Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-12
CONFIRMS
EDWARD D. WHITE
AS CHIEF JUSTICE
Associate Justice Is Named to
Head United States SD.
preme Court.
NEW JERSEY CANDIDATES
NOT INCLUDED IN LIST
Martin A. Knapp Selected to
Preside Over New Com
merce Court.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 12-President
Taft today sent to the Senate these
nominations.
To be chief justice of the United
States Supreme Court Associate JUS
tice Edward Douglass White. OF
Louisiana
The nomination Edward d White
for chief Justice was Immediately con-
firrned by the Senate.
Justice White was visibly affected
when he learned of the Senates prompt
action. lie was on the bench when a
group of senators called to cengratu-
late him, He met them in an ante
chamber and when he resumed his
place on the bencn his eyes were brlm-
ming with tears and he showed other
signs OF deep feeling.
To be associate justices OF United
States Supreme Court Judge Willis
Van Devanter, Of Wyoming, and Judge
Joseph Rucker Lamar, of Georgia.
To be judges of the new Court of
lCommerce:
Martin A Knapp, now chairman of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
for term of five years.
Robert W. Archibald. now United
States district judge for the middle
district of Pennsylvania, for term OF
four years.
| william H. Hunt, now a Judge of the
Court of Customs Appeals, formerly
United States district Judge of the dis
trict of Montana, for term of three
lyears.
John Emmett Garland Of South
Dakota, to be Judge of the new Court
of Commerce for a term OF two years
This is change from the original slate,
Arthur c. Denison, United States dis
trtct judge for the western district Of
D chigan, having first been selected
| for this place
Ju an W. Mack, now judge in the
Appellate Circuit Court of the first
Illinois district, for term of one year
i To be members of the Interstate
= Gommerce ConsFs4sssss ss55li Is. Il. Meyer
of Wisconsin. and c. c. McChord. Of
kentucky
In the official nomination sent to the
Senate today the members of the new
Commerce Court are designated as adj
ditional circuit judges. In carrying
this out. Mr.. Knapp is named as a
judge for the second judicial circuit,
Mr.. Archibald for the third judicial, Mr..
Hunt for the ninth judicial circuit. Mr.
Garland for the eighth judicial circuit
and Mr. Mack for the seventh judicial
circuit.
Three Republicans. Two Democrats
Judge Garland of South Dakota.
named as one Of the new judges, is a
Democrat, having been appointed to the
!, bench by President Cleveland His ap-
pointment makes the complexion of the
Commerce Court three Republicans and
two Democrats.
President Taft hesitated between the
appointment of Judge Garland and
= Judge Arthur Denison. of Michigan
Last night the latter was thought TO
have heen his final selection To have
appointed Judge Denison, however.
T. would have resulted In making three
= circuit judges from Michigan. whereas
: the President was anxious for a more
equitable distribution.
1t became known today that in MAX
ing up the Court Of Commerce Presi-
dent Taft seriously considered the ap-
polntment Of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin X. Lane, OF
California. To have appointed Mr.
. Lane. however, would have taken away
r two members of the commission at a
time when its work promises TO be Of
greater Importance than at any time
since the commission was organized.
: The President would have also been
confronted with the problem of finding
suitable Democrat from the Pacific
[ Coast 20 replace Mr. Lane Under
these circumstances the President fnal-
ly eliminated Mr. Lane
The appointments TO the Interstate
Commerce Commission are to fiji the
: vacancies caused by the elevation OF
! ! Mr. Knapp 10 the Commerce Court and
the forthcoming retirement of former
Senator Francis NJ. CoekrelI, of Mis-
souri, The commission will elect its
= new chairman. The members of the
' commission who remain are Messrs.
Clark Harlan, Clements, Lane and
: Prouty.
The Commerce Court.
The Commerce Court is a court cre-
: ated in the amendment in the inter-
state commerce act passed in June last
by this Congress. The law provides
/, for the appointment of FIVE additional
! circuit judges by the President. who
= are to constitute the court and no two
of whom shall be appointed from the
same judicial circuit The judges 80
appointed are to serve in the COM
merce Court. and after being relieved
from that service are to be assigned
10 work on the circuit as circuit judges
The law requires the President to
1 designate in the first appointments
the term of years during which the
judge appointed shall serve in the
Commerce Court and the judge desig-
: mated TO sit for five years on this court
, is TO act as the presiding judge. There
after the court is TO be composed OF
FIVE judges to be designated by the
Supreme Court from the circuit Judges
: of the United States
This court is thus composed OF the
present chairman of the Interstate
. Commerce Commission. two United
, States district judges. one judge of the
I United States Court of Customs APP
peals who was formerly a United States
district Judge. and one Judge from the
Appellate Court Of Illinois.
| Justice White is a Democrat and this