The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-04
WILL
SUCCEED LAMAR
ON HIGH BENCH
Noted Ref0Rmer Is Nominated
By Wilson as Associate
Justice.
SENATORS SURPRISED
Blythe ANNOUNCEMENT
Confirmation May Be Opposed.
Says Report From National
Capital.

| Washington, Jan. 2S.-President
Wilson today selected Louis D. Bran
deis Of Boston to be Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court to succeed the
late Justice Lamar.
Mr.. Brandeis' nomination went to
the Senate today. 1t was surprise
everywhere in official circles.
AS soon as the nomination of Mr..
Brandeis was received Senators began
discussing prospects of his confirma-
| ton. None of those who said they
we're opposed to the appointment was
willing to be quoted. Senators said
freely they were taken by surprise.
The nomination goes 70 the Judiciary
Committee, where a fight, if there is
one, will first develop.
Nj. Brandcis will be the first Jew to
sit on the bench of the Supreme
Court. He is q lawyer who has been
much in public life during the last
three years, not Only in legal work
but in various movements for social
bctterment.
Harper's Weekly in Il recent cditn-
rial called attention to Mr.. Brandeis'
fitness for the supreme bench and
challenging the President to appoint
him.
M. Brandeis has been known as an
Independent in politics, with leanings
toward the principles Of the Demo-
cratic party. There are now two
Democrats or the Supreme Bench,
Chief Justice White and Justice Nc
Reynolds.
At the beginning Of President Will
sons administration Mr.. Brandeis was
expected to get place in the Cabinet.
Many of the administration leaders eX-
pcctcd him to be appointed Attorney
General.
Brandeis has been stern critic of
the financial methods Of railroads and
great corporations, and an assailant
o. corporate abuses. In connection
with his leadership of the aspirations
Of the Jewish race in America he Wis
tied st. Louis early in January, 1915,
when he spoke in Temple Israel on the
Zionist movement, and addressed the
Knights Of Zion, a jewish order.
Il. 20 al onI - E
Louisville. His family was pros
porous and we'll educated one, and
part Of his preparatory education was
obtained in Dresden, Germany. His
father suffered business reverscs in
the panic of 1873, and he had to work
his way through the Harvard Law
School. In doing this he overstraincd
his eyes so that he has never fully re-
covered, but he succeeded in taking his
law diploma at the age OF 20. the
rules being suspended to permit the
diploma to be given 10 him at that
age.
He began his law practice in Boston
in 1878 and interested himself in social
and economic problems, serving on
charitable boards and being the lead
cr, in 1890, in a thorough Investigation
into the management of public charity
institutions in Boston.
In 1897 Brandcis became counsel for
q group of citizens who opposed long
term leases and franchises for the
Boston traction interests. Through
his efforts the principle OF municipal
control of the transportation system
and municipal ownership of subways
was established.
His next fight was for cheaper gas, |
and in this he antagonizcd some PER
sons who had been with him in the |
traction campaign, by favoying a plan |
which seemed in some ways to favor |
the gas company. The most import |
ant detail Of this plan, to the public /
proved to be the provision that, for ev-
cry scent reduction III the price Of gas
The company might increase its divi-
dcnd l per cent. This caused the
to concentrate its energies on
The lowering of the cost of gas and
its sale, and it succeeded in
the price 10 cents thousand,
thereby getting the right to increase
its dividend from to per cent.