The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-07


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 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 no rights under 1t. On the
strength Of the mistake which made IN send
ing some of the first dispatches ON that day
stocks went up aud then when the truDh came out
they tumblad 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 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 AM 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 eCc
tora commission which decided the Hayes-Tilden
of that commission occupied the seats of the JUS
ticcs and it is said that during the progress of the
hearing he little room was crowded literally to
sufoCation and that many people overcome
It is historic chamber and is 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 a 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 bef'rc the senate fer confirmation
as brigQder 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 shot through the
breast and for a long time il was believed he could
not possibly recover. lie did recover, however,
and went back the front taking part in the
neck, and again his life despaircd of Ono,
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 war In
the Confederate service. Horace Harmon I.urtOn
who appointed by President TAFT to the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice Peckham
entered the onfedcrate service when he was only
seventeen years old and he served three years He
with General Buckner at Fort Doncson when
the Confederate commander surrendered to Gen
eral Grant. lurton Grants captive and il IS
not al all probable that the northern soldier had
any conception that this youthful prisoner was one
day to be appointed to the supreme court of the
United states b. a Republican president