Show JURISDICTION A WIDE ONE I How Supreme Court Justices Drank I Wine Without Breaking Rule In Chief Justice Marshalls Marshall's time the Supreme Court of the United States lived apart from the rest of the world and dined together at a sort of mess only once a year dining in public atthe at atthe the White House Justice Story was once r rallied on this aloofness and explained explained explained ex ex- it drolly The fact is we Justices take no part In the society of the place We dine once a year with the President I and that is all On other days we dine together and discuss at table the ques ques ques- that are argued before us We Weare Weare Weare are great ascetics and even deny ourselves ourselves our our- selves wine except in wet weather Here the Justice paused as if thinkIng thinking thinking think think- ing this last statement placed too great a tax on human credulity and then he added slyly What I say about wine sir gives you our rule but it does sometimes happen that the Chief Justice will say sayto sayto sayto to me when the cloth is removed Brother Story step to the window an and see if it does not look like rain And if I tell hl him n that the sun is shinIng shinIng shining shin- shin Ing Chief Justice Marshall will sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- some some- times reply All the better for our jurisdiction extends over so large a territory that the doctrine of chances makes it certain that it must be minIng raining raining min min- rain rain- ing somewhere Philadelphia Philadelphia Record |