Excerpt from Dinner Given by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr. Justice John Marshall Harlan: In Recognition of the Completion of Twenty-Five Years of Distinguished Service on the Bench; December 9th, 1902 The Committee on Invitation, consisting of representative lawyers from each Judicial Circuit of the United States, and of which Mr. Attorney-general Knox was Chairman and Mr. Secretary of War Root was vice-chairman, was ap pointed, and by this Committee the members of the Bar throughout the country were invited to join in the move ment to honor Mr. Justice Harlan, and through this Com mittee also the President of the United States, members of his Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Repte sentatives, the Judges of the Court of Appeals and the Su preme Court of the District of Columbia, the Judges of the Court of Claims, and other distinguished men, were invited to be present as the guests of the Bar on this occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.