Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-07-08

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, 1t
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 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 or court
criers since the time Of the patriarchs, 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 anI 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 a 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 u.s.
1t was in the Supreme courtroom that the cleo
toral commission which decided the Hayes Tiden
contest held it's sessions. The fifteen members
of that commission occupied the seats OF the JUS
tees and it is said that during the progress of the
hearing the little room crowded literally to
suffocation and that many people were overcome.
It is an historic chamber and it 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 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 was before the senate for confirmation
as a brigadier 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 long time it 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 was despared of. Once
be wounded again at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Justice Edward Douglass White was born III
Louisiana and he served through the Civil war III
the Confederate service Horace Harmon Lurton,
who was 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 Cen
eral Grant Lurton Grants captive and 1t is
not at 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 by Republican president.