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sions, upon leaving his Office he woulc
cross the Mississippi River and board
train that wound its way west toward
the Evangeline country. From the cal
window he could see to his left the
wide marsh, or trembling prairie, as II
Is called, stretching off toward the shore
of the Gulf of Mexico. Northward this
marsh swept out to a distant forest Of
cypress. Near his train, red winged
black birds balanced themselves on the
swaying reeds, Just as today, and f1ocks
of wild ducks arose from the lagoon'
and hurried of to more quiet feeding
places. Now and again, on a small
bayou that threaded the western enc
of the prairie q lone voyageur in a
shell-like pirogue might be seen wav-
ing his dripping paddle as salute tc
the laundering train. Passing the
prairie, the train entered great cypress
brake where, on another bayou, hardly
wider than an ordinary country road
a dininutive tugboat noisily towed its
long raft Of logs toward the neighboring
sawmill.
on arriving at the station where the
railway crosses Bayou Lafourche, Judge
White would alight, enter the carriage
awaiting him and set of up the road
which he had Travelled that cold Feb
va
Tong heavy blue braided coat" of the
kind Federal off1cer.
The plantation, though impoverished
was still deservedly dear to him and
substantial enough to furnish stage
on which an imaginative lawyer could
play the role of a planter. OF this
alluring plantation life Mr.. Henry P.
Dart, a friend of the Chief Justice,
said:
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the experience was a costly one to the
Judge, and yet he was only following a
well beaten professional road. ALI OF
us at that period carried in our KNAPP
sacks the baton Of planter. 1t was
the goal Of every successful lawyer 10
plant cane or cotton. From a time
whereof the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary, it was the fate
of our famous lawyers to plant their
hard-earned dollars IN those fascinat-
ing rows and hills, which, alas. pro-
duced usually only crops of debt. 1t
was an arduous adventure when one
was present, practicing law and plant
ing on the side; 1t did not cease to be
arduous but is passed into hazardous
occupation when the planter was living
mostly at the Capital and depending on
local agents. But the baccili OF this
disease are difficult to eradicate; in
deed, the sheriff's writ is supposed to
ne the only permanent remedy.
One Of Judge Whites neighbors on
Bayou Lafourche was Gov. Francis
Tillou Nichols. In the Civil War he
had lost an eye and also a foot and an
arm, When refusing to sign the act
passed by the Louisiana Legislature to
recharter the Louisiana Lottery Co., the
Governor said:
cat no time and under no circum-
stances will I permit one of my hands
to aid in degrading what the other was
lost in seeking to uphold-the honor
of nv native State. Were I to afflx
my signature TO this bill, I would be
indeed ashamed to let my left hand
know what my right hand had done"
In the campaign against the lottery
company Judge White took an active
part. The Louisiana Legislature showed
its appreciation Of his assistance in rid
ding the State of this gambling evil by
electing him to the United States Sem
ate. There his ability was quickly rec
ognized.
on the death Of one Justice Of
the United States Supreme Court
President Cleveland made two futile
efforts TO MI the vacancy. A heated
quarrel developed among the political
leaders of the State of New York, and
as the Presidents nominations for the
judicial honor did not meet with the
approval of q New York Senator, con-
fn1ations were refused by the Senate.
President Cleveland, on hearing that
a certain New England Senator had
boosted that the President could not
name q man whom the Senate would
confirm, Is reported to have said, I'll
name q man tomorrow whom the Sen
ate will unanimously confirm and for
whom that pestiferous wasp Will him.
self be compelled to vote"
OF this third nomination, Robert
McElroy, in his Life Of Grover Cleve-
land" says:
"To those who watched the sugar
debate In the Senate, few names would
have seemed less likely to be thus en-
ployed than that Of Edward Douglass
White, Senator from Louisiana. Mr..
White was a member of the German
Brice alliance, and through it was
seeking to restore duties upon sugar,
iron ore, coal and other raw materials
which the House had put on the free
list. His standing before the country,
however, was not shaken by his acttv-
tiles in the interest of his constituency,
and 1t would have been hard to find
a representative man in any party
ready to credit against him the charge,
so effective against others, of being
Senator from Havemeyer.'
although, Of course, conscious of
The high regard in which he was held,
Senator White did not suspect that the
President, whose cherished plans he
was so effectively opposing, was con-
sidering him in connection with the
much discussed vacant associate JUS
ticeship Indeed, IT is said that when
he received a request to call at the
White House he remarked to friend
that this would probably be his last
call upon President Cleveland. To his
establishment, instead of reproaches fol-
his nti-administration activities, he
was offered the vacant seat upon the