The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-07

patches, THE companies VIM. TWO OF
three correspondents were held in their seats by
cautionary word from veteran who mad done
long service in the Supreme court. He said, walt
In q few minutes the reading went on, IL
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 was made IN send
ing out some of the first dispatches on that day
stocks went up and then when the truth came out
they tumbled so 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
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 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
1t was in the Supreme courtroom that the elec-
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
suffocation and that many people were overcome.
1t is historic chamber and 1t is one of the places
to which visitors to Washington bend their steps
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 H. Thorn.
as division. He rose to the rank Of colonel and
his name was before the senate for confirmation
as brgader general at time late in the war
when his fathers death compelled him for family
reasons 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 thu
neck, and again his life despared of. Onct
more he recovered and went to the front, only t.
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg
Justice Edward Douglass White was born IL
Louisiana and he served through the Civil war II
the Confederate service Horace Harmon Lurton
who was appointed by President Taft to thu
entered the Confederate service when he only
seventeen years old and he served three years. He
was with General Buckner at Fort Doneson wher
the Confederate commander surrendered to Gen
eral Grant. Lurton Grants captive and 1t Il
not at all probable that the northern soldier hat
ar conception that this youthful prisoner was one
day to be appointed to the Supreme court of the
United States by a Republican president.