Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-07-15


three correspondents were held in their seats by
cautionary word from veteran who had done
long service in the Supreme court. He said wait"
In q few minutes. the reading went on, il
became apparent that the court had decided that
while the companies had franchise for 100 years
they had practically rights under it,. On the
strength of the mistake which made in send
ing out some of the first dispatches on that day
stocks went up and then when the truth came out
they tumbled 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 theii
seats the court crer after the manner of 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 ant 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 where Webster
Hayne. Clay, Calhoun and others fought their bat
ties. The gallery is tiny affair capable 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 cleo
toral commission which decided the .Hayes-Tilden
contest held It's sessions. The fifteen members
of that commission occupied the seats of the JUS
tees and is said that during the progress of the
hearing the little sroom was crowded literally tc
suffocation and that many people were overcome
1t is historic chamber and 1t is one of ne y aces
to which visitors to Washington bend tn =, 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 to the rank of colonel and
his before the senate for confirmation
as brlgadier general at a 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 1t 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 shot through the
more he recovered and went to the front only 10
be wounded again at the battle of Frederlcksbure
Justice Edward Douglass White was born in
Louisiana and ne served through the Civil war i'm
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 Fert Donelson when
the Confederate commander surrendered to Cen
eral Grant Lurton Grants captive and If is
any conception that this youthful prisoner was one
day to be appointed to the Supreme court Of the
United States by a Republican president