The age-herald., 1901-02-05
Impressive Ceremonies in House
 of Representatives WAIVE MACVEAGH WAS ORATOR Interesting Recital of the Great
 JuriSt'S Career CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER PRESIDED In Discussing John Marshall Georgia Lawyer Says if He Was Right Gen. cral Lee and Jeff Davis Should
 Have Been Hanged
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER PRESIDED

Washington, February 4.-with impress sive ceremonies the centennial anniversary of the installation of John Marshall of vir- ginia as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court was celebrated in the House of Representatives today.
 The programme arranged by the joint committee of Congress and William Wirt Howe of New Orleans, President of the American Bar Association, was simple and dignified, as became the life of the great jurist.
 The President and his Cabinet, the mem- bers of the Supreme Court, the members of the Senate and House, the diplomatic corps and members of the District Bar As- sociation attended as invited guests. Many other distinguished persons were in the galleries, which were reserved for those holding cards of admission.
 Although the various official bodies en- tered the hall together they were not an- nounced as on formal occasions. President Mckinley and the members of the Cabinet were the last to arrive. The entire assem- blaze rose and remained standing until they had seated themselves.
 Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania CeniSu tLc dSSeHpidSc tO OIuel. I1c StdtSu briefly the action of Congress in providing for the ceremonies, and the selection of Chief Justice Fuller as presiding officer. The Chief Justice in his judicial robes was escorted to the chair by Representa- tives Grosvenor of Ohio and Richardson of Tennessee. Rev. Dr. William Strother Jones of Trenton, N. J., a great grandson of John Marshall, invoked the divine bless ing. The Chief Justice, introducing Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, who was to deliver the oration, paid an eloquent tribute to the great work of Marshall, which evoked hearty applause from the assemblage.
 Chief Justice FulIer's Address.
 Chief Justice Fullers address was de- voted almost entirely to the consideration of his predecessors career as an expounder of the federal constitution.
 He referred briefly to the judicial work of the earlier days of the nations history and then presented the task which lay be- fore Marshall when he assumed the duties of the chief magistrate of the land, say ing:
 "The court in the eleven years after it's organization, during which Hay and Rut- ledge and Ellsworth, giants in those days, presided over it's deliberations, had dealt with such of the government problems as arose in a manner worthy of it's high mis- sion, but it was not until the question that emerged from the exciting struggle of 1900 brought it into play, the scope of the ju- dicial power was developed and declared, and it's significant effect upon the future of the country recognized.
 "As the constitution was written in- strument, complete in itself and containing an enumeration of the powers granted by "a n hair vnx rDr ,ar1t ment supreme to the full extent of those powers-it was inevitable that the issues in that contest Gas in indeed many oth- ers) should involve constitutional inter- pretation and that finally the judicial de- partment should be called to exercise its Jurisdiction in the enforcement of the requirements of the fundamental law.
 Rights of States.
 "The President, who took the oath of of- flee administered by the chief justice March 4, 1S01 in his inaugural address included among the essential principles of our gov ernment the support of the State govern ments in all their rights, as the most com potent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies and the preser- vation of the general government in it's whole constitutional vigor as the sheet an- chor of our peace at home and safety abroad but it was reserved for the chief justice as the organ of the court to define the powers and rights e each in the exer- else of a Jurisdiction WI h he regarded as Indispensable to the preservation of the Union and consequently of the independ- ence and liberty of these States.
 The people, in establishing their future government, had assigned to the different departments their respective powers and prescribe certain limits not be trans cended and that those limits might not be mistaken or disregarded the funda- mental law was written. And as the chief justice observed, Ito what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing if these limits may at any time be passed over by those inteded to be restrained?"
 He quoted Chief Justice Marshalls fa- nous utterances to the effect that the con- stitution must be interpreted by it's inten- ion, and said of his words in that connec- ton:
 These were apparently plain legal rules of construction, yet Tn their application is the seed of the national growth, the vindi- cation of a written form of government and, simple as they now appear, their suc- cessful application then required the high est judicial qualities"
 He Held Balance True.
 Chief Justice Fuller went on to say that the powers and duties of the various branches of the government had not been well defined and that there was intense an- tagonism between them which 1t was neces- sary for the Supreme Court to reconcile