The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-19
IM' REY MOL DS IS SELECTED FOR SUPREME COURT His Successor Tn Cabinet to Be Thomas w. Gregory
 of Texas PRESIDENT WILSON SIGNS NOMINATIONS New Attorney General Has Had Charge of New Ha-
 ven Case

.'.sltaa Attorney General Janaes Q NLcRey- lnolds, to be a member of the plnseo iS4ates Supreme Court
 E 11,ornas Watt Gregory, of TexaS, to be attorney general of the Unafed Ere; FrederAck 0. Howe of New York, k-to be 1rnnnl grafton commissioners, port of New York
 bthe supreme court bench VIII mar, marx Itl1e arst break in the Presidents official Ifannily in the year and half or 11s hife ithes death of Justice Lurton pul lnat 5n.-t lndr. McReynolds could have the place lon the bench if he wanted It. There t~Tas q good deal of doubt however, that asST NSF7eynolds would Care to give up I.tne Cabinet place and the ne1ny plans fhe had mapped out for the eonouct If that oHine ItYvas only 8 few days EEaea thai he dnaltg made up his mind l4o leave fhe Cabinet and accept the iappOint ntnexE sss5
 MT. Gregory. the new attorney gem 4eral, is 5s years old He is supposed lfo have had the strong backing of Col IE M House, the Presidents friend from Texas and New York
 Mr. Gregory was graduated rom tsoufhwestern Presbyterian Undv versfry lat Clarksvil1e Tenn, in 1883 He was I . special student at the University of Virginia and took his degree of bach slelor of law at the University Of Texas EF4e was admitted to the bar in Texas fA I18a5 and has practfsed there ever since. H1s hrm of Gregory 6 Bates was enn- EpIoyed at one time to prosecule cor lDoratiors for violating the antitrust flaws Soon after Attorney-General tAdcReyno1ds took up his duties here he Ise1ected MT. Gregory as special as- Isistant to investigate the affairs of the lNew york New Haven 6 Hartford EH2aflroad GO. Mr. Gregory has been Ee1nployed on that case ever since and Ehas charge of the suit in. equity for ffhe dissolution of the New Haven sys- Item which was filed in New York a flew weeks ago.
 Persons in Washington who have kbeen thrown into contact with MT. hsreEory during his services here have lbeen favorab1y impressed with his abfl- -kdty and personality and his appoint Hnent undoubtedly will meet with the IapprovaI of official Washington
 MT Greeoryss home is in Austin He fserved as assistant city attorney of ElAustin from 1891 to 1894. He declined Ian appointment as assistant attorney general of Texas and also as district iiudee He is a regent of the Univers- lity of Texas.
 The appointment of MT. McReynolds Ito the supreme court will add to that tribunal lawyer who is known to lhave pronounced and advanced ideas lin regard to the sherman antitrust law. MT. Me Reynolds before he be- came attorney-genera1, had had large
 experience in the enforcement of the lanti-trust laws, especially in the prose scution of the tobacco trust and the hso-called anthracite trust
 AS special counsel in the tobacco ftrust case he differed from Attorney iC4enera1 W1ckersham as to the form of
 the dissolution decree. MT. McRey- inoIds contended in the tobacco trust lease ,and has since applied the same
 theory attorney-general that in kany dissolution proceedings the constf-
 tutent parts of the trust should be dis
 posed of to independent share-hold- Iers.
 The nominations were presented tt the Senate Immediately after 1t con
 vened and were formally referred tc committees. There are some indicas 5 tions of opposition to MT. McReynoIds confirmation by three or four Sena-
 tors. Administration leaders. however
 have no doubt of his confirmation