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Senator Vest, re: debate over the Evarts Act, laying foundation of the modern federal court system: "The vacant seats here today evidence how little interest there is generally evinced on this question, although it is one of the most important to the people of the United States."
Sept. 22, 1890.
Sen Vest, 1890: Take the most eloquent orator who ever existed... Let him go before [SCOTUS] and...bring tears to the eyes of every bystander, and a brief of one page from a lawyer who understands the case & stammers out sentences until they're scarcely audible will be successful
Sen. Vest, 1890: A federal intermediate court of appeals "will be a miserable failure and give no sort of satisfaction to the profession or to litigants."
