The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-01
m HONOR OF JUSTICE BROWN.
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PRESIDENT sosevels MAKES the First apeerh
end Ne Hcfess ~ the supreme Court
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wAsHIwdroS, May si~.-Justlce Brown ~
Tho Supreme Court ~ the Unltsd States
WA tho guest of honor at q dinner given
tonight by tho bar % tho District 81 Coli
unbia 10 mark bic re,lrsuent from active
serVice on Monday last. The other guests
included President Roosevelt. Vce.Preei-
dent Fairbanks, Chief Justice Fuller and
Associate Justices Harlan. White. Mckenna
and Holmes, Speaker Cannon, Secretaries
Root. Hitchcock and Cortelyou, Attorney.
General Moody, Solicitor General Hoyt'
Chief Justice Peels OF the Court Of Claims,
Chief Justice Shepard Of tho District OF Coll
umbia Court Of Appeals, Chief Justice Ga
baugh Of the District Supreme Court. Sen.
ators Culberson and Warren, W. d. Guthrie
and Robert NJ. Hughes Of the New York
bar and Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., Of Cn-
cinnati.
Short speeches ~eulogistic OF the services
Of Justice Brown were delivered by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Justice Harlan, Vice-Preei-
dent Fairbanks. Secretary Root, Speaker
Cannon and Judge Maury Of the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission, the latter
speaking for the District bar.
Justice Brown, after expressing his great
appreciation Of the compliment rendered
him and of his sincere regret at severing
his pleasant relations with his follow JUS
tees, spoke for q liberal construction OF the
Constitution, through which any exigencies
that might arise in the development OF the
country might be met.
He also referred to the obstacles to the
prompt enforcement of the criminal laws,
Of which lynching was one of the results,
and declared that some reform in hat direo-
ton was absolutely needed II might
become necessary, he said, to abolish the
writ Of error In such cases as d means OF
preventing delay.
The practice OF incorporating companies
in one State to do business in another State,
he said, was all ron No company, he
declared. should be incorporated by a State
unless it had its principal Office therein,
and the ease with which interpretations
could be secured for any purpose, for any
amount, for any time he termed a disgrace
President Roosevelt was the first speaker.
He said in part:
J.. M. Justice. we have come here to-nig ht
to pay the Just homage due to you for your
work on the bench. to thank you in behalf
of the people OF the United States for what
you have done. and to wish you In your time
OF well earned and well deserved rest many.
many happy years. There Is but one thing
better than the right to do honorable service
and that is the right to rest after the hopora-
Bile service has been well done. And. Mr..
Justice, it has been your great good fortune
to earn the right to both.
In all the w~orld-and l think. gentlemen.
you will acquit me of any disposition to need
less fattery-there is no body Of men OF equal
numbers that possesses the dignity and
power combined that iuhere IN that court
over which, Mr.. Chief Justice, You preside.
owing TO the peculiar construction OF our
Government the man who does his full duty
on that court must Of necessity be not only
a great jurist, but o great constructive state
man. 1t has been our supreme coed for
tune as a nation that we have had on that
court, from the beginning to the present
day. men who have been able to carry on
in worthy fashion the tradition which has
thus made n incumbent upon the members
Of the court TO combine In such fashion the
qualities of the great jurist and of the con-
s~truotiye statesman.
Mr. Justice we Americana are sometimes
aocused Of having too much heed TO mere
material success the success which Ia meas.
ured onIy nv the ecoujs,tion Of wealth. I
do not think that that accusation Ia we'll
founded. A great deal of notorfety attaches
a great fortune. If he acquires 1t well and
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