Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-10
LLOYD ". BOWERS IS DEAD
Solicitor General of United States
Dies After Short Illness.
FOR SUPREME BENCH
He Was One of Men Being Considered
BY President Taft for chief JUS
tice--EminentIy Success
ful - Lawyer.

BOSTON, Sept. 9.-solicltor General Lloyd
W. Powers died here at II: 80 a. m. today
of complications arising from an attack
of bronchitis. The solicitor general has
been i'll about two weeks.
Death came suddenly while Mr.. Bowers
VISA talking with his family. A blood cloI
In the heart causes almost instant death
Mrs. Bowers, a son and the nurse were
present. The family has been staying at
the Hotel Touraine in this city for a fort
night. The solicitor general was 81 years
of age
Mr.. Bowers was appointed solicitor gen.
eral by President Taft on March 22 1909
The appointment was one of the first off
cial acts OF Mr.. Taft as president, who
had long held Mr.. Bowers in high regard
Tho solicitor general was one of the men
known to have been in the mind of the
president for one of the existing vacancies
on the United States supreme court bench
The first news of Mr.. Bowers illness be-
came generally known through a telegram
sent by Mrs. Bowers to President Taft last
Tuesday.
So solicitous was Mr. Taft that as soon
as he reached Boston he called on the
patient, who was so much improved that
he was able to see him.
The physician who has attended Mr.
Bowers said today that the patient had a
good nights rest ate a good breakfast to-
day and was chatting cheerfully with his
wife and son, when suddenly he stopped
talking and moment later was dead,
The physician, DIR. Frederick Coggeshall,
said the original illness OF Mr.. Bowers
which took the form Of violent cold, was
due to overwork. The cold attacked him at
Gloucester, whence Mrs. Bowers had come
from Chicago his home city, TO spend the
summer. Tonsilitis developed and TO have
expert medical assistance, Mr.. Bowers was
brought to Boston. An abscess on one OF
the tonsils necessitated an operation, the
effect of which, DR.. Coggeshall said, were
too severe for the weakened system to
throw off.
BEVERLY, Mass. Sept, 9-President
Taft was notified of the death of solicitor
General Bowers. He expressed great sor-
row at the passing of one of his oldest
friends and one of his most valued subor-
dinates in the public service. President Taft
and Mr. Bowers had known each other per-
sonally all their lives, having been at Yale
together and made a close friendship.
When the president appointed Mr.. Bowers
solicitor general he made it known that
he considered that he had obtained for the
office one Of the ablest lawyers in the
country. The president sent a telegram to
the family, expressing his coincidence.
Graduate of Yale,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Lloyd W
Bowers was graduated from Yale in 1879
and from the Columbia law school in 1882
He was general counsel of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway In 1898 and lastly
solicitor general of the United States in
charge of the governments business before
the highest judicial tribunal OF the country.
He was born at Springfield, Mass, March
O. 1859 He soon became junior partner
with former Chief Justice Wilson OF Mime
sofa, In Minnesota he had a general prac-
tice and later moved to Chicago, where in
June 1898, he became the head Of the legal
department of the Chicago q Northwestern
railway In 1887 he married Miss Louise b.
Wilson Of Winona, Mimi, who died ten
years later. In 1906 he married Miss Char
! lotte Josephine Lewis
! President Taft nad made no secret of his
! intention to appoint Mr.. Bowers to the
supreme court upon favorable opportunity
! IN the near future with Governor Hughes
OF New York, Mr.. Bowers was seriously
discussed in regard to the chief justiceship
itself.
! He received national attention last March
when alone he defended the constitution
| aHty OF the corporation tax provisions OF
the Payne e-Aldrich tariff act before the su-
preme court.
! During his term as solicitor general no
case which he argued was decided against
| him. one decision regarding grazing on
/ forest reserves went against him by an
equally divided court but later the case
was set for rehearing