JUDICIARY: God Save the U. S.

"Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!"

The handsome crier is named Thomas E. Waggaman. His admonishment, uttered after the Justices are seated, has been...

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