The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-08
BENCH AND
BAR MOURN
Supreme Court
Does Honor to
Mckinley.
RESOLUTIONS
ARE ADOPTED
Addresses by Judge Little, Fitch,
McCIanahan and Others.
Court Adjourns.

The Supreme Court added its note
of sympathy to the general mourning
over the death of President Mckinley
at the first opportunity given it, by
adjourning the October session yester-
day morning. Resolutions of condo
lence were adopted and members Of
the bench and bar paid further tribute
to the memory of the deceased, follow
ing which an adjournment was taken
until this morning at 10 o'clock.
Justice Galbraith presided as chief
justice, and Justice Perry occupied the
bench with him.
Immediately upon the opening of
court Acting Attorney General Cath
cart moved an adjournment out of re-
spect to the memory of William Nc
Kinley, whom he praised as good and
true friend of Hawaii. Attorney Nc
Clanahan then presented the following
resolutions, which We're subsequently
adopted:
Whereas, William Mckinley, Presi-
dent of the United States, was on the
9Th day of September A. d. 1901, cruel
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city of Buffalo, and,
Whereas, this opening day of the
October, 1901, term of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Hawaii seems
an appropriate occasion on which to
record public expression of our sorrow
over this national calamity; therefore
be it
Resolved, by the members of the
bar of the Supreme Court of the Ter
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the United States we herewith pub
sorrow over the untimeiy death of our
honored President;
THAT as citizens of a wider civili-
cation, we proclaim our adherence of
the awful act which has both robbed
US of a beneficent ruler and the world
of a good man;
THAT we tender to Mrs. Mckinley
for the loss of loving husband, a
sympathy as profound as the civilized
honored Chief Magistrate
experimenting the resolution by a
few remarks, Mr.. McClanahan said in
part:
IF your honors please, there has now
been written for the third time in the
history of the American nation, the
same kind of an assault; first a Lin
GULL them d 1dIIitI1, anu HOW IL MI
Kinley, and the civilized world tenders
to us it's sympathy.
1T seems not so much the loss of
the individual as of the President, that
an entire nation mOurns, and the civ
lied nations of the world wear d
badge of sorrow. Some one has said
that on rare occasions the sympathy
of nations touches the tenderer feel
ings of the individual, and it seems to
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is not so much for the individual that
there is this universal sorrow, but it
is that the leader of a great people has
in this horrible manner quilted a lead
ership so high and honorable. The
shot was not fired at William McKin-
ley the man, but at William Mckinley,
the President. Czolgosz did not think
to work the death of William MeKin-
ley so much as he did intend to as
sassinate republican institutions, and
little did he, or any of his abominable
kind imagine, for one moment, that the
act to be done would be Il vindication
of those institutions which we love so
Well"
JUDGE LITTLE SPEAKS.
Judge Little then followed with a
brief address, which was in substance
as follows:
"If the court please: We are stunned
as if staggering from the repellent
force of a violent physical blow when
we realize that the hand which sign
ed the bill creating this Territory, this
court and these judges, now lies pulse
less and cold; that the lips from which
have often and eloQuently fallen words
of wisdom and patriotism for the guild
ance of his people, are palsied by the
chilling touch of deaths relentless and
messenger.
Yet, alas, tbs only too true. Now
all is over; the funeral cortege has
passed; the last sad notes of the fu-
neral dirge have died away on the dis
tant shores. The voice of artillery
which Numbered sentiments of respect
in every civinzed world is no longer
reverbrant.
'All that is mortal of our late Presi-
dent, William Mckinley, now lies Sleep
ing quietly in the shadows of that
valley at the confluence of
those mighty and mysterious streams
of time and eternity; where his last
resting place will be warmed by Gods
beautiful sunlight, and watched over in
the silent vigil of the midnight hour
by the quiet stars until the last trum-
pet of Gabriel shall summon mankind
to final judgment. Yet a sorrowine.
people linger at the graveside which
their sacred dust with bowed
and uncovered heads, almost unwilling
TO leave them without their keeping.
Yet he sleeps, 'repoicing in the tri-
umph of victory Won where gentle
hands have laid him. Where the wing
I'd winds shall sing for him an eternal
requiem, where natures divide tear
drops shall water his lowlv mound
from which shall spring In resplendeut
beauty a luXuriant growth of nausies
of thought, and the rosemary of re-
not only for the education
Of his fellow countrymen, but as we'll !
for the generations which are to fol-
low.
But his pure spirit has taken its
flight into the summer land of song.
beyond the pearly gates, there to dwell
in perennial beauty and glory forever
more"