The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-05
HONORED THE JURISI
County Bar Association Rec
ogoizes John Marshall Day.
IN DISTRICT COURT ROOM
Messrs Hatfield and Haymaker
Deliver Addresses.

Business at the county court house yes
terday was practically suspended while
exercises appropriate TO the occasion
were being conducted in honor of John
Marshall in the district court room IN
der the auspices Of the sedgwick County
bar association. The court room was well
filed by members of the bar and their
friends including ladies' Judge Dale
gracefully declined to act as the presid-
ing officer Of the occasion because Of the
presence Of Judge Wall. who was the
only member of the American Bar asso-
citation present.
Judge Wall filed the position in most
pleasing manner and by his occasional
pleasant remarks made all feel perfectly
at home. A pleasant and diverting fea-
ture was the singing Of patriotic songs
by a quartette consisting Of Z. o. Bryan.
f. V. Rough, Felix McNeal and Z. f.
Harvey. These gentlemen received pro
longed ovatons at the conclusion Of thtir
different songs and were compelled 10 re-
peat them.
Two speakers had been selected for the
day, Rudolph Hatfield and Jesse n. Hay
maker Both Of these gentlemen acquit-
ted themselves of their task in a manner
than won for them many encomiums
from men who are judges Of oratory and
true eloquence.
Judge Hatfield delivered his address on
John Marshall as a Statesman" without
manuscript and in describing the char
acter of his subject he grew eloquent and
commanded the closest attention OF his
audience during the entire grafton.
Judge Haymaker spoke of the qualities
Of John Marshall as a Jurist" He said
that the place of John Marshall in Amer
icon Jurisprudence stands unchallenged.
"Facile princeps is the verdict of both
bench and bar Nor it is in our own
land alone that to him this high rank
s ascribed- The great men Of England,
learned in the law and familiar with the
historical andtraditional lore Of courts
and judges, place him alongside Of Holt
and Mansfield, the brightest stars among
the splendid consultations that adorn
brilliant and wide extended sky"
John Marshall, whose name was com
memorated over the entire United States
Yesterday by the schools and the mem
beers Of the bar especially, was commits
stoned chief justice of the United States
100 years ago, February 4. He retained
this, the highest Office in the judiciary
Of the government, for thirty-four years.
Only thirteen years Of the new constitu-
ton had passed when Marshall assembled
the bench. In the short space of nine
months Marshall was minister to France,
secretary Of state and chief justice For
tunately for this country and for his
own fame. he was 60 be the head of the
court for so long a time that his theory
of the implied powers Of the United
States government could be asserted with
such evenness and continuity of decision
as to establish 10 all time the consutu-
tional principles which control the inter
probation of the nations charter That
charter was a mere outline Of govern
ment The principles dormant in it re-
manned to be developed. OF Marshall
It is said that 'he found the constitution
a paper and made it a power; he found
it skeleton and clothed it with flesh
and blood" His opinions on constitu-
tional questions gave breadth and sta
bility to this government and immortaIi-
" to his name. One of the first cues
tons for Marshall to decide was that
legislative enactment contrary to the con-
stitution is no law and that It IS the
right and duty Of the court TO so declare
it. This question involved the independ-
ence of the judiciary as a coordinate
branch Of the government and upon it
depended the success OF failure Of that
government Marshall, aside from being
a great iurist was a great man. He was
one Of those characters whose life his
tory IS a record Of good works for the
interest Of mankind and whose deeds are
a monument that proclaims his great
ness in a far more satisfactory manner
than the praises Of men.
4 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.