Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-18
PASSED A HARD TEST
Successful Candidates for Law Clerk
ships.
SEVERE TREASURY EXAMINATIONS
Only Eight Out of Over Twenty
Had the Required Percentage.
RESULT OF THE COMPETITION


that many had never been examined; that
some were not even lawyers. This was
corrected at once by examinations, reduc-
tons and transfers. Former Chief Clerk
j. w Nichol was removed and W. w.
Warwick was appointed temporarily to
fill the place. Secretary Gage. after con-
sultation with Mr.. Vanderbilt determined
to have a competitive examination to fill
the vacancy and at the same time to OBJ
tain an eligible register from which to Sc
lect law clerks for the treasury in the
future.
The examination was held August and
3. by the Treasury Department The ques-
lions were prepared by Assistant Control
Ter Bowers, and were purposely made very
olfhcult, covering as much territory as
possible. There were forty questions in all
ana the requirements were of the strictest
character, designed to show the abilities
OF the applicants as lawyers of high stand
ing.
The Successful Candidates.
Over twenty bright lawyers entered the
examination. The report. of the committee
was made today, and the result shows that
the following secured beyond the required
general average of so: w. w. Warwick, E.
ri. Peery, N Fl. Thompson, Chas. E. Nc
NaDb, j. d. Terrill, j. L. Summers c. J.
Kellogg and A. c. Mcdonald Mr.. War
WICK stood at the head of the list. making
next with 911s.
Inc examination is SAID to have been the
most famous in tie history of the Treas q
ury department. 1t at least excited gen
eL1l interest, and congratulations are being
day. oa'eS ~
. AS result of the committees renort
secretary Gage at once ordered Mr. War
WICK promotion to chief law clerk at
$500 80 year. Inc promotion of Mr.. Peery
ana others will follow at once
:. Below VIII be found brief sketches of the
hNes VI tne successful candidates:
w. w. Warwick.
Walter W. Warwick was horn in scioto
county. Ohio, March 1, 1865. He wac a
son of Captain N. r. Warwick 91st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He removed to Gin
cinnat. Ohio, in 1874. and was educated in
the public schools of Cincinnati. He had
several years experience in the railway
passenger service of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company. He then studied law
and received the degree of LII. b. at the
Slncinnatl Law School in 1890. He was
ADMITTED to the bar of the supreme court
OF OHIO in May, 1890. He engaged in the
practice of law at Cincinnati until Septem-
Der, 1893, and was for one year private
secretary to William H. Taft, United States
ment as confidential clerk to First Con-
troller Bowler September, 1899; was pro-
NOTED to law clerk December. 1896. He
received the degree of master of laws CO.
lumbar University law department, in
1895. 40
Z. H. Pecry.
Edwin II. Peery was born in Grundy
county, Missouri; educated at Grand River
College. Edinburg, Mo-, and at the Mis-
souri, State University, where he took the
degree of bachelor of laws in 1881. At the
age OF twenty-one he went to California,
and there engaged for a number of years
in teaching. While there he was admitted
to practice law before the supreme court
of California, in 1884, and entered upon
the practice of that profession. He located
In Portland, Ore, in 1886. In September
1894, he was appointed to position on the
board of examiners in the United States
civil service commission, which place he
retained until selected to be confidential
Clerk in the Office of the assistant con-
tioller of the treasury, in July, 1895. Since
coming to Washington he has taken the
degree of master of laws in the Column bian
University of this city. and was in 1897
admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
\. H. Thompson.
Mr.. n. H. Thompson Is fourth-class
clerk in the Office of the auditor for the
Treasury Department, and has been en-
ployed in the accounting offices over TWEEN
ty-five years. He is resident of Albion,
Mich, born in Michigan, AMI was educated
at the Albion College. He afterward grad
uated in law and was admitted to the bar
His legal knowledge has been employed
Tor many years III the preparation Of opir-
ions upon questions of law arising in the
accounting offices. which have been for
mulated as decisions and have saved
many thousands Of dollars to the treasury.
He has also given extensive study to the
organization Of the accounting offices and
their methods of doing business, having in
1872 proposed consolidation of those Of
fees into a unified system, with a single
controller at their head. His proposition
was subsequently carried out in Il modified
form by what Is known as the Dockery
act. Mr.. Thompson thinks that some
serious mistakes were made by that act
which impair the safeguards of the treas
ury, and he has suggested certain modifi-
cations OF Its provisions, which are now
being considered.
Chas. f. McNabb.
Cbas. E. McNabb is now a clerk Of class
4, 81 800, in the bookkeeping division. office
of the treasurer of the United States. He
was bor,. In Baltimore, Nd, in 1861. and
entered the Treasury Department in 1879
as messenger; was subsequently employ
ed In the bureau of engraving and print
ing, and was transferred to the treasurer's
office. In 1892, under the competitive ex-
amining system of Secretary Foster, he
attained general average of 9475 for n
clerkship of class 4. By study as a private
student he acquired many accomplish
nents; is . graduate from the law depart
ment Of the Columbian University of
Washington, DC; is not now engaged on
law work, but vii! soon be assigned to it.
j. ID. TerrilI.
]. d. Terrill was born and brought I'D on
a farm in Plymouth. Mich; educated in the
common schools and at the academies at
Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Mich: entered
the Union army as a private in the LIST
Michigan Cavalry; received a gunshot
wound at second Bull Run, causing the
amputation of right arm; was twice elected
collector of taxes Of his township; was ap-
pointed first-class clerk in second con-
trcllers office April 8. 1861; worked his
way up through intermediate grades to be
Chief of division. which position he held
Until 1883. when Ec was reduced to third
class clerk. On the reorganization of the
Treasrfy Department in 1894 he was trans
ferred TO the office of the controller of the