The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
HIGGINS NAMES THE JUDGES.
DOESN'T LET THE APPOINTMENTS
90 TO NEW GOVERNOR.
Norman =. Dixie and Lewis l.. Fawcett TO
Succeed Crane and Asphalt I'm Kings
County DIX Succeeded Hughes rs
the President OF the Brown Alumni


ALBANY, Dec. 29.-Gov. Higgins has
appointed Norman S. Dixie Inc Lewis l..
Fawcett az County Judges Of Kings county
to succeed Frederick +. Crane and Joseph
Asphalt, who were elected to the Supreme
Court at the last election. The ~appointees
will serve until December 81. 1907, and
their successors for a full term will be
elected next November. Judicial appoint
ments to fill vacancies pending an election
made by a Governor do not have to be
confirmed by the Senate under the Con-
stitution, and consequently Governor-elect
Hughes will not have an opportunity to act
on these appointments.
Gov. Higgins has been in Olean since a
week ago Friday and is not expected TO
return TO Albany until Monday. These
appointments were announced from the
Executive Chamber tonight by his score
tary. Col Selden f. Marvin.
Govenor-elect Hughes, it is said by his
friends tonight, will not be at all per-
turbed by the appointments. He will
rather be thankful that the appointments
did not fall to his lot. He himself had moth
ing to say regarding the appointments.
All along there had been some uncer-
NliiiNy hF W "hCNuCI NtC appointments "OhhN
be made by Gov. Higgins or Gov. Hughes,
and it was only on Friday Mr.. Woodruff
expressed the opinion that they would be
left TO Gov. Hughes. Senator McCarren,
the Democratic leader. and his associates.
were anxious that Gov. Higgins should
leave the choice of the two new County
Judges 10 his successor. He had strong
hopes that Gov. Hughes would appoint a
n.u,A,,a& - A.a ~ 81. vl.ao. Th.x. Nuan
much qualification last night among Repub-
leans when the news came from Albany
that Gov. Higgins had appointed two
Republicans and that some valuable pat
ronage at the joint disposal OF the County
Judges and the Surrogate would still remain
a party asset.
Mr.. Fawcett has had the backing of almost
the solid Republican organization for n
of the Judgeships. and while Col. Dixie has
also been much favored for the other place.
there is an impression that Marcus b. Camp
bell, the Republican leader of the Sixteenth
Assembly district, stood a better chance
of getting iC. IL has been a friendly fight
throughout and Woodruff and the district
leaders will heartily acquiesce in the choice
made by Gov. Higgins.
Mr.. FawCett has been active in Republican
politics for several years. and is serving his
fourth term az chairman OF the county COM
mlttee. lie has been president OF the In
vincible Club, and is a member of the Union
League Club and many other political and
social organizations. He has travelled OK
tensively and recently he made a tour Of the
world. He was born in Brooklyn thirty
years ago, and IL n graduate OF the New
York Law School. He has been in practice
since he reached his majority. He is un-
married and lives with his mother, three
sisters and three brothers in Hancock
street.
Col. Dixie has long been prominent in law,
politics and social life in Brooklyn. He is
a graduate of Brown University n has
been practising law for nearly twenty years.
He represented the First ward in the old
Board Of Supervisors, and gained consid-
cradle distinction by his advocacy Of re-
forms in the management OF county affairs.
He was appointed Sheriff OF Kings county
by Gov. Odell when Charles Guden, who
had been elected in 1901, was removed in
March, 1902, for making certain ante
election pledges. Col. Dixie is a leading
member of the Brooklyn Bar Association
and the chairman of one OF its most i'm
portant committees.
lie has not been very active in politics
for three or four years, and he took no part
in the recent factional squabble between
Mr.. Woodruff and Col. Michael j. Dady.
In the thick Of the controversy he was
urged by some of Mr.. Woodrufhs friends
10 heed a revolt against Dady in his own
stronghold, the First Assembly district,
but he could not be draw n into the fight.
He gets his military title from his service
as Judge Advocate Genera IN the staff
of Gov. Morton. Col. Dixie succeeded
G~overnor-elect Hughes as president Of the
Brown Alumn Association.