fulfil the duties of that Office according to the Constitution and Laws of the said United States, and to Have and to Hold the said Office, with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments to the same of right appertaining, unto Him, the said Tom C. Clark, during his good behavior. In testimony whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made patent and the seal of the Department of Justice to be hereunto affixed. Done at the City of Washington this nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyfourth. By the President: PEYTON FORD HARRY S. TRUMAN. Acting Attorney General. APPOINTMENT OF MR. JUSTICE MINTON. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949. Present: MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE REED, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, MR. JUSTICE BURTON, MR. JUSTICE CLARK, and MR. JUSTICE MINTON. THE CHIEF JUSTICE said: The President has nominated and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed Circuit Judge Sherman Minton, of Indiana, to be an Associate Justice of this Court in succession to Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge, deceased. He has presented his commission and has taken the oaths prescribed by law. It is ordered that his commission be recorded and that his oaths be filed. The commission of MR. JUSTICE MINTON is in the words and figures following, viz: HARRY S. TRUMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, To all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE; That reposing special trust and confidence in the Wisdom, Uprightness, and Learning of Sherman Minton of Indiana I have nominated, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and do authorize and empower him to execute ΧΙ and fulfil the duties of that Office according to the Constitution and laws of the said United States, and to Have and to Hold the said Office, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments to the same of right appertaining, unto Him, the said Sherman Minton, during his good behavior. In testimony whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made patent and the seal of the Department of Justice to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington this fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth. HARRY S. TRUMAN. By the President: J. HOWARD MCGRATH Attorney General. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES In Memory of Mr. Chief Justice Hughes' MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950 Present: MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE REED, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, MR. JUSTICE BURTON, MR. JUSTICE CLARK, and MR. JUSTICE MINTON. MR. SOLICITOR GENERAL PERLMAN addressed the Court as follows: May it please this Honorable Court: At a meeting of members of the Bar of the Supreme Court, held on November 4, 1949,2 resolutions expressing their profound sorrow at the death of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes were offered by a committee, of which the Honorable John W. Davis was chairman.3 Addresses on the 1 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES, who had retired from active service July 1, 1941 (313 U. S. p. II), died at the Wianno Club, Osterville, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1948. Funeral services were conducted at Riverside Church, New York City, on August 31, 1948, and interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, on the same day. 2 The Committee on Arrangements for the meeting of the Bar consisted of Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman, Chairman, Mr. James F. Byrnes, Mr. William D. Mitchell, Mr. George Wharton Pepper, Mr. William Phillips, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and Mr. Owen D. Young. 3 The Committee on Resolutions consisted of Mr. John W. Davis, Chairman, Mr. Dean Acheson, Mr. Sidney S. Alderman, Judge Florence E. Allen, Mr. Douglas Arant, Mr. Colley W. Bell, Mr. Francis Biddle, Mr. J. Crawford Biggs, Chief Judge John Biggs, Jr., Mr. resolutions were made by former Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York; former New York Appellate Division Justice Joseph M. Proskauer; the Honorable Charles Cheney Hyde, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Columbia University and Solicitor of the Department of State during the period when Mr. Hughes was Secretary of that Department; and the Honorable John Lord O'Brian, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States and a long-time associate of the late Chief Justice in many legal and political affairs before his elevation to the bench. The resolutions, adopted unanimously, are as follows: RESOLUTIONS On the 27th of August 1948 in the eighty-seventh year of his life, Charles Evans Hughes, eleventh Chief Justice of the United States, departed this life. He had laid down the burdens of his great office "for reasons of health William Marshall Bullitt, Mr. Charles C. Burlingham, Mr. Pierce Butler, Mr. Emanuel Celler, Mr. Henry P. Chandler, Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, Mr. Homer S. Cummings, Chief Judge William Denman, Mr. Charles D. Drayton, Mr. Henry S. Drinker, Mr. John Foster Dulles, Mr. Charles Fahy, Mr. John S. Flannery, Mr. Robert V. Fletcher, Mr. William L. Frierson, Chief Judge Archibald K. Gardner, Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner, Judge Augustus N. Hand, Chief Judge Learned Hand, Chief Judge Xenophon Hicks, Mr. Richard W. Hogue, Chief Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., Mr. Francis R. Kirkham, Mr. Jacob M. Lashly, Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws, Mr. Monte M. Lemann, Mr. Pat McCarran, Mr. Edwin McElwain, Chief Judge Calvert Magruder, Chief Judge J. Earl Major, Mr. Clarence E. Martin, Mr. Robert N. Miller, Mr. J. Blanc Monroe, Mr. George Maurice Morris, Chief Judge John J. Parker, Chief Judge Orie L. Phillips, Mr. Seth W. Richardson, Mr. Donald R. Richberg, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr., Mr. George H. Rublee, Mr. Charles B. Rugg, Judge Samuel H. Sibley, Mr. Willis Smith, Judge William M. Sparks, Chief Judge Harold M. Stephens, Judge Kimbrough Stone, Judge Thomas D. Thacher, Mr. Huston Thompson, Mr. Harrison Tweed, Mr. Charles Warren, Judge George T. Washington, Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. It is understood that these addresses will be published privately in a memorial volume to be prepared under the supervision of Mr. Charles Elmore Cropley, Clerk of this Court. |