Evening star., 1942-07-18
Former Justice Sutherland Dies
In Sleep at Vacation Inn

I forming a law partnership with
Farley L. Williams and Waldemar
Van Cott. Justice Sutherland de-
voted most of his time to mining
litigation, but was active, too, in
preparing Utah for statehood and in
| 1896 was elected to the first State
Legislature.
Four years later he went to Phila-
delphia as one of the Utah delegates
to the Republican national conven-
ton which renominated President
William Mckinley and named
Theodore Roosevelt as the party's
candidate for vice president That
fall Justice Sutherland was elected
to Congress. In the national House
he served on the Committee on r.
rigation and framed the Reclama-
ton. Act, one of Roosevelt's pet
conservation measures. He refused
nomination for second term.
Noted As Lawyer In Senate.
In 1904, after supporting Roose-
velt's nomination for the presidency
at the Republican convention in
Chicago, he was elected Senator
by unanimous vote of the Repub-
lican members of the Utah legisla-
ture. Six years later the legisla-
ture reelected him.
In Washington Sutherland was
considered one of the ablest lawyers
In Congress. As Senator he was
largely instrumental in the enact
ment of the judicial and criminal
codes He spoke in favor of bills
establishing the postal savings
banks and for compulsory workmen's
compensation, and on behalf of
constitutional amendments provid-
ing direct election of Senators and
woman's suffrage.
/ The senatorial amendment be-
came effective in 1913 and under it
Justice Sutherland, in 1916, entered
his first Statewide political cam
paign. 1t was slam-bang affair,
renewing the rivalry between him
and Mr.. King. whom he had beaten
for the National House 16 years be-
fore. Mr.. King won and Justice
Sutherland went back to his law
office
He was president of the American
Bar Association 1861 and in 1918
delivered lecture course at Colum-
bia University which afterwards ap-
peared In book form with the title.
constitutional Power and World
Affairs"
The 1920 Republican Convention
at Chicago with its nomination of
Mr.. Harding after the Frank Low
den-Leonard Wood deadlock had
been broken by the famous smoke
filled hotel room" conference, was a
turning point in Justice Sutherland S
career. A mild-mannered man of
polished affability and agile mind,
he had formed close senatorial
friendship with Mr.. Harding and the
candidate called upon his former
colleague to lend his political acu-
men to the front porch campaign
at the Harding home in Marion.
Ohio. Justice Sutherland spent sew
eral months there and was credited
with special effectiveness in healing
some of the convention wounds and
| 'S uAiieAAiS VIC pal W 1OI lIS SlIldSIllIR
victory in November.
Debt Repaid BY Harding.
When the Washington conference
on limitations of armaments as
sembled in November, 1921, Presi-
dent Harding named Justice Suth-
erland as chairman of the advisory
committee to the American delega
ton He took an. active part in
shaping the conference course
toward the naval limitation and
nine-power Pacific pacts which
resulted.
The following July Harding sent
him abroad as chief of counsel fol
the United States in shipping dis
pute case won by Norway before
The Hague tribunal. He had beer
back from this assignment less than a
month when Justice John H. Clarke
resigned from the Supreme Court
in order to devote his time to the
cause OF world peace. President
Harding crowned his friendship with
the Utahan by selecting him for the
post. He was nominated and con-