Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-19

Up to that time the attending physi-
clans had hoped for a rapid recovery
after an operation for bladder trouble.
After the unexpected relapse the
physicians had not expected the chief
justice to live thru the night. The
Reverend Father S. j. Creeden. of
Georgetown university administered
the last sacrament during the early
evening and members of the imme
diate family were summoned to the
bedside. Death was said to be due
directly to complications which de-
veloped after the operation. Justice
Mckenna and other of MIR. Whites
associates in the supreme court. call
ed at the hospital when it became
known his condition was serious but
did not enter the room as the chief
justice was unconscious.
Chief Justice Edward Douglass White
was, strictly speaking, the lone repre-
sentative of the south on the supreme
bench for a number of years.
Coming from a family of judged, his
father and his grandfather before him
having been on the bench. Chief JUS
tice White had had a judicial inher-
itance as we'll as legal training. His
knowledge of the civil law was gen.
orally regarded as the most profound
of any man that ever sat on the bench
of the Supreme court Of tho United
States. He developed a specially for
questions of interstate commerce. and
his contribution to the law of the land
probably will be a permanent one.
He was born in the parish of La
fourche. La, November 3, is45. His
parents were Catholics, and he was of
that faith. His education was in Cath
olic institutions. In his early youth,
he attended the school at Mount St.
Mary's near Emmitsburg. Mr.; later
he entered the Jesuit college in New
Orleans. and finally he went to George
town college, of Washington, d. c.
Chief Justice White served in the
Confederate army during the Civil
war: practiced law among the people
of Louisiana and became sugar
planter on its iowlands. His ability
| and high character were recognized by
the people in repeated commissions as
a public official. In 1874 he was cleo
ted as Senator in tho Louisiana lcgis-
lature. Four years later. he was ap-
pointed associate justice of the Su-
preme court of tho state
In 1891 Mr.. White became a national
figure. A senatorial contest was waged
in Louisiana, and he entered the race.
Ho had managed the campaign of Gov
ernor Nichols for reelection and had
been prominent in ,ne reform element
of louisiana He had fought vigor-
ously in favor of the anti-lottery move
ment. Tho legislature finally chose
him to succeed Senator Eustis.
Chief Justice White was in the SEN
ate three years before he was elevated
to tho bench of the Supreme court Of
the United States by President Cleve-
land. In 1894. During that period. he
distinguished himself on two ocra-
sions. Once was in the debate on the
anti-option law. when Senator White
made profound legal argument
against the constitutionality of the
measure. Tho other occasion was dur
ing the struggle over tho repeal of the
Sherman act. when he advocated the
views President Cleveland was known
to entertain on the subject. Ills nom
ination to the bench ended a mcmorab bic
contest In the senate. Two New York
ers had been nominated by President
Cleveland, but both failed OF confirm
alton. Throwing to. the winds the GUS
tom which for eiyhty-cight years had
kept a New York man on the bench.
Mr.. Cleveland named Senator White.
He was confirmed within an hour
Almost as unusual rs his appointment
as associate justice was his elevation