The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-06
BRANDEIS TAXES
 HIS PLACE IN SUPREME COURT

Washington, June 6,-With the same simple, dignified ceremony by which sixty-one predecessors have mounted to the highest court in the land, Louis D. Brandeis became MT. Justice Bran deis of the United States supreme Court at noon yesterday He IS the first lawyer of Jewish extraction to ascend the Supreme Bench
 Not in recent years has a similar ceremony attracted large or as dis tinguished an audience to the little court chamber. Spectators filled the lawyers benches, the two rows reser- we'd for spectators and the a1sles or the room. They included Secretary of War Baker, Attorney General Greg ory Senators Thomas and Martin, and many members of the House.
 It was a few minutes before noon when MT, Brandeis rose to the main floor of the Capitol in the elevator reserved for the Justice of the Su- preme Court and walked nervously in to the chambers across the corridor from the court room. There he don ned his black silk robe for the first time and was ready when Chief Jus- tice White appeared, Bible in hand, and with a typewriter copy or the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. As recited Wby MT. Brandeis the oath was:
 I, Louis D. Brandeis. do sol
 emnIy swear that I will support
 and defend the Constitution or
 the United States against all ene-
 mics, foreign and domestic. that
 will bear true faith and allegiance
 to the same, that take this ob-
 ligation freely, without any men
 tai reservation or purpose Of eva
 sion, and that I will well and
 faithfully discharge the duties of
 the office upon which I am about
 to enter. So help me God.
 Both the chief justice and MT. Bran deis-for he was still 'Mister''-sign- ed this paper. after which the court, led by the chief justice, marched in single file across the public corridor, into the court chamber, MT. Brandeis in the rear. Only Justice Day was absent, due to an illness of some dur ation-
 While his new colleagues seated themselves MT. Brandeis remained standing beside the clerk of the court, James D. Maher, at the extreme left and in front of the bench, seating himself there after his colleagues had taken their chairs. Justice White immediately announced that MT. Louis D. Brandeis had been appointed by the President a member of the su preme court, and that MT. Brandeis was present, and directed that the clerk read MT. Brandeis' conmis- sion.
 While court, attaches and specta- tors stood, MT. Maher, in voice scarcely audible to those in the back of the room, read the commission, and turning to the new member handed him in typewritten form his oath of office MT. Brandeis showed extreme nervousness in reading his oath, which follows:
 I, Louis D. Brandefs, do so1ennly
 swear that I will administer jus
 tice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor
 and to the rich, and that I will
 faithfully and impartially dis
 charge and perform all the duties
 incumbent upon me as Associate
 Justice of the Supreme Court of
 the United States, according to
 the best of my ability and under
 standing, agreeably to the Consti-
 tuition and the laws of the United
 States. So help me God.
 Following this, the oath was signed by Justice Brandeis and MT. Maher. after which the latter led the new Justice to his seat on the extreme left of the Chief Justice, all members of the court holding to him as he passed behind them, and Justice Pit ney, sitting on his right, shaking hands as the court again seated it. self. Among those who witnessed the swearing-in of Justice Brandeis were Mrs. Brandeis and their daughter. Miss Eliza beth V. Brandeis; MT. and Mrs Alfred Brandeis of Louisville, Miss Papline Goldmark, a sister-in- law and George W. Anderson, United States attorney at Boston, who con- ducted the Brandeis side of the exten- sive hearings before the Senate com mittee.