Evening star., 1922-01-16
WHITE MEMORIAL
CEREMONIES HELD
Resolutions of Sorrow for
Death of Chief Justice
Presented in Court.


pressing the sorrow of the bar OF the
country upon the death of Chief
Justice White were presented to the
supreme Court OF the United States
this afternoon by Attorney General
Daugherty They were received ana
will be preserved in the records.
Attorney General Daugherty de-
livered an appropriate eulogy OF the
late Chief Justice. which was re-
sponded to by Chief Justice Tart,
who, in the course of his remarks
made it known that the court had re-
ceived and placed in its records ex-
pressions of sympathy and apprecia-
ton Of the high standing OF the late
Chief Justice as ourlst peiore 'ns
world from the lord chancellor OF
England and the bar OF that country.
chief Justice Taft's Comment.
Chief Justice Taft called attention
to the fact that the twenty-seven
years of service on the bench, ten OF
which were as Chief Justice. made the
term Of Chief Justice White nearly as
long as that of John Marshall. He
pointed out that this span OF service
embraced two wars. and "A period OF
serious social and business reforms
irvolving substantial and necessary
changes in our methods or govern
ment. with the application OF which
this court has had much to do. IN
the necessary adjustment. the opinions
of Chief Justice White were the most
able and helpful contributions.
The enormous material expansion
of the latter half of the nineteenth
u
and political control through wealth
which threatened the welfare OF the
republic, and the abuses then existing
led to the enactment of most far-
reaching remedial legislation, said
the Chief Justice.
He reviewed briefly the work Of the
late Chief Justice in interpreting the
antitrust laws, the income tax. the
railroad laws. in the latter OF wh1ch
he said the pioneer work OF Cniel
Justice White In his field entities him
10 the gratitude of his countrymen.
Referring to the problems which
came out of the Spanish American
war. involving the administration OF
newly acquired colonies for the BEN
eft of the Inhabitants, he said:
Was there elasticity enough in our
governmental structure to permit this
TO be done with the application OF
specific constitutional guarantees OF
liberty sacred to the traditions OF our
people, but dangerous and impractic-
able in q society unframed In their
use"
Becomes Law of the Land.
after much difference Of opinion
between the members OF the court.
the distinction in the rigid application
OF these guarantees as between ter
ritory acquired by the United States
and belonging to 1t. and territory
thereafter incorporated by Congress
into the Union. originally insisted on
by Mr.. Justice White. became the set
tied opinion of the court and the law
of the land. 1t enabled our govern
ment to do benefcent colonial work
for retarded peoples. The once genu-
Inc fear Of imperalistic tendency from
the distinction has faded away"
The opinions of the late Chief
Justice in interpreting the selective
service act and other acts of the
world war were referred to by Chief
Justice Taft.
Eulogy by Mr.. Dausherty.
After reviewing the history of
Chief Justice Whites life from the
time of his birth to December 10,
1910, when he succeeded Chief Justice
Fuller as the ninth man to be ap-
pointed to that Office, Mr.. Daugherty
said:
No greater eulogy can be pro-
nounced upon Chief Justice White
for nearly seventeen years. and later
as Chief Justice for more than, ten
years, he responded in full measure
to the requirements of that high Of
fee.
"Chief Justice White was deeply
devolving upon this court" the At
torney General continued. He real
lied fully the transcendent impor-
tance Of it's function and place in our
system of government. He gave un-
reservedly all the power OF his
nifty. its traditions and its useful
ness"
The Attorney General then gave a
brief review Of the more important
opinions given by the late Chief JUS
tice, declaring the jurist advocating
be dependent upon the states to sup
ply funds for conducting the gov
ernment," and in another instance of
Mr.. Whites protests against any de-
cision that would enfeeble the ma
tional government and make it a
Of the states"
One Of Earth's NobIemen.
Mature was kind to Chief Justice
WHITE" said Mr.. Daugherty, in con-
cluding his address. "The elements
were so mixed in him that he was
destined to be one of the earth's
noblemen. His profound mind in all
its manifestations was supplemented
by a largeness of personality and of
life. He was no egotist. In every
thing that he has written about him
self, as well as in his personal de-
meanor. there is significant absence
of anything that would bear the i'm
press of self-glorification.
"His great mind had penetrated far
enough into spiritual things to un-
derstand the smallness of man in the
infinite purpose of God. OF him it
could truly be said that his purpose
was to do justice. to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with his God"