The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-12-19
Judicial Oath is Administered by
Presiding Judge Harlan, Who
Extends Courts CoDgrat-
ulationS
CEREMONY IS UNOSIENTAIIOUS
Dignity Of Such Occasions Carried
Out, No Elaborate Ceremony
Marking Swearing in Of Tri-
bunal's New Head.

Washington. ID. c., Dec. led
ties OF chief Justice of the L. S. at
12:OS O'clock today.
Presiding Justice Harlan, who has
headed the tribunal since the death
Of Chief Justice Fuller last July. an
nounced after the order Of the day had
Oeen made public, that Justice white
who had been appointed chief justice
If the United States, was present and
ready to take the oath. He extended
the congratulations of the court to the
new chief justice and directed Clerk
McKenney to read the Commission.
This done. the presiding justice ad
ministered the oath ana the new chief
justice took his place at the head OF
the Supreme Court.
For the first time i'm the history an
associate justice has been elevated to
the chief justiceship. and for the first
time a president of one political party
has honerd a members Of a rival party
by placing him at the head of the
highest court in the land.
An Unostentatious Ceremony.
Because of the overwhelming mod
esty of Chief Justice White. officials of
the court were uncertain as to the ex-
act details of the ceremony of the day
until they had actually occurred. In
general way, the broad customs at
tending the induction into office of the
head of the court We're followed.
Unlike the Inauguration of a pres
ident as the head of the co-ordina-
tion branch of the government, the in
duction into office of a Chief Justice
of the United States has always been
a comparatively transformations occa-
sion. Instead of an escort from the
Capitol To the White House composed
Of gaily attired civic organizations and
seasoned military commands, new
chief justice has only his black robed
brethren on the bench in procession
from the robing room TO the court
room. instead of his approach being
heralded by the loud huzzas of cheer
ing thousands. the advance to power
OF a new chief justice is announced by
nothing more than the solitary tones
of the court crier; instead of an in
augrial address outlining his policies
the only utterance of a new chief JUS
tice is the solemn words of his oath o
office.
Oath of Allegiance.
The dignity resting in the custom:
| founded on the swearing into office %
John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellis
worth. and John Marshall. and per
| fected i'm the days of Roger Il. fancy
Salmon p. Chase Morrison r. Wait'
and Melville w. fuller was not ma
terially disturbed today by radical in
novations.
The ceremonies Of elevating an as
sociate Justice of the court into tn
chief justiceship of the nation begal
in the secret confines of the court
robing room. 1t is here that the oatl
of allegiance is administered, just be
fore the court takes its place on tn
bench. The oath prepared for today
occasion, followed the form prescribe'
by law II read:
'I. Edward Douglass White, do sol
emnly swear that l will support an
defend the Constitution of the Unite
states against all enemies, foreign an
domestic: that | will bear true fait
and allegiance to the same; that
take this obligation freely, without an
mental reservation or purpose of eva
sion, and that l will well and faithful
ly discharge the duties of the office o
which | am about to enter. SO hel
me God"
The judicial Oath.
II was a similar oath of allegianC
that created such a tempest in II
court, back in reconstruction day
Hence unusual interest was centere
i'm its administration today to the fir'
chief Justice. who had borne hrms
the cause of the Confederacy by n
senior associate justice of the cour
Justice Harlan, who had borne arm
at the same time in the cause or u
nation.
The oath which the new chief jul
tice subscribed to i'm the open cou
is known as the judicial oath as di
tinguished from the oath of allegianc
IL read:
81. Edward Douglass White. do so
emnly swear that | will administ
Justice without respect TO persons, az
do equal right TO the poor and to u
rich. and that will faithfully and IN
partially discharge and perform all u
duties incumbent on me as Chief Ju
tice of the United States according
the best of my abilities and unde
standing. agreeably to the Constitute
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