The Washington herald., 1910-12-12

TO be assigned for service on the circuits
as circuit judges. The President is re-
quired In the first appointments TO desig-
nate the term Of service. and thereafter
the members of this court are to be
named By the Supreme Court from the
circuit judges OF the United States.
Martin a. Knapp. who is named as
presiding Judge of the Commerce Court,
has been chairman of the Interstate Com
merce Commission since 1898. and has
been a member OF the commission for
nineteen years. He has had the reputa-
ton Of being one OF the abiest men on
the commission. 1t is understood that the
President selected the chairman Of the
commission upon the recommendation OF
the commission itself. in order that there
might be on the new Commerce Court
man who thoroughly understood the
regulations and practices Of the commits
sion. Presiding Judge Knapp comes from
the Second judicial circuit-that comprfs-
ing New York. Connecticut and Vermont.
He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
Sketches of Justices.
Here are brief sketches of the other
lkAEll St4Ft leu Atl Tic NNiiiittcAtE NbGtA
Judge Archibald was born at Carbon
dale. Pa, in 1856 and was graduated
from Yale in 1871. He was appointed
common pleas judge in Pennsylvania in
1885, and as United States judge for the
Middle district of Pennsylvania in 1901
He declined an appointment as United
States circuit judge in 1893.
Judge Hunt is the son OF the Secretary
of the Navy in President Garfield's Cab
met He was born in Louisiana in 1857,
and was a classmate OF President Taft
at Yale. He was attorney general for
the Territory Of Montana, a district
Judge in Montana, and later justice of
the Supreme Court of that State. Sub
sequently he served as secretary of Porto
Rico, and then as governor of the island
Later he was appointed United States
district judge in Montana. In this ca
pacity he held court in all the Pacific
Coast States. and was the judge who,
tried the most important of the land
fraud cases. He is now a member of
the United States Court of Customs Ap-
peals. having been appointed in 1910.
Judge Denison was born in Michigan in
1861; was graduated from the University
Of Michigan and admitted to the bar in
Judge for the Western district of Afichi-
gan in 1910. The President became ac-
quainted with Mr. DenisOn while he (the
PresidenD was serving as a judge on the
Sixth circuit The President regarded
him as one of the strongest lawyers of
that circuit
Julian W Mack was born in San Fran
cisco in 1866, and was graduated IN law
from Harvard in 1887. He studied at the
Universities Of Berlin and Leipzig from
1887 to 1890 He served as professor OF
law of Northwestern University. and
afterward in the same chair in the Uni
versity OF Chicago. He was Civil Service
Commissioner in Chicago in 1903; judge
of the Circuit Court of Cook County in
1904, and in 1909 he became judge of the
Appellate Court of the First Illinois dis
trict
Meyer New Commissioner.
B. II. Meyer, who has been named TO
succeed Commissioner Knapp on the In
terstate Commerce Commission, was
born in Wisconsin in 1866. He was grad
uated from the University of Wisconsin;
studied in Berlin. and has been a pro-
fessor of political economy at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin for ten years He is
a member OF the railway commission of
Wisconsin, and served as an expert agent
for the Interstate Commerce Commission
for the valuation of railroads. He is the
author Of several works upon railway
| legislation and operation. He is not
named to succeed Mr. Knapp as chair
man of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. inasmuch as the commission Sc
| lects its own chairman.
c. c. McChord, who will be nominated
10 the Interstata Commerce Com
mission to succeed Commissioner Cock
ren, is forty-eight years old He is
chairman of the railroad committee OF
/ the Kentucky legislature. and for a long
/ time was member of the railroad commits
/ sion of the State Of Kentucky. He was
twice unanimously elected president OF
/ the National Association of Railroad
! Commissioners, and is now its president