Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-19
COMPLICATION
OF DISEASES
CAUSES DEATH
Shadow of Sorrow is Cast
Over Washington When
Report is Given Out.
Tentative Funeral Plans
Made; Burial to Take
Place on Saturday.

Place on Saturday.
Washington, May 19-The ma
chinery of the federal govern
nent will be halted during the
funeral Saturday of Edward
Douglass White, chief Justice of
the United States, under an ex.
ccutive order issued today by
President Harding.
The president directed that all
executive departments and gov
ernment establishments TN WASH
ington be closed that day; that
the usual military and naval hon
ors be rendered and that on all
legations and cOnsulates of the
United States in foreign countries
the American flag be displayed at
half mast for thirty days.
Washington, May 19.-The death
here early this morning of Edward
Douglas White, veteran chief justice
Of the United States supreme court,
casts a shadow Of sorrow today over
thel national capital. where during
his long years of service on the su-
preme court bench, he had grown in
the admiration and esteem not only
entire community.
Although all hope for the chief JUS
tice's recovery following an opera
ton last Friday, had been abandoned,
since he took a critical turn for the
worse two days ago, the news Of his
death, which occurred at 2 o'clock
this morning, came as a. shock to
:, friends and assistants. The chief jus-
ttce, who was rs years old, had on
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operation for Bladder trouble and his
record Of attendance on the supreme
bench was traditional.
At the bedside when death came,
were the wife of the chief justice. HIS
two neices, Miss Ann Montgomery
and Miss Mary Lee Broussard, and the
town university, who had administer-
ed the last sacrament during the early
: evening. %
According to tentative funeral ar
rangements announced today inter-
ment will take place here in Oak Hill
cemetery following simple services
under the Catholic ritual to be held
at st. Matthews church at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning. III
The body of the late chief justice
was removed to his local residence
from the hospital where he died.
IAfc of Chief Justice White
Chief Justice Edward Douglass
White was, strictly speaking, the lone
representative of the South on the SUI
preme bench for number of years.
Coming from family of judges.
his father and his grandfather before
him having been on the bench, Chief
Justice White had had a judicial in
heritance as we'll as legal training.
Fills knowledge Of the Civil law was
generally regarded as the most pro-
found Of any man that ever sat on the
bench of the supreme court Of the
United States. He developed a spec
ialty for questions of interstate COM
merce, and his contribution to the law
Of the land probably will be perm
He was born in the parish of La
fourche, La, November 3. 1S45. His
parents were Catholics. and he was
OF that faith. His education was in
Catholic institutions. In his early
youth. he attended the school at
Mount st. Mary's near Emmitsburg.
Md. later he entered the Jesuit Col
lege in New Orleans, and finally he
went to Georgetown college, Of wash
ington, D. c.
Chief Justice White served in the
Confederate army during the Civil
war; ,practiced law among the people
of louisiana; and became a sugar
planter on its lowlands. His ability
and high character were recognized
hy the people in repeated commits
sions as public official. In 1874, he
was elected as senator in the Louis
fana legislature. Four years later, he
was appointed associate justice Of the
Supreme court Of the state.
Became National Figure
In 1891. Mr.. White became a ma
tional figure. A senatorial contest
was waged in Louisiana. and he enter
ed the race. He had managed the
campaign Of Governor Nichols for re-
election and had been prominent in
the reform element Of Louisiana. He
had fought vigorously in favor Of the
ture finally chose him to succeed Sen
ator Eustis.
Chief Justice White was in the ZEN
ate three years before he was elevat-
ed to the bench OF the supreme court
Of the United States by President
cleveland, in 1894. During that pc
riod, he distinguished himself on two
occasions. Once was in the debate
on the Anti Option Law. when sena-
tor White made a profound legal ar
gument against the constitutionality
Of the measure. The. other occasion
was during the struggle over the re-
/ peal of the Sherman Act, when he
advocated the views OF President
Cleveland was known to entertain on
the subject. His nomination to the
bench ended aIfmemorable contest in
the senate. Two New Workers had
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