Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — The National Supreme Court. [ARTICLE]

The National Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme court' has been in existence a century, and yet is only three years behind in its business. At this rate it should be only 6 years behind in 1990! 12 yean in 2090; 24 years in 2190; 48 in 2280; 96 in years 2390; 192 years in 2490; 384 years in 2690; 768 years in 2690; 1,584 in 2790, and in 800 years from now will be. according to geometrical progression, 3,072 years behind in its work, where we leave the patient litigant, because we don’t want to harrow up his feelings about the time he will have to wait for JVefia-