The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-04
JOHN MARSHALL DAY.
HIS CENTENNIAL l. ANNITERSARY 4 $
 CHIEF JUSTICE

Will be Appropriately Celebrated Thf
 Afternoon at Hendrle Hall, Yale Law
 Schooi-Addresses by Gov. Mclean
 President IIadIey, Judge Baldwin ant
 Judge Shipm pman-Oration by Hon
 Charles E. Perkins of Hartford.
 The one hundredth anniversary of the day on which John Marshall, of Vlr' ginia, became chief justice of the Unit ed States occurs to-day Under tht leadership of the American Bar associ- ation the day will be celebrated through out the country. In this state the cere- monies will be confined to the pro- gramme of exercises to he carried out under the auspices of the Yale Law school
 Justice Marshall remained in office as the chief justice of the country for thir- ty-four years.
 Chief Justice Marshall was a gradu- ate of the Yale Law school, and the members of the institution intend to do all within their power to hold exercises that will serve to commemorate in the highest sense the memory of one of the brightest men ever connected with the United States supreme court. One of the present justices of the supreme court is expected to be present and speeches will be made by various prom inent men. The official programme is ns follows:
 CELEBRATION OF JOHN MAR
 SHALL DAY,
 February 4, 1901, 2:30 P. M.
 In Hendrie Hall, Yale Law School. Opening remarks by Dean Francis
 Wayland.
 2 Introductory address by His Excellency,
 the Governor of Connecticut
 Address of we' rome by President Had
 ley.
 Oration by Hon. Charles B. Perkins, of
 Hartford, president of the Connect
 icut Bar association.
 Brief addresses by Hon. Simeon E.
 Baldwin, ILL D., of the supreme
 court of errors of Connecticut, and
 by Hon. N. Shipman, ILL. D., of the
 circuit court of the United States.
 Alter the exercises the building will be open for inspection and an informal reception will be held in the south read ing room on the third story.
 A programme for the appropriate commemoration of the historic event in question was originally prepared by a committee of fifty-one of the Amer ican Bar association, of which Hon. William Wirt Howe of New Orleans, is chairman. The committee has arrang- ed for exercises in all the large cities of the United States. The various city, county and state bar associations have agreed that all legal business shall be dropped for the day.
 Many colleges and public schools will participate in the celebration, in order that the youth of America may become better acquainted with the noble life and works of the great lawyer, "whose glorious judgments as Judge Story says, twill remain to instruct mankind until liberty shall cease to be a bless ing and the science of jurisprudence shall vanish from the catalogue of hu- man pursuits
 The principal celebration of "John Marshall day" will take place in the house of representatives at Washington under the auspices of a joint commit tee of congress appointed for that pur- pose. Chief Justice Fuller will preside, | and Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, of Penn sy1vania, will deliver the oration of the | day. President Mckinley and his cab" inet will be present. The exercises will | begin at 10 o'clock and continue until l o'clock. In the evening the local bar | association will give a banquet at the | Arlington.
 It has been said of John Marshall | that he did more than any other man to preserve the constitution as the vital framework of the American govern ment President John Adams appoint ed him chief justice January 20, 1SO1 | and he assumed the office February A. remaining at the head of the great tri- bunal until his death in Philadelphia, thirty-fou years later. Many of his decisions were upon questions for which there were at that time no precedents. Difficult and intricate were the prob- lems then presented but he took the firm position indicated by his own. words: "The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable at the will of the legislature. If the former be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter be true, then written con- stitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in it's own nature illimitable' John Marshall began the study of , law at the age of eighteen interrupted his preparations for legal career to become a soldier under George Wash ington. He was one of the first to en- list as minute man. in a regiment of which his father was major In 17SS he was elected to the Virginia constitu- , tional convention, although his views as to the then proposed document were at , with those of his constituents z They chose him in spite of his refusal f to vote against it's adoption. In 1797 he was sent to France to try and establish diplomatic relations with that country. T Later he served in congress, and was one of the presidential advisers It is stated that the cracking of the Liberty oell in Philadelphia occurred while it [ was being tolled for his death. i
 f Deeds were recorded in the town [ ,lerk's office Saturday afternoon show I ng that Ralph J. Minor and Samuel H. (