The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
LLOYD v, BOWERS
DIES Suddenly.
Solicitor-G en- er al and
ProspectiveC Candidate
for Supreme Court.
PRESIDENT PAYS
TRIBUTE TO FRIEND
Record as Most Important Pro-
scouting Office of Govern
ment One Rarely Equaled,
and One Of First Half
Dozen Leading Lawyers
of Country.

tor-General Lloyd Wheaton Bowers,
aged ifty-one years, lifelong friend Of
President Taft, died at the Hotel Tour
, aine. in this city. to-day. Death came
, suddenly. the result of cardiac throm-
bus, which ended an illness OF a month.
I due to an attack of bronchitis
| The death of Mr.. Bowers, who reiin-
| quished an exceedingly remunerative
| position as railroad counsel to take up
the duties of solicitor-general on March
22. 1909. at the instance OF President
Taft. removes a. prospective candidate
! for one OF the vacancies in the Supreme
| Court bench.
| Daily reports concerning the condi.
tion of the sick man have been encour-
aging, and yesterday the prospects or
his being able to leave the hotel were
| discussed. DR.. Frederick Coggesfall,
/ who has attended Mr.. Bowers here said
| to-day that the patient had q good
! nights rest, ate good breakfast to-
! day, and was chatting cheerfully with
his wife and son. when suddenly he
stopped talking and moment later
was dead.
DR.. Coggeshall sped by automobile
to the hotel on telephone summons
to discover that Mr.. Bowers had died
Instantly OF blood clot in the heart.
DR.. Coggeshall said that the original
illness OF Mr.. Bowers, which took the
form OF a violent cold. was due to over
work. The cold attacked him at Glou-
cester. whence Mr.. Bowers had come
from Chicago. his home city, to spend
the summer. Tonsililtis developed, and
to secure expert medical assistance yr.
Bowers was brought to Boston. An
aoscess on one OF the tonsils necessI-
tated an operation, the effects of which
4 Dr. Coggeshall said were too severe
for the weakened system to throw or.
j FUNERAL ON Monday.
il funeraf services Will be held Mon
Gay mornlng at the Hotel Touraine
! PRESIDENT Taft. who sent Il personal
i expression OF sorrow to Mrs. Bowers
as soon as he heard of her bcreavc-
ment. may attend. The completion of
the runeral arrangements is delayed
because Mrs. Bowers's daughter, Miss
Martha T. Bowers. has, not vet been
communicated with. Miss Bowers is
on horseback trip through Yellow
i stone Park. 1t is hoped to reach her
i soon.
i After the funeral services here the
body will be taken to Westfield, Conn,
where the burial service will be held
upon the arrival of Miss Bowers from
the West.
The interrpent will be In the ances-
trail burial gsound
Tribute from President Taft,
Beverly, Mass. September 9.-The
sudden passing away of Solicitor Gem
4 eral Lloyd w. Bowers made the day a
sad one at Burgess Point, especially as
Il President Taft had been assured only
two days ago that his collegemate and
his intimate friend for thirty years
would surely recover.
4 The Presidents tribute was as fol-
lows:
II am greatly distressed at the death
/ Of Lloyd Bowers the Solicitor General.
He and I were close and intimate
friends, and prided myself greatly on
securing his services in this admins
/ himself.
4 His record in the Solicitor-Gen-
erals office Is one that has rarely, If
i ever. been equalled He was one of
the firss s,;, haif-dozen lawyers Of the
my purpose to have appointed him a
Justice of the Supreme Court, il op-
portunity offered. His dea.h is a great
personal bereavement to me- and is
who knew his ability his high char
acter. his wonderful power Of appli-
cation and his broad and generous
mind can appreciate"
The President will now have to scan.
\ the legal lights of the country for an
tother particular star, not only for the
vacancy sa.e on the Supreme Court but
flee Of the government.
AS The Standard Oil and income tax
cases cases are set for November. and the
cor f6sporatiGn tax case vii follow fast
\ probably will be made within COM
paratively short time.
The loss of Mr.. Bowers is particu-
lariy hard at this time, because of his
| complete mastery of the three great
1 cases.
Department of Justice Closed.
, : washington, y. M d. e. September 9,-The
General was received. at the Depart
ment Of Justice to-day Just a few
minutes after the announcement had
been made at the Touraine in Boston.
ing the department. at noon.
Barton Corneau, an attorney In the
department, who was closely associated
With Mr., Bowers. left Immediately for
/; boston. A telegram was sent to A. II.
\ Emery, the solicitor-General's private
Il secretary, who was on his way from
New York to Washington, notifying
ihim of the death of his chief
4 Mr.. Bowers left Washington July q
and took with him twenty-three gov
ernment cases upon which he intended
to work while he was out of the city,
1 Some OF these cases he completed and
statement that when he had finished
i the last OF the work he had in hand
/ he intended to take long vacation, as
The was very tired
Mr.. Bowers won national attention
last March, when alone he defended
the constitutionality of the corporation.
4 tax provisions of the Payne Aldricn
tariff law before the supreme Court.
4 Arrayed against him was a corps OF
the leading lawyers of the coun-
l,try.
The success of the SOLICITOR Generaf
in presenting his case stamped him, his
friends assert. as worthy of appoint
ment to the Supreme Court and made
Ecertain that that honor would be con
ferred upon him.
Never Lost u Case.
!. During Mr.. Bowers's term as Solici-
ttor- General of the United States 10
case which he argued was decided
against him, One decision, regardinE