New-York tribune., 1901-03-01

the deliberations of the Fishery Commission at
ton pointing out that Il arbitration was to COM
mend itself in settling interna liona disputes It
OF Of the whole transaction In the early part OF
Hayes in regard to the proposed interoceanic canal
He he also while Secretary Of STATE secured the pur7
BY, Benjamin F; Stevens, OF London -.
state @r r ETar M deentd Fao pube the
dinner offered to him by many prominent citizens
AStor 4a Samuel p BaPSocE, DR.. Henry v. Bellows,
cars Ii s he ws eeea,e fad Gof 9 6 Mm
uQnal Monetary Conference, held in Paris.
senator By the aSG siatss 6n
March Mar in in that year he took the seat previously
he sat in the Senate MI, Evarts made nuraber Of
established reputation. He was chiefly instrumental
Ii 6ns the }s 9e Of c he yar act estab
Peaals thus giving the Supreme Court the relief
made imperative.
ADVOCATE AND ORATOR
As lawyer. Mr.. Evarts held a foremost plac,
in this city and country for fully third of A
century. After the retirement OF Charles O'Conor
ne was regarded by common consent the leader
of the New-York bar until his retirement from
active practice. His firm first bore the name Of
Butler, Evarts & Southmayd. then that of Evarts
Southmayd & Choate. and later that of Evarts
Ghoate & Beaman. He retired from the
was unable to visit It's Offices III Walst ms ''ie lie
,beS9ldes the cases already mentioned in which
counsel for Mr.. Beecher in the famous trial on
which the interest Of the entire country was as
y Connected %th tS m "a & no ne was prominent;
suit brought by George Opdyke against Thuriow
employed in the rapid transit tigation which W5s sb
sorbed much OF the time of the courts for several
largest fees ever paid to a lawyer in this country
up to to MS retirement and his advice was regarded
cases involving the rights of corporations in gen
An early case in which he made a considerable
seepueaton was the trial of Monroe Edwards for
lawyer received forged check when he presented
Dl ffn f3r MS @ fee Probably there was good
as a complement to the other story. which had
when in the Senate Mr. Evarts once took 'IrSt Dr.
5nII; HoiIes on the floor with him by assuring the
doorkeeper that the genial ''autocrat" was his new
page. Mr. Evarts himself denied this story on one
Evarts was subject to constant calls on occasions
tons In ss M ana delivered many notable ora
ron 1 at Phladephia at the opening of the Centen-
II was philosophical discourse, rather than his
torlcal narrative outburst Of patriotic senti-
OF the Continental Congress and the political
G1ton bt OF the country at the critical period when
O. a people and construct the framework Of a new
cIaring all just power to be derived from the
sent of the governed and in giving all power of
cessful result of the form of government they
established and its rapid growth during the cen
tury. He dwelt the success achieved by ii I'm
overcoming the evils that threatened it. slavery in
particular, and spoke of the promise given of the
nations greater growth a constitutional gov
ernment.
1t Dartmouth College, in June 1874 Mr. Evarts
delivered a eulogy on Chief Justice Chase. which
attracted wide and admiring attention OF ii
George William Curtis said in the Easy Chair: THE
oration not unworthy the day the place and
all the traditions and associations with which il
was surrounded The sketch which Mr.
Evarts drew of Mr.. Chases career was uaster1v
and it was done with stately rhetoric which be-
came the theme.
ADDRESSES ON MANY NOTABLE OCCASIONS.
In 1876 he delivered the principal address at the
unveiling in Central Park of Balls colossal statue
Of Daniel Webster. presented TO the city by Cor
don w. Burnham. and IN the same year he was the
speaker at the dedication of Rogers's statue of
Seward in Madison Square. In August 1877 he
was one OF the speakers at the centennial ami
yersary or the battle OF Bennington, VT. In the
following October he assisted in laying the corner
stone of the 7th Regiment Armory He made the
speech presenting the Obesk 10 the city on Febru-
ary 22 1881, and in November of the same wear
was one or the speakers at the dinner given by the
Chamber or Commerce to the French delegates
VINO came TO attend the Yorktown Centennial. In
the same month he presided and made an address
Herbert Spencer. He the orator on the occa-
sion or the twentieth anniversary of the Union
League Club on February 5, 1883.
IN that year Mr.. Evarts also the OF
the DAY at the centennial celebration at wburg;
responded 70 a toast at the notable dinner given
by the medical fraternity of New-York Oliver
Wendell Holmes; made the address welcome at
IN The Anad nf