The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-30
some stories of Secretary Gresham.

/ convicted Of a crime and was 10 go 10
/ the penitentlary for two years. Judge
Z Gresham told him that he might 20 home
I Tor three days TO say goOd-by to his father.
/ who was In his last sickness at the time.
The young man was allowed 10 90 with
out a guard, on his promise 10 return 10
De sent t0 the peniteutiary. This tLrnef:
out TO have its cOmical side. At the end
l OF Lne three days the young man returned
! 10 Gresham somewhat Hurried and indi;.-
/ nant He had not understood Gresham
and instead OF coming straight back from
Z ms fathers house he had gone direct to
I the pen tertiary. The warden had refused
I 10 admit him. He had neither permit
Z ment paper with him or anything else
/ which INDICATED his rights TO become Al
inmate Of the prison. and the warden
. chose to look upon him as an impOster
and spuIned him from the door. The
I young man had returned TO report the
/ misconduct OF the warden in refusing TO
/ admit him. He was turned over TO the
! marshal. who with the proper papers.
escorted him 10 the penitentiary, where he
! was promptly and properly admitted. Oh
another occasion, when a Grand Army
man, whom Gresham knew, was founs
guilty before his court % robbing the
\ mail, Gresham told him that he might
go home and spend the night with his
/ family. The next day he was to return
I ana receive sentence. The man faithfully
/ returned and was sentenced to prison for
/ two years. GTtsham subsequently seTcd
/ a petition for the mans pardon and he
/ W IS released after serving year
! On still another occasion Gresham dis
played his quick apprehension a. to what
was going on about him. A trial was in
progress before him. Lands. his present
/ private secretary, was one of the attorneys
engaged. Right in the midst of this trial
there came into the court room lawyer
I OF high standing and who once held a
very high position in the department of
justice at Washington. He was guardian
al Item for couple of millionaire chill
/ drcn, the older of the two being less than
/ ten years of age He asked permission of
/ Lands and the other attorneys engaged
with the trial then going forward TO inter-
] hrrr ar7f 10 e,fd hat Hs
/ wanted to get an order from the court in
| the guardianship matter permitting him TO
sell certain property. II was purely for
| many, ne said and II would only take
moment. He passed up the papers to
/ Judge Gresham, but something had served
| to arouse that jurist's Suspicion Instead
OF hastily making the order Judge Ores
ham sat coolly back and for twenty min
utes read the papers in the
he a turned men 70 me was auvo through ugh
asked: Have you read these papers?"
The lawyer replied that he had. Judge
| Gresham reached for his docket and made
an entry. II took about ten minutes Then
he turned sternly to the lawyer and said:
= have removed you from your guardian
ing further to do with either them or their
property. You may go. sir. -
Ihen turning to the lawyers at the trial
table, Judge Gresham remarked: Proceed
with your case, gentlemen"
The lawyer thus abruptly disposed of
and removed from his guardianship, stood
the court room without asking a question
or saying a word Nor did he afterward
ever bring the matter up, either in public
That attorney is right now practicing law
in Chicago.
Judge Gresham was never much i'm
! Iiessed by the hounces and frills of Off
ciaI life. His methods were as easy and
direct as Bismarck's. This easy, careless
pan OF doing business was more than
once shock to the diplomatic colony in
Was hinGton. They did not know how to
take Gresham's blunt fashion of doing
business. On one occasion q couple of
under diplomats of one Of the leeations
were ushered into the diplomatic room
TO make what they intended should be
formal call upon the Secretary of State
II was a hot August afternoon. They
round the secretary in his shirt sleeves
and with his slippered feet placed comfor-
tably In WINDOW, where he could have
the fun benefit of the Potomac breeze
He was smoking very strong cigar. and
was adding to his comfort as much as
possible with a palm leaf fan. He turned
MS head amiably toward his callers. both
of whom he had met before and knew.
and, waving his hand Hospitality, sa d /:
Excuse my not getting up, gentlemen:
pull up some chairs by the window You
will find some cigars on the desk" This
gave the European disciples of red tape
a severe shock at the time, and aroused
considerable gossip in an undertone in
| what are called Diplomatic circles The
callers were by no means sure that there
countrys dignity had not been seriously
infringed by our secretarys informal re-
The secretary could stand a joke as
well as anybody one day when Senator
Palmer was urging the appointment of
certain democrat, the secretary interposed
the observation: But, senator this
candidate of yours does not strike me
from a party standpoint .as being Drorni-
nent enough for the place. l should hard
~ call him party leader even in his
region"
iably. II am afraid, Mr.. Sec
rotary" said senator Palmer,
you have hardly been long enough in
the party to have a very fun notion of
the standing of its leaders"
Gresham laughingly admitted that the
face of the return might lend some coun-
tenance to the senator's remarks.
The Jew to the Christian.
The Hon. Dwight Lawrence. librarian
of the, Senate. was down from Albany
yesterday, says the New York Sun, ana
this is his latest anecdote;
The Hon. Joseph H. Choate and the Hon.
Edward Lauterbach were associated in Z;
suit a short time ago and won. AS the
jury left their seats Mr.. Lauterbach turn
ed to Mr. Choate and said:
"Choate. we won this verdict because
we happened to know more law on this
subject than our adversaries."
"Yes?" queried Choate.
our clients are rich, YOU know, a cor
poration and all that" rejoined Lauter
"Yes?" again replied Choate. What
do you think we ought to charge, Lauter-
''Oh, $50 apiece"
TIT g tus ro1 broke out choate' imPa
me handle this bill, Lauterbaeh. iii
collect for us BOTH"
x short time afterward Mr.. Lauterbach
was in Mr.. Choate's Office in Wall street.
and Mr.. Choate handed out check for
81, 800 as Mr. Lauterbachs fee in the case.
and said:
"Lauterbach what do you think Of
that?"
Mr.. Lauterbach looked at the cheek
stroked his beard for an instant and look
ing intently at Choate, replied
Almost thou persuadest me to be a
Christian"
Poem by the Marquis of LOrne.
HIGHLAND COURTING."