The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-13
Iaft'S Promotion of the LOuiS- iana Man Meets With
 General Approval
MARTIN A. KNAPP WILL
 HEAD COMMERCE COURT
President Is That of Judge Lamar of Georgia for tlie Supreme
 Court 8cnch

Washington, December le.-'rhe Senate
 today confirmed the nomination of Ed
 ward Douglass. White Of Louisiana to
 be chief justice of the United States, the highest judicial position in the govern
 ment
 President Tafts promotion of Associate
 Justice White was received by the Senate
 shortly after it convened The body in-
 terrupted business to go into executive
 session to make the necessary confirma-
 tion as the rule requiring reference of nominations to committees does not ap-
 ply in cases where the appointees have
 served as members of the Senate. Chief
 Justice Whites commission will be issued
 before another session.
 Accompanying Justice Whites name in
 the list of nominations were those of
 Judge Willis Vandevanter of Wyoming.
 BOW judge of the Eighth judicial cir
 cult. and Joseph R. Lamar of Georgia 1 formerly of the supreme court of his
 state, to be associate justices of the su- preme court of the United States No action was taken in their cases. although there is no apparent opposition to either jurist. nor was an attempt made to con l firm the judges named for the new court of commerce. All were referred to the Senate judiciary committee. The nomi- | nations by President Taft were: List of Nominations To be chief justice of the United States | supreme court: Associate Justice Edward | Douglass White Of Louisiana. | To be associate justices of the United 1 States supreme court: Judge Willis Van devanter of Wyoming and Judge Joseph
 Fucker Lamar of Georgia
 To be judges of the new court of com
 merce: Martin A. Knapp, now chairman
 of the interstate commerce commission.
 for term of five years: Robert w. Archibald, now United States district l judge for the middle district of Penn
 sylvania. term of four years; William 1 II. Hutt now judge Of the court Of cus- l toms appeals, formerly United States dis 1 trict judge of the district of Montana. l term of three years; John Emmet Gar l land of South Dakota for the term of
 two years; Julian W Mack now judge
 in the appellate circuit court of the First Illinois district, term of one year | To be members of the interstate com merce commission: B. H. Meyer of Wis | consin and c. C. McChord of Kentucky. | These appointments to the interstate | commerce commission are 10 be made to | i'll the vacancies caused by the elevation
 If MT. Knapp to the commerce court, and the forthcoming retirement of former
 Senator Francis NJ cockren of Missouri.
 The commission will elect it's new chair man. The members of the commission
 urho ui1 ran1air ara Mpesrs f'larl IIar- Ian, Clements, Lane and Prouty. The Commerce Court The commerce court Is a court created
 in the amendment in the interstate com
 merce act passed in June last by this l Congress. The law provides for the ap- l pointment of five additional circuit judges l by the President, who are to constitute | the court, and no two of whom shall be | appointed from the same judicial circuit court. The judges so appointed are to l serve on the commerce court and after being relieved from that service are to he | assigned to work on the circuits as circuit | judges.
 l nate in the first appointments the terms | If years during which the judge appoint | ed shall serve on the commerce court. and l the Judge designated to sit for five years il lnlS court IS To act as the presiding | Judge. Thereafter the court is to be com | posed of five judges to be designated by l the secretary from the circuit judges of l the United States.
 | This court Is thus composed of the present chairman of the interstate com l merce commission; two United States dis | rict judges of the United States court of customs appeals. who was for | merly United States district judge and
 one judge from the appellate court of Illi- | nois
 Names to Be Considered The senate committee on interstate commerce. will meet tomorrow to consider | he nomination of C. c. McChord of Ken
 lucky and B. H. Meyer of Wisconsin for | membership on the interstate commerce commission. It is said there will be no 1 ;erious opposition to the confirmation Of l eithcr but as the Senate has no first hand Knowledge that Chairman Knapp. 1 named the presiding judge of the court
 of commerce, intends to retire from the
 commission the nominations will go over l Int another meeting. The chances are
 that no action will be taken until after 1 Judge Knapp has been confirmed for the position to which he was appointed today | The Senate surprised itself by it's speedy
 ,ction upon the nomination of Chief Jus l tice White.
 Within less than an hour after the name
 lad been received from the White House l the Senate had disposed of the noInina- | ion. Immediately after the disposal of | the routine business of the morning hour | Senator Hale moved that the Senate go | nto executive session. So anxious were several senators who had other business
 that they considered pressing that they
 rushed to the side of the Maine member
 to protest.
 | q am going to have White coii | hrmed," he said.
 l Nonsense" several of them respond | ed in unison, you can't possibly do It..
 Wait and see," he replied. and con tinued to insist upon his motion. l Name Is Presented When at last the doors were closed | the nomination of MT White was laid before the senate MT. Hale did not
 walt for the reading of other nom nations, but immediately moved con hrmation of the chief justice, A few voices were raised in pro test but MT. Hale took, the floor. tle spoke for about 15 minutes dealing with MT. Whites demonstrated fitness for the place and dwelling on the fact