Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-07-08

. patches, ''Ihe companies Two Ut
three correspondents held in their seats by a
= cautIonary word from veteran who had done
long service In the Supreme court He said walt
In a few minutes. 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 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 tumbed 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
the high and honorable court Is In session and
that Justice s 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 ho
seat and the proceedings begin
The Supreme court sits In the old senate cham.
ber 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 oration In reply
to Hayne there could have been present the great
crowd OF which history tells u.s.
II was In the Supreme courtroom that the cleo.
toraI commission which decided the HayesTiden
contest held its sessions. The fifteen members
Of that commission occupied the seats Of the jus
tices and II Is said that during the progress Of the
hearing the little room crowded literally to
sunocation and that many people were overcome.
II Is historic chamber and II 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 n Republican. raised the Tenth Ken.
tucky Infantry and served In Gen. George II. Thorn.
as division. He rose to the rank OF colonel and
his before the senate for confirmation
as a brigadier general at n time late In the
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 Blun in
October, 1861. Holmes shot through the
breast and for a long time It was believed he could
not possibly recover. He did recover. however.
and went back to the front, taking part In tn.
battle OF Antietam. where he shot through th,.
neck and again his life despaired of. Once
more he recovered and went to the front, only To
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Justice Edward Douglass White born In
Louisiana and he served through the Civil war In
the Confederate service. Horace Harmon Iurton.
who was appointed by President Taft to th.,
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 Mt Fort Doncison when
the Confederate commander surrendered to Gen.
cral Grant. Lurton was Grants captive and It Is
not a, all probable that the northern soldier had
any conception that this youthful prisoner one
day to be appointed to the Supreme court of the
United States by a Republican president