Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
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Mr.. Hughes into conference, but not at
MS Office. The two talked the matter
over at the breakfast table.
Further, it was said at the White
Rouse today that the only people In
Washington who knew that Hughes was
10 succeed Taft, were the President ana
attorney General Mitchell.
Mr.. Hughes Is not expected to come
70 Washington until after he is officially
notlhed of the confirmation.
PRESIDENT Hoover reached Mr.. Hughes
IN New York over long-distance tele-
phone yesterday afternoon shortly after
the resignation of Mr.. Taft had been
announced. Mr.. Hughes accepted the
offered appointment Immediately. Later
the appointee told newspaper men That
ne would accept the post as the great
est opportunity for service that ever has
come to him.
Thus did a surging tide of events
catch up these two distinguished Amer
leans, whose names loom large in their
country's history. For one it brought
the end of a career that has led him
along the difficult path of public serv-
ice to the two loftiest offices OF the
American Government. To the other
it bore the beginning of new and
greater chapter in a career already
brilliant.
Hughes WithhoIds Statement.
In greeting New York newspaper
men at his law Offices in Lower Broad
way he said he would issue formal
statement as soon as he received formal
notice of his appointment, but that
he would resign at once as justice OF
the World Court.
He explained that his election as
Justice of the World Court had merely
been to fulfill the uneXpired term of
John Bassett Moore and his term would
have ended in September.
The new regulations require that
World Court justices hold no public
Office IN their own counties and that
they devote the greater part of their
energies to World Court work. He said
he had already informed the court he
would not be candidate for reelection,
as he was reluctant to spend the neces-
sary time away from the United States.
Shortly before announcement of his
nomination, Mr.. Hughes had issued the
following statement in praise of retiring
Chief Justice Taft:
Praises Taft.
"I regret most deeply that Chief
Justice Taft is unable to continue in
office.
His work as Chief Justice has fifty
crowned a great career and will have
an abiding influence. 1t was both the
fine quality of that work, and the spirit
in which it was performed, evincing
not only the most conscientious industry
and judicial independence, but an in
tense loyalty to the institution, that
have given great satisfaction to the
country. Freed from the exactions of
the Office, 1t Is hoped that he will find
his days heightened and that his heart
will be cheered by the tributes Of esteem
and warm affection which he will re-
ceive in abundant measure from his
grateful fellow countrymen."
While Taft is the only man in history
to serve as President and Chief Justice,
Hughes missed the former by an eX-
tremely narrow margin. Opposing
Woodrow Wilson in the campaign of
1916, he failed of election by % cleo
toral votes. So close was the balloting
that the outcome was in doubt for days
In their personal characteristics there
is a wide divergence between the two.
Taft brought to the Supreme bench
his cheerful PHILOSOPHERS and his
famous chuckle.
With Hughes, the student of affairs
and the ~austerity Of intellect are pre-
dominant.
Hughes career began in New York,
where his legal abilities brought early
prominence and an opportunity for the
Republican mayoralty nomination in
1905. This he declined. Two years
later he became governor of the State
and in 1909 he began a second term,
but resigned in 1910 to accept appoint
ment IS an associate justice of the
Supreme Court. This came from Taft,
then President.
The Republican national convention
at Chicago nominated him for the
presidency on June 10, 1916. and he
resigned from the Supreme bench on
the same DAY. After his defeat at the
polls he returned to private practice,
but in 1921 became Secretary of State
in the Harding cabinet.
He was the principal American dele
gate to the Naval Arms Conference of
1921 and astounded the world with his
demands for extensive reduction of sea
forces. He left the cabinet at the
beginning of President Coolidge's second
term in 1925.
international Justice.
His international prominence brought
him appointment to the Arbitration
Court of The Hague by Coolidge in
the Council and Assembly of the League
of Nations to an associate justiceship
on the Permanent Court of International
Justice. In addition, he served as chair
man Of the American delegation to the
Sixth Pan-American Conference in
Havana in 1928.
Otherwise, the last few years have
been spent in private legal practice,
which has brought him many times
before the bar of the Supreme Court.
Taft began and ended his career in
the Judiciary He was appointed Chief
Justice of the United States on June
80, 1921, by President Harding. In this
office he worked assiduously, preparing
his opinions in long hand, and fighting
of the encroachments of failing health
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