New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-23

- prove things" predicted
one of his friends who had
seen him revolutionize af-
fairs at Albany, when the announce
ment came that he had accepted ap-
pointment to the bench of the supreme
court of the United States.
1t is a big job, the one this friend as
signed to Mr.. Hughes.
innings are done at the supreme
court today just about the same way
they were done in the days of John
Marshall. There are few variations,
but they are only skin deep; the roots
are undisturbed. The customs of the
fathers are the customs of the sons,
as the new justice has discovered, even
though he has rendered one decision.
Dignity sometimes may gall the
slave, but it seldom lessons his de-
votion. One member of the present
court, it is said, had secretary who,
one evening while out on an errand
for the justice, succumbed to the temp
tation to step into what in Washington
is politely called .'bufet''-back home
they call it saloon, He became
alarmed lest his new employer might
detect the telltale odor on his breath
and upon his return fastened to con
TESS to his chief, laying all the blame
upon the friend, who was particeps
criminis
Longed For Horizontal Drink.
Promptly the justice absolved him.
There was world of envy in his
tone as he said:
MY boy, how much wouldn't give
for just one more horizontal drink
For the dignity of the bench forbids
a justice to appear before any bar.
Justice Hughes will find that dignity
has beset with an ENGAGEMENT of Gus.
tom the path that he must tread AT
the beginning Of his career on the
bench he may deliver his opinions
in clear, distinct voice, but in due
course Of time he will be expected
to get the whispering habit This
Whispering custom is the one the
newspaper reporters who flash to the
world the outcome of a great case as
1SOAA
lips of the court detest most.
Chief Justice Fuller had fine voice
when he began in 1888 to announce
opinions. In his last years he delivered
them in the manner Of one having
some dreadful secret to conceal JUS
tice Lurton, who took his place on
the bench early in 1910, still talks so
that you can hear Eim His words,
loudly and plainly enunciated, are a
pleasure to hear. How soon he will
begin to acquire the Whispering
habit no one can say.
Maps Are Permissible.
AS he gets older Justice Hughes
may be forgiven if he takes a nap on
the bench. Justice Brewer did. A SEN
ator is permitted to go to a luxurious
Office or be driven for the day if he
feels a trife drowsy. So it is per-
mitted justice to snatch forty winks
in his chair during prosy addresses
to the court, with the general under
standing that later he will atone by
reading the printed briefs in the case
There are some embarrassments like
" to result from these surreptitious
snooZes. 1t is said that in the course
Of the argument of case one day
Justice Gray dozed off just before his
bride came into court with some visf-
tors to show them her husband ION
the job" On another occasion, the
story goes, snapshot artist got q
picture Of the justice while he slept
and then published it.
A set of customs governs the new
Justices relations to the attorneys and
counselors. There are estimated to
be about 10000 lawyers on the roll
of the supreme court bar. Justice
Hughes will not see all Of them. The
list includes the name of every prac
titioner before the court since the days
Of it's organization in 1870. About 800
names are added to 1t every year, but
never, save possibly when man goes
to the penitentiary, is name taken
off the roll
duced to the court, took the oath, but
entirely overlooked the necessity of
leaving fees in the clerks Office and Of
signing the attorneys roll Instead of
his name couplet was offered to the
clerk to be pasted into the book to
explain the vacant line, still untitled,
but it was placed in the unofficial ar
chives Of the clerks Office. It reads:
Sacred to the memory of "John Brown"