Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-19
SUCCESSOR TO H0YT SM|THMAY GET MERCY
Belief That Wade Ellis Will Be Predicted That Leniency Will
Made Solicitor General Be Recommended
Sill ENCE At WHITE HOUSElSTRONG PUBLIC FEELING
Oscar aw Spoken for Assistant
Attorney General Mob Violence
NOMINATIONS SENT TO SENATE PRISONERS
Attorney for Northe Be Ito Con-
of ifornia. slider the Crime.
Belief That Wade Ellis Will Be
Made Solicitor General.
SILENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
Oscar Lawler Spoken of for Assistant
Attorney General.
NOMINATIONS SENT TO SENATE
Robert T. Devlin Named to Be q. S.
Attorney for Northern District
of California.

Attorney General Wickersham maintains
silence about filling important appoint
ments in his department, and the White
House declines to say anything in ad-
vance of the selections of MIR. Wicker
sham For solicitor general of the de-
partment TO fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of Henry NJ. Hoyt to
take up the practice of law in Philadel-
phia. there Is a widespread opinion that
Wade Ellis now assistant attorney general
in charge of trust cases, will be named.
1t is asserted however, that President
Taft has made no request for advance
ment of Mr.. Ellis, who is from Ohio. and
who took conspicuous part in the cam
paign for Mr.. Taft On the other hand
the President has given Mr.. Wickersham
full power to choose his own assistants.
Based upon the assumption that Mr..
Ellis will be promoted to solicitor general.
the highest position in the department
next TO Attorney General, Californians
say that Oscar Lawler. United States at
forney for the southern district of Cali
fornia. has been offered the position OF
assistant attorney general. but has not
yet accepted. He has been United states
attorney nearly four years.
Repairing White House Pools.
Workmen are repairing the White
House fountain pools for the turning on
of water in the next few weeks. The
weather cracks In the bottom of the pools
are being cemented over and other work
is being done. When the weather breaks
silver and gold fish will be placed in the
pools, along with water lilies and other
water flowers. The pool on the east side
OF the White House will contain only
BILL" the large gold fish, which has
had the whole pool to himself for two
s-rf6 70 .ae
beautiful fish belonging to the superin-
tendent of public buildings and grounds.
but he is so pugnacious that he kills all
other fish put in with him
Evidences of the coming spring have
been seen for several weeks in the pres
ence of robins. now more numerous than
some days ago. Some of the White
House foliage has also begun to make it's
anese magnolia bushes. one of these near
the Presidents offices. are in full bloom.
Nominations Sent to Senate.
The White House sent to the Senate to-
day a large number of nominations, most
of them routine. They are as follows:
War-Coast Artillery Corps-Lieutenant
colonel to be colonel: Clarence Deems:
majors to be lieutenant colonies: Charles
II. Hunter, Stephen NJ. Foote; captains to
be majors: George Blakely. Frank ".
Francis w. Clark, George A. Wieczorek,
Edward Garfield; second lieutenants to
be first lieutenants: Edward NJ. Wood
bury, Ray l.. Avery. Edward A. Stock
ton. Infantry arm-First lieutenant to be
captain: George /. Feeter. 7th Infantry.
Medical Reserve Corp%To be first lieu
tenants: John Arson Burket of Iowa,
Charles Carroll Demmer of New York,
Owen Chester Fisk of Kentucky, George
burgess Foster, jr., of Pennsylvania,
James Shelton Fox of South Carolina,
James Charles Haley of New York, How
ard Hume of the District of Columbia,
Thomas Holland Johnson OF Virginia
Glenn Irving Jones of the District of Co.
lumbia, Charles Tomlinson King of In
diana. Condor Carlton Mccormack of
Oregon. Edward Leroy Napier of Ala
bama.
Justice-To be United States attorney
for the northern district of California ::
Robert T. Devlin. There were also in
Guided in the hist of nominations a large
number of postmasters.