Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-03 | Page 2 | Taft Has Record for Judges Named

TAFT HAS RECORD FOR JUDGES NAMED l President to Send for tor Kite Five More Mere 1 to Senate ln Total to 11 1 for tor r Term rm Washington Feb 2 Before Before ho hc quits office President Taft TaCt expects to send to the Senate the thc nominations of or five rive more mor federal cs making a total of In his a record unequaled so far as as s available documents documents documents docu docu- ments show how b by any other President In four tour years cars Counting these five nominations nomi nations and ten already sent to tug Senate but still unconfirmed Mr Taft will have named S por per cent of ot tho the federal Judges provided for b by the statutes While the Pre President Is hi known to regard re regard re- re gard hI his appointments to the supreme court as as' as the most Important he ho has made and he lie has named th five five- of oC the nine nino members of that court and a chief justice he has taken great reat pride In his selection of or circuit district and amid territorial terri tern tonal judg Judges s i There Thero are 46 1 federal federal judges who enJoy enjO enjoy en- en jO Joy life tire tenure and of that sort Mr I Taft Tart has appointed d sixty five or about 40 per cent Mr lr Roosevelt Roose In his first term named throe forty life lite judg and In his Bc second ond forty tort Mr r. r McKinley named twenty three life Judges Mr lr Cleveland in his lila second term twenty twenty- s. s seven n and Mr Harrison tort forty