Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-10
His Qualifications for District
Supreme Court Presented by
New Jersey Delegation.
PRESIDENT PLANS TO STAY
SEVERAL DAYS AT CORNISH
Will Leave for Summer Home To-
morrow-Knude Henderson a
White House Visitor.

President Wilson today again was
.,rged to nominate Representative Walter
J. Mccoy of the ninth New Jersey dis
tnct as an associate justice of the SUI
s--eme Court of the District of Columbia.
Senator MARITIME and the democratic rep
->rntatives from that state in the
House visited the President in a body
and formally pleaded with him to recog-
nize the merits of Mr.. Mccoy.
The President told his visitors that
Mr.. Mccoy undoubtedly was an able
and scholarly man, well qualified for the
place, but that he had not definitely de-
termined whom he would nominate His
friends had taken the position that he
ought not go out of the District or Mary
land because of the legal usages In the
courts here making it difficult for an
outsider to become familiar with the
work, but that he had not committed
himself to this attitude.
He did. however, believe that adaptable
ity, when added to efficiency. would be an
important qualification. The President
gave no hint as to persons he may have
under consideration, the delegation de-
parting without knowing what may be
done upon their request. Mr.. Mccoy is
a graduate of the Harvard Law School
and has practiced law in New York city
since 1886. His residence is in New
Jersey, but his office is in New York.
Alter the visit the New Jersey visitors
We're optimistic in their belief that Mr.
Mccoy will be given a position on the
bench, whether the one now asked for
or another.
Knude Henderson a Caller.
An interesting White House visitor to-
day was knude Henderson of Cambridge,
Wis. Mr.. Henderson has just returned
a tx-i+h OH tor hn hoe
been studying in Berlin. He was escorted
to the White House by Senator Knute
Nelson's private secretary. C. II. Hicks,
the senator and Mr.. Henderson being old
friends. Mr.. Hendersons father and HIM
sell came to America from Norway in
the same year that Senator Nelson, then
q boy seven Years old arrived in the
Cnite,t States. The Henderson family
settled in Visions. H. almost a wilderness
at that time. Senator Nelson worked as
a farm hand for Mr.. Henderson's father,
land he was one of the best plowmen We
ever had, was the recommendation given
today to Senator Nelson. But Knute
Nelson was a great student. He never
had the advantages of some boys to get
a schooling. having to work himself up by
his own efforts, but he studied and read
every chance he got. When he worked
for Us. at which time he was fifteen years
of age, he belonged to the debating So
ciety We had in the neighborhood. and
he was by long odds the best debater in
the society,"
President Wilson liked his last visit
TO Cornish. N. H., his summer home,
so well that he will repeat the trip
by leaving here tomorrow afternoon
for another visit of several days. He
will return to Washington either Mon
day or Tuesday. The President in
tends to keep in close touch with the
White House during his absence He
will be accompanied to Cornish by
Miss Lucy Smith, his cousin, who has
been at the White House some time
recovering from an operation for ap-
pendicitis, which kept her in a hos
weeks. Miss Margaret Wilson and
Mrs Francis B. Sayre already are at
Cornish.