New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
Mr.. GRIGGS RESIGNS.
ETs PLANS FOR RESUMING LAW PRAC-
TICE ANNOUNCED.
no SUCCESSOR YET SELECTED. ALTHOUGH
MANY NAMES ARE MENTIONED FOR
THE ATTORNEY-G Y-GENERALsHIP
fBY rELEGaAPE TO THE rRIrryE.l

(By TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
washington, March 23.-Attorney- General
c-3ggs sent his formal resignation TO the Presi-
5snt this morning. 10 take effect next Sunday
March 81 Mr. Griggs Will leave Washington
with his family for Paterson, y. J. next Sat
,,rdav and resume his residence there He will
open an Office for the practice Of his profession
a. No. y Pine-st, New-Yorz and will be asso-
eiated as counsel with the firm OF Din. Bomeis-
ler & Baldwin Mr.. Griggs says that James B.
Dill the head Of that frra, has an extensive
rractice in corporation law. and is widely
known sor his experience and capacity in that
line. NJ. Griggs will also have offices in New
Jersey. For the transaction Of business in that
state he has formed a partnership with Mr.
Dill under the firm name Of Griggs & Dill. The
Offices OF the NeT-Jersey firm viii be in the new
Commercial Trust Company building in Jersey
CRY.
While Mr.. Griggs is retiring from Official life
because he feels it incumbent upon himself to
devote his energies and experience TO the ac-
emulation Of a nest egg for the inevitable
4rainy cay" he has not lost interest in public
affairs and expects 10 keep in close touch with
su matters affecting national or State interests
President Mckinley, and in fact. all oficialdom
~ Washington. regret the severance Of Mr.
Griggss connection with the administration
In en- important sense he has had more 10 do
with shaping the governments present colonial
roicv than anybody else. except possibly the
President and il had been universally hoped
that he would continue as the chief law officer
Of the government until the full details Of this
roicy had been marked out and applied II is
expected that the President will continue 10
seek M Grisgs's advice on the legal phases Of
The colonial policy, even after Mr. Griggs has
II known that he has not lost interest in na-
tionaI politics, and especially has not lost in
terest in the politics Of New-Jersey. He expects
10 work heartily and harmoniously in the har-
ness with the Republican organization in New
Jersey whenever his services may be required
and hopes the party will continue its supremacy
in that state
THOSE MENTIONED FOR THE PLACE.
II is not yet known by anybody not even by
the President himself who will succeed Mr.
Griggs as Attorney-GeneraI This statement
takes account OF the fact that one member Of
the Cabinet and another official enjoying con-
fdentiaI relations with the President continue
70 assert that P. c Knox Of Pittsburg. has
virtually been selected. II is positively known,
however. that the President has not rendered
the place 10 Mr Knox, and, was said the
other day by The Tribune il is also known
thar the only tender Of the office TO anybody
was made 10 Ambassador Choate, who de-
cIned il. Since Mr.. Choate's declinaton the
President has considered half a dozen or more
lawyers Of erninence for the Attorney General
ship. Among these are Mr.. Knox, John 9.
johnson. Of Philadelphia; Addison c. Harris.
Of Indianapolis. and William Writ Howe, Of
New-Orleans. Solicitor-General Richards also
has been strongly inGoTSeQ by the entire Ohio
delegation. and by other influences even more
potent But il is not believed that Mr.. Richards
viii secure the place. not because the President
does regard him as erninently qualified, but
because OF the high standard TO which the
Soictor-GeneraIship has been raised in Mr..
Rchards's incumbency. So much CT the i'm
the last four years has been done by the So
iicitor-GeneraI that the head OF the department
has been able devote himself 10 the study
and solution Of the great problems of admins
trative policy. President Mckinley desires,
therefore that Mr.. Richards shall continue in
the Office OF Solcitor-General, so that The new
Attorney-General may feel free TO give MS time
and attention 10 the larger affairs Of the gov
eminent, as the retiring Attorney-General has
done
As an evidence Of the Presidents confidence
in the ability Of NJ. Richards, il Is probable
that Nr. Gricgs's successor VIII not be ap-
pointed until the President returns from his trip
u the Pacific Coast In this period, which Will
extend 10 about the middle OF July, Mr.. Rich
ards Will probably be the Acting Attorney-Gen-
era. n the mean time the President TIl nave
ample time and opportunity 70 make up ms
mind as 10 the man he wants 20 I'LL the vacancy
in his Official household caused by the resisna-
tion of Ar-orney-General Griggs-