Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-07-09

three correspondents were held their seats by a
cautionary word from veteran who had done
long service in the Supreme court. He said, wait %
In few minutes. as the reading went on, ii
became apparent that the court had decided that
while the companies had a franchise for 100 years
they had practically rights under it. On the
strength of the mistake which made in send
ing out of the first dispatches on that day
stocks 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 of court
criers since the time of the patriarchs declares
that the high and honorable court is in session and
that justice is to be dispensed Just before taking
their seats the justices bow to the assembled
throng and the throng bows back. When the court
criers 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 a 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
1t in the Supreme courtroom that the cleo
toral commission which decided the Hayes-Tilden
contest held its sessions. The fifteen members
of that commission occupied the seats of the jus
tees and it is said that during the progress of the
hearing the little room was crowded literally to
suffocation and that many people were overcome
1t historic chamber and it is of the places
to which visitors to Washington bend their steps
In the membership of the Supreme court there
two veterans of the Union army and two vet
Harlan, who is Republican, raised the Tenth Ken
lucky infantry and served in Gen. George H. Thorn
as division He to the rank of colonel and
his 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 entered
the Union army. At the battle of Balls Bluff in
October, 1861, Holmes shot through the
breast and for a long time it was believed lie could
not possibly recover He did recover, however
and went back to the front, taking part in the
battle of Antietam, where he shot through the
neck, and again his life despaired Of Once
he recovered and went to the front, only to
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg
Justice Edward Douglass White born in
Louisiana and he served through the Civil in
the Confederate service Horace Harmon Lurton.
who 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 Gen
eral Grant. Lurton Grants captive and it 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 Republican president