The Somerset Press

The Electoral Commission Judges.
Clifford is a man steeped in reverence
for the tribunal where he has passed so
many years. This old man, colossal in
size, weighing about or above three hundred
pounds, made a treaty with Mexico
in 1847. He was appointed by a Democratic
administration, and is hardly ever
heard to refer to political questions.
Judge Miller is universally regarded
in Missouri by the ex-rebels, as well as
by the Republicans of Iowa, as the ablest
jurist west of the river Mississippi. By
birth he is a Kentuckian, and was once a
doctor.
Judge Field is a man of stupendous
reading and information, the ablest lawyer
on the Pacific side, and the peer of
anybody in the court. He is a man of
ready opinions, but as a judge his impartiality
is unquestioned.
Judge Strong is the most judicial-looking
man on the bench—of a noble
head, with gray locks from his crown.
His position in Pennsylvania was of the
highest.
Justice Bradley, selected to complete
the Tribunal of Arbitration, was appointed
to the Supreme Bench from New
Jersey, by President Grant, in March,
1870. His judicial circuit comprises
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Texas. He was the writer
of the decision in the Grant-Parish cases,
in which certain sections of the Force
Bill were first declared unconstitutional.