People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — MADE A JUSTICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MADE A JUSTICE.

j Senator White of Louisiana, the Recipient of a High Honor. President Cleveland Nominate* Him as Justice Blatchford's Successor on the Supreme Bench, and the Senate Immediately Confirms Him. A SOUTHERN MAN SELECTED. Washington, Feb. 21. —Senator White, of Louisiana, was Dominated for associate justice of the supreme court. The senate upon receiving the nomination immediately went into executive session, and confirmed it at once, without opposition. The nomination was a complete surprise. No one had the slightest intimation of it. Those nearest the president believed that he would nominate

Judge Cullen, of New York. Senator White called on the president this morning by special invitation. His colleague, Senator Caffery, went with him. Upon entering the executive room the president tendered j Senator White the nomination. Both ! senators were profoundly aston- ; ished. When they recovered their composure the president expressed 1 the hope that the senator would : accepr the offer. He spoke of his legal attainments and his manifest ] qualifications. When he finished the ! senators conferred together for a few minutes. A long talk between them j followed and ended with Senator White’s accepting the high honor. When Assistant Private Secretary j Pruden appeared at the capital there was a rush of anxious ones for him. The assistant private secretary was as much in the dark about Senator White’s nomination as anyone The first person besides the president and the two senators to learn of it was when one of the senate clerks opened the official envelope brought by Mr. Pruden and laid a paper before Senator Vilas, who was presiding, and Senator Manderson, who was standing by. Their faces betrayed their astonishment. It is the usual custom in the senate when a senator is nominated to confirm him without waiting to refer the nomination to a committee. A single objection to confirmation without reference would earry the nomination over. At 8:05 p. in. the senate went into executive session on a motion of Senator Caffery (dem., La.), with I a view to confirming Senator ■ White at once. The motion to con- ! firm the nomination of Senator White I as associate justice was made by I Senator Pugh (dem., Ala), who made ; a speech eulogistic of the nomination 1 and was followed by Senators lloar, j Teller, Hill and Caiferty, all except ' the latter members of the judiciary committee. Senator Hill said that ' while he regretted that the president ■ had in his wisdom seen fit to go out- i side ot New York for a man for the of- : lice he was pleased that the choice had been made so wisely. The injunction of secrecy was removed from the confirmation of White and the fact was made known officially. The new justice, it is supposed, will receive his commission and be ready to take his seat on the bench when the supreme court reassembles the first Monday in March. The nomination is considered a ! splendid one from a standpoint of personal fitness. Senator White, though ; serving his first term in the sen- : ate, is regarded by his colleagues las one of the foremost lawi yers of the upper house. He jis a fine orator and his speech j last session against the anti-op- | tion bill placed him at once in the | front ranks of the senate. He is a j large man of imposing presence and j will make a good appearance on the ! bench. He was not in the senate when the Domination came in. He is a couri teous gentleman and a very popular | member of the senate. i [Mr. White was born iu.the parish ot Lafourche, j La., in November, 1845. Ho was educated ; at Mount St. Mary’s, near Emmettsburg, \ Md., at the Jesuit college l in New Orleans ; and at Georgetown coliege, District of j Columbia. He served in the confedi erate army. After the war he began studying law and was admitted to practice by the supreme court ot Louisiana in 186). Six years later he was elected to the state senate. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1 878. He was elected to the United States senate as a demo- , crat to succeed James B. Eustis, taking his ] seat March 4, 1891. Hi 3 term will expire March ! 3, 1897.]

EDWARD D WHITE.