The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-12-12
OF the United States of
America by President
William H. Taft.
OTHER MEMBERS, TOO
OF the Highest Court as Well
as Personnel Of New
Court Are Named.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 12.-
President Taft today cent to the Sen
ate these nominations:
no be chief justice OF the United
States supreme court. Associate Jus
tiee Edward Douglass White OF
Louisiana.
To be associate Justices of the Unit
ed states supreme court, Judge Willis
ValDevanter. of wyoming. and Judge
Joseph BuclSer Lamar, OF Georgia.
TO be judges OF the new court OF
commerce, Martin A. Knapp, now
chairman of the interstate commerce
com mission, for a term of five years;
Robert W. Archbold, now United
States district judge for the middle
district OF Pennsylvania, for term of
four years; William H. Hunt, now
Judge of the court of customs appeals
and formerly United States district
judge of the district of Montana, for
term of three years; John Emmett tt
Garland, of south Dakota. for a term
of two years; and John W. Mack, now
judge in the appellate circuit court of
the first Illinois district, for a term of
one year.
To be members OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission. 3. II. Meyer.
of Wisconsin, and C. c. NIcChord. of
Kentucky.
The appointments to the Interstate
Commerce Commission were made to
fill vacancies caused by the elevation
OF Knapp to the commerce court and
the forthcoming retirement of for
mer Senator Cockrell, OF Missouri.
The commission will elect its new
chairman.
In the official nominations, sent to
the Senate the members OF the new
commerce court are designated as adj
ditional circuit judges. Judge Knapp
is named as judge for the second ju-
dicial circuit, Archbold for the third
Hunt for the ninth. Garland for the
eighth. and Mack the seventh.
The judges will serve on the COM
mcrce court and after being relieved
from that service they will be as
signed to work on the circuit bench.
AS member of the supreme court
it has fallen to Justice Whites lot to
participate in some OF the most IA
nous cases in the history OF the tri-
bunal Although a Confederate SOL
der and a Democrat, Justice White is
said to hold probably the most clear
ly marked ideas of federalism OF any
of the supreme court justices. He
was with the government IN an OF tue
so-called insuIar cases. involving the
philippines and other island posses
sions. He rendered minority opin-
ion against the governments conten-
lions in the Northern Securities case,
and also was with the minority of the
court in voting to sustain the constf-
tutionalIty OF the income tax law.
Justice White has been on the su-
preme court for I6 years, and Is now
the Oldest justice in commission
whose age is less than 20. Justice
White graduated from Georgetown
University In addition to practlcinE
law in louisiana. he was a sugar
! planter. He served in the Louisiana
Legislature as senator, served for a
number of years on the state supreme
court bench and subsequently was
elected to the United States Senate.
He was serving his first term in that
body when President Cleveland APP
pointed him to the supreme court.
HJustice Whites nomination was con-
nrmed by the senate today. The con-
hrmation of the two newly appointed
associate Justices viii follow later,
There is no evidence IN the Senate
that any Of the other nominations Will
meet with opposition.