, 1924-04-09

occur IN his cabinet has been filled by
President Coolidge. Announcement
was made Wednesday, April ., of the
selection of Harlan Fiske Stone, re-
firing dean of Columbia university
school of law, as attorney general to
succeed Harry NJ. Daugherty, who re-
Gently resigned.
Having gone to the Pacific coast to
get a secretary of the navy in Curtis
d. Wilbur, of California, Mr.. Coolidge
turned to the Atlantic seaboard for his
attorney general and in Mr.. Stone
chose a present resident of New York
City and a former New England farm
boy. Mr.. Wilbur was drawn from Cali
fornia's supreme court, and Mr.. Stone
Is being taken from a law school, and
active practice.
The president selected Mr.. Stone be-
cause he has known him for 80 years
and has confidence in him because
he regards the New York man as pos
sessing the desired qualities of thor
ough legal knowledge and administra-
tive capacity and because he looks
upon the Columbia dean as a 100000
man willing, for patriotic reasons, to
accept a $4,000 job
Mr.. Coolidge chose Mr.. Stone from
a list of six and summoned him TO
Washington. Arriving in Washington
on an early train Tuesday, Mr.. Stone
and the president We're in conference
before most of Washington was awake.
and before s O'Clock the president had
rendered Mr.. Stone the portfolio and
the New York man had accepted.
Mr.. stones nomination was sent to
the senate soon after the body con-
vened, and soon after it was referred
to the judiciary committee for inquiry.
The prospective new attorney gener-
al after taking lunch with the presi-
dent, returned to New York immedi-
ately to await action by the senate
on his nomination. He declined in ad-
vance of this action to discuss his poll
cies or his plans.
During the entire period of his con-
nection with Columbia, dating from
1899, when he became a law lecturer
at the university, he had maintained
an active law practice and for several
years past has beer a member of the
firm of Wilmer. Garfield & Stone.
The prospective attorney general
is 50 years old and was born on a
farm near Chesterfield. n. H., the son
of what Secretary Weeks described
as a "tlght-fisted, thrifty New Hamp-
shire farmer"
His brother was DR.. Winthrop f.
Stone, president Of Purdue university
of Indiana, who was killed two years
ago while mountain climbing in the
Canadian Rockies.
Mr.. Stone entered Amherst college
a year before President Coolidge, his
parents Mt that time living on a farm
just outside the town Of Amherst. He
played football, was class orator, and
was graduated among the first three
in his class.
In addition to his duties at Column
bia, where he became dean Of law after
having been lecturer and professor.
and to his law practice, Mr.. Stone has
engaged in business and is a director
of the Atlanta 4 Charlotte Air Line
Railroad company. and several other
corporations.
The names Of Mr.. Stone and Chief
Justice Arthur II. Rugg of the Massa-
chusetts supreme judicial court have
been the two most prominently consid-
cred by the president from the time
of the retirement of Harry NJ. Daugh-
erty. and decision finally was made on
Mr.. Stone because of the executives
feeling that Massachusetts already had
more than her share of high federal
officers.