The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-06
READY FOR
BUSINESS
Supreme Courts First
Session.
COMMISSIONS ARRIVED
All the Justices Present But Perry
Will Leave For the Main
land Soon.

Quite unexpectedly the Justices of the
Supreme Court received their commits
sions yesterday morning, these docu
ments having been sent to Governor Dole
instead OF TO the Justices themselves, as
mad been anticipated. As soon as his
commission was TRANSMITTED to him,
Chief Justice F'rear summopld the Court
together ana it was 0eol0ed 10 nOlu Jne
INST SESSION immediately Messengers
were dispatched about the city and as
many members OF the bar as could be
reached were notified that the Court ex-
peCted TO meet at once.
In cabs and on wheels and on foot a
GREATNESS crowd Of attorneys fastened
TO the judiciary bunung, and at 1890
clock, wnen Chief Justice ". +. Frear
and Assoc late Justices c. A. Gafbraitn
ard Antonio Perry entered the room,
there was quite a gathering present.
Among the more prominent attorneys wno
were present were the following: AttOr-
ney General Edmund z. Dole, w 4.
Whiting, Paul Neumann, w. q Smith.
Cecil brown, John l.. kaulukou, l.. A.
Ihurston, a. 5. Humphreys, y. G.. NJ.
Robertson, j. NJ. Monsarrat. Charles
Creighton, S. NJ. Ballou, w. A. Henshall,
j. Il. DE Bolt, Lorrin Andrews, Lyle a.
DIckey, 1. NJ. Long. 3. l.. Marx, II. \.
B-gelow, S. r Chilllngworth. T. McCants
Stewart, a. Lewis and Assistant Attor-
ley General Lloyd NJ. Robbins.
The members Of the court had been pre-
viously sworn i'm in the chambers of Chief
Justice Frear. and as soon as the court
mad been formally announced as open
chief Justice Frear announced that the
commissions of the court had been re
ceived and that they had a. qualified by
/ taking the oath of office and that the
court was open and ready for business.
The first business to be transacted was
the administration of the cath of Office
to a. 5. Humphreys, first Judge of the
Circuit Court. Judge Humphreys pre-
scented his commission to Justice Frear
and was Immediately sworn in. This
concluded the business of the morning
. and as the court was about to adjourr
W. o. Smith arose and said that as w
\. Whiting was at this time retiring
j from the Supreme bench he felt that as
a member of the bar of Honolulu he could
/ not see him retire without thanking hin
/ for the unfailing courtesy and kindnes:
with which he had always treated tn,
members of the bar who had practiced be
fore him and all others who came in con
tact with him, L~..I in his public and pri
- vatc capacity. The bar OF Honolulu, sai'
, AR. Smith. regretted TO see him leave th'
> bench. but were glad to welcome hin
once more as an active practitioner. At
- torney General Dole and Paul Neumanl
followed in the same vein and Mr. Neu
I mann referred to the death of Chief JUS
. ice Judd, and asked the Court TO appoin
y Saturday morning as the time to receiv
= a resolution in his honor that was to b
% presented by the Honolulu bar.
- Chief Justice Frear announced that ow
= ing to the Il1ess OF Justice Perry he woul
- not sit at the next term Of the court 70
ne expected TO leave for the Coast by tn
next steamer.
Ihe SUBJECT Of q special term of tn
- Supreme Court was discussed and it wa
- agreed by the Court to have the Jun
= erm close on Monday and tn call a she
- cial term beginning Tuesday. An adj
= journment was then taken until O'Clock
At the afternoon session OF the cour
@ Justice Perry was too i'll to appear. an
y Circuit Judge Humphreys sat in b s stead
= <ine applicants were examined and ad
mitted TO citizenship as fulihedged Amer
cans. Most of these We're old dent
- If the Islands and some have for lon
lime held Office under the monarchy o
= the republic. They were as follows: An
> drew Brown, subject of Great Britain
y Daniel Logan, a native of Nova SEQ
y. G. Lovekin, a Briton; Henry Z
. Schrotke, a Hauoverian, who has live
- in America and the Islands for thirt
- years or more and took out his first pa
pers in Indiana in 1869; George Barker
| who was born in England John F. Me
| amply. likewise a Brush subject; Kcr
meth r. g. Wallace, who was torn
- Ireland; II. W. Schmidt, a subject {
r Germany.
The court then adjourned until
n o'clock Saturday morning, when the res
n olutions of respect to the memory of Chic
Justice Judd will be presented