president had
said ON Saturday that he would go outside
of New York 10 make a selection in view
of ths rejection of tine two names sent
from chat state, hui il had been supposed
up to the lu-J minute that he would find a
suitable man within the confines of the
second judicial circuit from which the
late judge Hlatchford, whose successor he
was to appoint, had been chosen.
Gradually during the afternoon the story
leading up to the nomination was un-
folded. Senators White and Caffery were
- sent for Sunday evening, and when they
arrived at the White House the president
made known the purpose of his invitation
] for a conference. Mr.. White, while eX-
pressing a deep sense of the obligation
J was much surprised, and was doubtful as
to whether he should accept He asked
the president for time TO consider, and al
though heaud his colleague remained with
the president until II o'clock, he left with
out giving his assent Yesterday morning
p when he and Mr., Gallery again called al
the Executive Mansion he was still unabl,
to say positively that he preferred the Of
flee to that of senator, and it was not unit
4 the last minute before his departure tha
p lac gave his assent.
=. Itis understood that at this conference
r the president simply announced that M
had definitely determined to go outside o
New York for q man TO fill the Office ant
i'm investigating the question had discoy
y cred that none of the eleven southern
d states of Maryland, Virginia, West Vir
3 ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
IS Georgia Florida, Alabama, Louisiana
d, Mississippi and Texas, constituting tn
e fourth and fifth circuits, had a representa-
% tive ON the supreme bench or had had a
any time since the war except for the brie
b time that Justice Lamar was a member O
Q the supreme court, He also took into aC
count the fact that civil law is the metho
Al of practice in Louisiana, and that Senate
w White is considered a very able eXpOneu
of thqt system The selection leaves tn
ar second and fourth circuits without repr,
se scut3tou, while the third circuit has thre,
I'd Edward Douglass White was born i'm l.,
fourghe, La, in 1915, and was educated q
's Mount St. Marys, in the Jesuit college j
- New Orleans, and at Georgetown colleg
~ I'm the District of Columbia. He served j
w the Confederate army i'm the war, and wa
~ admitted TO the bar i'm 1858. In 1874 he Wa
" elected a state senator, and in 1915 he wa
"a appointed associate justice of the suprem
~ court of Louisiana. He took his seat
T. the United States senate in 1871, haNln
~ been elected to succeed James IS. Eustl
His chief effort In the senate was am ela
- crate speech against the Hatch auti-OptiC
- bill, which was considered "A very strOI
u constitutional argument.
5o The general expression of opinion anon
~ public men is one of satisfaction over u
h, selection. Telegrams of congratulate
no. from all sections of the country are pou
"a ing in ON the new justice, and amoRg b
n senatorial colleagues there Is great I
ioicing