New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
LLOYD ". BOWERS DEAD
Solicitor General Expires Sud-
denly at Boston.
THE PRESIDENT G7,!EVED
Had Considered Appointing His
Friend to the Supreme
Court.

+ Hotel TouTaine, in this city. to-day. Death
came suddenly.the result OF a cardiac
! thrombus which ended an illness of a
month due TO an attack o. bronchitis The
death Of Mr.. Bowers. who re indui he'd an
exceedingly remunerative place a rail-
. road counsel 10 take UP the duties OF Soc-
tor General at the instance o. President
/ Taft removes a prospective candidate for
one Of the vacancies in the Supreme Court
bench. In fact, NJ Bowers had been
mentioned prominently. next to Governor
/ Hughes. g. tie next Chief Justice.
The funeral service will lie held Men
day morning at the Hotel Touraine. Presi-
dent TAFT. who sent n personal expression
of sorrow 10 MIS-. flowers as soor as he
heard Of her bereavement. may attend.
/ The completion of the bu. al arrangements
is delayed owing to the fact that Mr.
/ Rowers's daughter. Miss Martha T. Eow-
J ers, has not Vet been communicated with.
+ Miss Bowers is on q horse back trip through
/ Yellowstone Park. 1t is hoped to reach her
soon.
/ After the funeral here the body viii ne
/ takerr TO WesttieId. Conn. vhe-e the burial
will take place on the arrival Of Miss
Bowers from the West. in the ancestral
/ cemetery.
The first news of Nr Rovers's Illness
/ became generally known through 4 tele-
gram sent by Mrs. Bowers to President
Taft last Tuesday. The message was de-
Ifvered to the President on the train. while
he was on his way back to Beverly from
the Conservation Congress At s.. Paul So
soliCitous was Nj. Taft that as soon as he
reached Boston he called a the hotel and
found the patient so much improved that
ne was able to see him At that time
President Taft. expressed great satisfaction
that his friend seemed likely to recover.
Daily reports concerning the condition Of
the sick man have been encouraging. and
yesterday the prospects Of his being able
70 leave the hotel were discussed. Or
Frederick CoegeshsU who has attended
Nr Bowers here sa1 to-day that the
patient had good night rest. ate a good
breakfast TO-DAY and was chatting cheer
fully with his wife and son when, sudden
". he stopped talking and moment later
was dead
Dr.. CoggashaU sped by automobile TO
the hotel on 4 telephone summons. only to
discover that Nj Bowers had died in
srantly of blood clot i'm the heart. The
physician said that the original Illness OF
Mr. Bowers. which took tho form of vio-
lent cold, was due TO overwork The cold
attacked him At Gloucester. whence Mr.
Bowers had come from Chicag go. his home
city 10 spend the summer. Tonsijitis de-
veloped. and 70 secure expert medical as
sfsranCe. NTr Bowers was brought to BOs-
ton. An abscess Oh one of the tonsils made
necessary an operation the effects OF
which Or. CogeeshaH said, were too Sc
we're for the wea kened system to throw off.
LLOYD II. Bowers won 4 wide reputation
v,--C aur,0jrtpd
by President Taft as Solicitor General Of
the Department of Justice the right hand
man of ATTORNEY General Wickersham, and
at the time Of his death he was being
seriously considered for the next vacancy
in the Supreme Court Of the United States.
He was one Of those men who succeeded
II rough n genius for hard work
He was the son Of Samuel n. and Mar
tha ". ODovdD Bowers, the former of Eng
Iisr and the latter Of Irish descent, though
both we're Of old New England ancestry.
TIE Bowers family settled in Massachusetts,
early in the seventeenth ceuturz-. and one,
John Bowers. was q student At Harvard
College a bout 1870. The members % the
family were leaders in the commonwealth,
and included many cIergymen and teach
ers.
The future Solicitor General vas born in
Springfield. Mass in 1853 At the age OF
twenty ne was graduated from Yale and
entered Columbia Law School. being sradu-
ated there in 1852 That same year he was
admitted 10 the bar and began practice
with Chamberlain. Carter & Hornbower,
of New York He displayed an immediate
aptitude for his profession. and in 4 short
time vas made 4 Junior partner in the
firm.
despite his rapid rise in the metropolis.
In 1851 he became a partner Of ex-Chtef
Jrstice Wilson. OF Minnesota. He remained
in general practice in that state until he
removed To Chicago. in 1893. 10 become
general counsel of the Chicago & North ;
western Railway. During the sixteen years
in which he controlled the legal affairs OF /
that road no charges of any kind were |
brought against il. He had the reputation |
for being very sparlng Of passes. and in |
practice he pretty thoroughly anticipated I
the anti-pass law.
Mr. Bowers was appointed TO the De
nartment Of Justice by President Taft soon /
after his Inauguration. and the appoint I
ment was confirmed by the Senate on April /
D. 1903 Mr. Bowers had given up salary !
Of $4,000 a year to accept one OF $500. On /
the retirement Of Justice Brewer Mr.. Taft .
seriously considered the appointment OF /
Mr. Bowers TO succeed him, but the ap-
pointrnent finally went to Governor Hughes. /
Not only was il felt at that time that the .
nIace should 90 to a New York State man.
hut the President was unwilling 10 spare /
Mr. Bowers from the Department OF JUS
tice.
He received national attention last
March. when alone he defended the con-
OF the corporation tax pro-
visions of the Payne-AIdrich tariff act be-
fore the Supreme Court. Arrayed against
him was a corps of the leading lawyers Of
the country, and the success Of the SOici-
tor General in presenting his case stamped
him. so his friends assert. as certain Of
appolntnent to the Supreme Court. Dur
ing 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
avoided court. but later the case was set
for rehearing He was counsel for the
government in the Standard Oil and To-
bacco eases.
afr Bowers came to Washington from
,b. eIst Ward of Chicago. from which
came Secretary MacVeagiI Of the Treas
,,r, Department and Secretary Dickinson
NJ the War Department. He never took
4nv part in politics. either local or na-
,ional.
The Solicitor General was 4 stockily
bujEt six-footer with an Eastern drawl
49, ,,-.do his ,oice sound heavy He was