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patches. The companies win Two or
three correspondents were held IN their seats by a
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. II
became apparent that the court had decided that
while the companies had franchise for 100 years
they had practically no 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 tumbed 50 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 patrarchs. 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 an: 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 Tough: 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.
II was 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 aud II is said that during the progress Of the
hearing the little room crowded literally to
suffocation and that many people were overcome
II is historic chamber and II 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 II. Thorn
as division. He rose to the rank Of colonel and
his name before the senate for confirmation
"a q NJ mo al in no
when his fathers death compelled him for family
reasons to retire from the service
Oliver Wendell Holmes Of Boston graduated
from Harvard college 10 1861 and at once entered
the Unicn army At the battle Of Balls Blur in
October. 1861. Holmes shot through the
breast and for a long time II believed he could
not possibly recover. 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 despaired Of One,
more he recovered and went to the front. only tn
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Justice Edward Douglass White was. born IN
Louisiana and he served through the Civil war II.
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 was 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 was Grants captive and II is
not at all probable that the northern soldier hal
any conception that this youthful prisoner was one
day to BIZ appointed to the Supreme court Of the
United States by Republican president