Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-28
IN AN ODD POSITION LAST DAY ON BENCH
Senator Raer Forced to An Justice Browns Associates Pay
tauonize MARYLAND Enterprise Him Tribute.
MATTER OF PRINCIPLE EXPRESS THEIR ESTEEM
Opposes Recently Replies Their Greeting Ap
to the Senate preciative Note.
DREDGES MADE PUBLIC
of
the adjournment OF the supreme
for tho Sunni
EXPRESS THEIR ESTEEM
Replies to Their Greeting in an APP
preciative Note.
CORRESPONDENCE MADE PUBLIC
Action Of Chief Justice Fuller Before
the Adjournment Of the Supreme
Court for tho Summer.

Official announcement of the retirement
OF Justice Brown from the Supreme Court
OF the United States was made today by
Chief Justice Fuller before the adjourn
ment for the term. In making the state
ment he gave out the correspondence be-
tween the retiring justice and the court. in
which the eight colleagues of Justice Brown
expressed their high appreciation of him as
Justice. Justice Brown replied In fitting
terms to the members of the court thank
Ing them for their expressions of goodwill.
Tribute From Associates
The tribute to Justice Brown from his
fellow justices follows:
Dear Brother Brown:
we cannot allow your active participa-
ton In the work Of the court to termf-
nate with the adjournment of today with
out the expression of our sincere regret
You came here with high reputation,
justly deserved by a distinguished career
or many years as district Judge of the
United States, to which you have added in
the fruits of over fifteen years of eminent
judicial 1abors in this place.
''Of those who were on this bench when
you took your seat Bradley and Lamar
and Blatchford and Field and Gray. have
passed on, and you have witnessed the
coming and going of Sniras and Jackson,
one of whom happily survives.
In certain sense. what shadows we are
and what shadows we pursue, but not in
every sense, for what has been worthi1y
accomplished will still live and the memory
Of the just judge will not perish
1--WE assure you that those of US who
have been longest with you, as well as
those of a briefer association, alike concur
IN that affectfonate regard and that deep
respect which your amiabIe disposition and
the great assistance III the adminfstra ton
of Justice which your experience. learning
and ability have enabled you to render
have inspired.
I'VE hope that the light which has come
to pass at the evening time of a well-spent
life may long shine upon you, and that our
fraternal intercourse may be continued for
many years.
Very cordially yours, Melville w Fuller
John M. Harlan. David ]. Brewer. f. ID.
White. r. W, Peckham Joseph McKenna.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. William R. Day. ."
Justice Browns Response.
Justice Browns response was as fol-
lows:
My Dear Brethren: I thank you for your
graceful and generous expressions of es-
teem One of the most delightful expert
ences of my life has been the cultivation of
the friendly companionshps of the past If
teen years-which I would gladly con-
tinue were it not that impaired eyesight
and the inertia which comes with three
score and ten admonish be that my duty
to the country, to you and to myself de-
mands REIMBURSEMENT of the burden
have borne for thirty-one years, half of
which have been spent In your company
While my resignation necessitates a sew
etance of our official relations. I hope
these relations may continue socially so
long as our lives are spared to US.
II rejoice thai l am leaving the court at
time when 1t has never stood higher in
the estimation of the people nor when more
important cases have been. and still are,
being presented for it's consideration. The
anita gonisms, sometimes almost fierce,
which were developed during the earliest
decades of its history, are happily for
gotten, and the now universal acquiescence
in its decisions. though sometimes reached
by bare majority of it's members. is a
magnificent tribute to that respect for the
law inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race, and
contains within itself the strongest assur-
ance of the stability of our institutions
The services rendered by the Supreme
Court in this connection have been of in
calculable value.
Again thanking you for your kindly in
terest in my welfare, | remain. with pro-
found respect, most sincerely yours.
"HENRY b. BROWN