The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-02-02
The Supreme Court.

cent argument of the Standard Oh |
and Tobacco Trust cases was the |
center of unusual popular interest. |
For the greater part of two weeks
during those hearings. the historic
chamber in which that great tribu
al sits was constantly crowded with |
visitors, while long line of othei |
visitors waited outside for hours for
opportunities to enter. The mem
bership of the court is fun now, Nine
distinguished black-robed jurists,
occupying seats on an elevated stano
face the bar and spectators in the
old senate chamber.
A glance will tell the visitor that
the strong man of the nine occupies
| the middle chair in the line. He is
| Chief Justice White, a citizen OF
Louisiana and a former ragged Con
federate soldier. He is a large man
and strength of character is stamp
ed on every lineament of his fine
face. To his right sit Justice Harlan
the oldest man on the bench, both i'll
age and service, and Justices
Holmes, Lurton and Van Deventer
To his left sit Justices McKenna,
Day. HuSheS ana Lamar,
The chief justice and Justice
Holmes are great chums, and are Of
ten seen on the avenue together, in
the late afternoon, as they walk to-
wards their homes, after the days
| work is over. The chief Justice is
he more laxative of the two, and
as he becomes absorbed in his sub
| ha NIL oh &c 70
the arm and stop and the two stand
there in the midst of the sidewalk
| and discuss the subject between
them for several minutes at a time.
quite unconscious of the crowd pass
! ing around them I have seen them
T frequently together on a street can
, when the weather was bad, equally
| absorbed in their conversation; ano
, however absol bed they were always
among the first, when the car be
came crowded, to rise and give then
seats to ladies. And / have seen {
former vice president on the SAINT
' car, sit like a knot on log and take
S no notice whatever of ladies, old o.
Young swinging to straps arount
S him Justice Holmes is Massachu
. sets man and a son of the late Dr.
4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table from
whom it is fair to believe, he inner
its much of his seniality.
Some of the n3en who practice be
{ fore this court are hardly less dis
= tingushed than its members them
It selves Perhaps the attorney VIII
y has most often appeared there i
e recent years. since the trust hear
# ings have been more or less frequen
+ is John G. Johnson of Philadelphla
% He is a big fellow, with florid fac
:. and shock of gray hair. He
strong and forceful, as one may We
imagine of one so frequently engas
ed before this tribunal; and whe
+ he gets well swung out into his al
l. gumcnts, he goes tearing along Xix
/ cyclone. He was in both the Star
= dard Oil and the Tobacco Trus
If cases, recently argued here; an
-, was on the side of the defendant !
each case.
Much as his services ere souSh
" | am told he cxacts no big fees
was rel-ted to me, the other da!
d that he was employed, not 9 grea
IS while ago, by the Rea ling R-ilroa
9 company to argue an important cas-
T. without any agreement as to fe'
h When he had won the case the con
y pany presented him a creek fo
$4,000. with IN intimation that
= would be increased if it were n
u satisfactory Johnson returned tn
J. check. with the statement Il at h
hid never earned $4,000 in any on