Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
MCCOY NAMED
y AS AVAILABLE
y FOR JUDGESHIP
AanliIl Rumor Causes Con-
gressmen to Speak of East
Orange Mans Qualities.
fFrom a stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON, June 10.-Sinee it
has become noised about here that
Representative James HamiH is
likely to be named by the President
for the place of Justice of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court,
there is considerable wonder eX-
pressed among members of the House.
1t was not known that Representative
Hamill entertained aspirations In
that direction, and there are not
few who question whether the APP
pointment would be entirely suitable
TO one of Representative Hanilrs
temperament, not that his legal quail
LEGATIONS are at all questioned or his
ability to fill the post are doubted. Il
is simply a matter of no one having
ever considered him as a judge until
his name was mentioned for this
office.
On the other hand, Representative
Walter l. Mccoy has been frequently
mentioned as a man of judicial tenn
permanent, and 1t has been limited more
than once during the last year that
he would make an admirable judge.
His judicial qualities have. been
brought out strongly during the last
few weeks, while he has been pre-
siding in a judicial capacity in the
hearing of the charges against Judge
Daniel Thew Wright, a member of
the District of Columbia court against
whom charges have been preferred.
Representative Mccoy. as a member
of the House judiciary committee, was
named chairman of the sub-commir-
tee appointed to hear the charges.
In this capacity he has been presid
lag practically as a trial judge in
case that involves some of the leading
business and professional men of the
capital. The daily hearings have
drawn throngs TO the judiciary cham
bers and the reports of the hearings
are given in detail by the local pa
pers.
Has Made Fine Impression.
The manner in which Representa-
tive Mccoy has conducted the hear
ings, his imperturbability during
most exciting moments when the
counsel for and against the accused
have become excited and turmoil
would prevail, but for the strong
and dignified action of the representa-
tive from New Jersey. In this case,
Representative Mccoy has had op-
portunity of displaying his profound
knowledge of law and procedure and
his rulings have been accepted by the
prosecution and defense almost with
out question. Dozens of the House
members, who have heard of the way
in which Mr.. Mccoy is conducting this
difficult case, have dropped in during
the hearings to see and hear for
themselves. Some of these members
of the House are former judges and
one and all speak in high terms of
the capabilities Of the member from
the Ninth district.
1t is now some weeks since it began
to be bruited about that Representa-
tive Mccoy would make an admira BILE
judge. Some of his friends have even
gone so far as to suggest their will
ingness to go to the President and
suggest him as the proper man to
appoint in place Of Judge Barnard,
who retired from the bench the other
day. 1t was generally known that
the judge was going to retire and
there are two other vacancies in the
district courts that have remained
untitled since the beginning of the
year. tt was thought that Mr. Nc
Coy might be named for one of these.
Unfortunately the representative
from the Ninth district has not
trained in with the group of men VINO
hang about Secretary Tumulty's
desk and have easy access to the
dental ear
Is an Independent Thinker.
Not that Mccoy has been an anti
administration man in any of his
acts, but he has reserved to himself
the right to think and act according
to his own conscience and has not
allowed anyone TO do his thinking
for him. He has always been a well
come visitor to the White House, but
he has not visited the executive Of
fees except when his official duties
have called him As a leading mem
Der of the judiciary committee, hav-
ing the anti trust bills under COZ
sideration, he has found it necessary
to call on the President occasionally
to confer over certain phases of the
bill as it was evolved in committee
he has not been a visitor to the
White House for patronage, because
it was shown very early in the
career of this administration that the
members from the Ninth and Tenth
districts of New Jersey would not
be consulted in the bestowal of DO
litical plums. For all that Mr. Nc
Coy had managed to secure jobs here
and there. but they were depart
iuthLdl pldCeS 10 WllCn the WHITE
House had no cognizance until the
appointments were made. That he
was eliminated from the group to
whom patronage was given has not
bothered the representative from the
Ninth. It has been a blessing to him
In one way. as he has been able to
honestly tell applicants that he could
90 nothing for them; that if they
wanted anything, they had to see
his colleagues from Hudson county.
who have been given the cream of
Jobs that have gone to Jerseymen.
These facts are well known to his
colleagues, those of them who have
come in close contact with him
through daily association in the
judiciary committee. The members
of this committee are all lawyers and
they have had ample opportunities 10
Judge the judicial qualities of Rep
resentative Mccoy, and it was from
them that the suggestion came that
ne is the kind of a man needed IN
rHe. bench. 1t may be Judge Mccoy
yer.
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