Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-26
President May Appoint Colored
Man to High Position
IN JUSTICE Department
William H. Lewis of Massachusetts
for Assistant Attorney General.
NOW ASSISTANT AT BOSTON
Said to Be a Capable Lawyer and
Has Record as College
Athlete.

President Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham are said to have agreed
upon a most important appointment for
the negro race in pursuance of policy
that is being worked out Of as broad
RECOGNITION of that race in federal ap-
pointments al possible.
The man who Is TO secure the highest
honor ever given to the negro race In
federal appointments is William H.
Lewis, who is now assistant United
states attorney at Boston If the pro-
gram goes through. as now arranged,
Lewis is to be appointed assistant attor-
ney general of the United States to fill
one of the vacancies existing at the De-
partmenJ of Justice.
Lewis has been assistant attorney at
Boston for eight or ten years and has an
admirable record as a lawyer and legal
representative of the government He is
q graduate of both Amherst and, Harvard
Colleges. AT Amherst he was the captain
If the foot ball team and at Harvard he
was the most noted center rush that IN
>litution ever knew.
As assistant attorney general of the
United States il will be necessary to as
sign him to some of the most important
legal work of the government, and he
will come in frequent contact with SEN
ators, representatives and others having
business with the department
Other Appointments in View.
This probable action Of President TAFT
will go further in recognition or the
negro race than any President in history.
1t is understood that the President IN
tends to do still more for the race lie
has now in contemplation the appoint
ment Of Charles A Cottrill well known
negro of Toledo, as collector OF customs
al Honolulu.
The President recently named Whitfield
Mckinlay, District colored man, as col
lector of customs here, a position never
before held by a colored man. ]. c. Ma
pier of Nashville is to be register OF the
Treasury in place of W. I. Vernon, an
other colored man. Henry b. johnson, a
Georgia colored man, is recorder OIL oeeds
nf the District and exGov. Pinchback.
formerly of Louisiana, has a thirty-five-
hundred-dollar place in the revenue serv-
ice in New York
Fine Arts Commission Recognized.
President Taft has compelled important
recognition of the fine arts commission
authorized by Congress by issuing an ex-
ecutive order that 1.-The plan for no public
building to be erected in the District OF
Columbia for the general government
shall be hereafter finally approved by the
ofYicer duly authorized until after such
officer shall have submitted the plan to
the commission Of fine arts created under
the act of Congress OF May IL, l9lo LOT
its comment and advice.
The Presidents order practically makes
tha fne arts commission the arbiter as
10 4he location and architecture of all
future public buildings; certainly the ar
biter as to the architecture. Only where
congress specifies the location 1or
building Will the commission nave hoth-
This order of the President will submit
10 the commission the plans for the
three departmental buildings to be erect
ed in the squares south of Pennsylvania
avenue and between 14th and 10Th
streets. the new post Office building at
he Union station, and others.
Cabinet Men to Speak in Ohio.
Regardless of the attitude of the Pres
i,ient. at least two members of the
cabinet have decided TO speak in the
ohio campaign, thereby giving national
plane to the fight in that state They
arc Secretary Knox OF the State Depart
ment and Secretary MacVeagh of the
Treasury Mr. Knox will speak in Gin
in Columbus the evening of November
= Tbe dates of Secretary MacVeagh
are not now fixed. but will be announced
BY the republican state chairman.
The speeches will be entirely along ma
tionsI lines and will probably compel con-
sideratjon bv the voters of issues OF this
kind.
Secretary Wilson OF the Department of
Agriculture is being sought by the re-
publican managers to make some speech
Is TO the Ohio farmers.
Appointment of Chaplains.
Bishop Cranston of the Methodist
Church had a conference today with the
President regarding the appointments OF
cha plains in the army. There had been
a report in circulation that the President
would abandon his policy of following the
recommendations of committees of other
authorities of the various denominations
As to these appointments.
The President stated that he intended
To pursue that policy. as heretofore. He
Considered it the best policy. in that il
pur upon the churches the responsibility
VI selecting the best men and relieved the
President and War Department of this
responsibility.
Will Attend Mayhower Banquet.
President Taft today. accepted an invi
tstion TO atte1d the annual banquet o,
:he Society of the Mayfiower. to he hello
the evening of November - at the New
Willard Hotel
The President is member of the So
riety He received a beautifully framed
engrossed certificate of his membership
today when the invitation to the ban
auet was presented by committee com
posed of Associate Justice Brown of tn.
Supreme Court. Ernest w. Bradford anc
Thomas s Hopkins The President .
ancestors were Mayffower pilgrims
President Will Open Convention.
President Taft today accepted an IN
vjtation to open the three-day convention
Of the American Society for the Settle
ment of International Disputes, to bt
held in Washington December IL to IL
at the New Willard. fIe will make ar
important address at the time. besrins
upon judicial settlement of great inter
national disputes. The invitation wa:
presented by Theodore Marbury. secre
tary of the American society. The princi
nal business bS fore the convention
will he the centeriDg of attention
upon tho proposition for a worlds cour
- iusfi,e arbitrate diSpufeS rh.