The chieftain., 1900-12-08
HON. DAN'LH.H' H'MILLlN
Named to succeed Hon.
Chas. A. Leland as Assoc
clate Justice for the
Fifth Judicial Dis
trict.


week that Hon. Daniel H. Nc
MILAN had been chosen to sue
ceed Hon. Chas. A. Leland as
Associate Justice for the Fifth
Judicial District of New Mexico
and that he would probably re-
ceive his appointment within ten
days has already been partly
verified. Judge McMillan's name
was sent to the senate by the
President on Thursday and it is
very possible that before this
article reaches the readers of THE
CHIEFTAIN the appointment will
be confirmed.
Ever since Judge Leland's
resignation the people of Socorro
county have been awaiting with
keen interest the appointment of
| his successor. Judge Leland had
established himself securely in
the confidence and esteem of the
people of the district and it was
feared that coinplexity of polit-
ical influences might possibly re-
suit in the appointment of a less
acceptable candidate for the posi-
ton. However, THE CHIEFTAIN
is glad to be able to state to its
readers that according to all
information now available there
is every reason to believe that
President Mckinley has chosen
as a successor to Judge Leland a
gentleman who is in every way
worthy of that distinction in the
person of Hon. Daniel H. McMil-
Ian.
The following facts in regard
to Judge McMillan's career were
kindly furnished to THE CHIEF
TAIN by District Clerk John E.
Griffith. Daniel H. Mcmillan
was born at York, N. Y, about
fifty years ago. He was a stu
dent at Cornell university in
| 1S6S-69. He was elected to the
senate in 1885 and renominated
in 1887 but declined. From 1884
to 1899 he was manager of the
Buffalo state asylum and during
the some period held other posi-
tions as follows: Trustee of the
state normal school, 1S87-99;
manager of the Buffalo library,
1883-89; president of the Buffalo
library, $4,000; law examiner
for admission to the bar, fifth
judicial department, 1S83-94; a
member of the republican state
committee, 1887; a member of
the American bar association;
vice-president of the state bar
association, 1SS7-SS; alternate
delegate-at-large to national re-
publican conventionsEChicago
1888; Minneapolis, 1892; st Louis,
1896; delegate-at-large to the
constitutional convention of 1894
to revise and amend the constitu-
ton; member of the commission
to revise the educational laws of
the state, 1899. Judge Mcmillan
is member of the Presbyterian
church, the Buffalo and Liberal
clubs, the Chi Psi fraternity, the
Consistory, and the Temple. In
the senate he was a member of
the committee on judiciary, cities
and claims, and was chairman of
the committee on canals.
Among the reform measures
which Judge Mcmillan prepared
and carried through to enactment
were: The act seeuring the
lengthening of the locks on the
Erie canal, by which the cost OF
transportation from the great
lakes to the seaboard was reduced
upwards of forty per cent; the
act requiring the use of a uniform
policy by all fire insurance COM
panies doing business in New
York; the act reforming prison
! labor and discipline; the act reg
ulating the employmentof women
! in manufactures; the act under
which the power of Niagara falls
: was utilized, resulting in the es-
tablishment of the largest electric
power plant in the world; the act
providing for a commission to re-
port upon the most humane
: method of executing the death
} penalty, resulting in the present
j system of execution by electricity.
In the constitutional conven-
ton of 1894 he was one of the
! active leaders in that important
/ body, serving as chairman Of the
I committee on state officers, and
I as member of the committees
| on judiciary and rules; he was
also member of the special COM
mittee appointed to prepare the
address to the people of the state,
J summarizing the work of the