The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-16


future. Coming to this high Office with
your trained legal experience you will
have an advantage, and we look to
the future with anticipation of pleas
ure and expressions of pleasure and
expectations of a successful admins
tration and one of great benefit to the
country. II
| 1t has been my good fortune to have
known personally every judge of the
Supreme Court. although Chief Justice
Lee died in 1857 when I was a child,
he was dear friend of my father and
1 met him when 1 was a little boy,
and remember very keenly his interest
in children, and of the other judges
have known every one personally.
The longest term of office on the
! supreme bench, as Chief Justice, was
that of Chief Justice Allen, who
served nineteen years and seven
months; next was Chief Justice Judd
with fifteen years. but the longest term
on the bench, both as associate and
chief, was that of Chief Justice Judd,
which was nearly twentyfour years.
Your Honor has been on the bench of
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half seven of which have been as
/ Chief Justice, and it is with pleasure
that we look back upon the record,
and our best wishes go with you
D. L. WELLINGTON.
D. L. wilmington paid his tribute to
the Hawaiian Bench in the following
words:
May it please the court, the fathers
of this country, in its first constitution
laid down the rule that no law should
be enacted that was not in consonance
! with the law of Jehovah, and the
student of law, whether he looks
| in the code of Hammurabi, the Dec
alogue of Moses, the code of Justin
ian or the village customs of our
Germanic fathers will find that each
sprung from a higher source. There
. is an overruling Providence, or what
ever you may call it, which finds is
mission in justice towards men. and
1 think that the rule which courts
must follow is to be found, not in
deciding cases, not even in doing JUS
tice in any individual case; it is by
laying down law which is in conson-
ance with the higher and overruling
law.
1t is not only the prerogative or duty
of a judge to render a just decision in
any given case, but he must preserve
the moral effect of that Judgment. II
is not enough that he should have the
| conviction of personal disinterested-
ness and that he should render cor
rect judgment on the law and upon
the evidence; he must see to 1t that
his judgment is preserved in the opin-
ion of those for whom it Is rendered,
the nation. the Territory, the com
| munity surrounded by an atmosphere
of moral integrity. He must keep
himself from even the suspicion of
insensible bias.
Sir, 1 believe that the bar OF this
Territory are grateful to you that you.
in the administration OF your high
/ office, have adhered to these principles:
that you have sought with high pur-
pose and with high reasoning powers
to drink from the fount of law and
write it into the decisions Of this
court; that you have sought to lift
! the cause which was before the court
above the suspicion of influence or
bias and decide it in that high atmos-
| pHcIc III MlifCn every cause OC
decided, and although it is a matter
of regret and grief that you should be
removed to another sphere, the more
1 reflect upon it the more I rejoice
! There is no place over which the flag
of the nation waves where there Is a
greater opportunity for work in the
interest of the American people and
the advancement of American ideas
Here we are facing one civilization and
coming from another. and I believe
that your experience upon the bench
in the last fourteen years will fit you
for the task. 1 pray that you may go
/ forward with a high courage. with an
unfaltering purpose, and I believe
I there will be great need of perform
ance. 1t is a great pleasure TO me that
at the request of the bar I can second
f, tine resolutions which have been Of
fered.
MANY OTHER SPEAKERS.
/ Besides the addresses given above
were several others Frank Thompson.
A. Lewis, W. A. Kinney and others
speaking. the exercises being concIud-
ed with a PRAYER and invocation By
Bishop Restarick
RIO DE JANEIRO. August 14-The
! government has sanctioned the estab-