Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23

TIL
the speaker declared and argued tina
the power exercised by the Suprem
Court in passing upon the constitu
tionality of acts of Congress was usur
| rant.
probably no public reply will be made
But why should we not get down t.
the practical. and determine by indi
v1duai effort to support and extend thu
collective work of this bar association
and of the leaders who have writer
and spoken?"
Col. Jay contented himself with telling
humorous stories, and kept those at thu
dinner in roars of laughter He said he
had practiced law for great many
years. but had never before had the SUI
preme Court in a position where its
members We're obliged to listen to him.
Exhibits a Relic.
| Col. Jay. who is regarded as one OF
the leaders of the New York bar. told
his audience that he still lives in the
house in which William Jay, his ances-
tor, who was the first Chief Justice of
spent twenty-four years of his life, and
ne brought from his library in that
house diary of his ancestors, in which
there were frequent entries that the
court mad adjourned for want of some
thing to do. He remarked that such en-
| tries would probably attract great at
| tention from the members of the pres
eni court, to whom he exhibited the
Mr. Estabrook. a member of the New
| York bar, dwelt upon the phrase sit
tl1chkeIt, meaning good FORM which
was made so much of by Lord Haldane
| lord chief justice of England. when tn.
latter was the principal guest of the
par association at its convention al
Montreal last year. Mr.. Estabrook de
clared that "Sittlichkeit'' among ma
the day when the people will wrench
the sword from the hand of violence
and commit it to the hand of Justice
MIR. Marshall, descendant of Chief
Justice Marshall, said he thought that
the greatest good the bar association
can do Is to unite with all the bars
OF the country against any and all
plans. to weaken the independence OF
the judiciary"
900 Per Cent Went Wrong"
Mr.. Carson, who proposed the prin-
the utility of the law, urged his au-
dience to go back-"all the way back to
the garden of Eden. There the birds
shone and the skies were fair" he
said, land there was no Standard Oil,
there was no money trust yet, never
theless, 100 per cent of the population
went wrong"
1t remained for Mr. Taft, as toast
statements made during the evening
in regard to the Supreme Court.
Aroused. vehement, angry, at times, he
alluded with but a thin veil to the at
tacks on the courts that have been
made by former President Roosevelt.
Il have heard" Mr.. Taft said, in
part. 'of young professors of law who
have alluded to decisions of the Su-
preme Court of the United States as
the opinions of nine old gentlemen I
am glad I am now placed where I can
neutraliZe some of that sentiment.
Il did not mean to get into this-a
defense of the Supreme Court, for the
Supreme Court needs no defense. 1
love that court, though, and 1 thank
God, for the sake of the people of the
Without it we would not have govern
ment that would be useful to the peo-
pie.
THE Supreme Court, thank God, out
lives President and it outlives parties!
Looking back through history you will
find that opposition to it has come
from the most popular Presidents, but
it will live long enough, it has lived
long enough, to show that attacks on
1t are ephemeral, while it will last for
ever"
List of Guests.
The list of guests at the banquet is
as follows:
Edwin NJ. Abbott, Ira A. Abbott, H. N.
hnr IL;
B. Adams, Joseph Addison. Jesse C.
Adkins, Charles S. Albert, Thomas ].
B. Albrige, A. D. Alcorn, w. T. Alden,
Lucien Hugh Alexander, Samuel A. Am
mon. George W. anderson, L. G. An
Thomas Anderson. J. D. Andrews, H. c.
Ansley, Frederick H. Appleton, James
B. Archer, Allison Armour. Lynn J.
Arnold and Henry De L. Ashley.
H. n. Baetjer, Hollis R. Bailey. Joseph
w. Bailey, c. S. Baker, J. Henry Baker
John NJ. Baker. J; Newton Baker
William H. Baldwin, Edgar A. Ban
croft, Orion NJ. Barber, B. E. Barlow
Joseph Barnard, A. C. Barnes, Charles
B. Barnes. NJ D. Barnes, Frank p
Barnhart, w. H. Barrett, John P. Bart
lett, Ralph S. Bartlett, Alfred Battle
Roger H. Bayly, James NJ. Beck, George
S. Bedford. Aston Beekman, George G.
Beekman, Alexander H. Bell, F. A. Ben
nett, Alexander G. Bentley. A L. Ber-
ger, E. H. Beshlin, J. c. Biggs, N. B.
Billingsley, c. B. Bird, r. c. Blackford
Robert F. Blair, 8. T. Bledsoe, A. r.
Bolton, Carroll T. Bond, Samuel r
Bond, Gardner L. Boothe. Orrin L. Bos-
worth, George A. Bourgeois, Arthur NJ
Bowen, E. A. Bowers, James w. Bow
ers, Joseph Boyer, E. w. Bradford, w
G. Brantley, William P. Breen, J. III
Brickenstein, William w. Bride, A. IL
Bright, Michael S. Bright, John p. Bris-
coe. DR.. John P. Briscoe, p. b. Briscoe
Alexander Britton, Charles E. Brock
William Brosmith. Chaplin Brown, Ed
ward o. Brown, F. A. Brown, Hugh ii
Blown, Leo NJ. Brown, r. A. Brown
Rome G. Brown, George F. Browneli
George Bryan, G. w. Burlington. j. b
| bunting. C. N Burch, Louis ]. Burger
William H. Burgess, Joseph A. Burkart
Edmund w. Burke. n. Charles Burke
Henry Burnett, H. Ralph Burton
Charles Henry Butler, Charles !. But
ton and William p. Bynum.
| Francis G.. Caffey, Chief Justice Camp
he'll, J. w. Canada, Walter c. .Capper
| John r. Garland, Walter J. Carlin, f
| M. carr, Harvey F. Carr. Howard Car
row ]. McF Carpenter, Hampton L
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