Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-07-08


three correspondents were held in their seats by
cautionary word from a veteran who had done
long service in the Supreme court He said, Wait"
In q few minutes, as the reading went on, It
became apparent that the court had decided that
while the companies had franchise for 100 years
they had practically rights under it. On the
strength of the mistake which made In send
ing out some of the first dispatches that day
stocks went up and then when the truth came out
they tumbled fast that they hurt their heads.
When the justices led by the clerk and the
chief justice enter the Supreme courtroom every
body stands. When the judges have taken their
seats the court crier after the manner of court
crers since the time of the patriarchs, declares
that the high and honorable court is in session and
that justice is be dispensed Just before taking
their seats the justices bow to the assembled
throng anu the throng bows back. When the court
crier's voice has died away everybody takes his
seat and the proceedings begin.
The Supreme court sits in the old senate cham
Der of the capitol 1t is the room where Webster
Hayne Clay, Calhoun and others fought their bat
ties The gallery is tiny affair capable of seating
only about thirty people and the wonder is how
when Webster delivered his great Grafton in reply
to Hayne there could have been present the great
crowd of which history tells US.
1t in the Supreme courtroom that the cleo
toral commission which decided the Hayes-Ti
contest held its sessions The fifteen members
of that commission occupied the seats of the JUS
tees and is said that during the progress of the
suffocation and that many people were overcome
1t is historic chamber and 1t is of the places
to which visitors to Washington bend their sters.
In the membership of the Supreme court there
are two veterans of the Union army and two vet
Grams of the Confederate army John Marshall
Harlan, who Is Republican, raised the Tenth Ken
lucky infantry and served in Gen. George II. Thorn
as division. He to the rank of colonel and
his name before the senate for confirmation
brigadier general at time late in the
when his fathers death compelled him for family
to retire from the service
Oliver Wendell Holmes of Boston graduated
from Harvard college in 1861 and at once entered
the Union army. At the battle OF Balls Bluff in
October 1861, Holmes was shot through the
breast and for long time it believed he could
not possibly He did recover, however
and went back to the front, taking part in the
battle of Antietam where he was shot through the
neck, and again his life despared Of Ones
more he recovered and went to the front, only to-
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg
Justice Edward Douglass White was born in
Louisiana and he served through the Civil in
who was appointed by President Taft to the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice Peckham,
entered the Confederate service when he only
seventeen years old and he served three years. He
was with General Buckner at Fort Donelson when
the Confederate commander surrendered to Cen
eral Grant Lurton Grants captive and 1t is
not at all probable that the northern soldier had
any conception that this youthful prisoner
day to be appointed to the Supreme court of the
United States by a Republican president