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script of memorial proceedings at a special session of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, held at Cincinnati, on March 11, 1932, at which Judge Arthur C. Denison presided and Joseph Wilby, Esq., of the Cincinnati bar, and Judge Denison delivered addresses'; resolutions adopted by the bench and bar of the District Court of the Canal Zone, Balboa Division, Hon. James J. Lenihan, D. J., presiding; a eulogy delivered at a session of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, by its Chief Justice, Hon. Emilio del Toro; extract from the minutes of the District Court for the Judicial District of Ponce, Porto Rico, Hon. Angel Acosta presiding; a message on behalf of the Supreme Court of Texas, signed by Hon. C. M. Cureton, Chief Justice; resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island; resolutions adopted by the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; resolutions of the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey; a tribute from the Bar Association of the City of Cincinnati; resolutions of the Buncombe County Bar Association, Asheville, North Carolina; resolutions of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union; resolutions adopted by delegates of the Chapters of the American Red Cross. in their Annual Convention, and resolutions of the Board of Incorporators of the American Red Cross; resolutions adopted at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, in which is set forth Mr. Taft's lineal descent from Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower; a resolution of the Board of Assistants of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the District of Columbia; resolutions adopted by the President and Fellows of Yale University; a tribute from Mr. Taft's Class of 1878, Yale University; memorial verses entitled "Great Heart," by Mr. Henry C. Coe of that Class; a copy of a memorial address delivered in the Mur

All of the superior courts sitting at Cincinnati were represented, namely, the federal Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court; the Ohio State Court of Appeals; the Courts of Common Pleas of Hamilton, Hancock and Washington Counties. All of their judges were present except two or three, who were absent unavoidably.

ray Bay (Canada) Protestant Church, by Mr. Albert Chapin.

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"The formal presentation to this Church of a Memorial to Mr. Taft who was associated with it for many years makes it fitting to glance at the past. Nearly forty years have elapsed since Mr. Taft first came to Murray Bay. At that time Murray Bay was an undeveloped resort. Those who came here found a spacious land of woods and waters, a mighty river, a bay never at rest, a climate which spared them the visitations of torrid heat, a sense of remoteness and calm. Charmed by the beauty of the scene, the comfort, the serenity of the life, they came again. Others followed, and in increasing numbers, until presently Murray Bay ceased to be a resort in any special or limited sense, and became a community.

"It was not an ordinary community. The Dominion and the States conspired to build it up. All were drawn here by the attractions of the region. Impelled by a common purpose, and with deliberation, they were here gathered together. Such a community was sure to be characterized by intelligence, discernment, discrimination. Among its members were men of distinction, families of culture and social charm.

"Nothing could have been more felicitous in the life of Mr. Taft than that he should find himself a member of such a community. For Mr. Taft was possessed of an unbounded capacity for friendship. We can imagine such a quality lost or wasted; but here this community, endowed as it was, disclosed a singular, a striking, fitness to recognize, to welcome, to appreciate, and to reciprocate Mr. Taft's gift and genius for friendship.

"Then there ensued the phase in the social life of Murray Bay with which we all are familiar. Between the community and Mr. Taft, there was established a warm, rational, sure, affection rarely found at any place or time, admirable in itself, gathering strength with the passage of the years, delightful in its manifestations, winning and captivating as it developed in various forms. His birthday in his later years became an event. With him we may well believe the depth of feeling was rooted in the days when Murray Bay was primitive; and if we may unveil the recesses of the heart, he found in it the joy of the Happy Warrior as portrayed in the verses which he loved ...

"For the activities of his life, as we all know, were displayed upon a broad, an exalted plane; and yet, no matter with what lustre his name may have been illumined, no matter what distinction or achievement should be placed to his credit, nothing was nearer or dearer to him than the affection of his friends in Murray Bay. And today that affection finds its final expression in this Memorial."

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Monday, June 1, 1931.

Present: The CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE HOLMES, MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER, MR. JUSTICE MCREYNOLDS, MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS, MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND, MR. JUSTICE BUTLER, MR. JUSTICE STONE, and MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS.

Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL addressed the Court as follows:

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May it please the Court: During the December recess of this Court members of its Bar assembled here to express their profound, regret at the death of William Howard Taft, tenth Chief Justice of the United States, and to make a permanent record of their high regard for his devoted public service. That gathering included many men, themselves distinguished for public service, lifelong friends of the late Chief Justice, who paid eloquent and loving tribute to his memory. A minute was prepared, reviewing the principal events of his career, and the following resolutions were adopted:

[Mr. Mitchell then read the Minute and Resolutions already set forth (ante, p. vii) and continued:]

"In obedience to those resolutions I am here to present them and ask that they be entered in the records of the Court.

"Chief Justice Taft was my good friend, and I am grateful for the tradition which gives to the office I hold the high privilege of representing the Bar on this occasion.

"The only man to hold the two greatest offices in the gift of the American people, he had a public career unparalleled in its variety, with great distinction as a teacher, a colonial administrator, and executive, but it is

fitting in memorial exercises by the members of the profession that he loved, and for the archives of this Court, that we speak chiefly of his service to the Court and to the cause of justice, and first of that part of his work recorded in the official reports.

"During his service as Chief Justice the Court delivered fifteen hundred and ninety-six (1,596) opinions. Oneninth of that number is one hundred and seventy-seven. He delivered two hundred and fifty-three opinions for the Court, or one-sixth of the total. The nature of the cases and the labor required in each would have to be examined to judge accurately of his relative efforts, but he did his share.

"This is not the occasion to review his judicial opinions at length, but a study of them reveals these things: His public life and experience as an administrator and executive had developed a wisdom and common sense which are disclosed in these writings. His opinions are of the kind which are useful to lawyers. They not only decided the cases presented but they are charts for the future. The style is simple and direct, and he never clouded his thought by self-consciousness in expression. His judgments disclose prodigious energy expended in study and research.

"In assigning cases to members of the Court for preparation of opinions he gave to himself at least an equal share of those dull ones which were interspersed with the important matters before the Court. He seemed to take a special interest in patent and trade-mark cases. He had an unusual facility in that field, and wrote many fine opinions. in important patent litigation. It is in constitutional law that his greatest judicial work was done. Of his two hundred and fifty-three opinions seventy dealt with important constitutional questions. That in the Myers case, settling a controversy as old as the Union, respecting the President's exclusive power of removing executive officers, alone would mark him a great constitutional lawyer. The opinions he delivered from this

bench, together with two hundred and four others, rendered during his service as a United States Circuit Judge, form an enduring monument to his high judicial qualities.

"Beyond his performance of the routine tasks of a Chief Justice is other service for which we should be grateful.

"When he began his work here as Chief Justice the Court was eighteen months behind in disposing of the cases before it. He took a leading part in devising and procuring the passage by Congress of the Act of February 13, 1925, which gave the Court a wide discretion to decide what cases should be brought before it for review; and with that change in procedure as a starting point he and his associates set about the task of bringing the work up to date, with such determination and driving force that at the end of his service as Chief Justice, in February, 1930, the business of the Court was practically current; and with the completion of that task during the past year it may no longer be said that appeals to this Court are a means of delaying justice or allowing criminals to postpone punishment. Under his leadership this Court has set an example to the courts of the land, and brought home to the profession that it should no longer be taken for granted that courts must always be behind in their work.

"During his incumbency Congress enacted the laws authorizing the construction of a building to be occupied by the Court and its officers. He had largely to do with that and gave constant thought and effort to obtaining the necessary appropriations, acquiring the site, and above all in seeing to it that the building when completed shall be a dignified and beautiful structure. This project was dear to his heart, and we regret that he did not live to see the fulfillment of his efforts. The new Supreme Court building when completed will itself be a memorial of one of his services to the Court.

"He had much to do with the enactment of the law authorizing the Judicial Conference presided over by the Chief Justice and attended by the senior circuit judges

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