Evening star., 1925-01-07

President Coolidge is deeply gratf-
fed that he was able to persuade
Harlan F'iske Stone to take a place
on the Supreme Court bench. The
President knows that his Amherst
classmate has made a heavy financial
sacrifice in so doing. Mr.. stone, like
many an Attorney General before
him, could probably have retired
from the Department of Justice some
day and acquired an annual income
of s15O,O00 at the New York bar. He
prefers to serve his country at a
salary of $14,000-just about a tenth
of what he might have earned from
a. private law practice. Perhaps
Coolidge induced Stone to go to the
Supreme Court as the Surest way OF
keeping him near at hand. When the
Attorney General was appointed to
his present position, it was said that
he owed the selection to the fact that
Mr. Coolidge wanted some one in that
portfolio who was a time-tested
friend Mr. Stone becomes the young
est member of the Supreme Court
aged 80. The next youngest is MT
Justice Butler, who is approaching 90.
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William Howard Taft broke all
modern records for the number OF
Supreme Court justices appointed by
a. single President. He named i've
a full majority of the bench. Al
though that was within the past six
teen years. a relatively brief period
in the lives of members of our highest
tribunal, only one of Taft's ap-
pointees-Mr. Justice Van Devanter
named in 1911-still adorns it. Three
of the Taft quintet-Moody OF Mas
sachusetts, Lurton Of Tennessee and
Lamar of Georgia-have passed on
and Hughes resigned.
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In both of his recent scorching pas.
sages-at-arms with fellow Democrats
| in the Senate, Senator William Cabell
Bruce of Maryland has quoted Benja.
min Franklin. He has an advantage
| in that respect, for one of Bruces lit.
erary productions is entitltd Benjamin
Franklin Self-Revealed." which ap-
peared in two volumes in 1918. BE.
| low the James" and John Randolph
of Roanoke" are two other books OF
which Senator Bruce is the author
Bruce is Scottish by ancestry, OF
course, as his fighting name indicates
and one of the Cabells of Virginia or
| his mothers side. He is himself a ma.
| tive of the Old Dominion, and was g
| student at the University of Virginia
about the time Senator Oscar w. Un
derwood was there.
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When he introduced his bill pro
viding for both compulsory and volun
! tary attendance of members of the
executive branch of the Government al
sessions of Congress, Representative
Jacobstein of New York recalled thai
President George Washington once pre-
sented himself on the floor of the Sen
ate. It was on August %, 1888, anc
| the first President came, accompanies
by Gen. Knox, Secretary of War, Il
lay before the Senate certain fact.
for the Senate's information. advice
and consent Exactly one month
previous, Thomas Jefferson, Secretary
| of State in Washington's cabinet, "at-
tended at the Senate, agreeable to or
der. and made certain necessary ex
| plantations.
| If exercise of the right of Suffrag'
is the highest form of peace-tim'
patriotism, the Nobel prize goes t.
west Virginia. closely pursued b!
Indiana In the recent presidentia
election John w. Davis home Stat
polIed 72 per cent of its voting
population, while Indiana rolled III
| II 1-3 per cent. The next best re
| cords were scored, respectively, b!
wyoming with 69 per cent? Delawar'
with 661s per cent, Iowa with Sc pc
| cent and Kansas with 81 23 pc
cent. South Carolina made the wors
showing. Less than 10 per cent o
it's voting population C06) went t.
the polls on November 4, 1924. Othe
southern States like Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar
kansas, voted to the extent of les
than 10 per cent.
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| washington's heavy fall of snow
did something more than throw tn
ipistrict OF Columbia's phantom