Show t Na Names s C Colby P PRESIDENT RESIDENT T WILSON again ain upset et e expectations of political political ical leal Ya Washington in naming J Bainbridge Colb Colby to succeed Kobert Hobert Lansing ns as secretary of state I T 4 4 s r rt t r. r 4 5 f A Ac c c 5 54 4 1 C i 4 4 4 44 ft 4 1 By Associated Press Feb 23 President President VV v Wilson again expectations expectations of official arid and political Washington Washing Washing- ton today by naming Colby a New York attorney who left heft the Republican party with Theodore Roosevelt Roose volt velt m in 1912 as secretary of state The The- selection caused scarcely less lessof lessof of a sensation than the dismissal of Robert Lansing from the state portfolio two weeks v ago and was received with such undisguised surprise In the tho Senate Sent Sen ate where the Presidents President's choice must C Continued On on Page Pago 2 WilSON ILSON NAMES COlBY 1 SECRETARY OF STATE Continued from Page Pago 1 L 1 be approved before beCore air Mr Colb Colby can take talc up tho the duties or of office that none of oC tho the leaders cared c. to predict when confirma confirma- mi ht be e voted Not even en among those thos on he the t inside I of oC administration circles lint had there been I ian an any expectation that the selection I would fall CaB on Mr Ir Coll Colby who told in inquirers inquirers In- In toda today that he himself ha had been beenen en only a er very brief rief notice of oC the Presidents President's intention Summoned to the White House he spent an hour with MI Mr Wilson announced that he would accept with a dc deep cep p appreciation of oC the responsibility Imposed upon him and said he lie would have no further comment comment comment com com- ment to make until the Senate had acted Senators Senator S Appointment Word of the nomination reached senators sen- sen just a as tle they were assembling for tor forthe forthe torI the days day's session and in th their lr private te I talks during the da day they disc discussed urged lit little little little lit lit- tle else Virtually all ot of th them therm m howl how however how how- l I over ever preferred to withhold public com corn 1 I ment until the subject came up formally formal formal- ly Ily for Cor action notion Once before the Senate had been c. c called upon to act on opt a nomination of oC Mr fr Colb Colby and then confirmation was I voted although a strong fight a against I him was led b by the tho two Republican senators from his state That Tha-t was In 1017 when President Wilson named him himI I to membership on the tho shipping board It was asserted in some quarters that tho the reasons which led lell to objection at j that time need not necessarily apply I in the present case but Senator Calder I of oC New cw York said lId he would in insist that the nominees nominee's qualifications for tor the sec sec- sec sec- be he into carefully before bc- bc I fore foro ho he would vote for or confirmation to i that position of St. St Ix LouisA Louis loul uLsA I A nativo native of ot St. St I Louis ouis 51 years old I Mr Colby has been engaged In law practice In New York since sinco 1892 except except except ex ex- ex- ex for Cor the nineteen months ho he was a shipping board member During tit latter service he was an American re representative representative rep rep- p- p in tho the shipping I conference at Paris and was active in la I directing the boards board's war policy He resigned In March farch of oC last year rear saying that the critical war period ln ha having passed he preferred to to private private vate yate life lite In Jn his New York practice he has been counsel for Cor several interests Investigating Invest Invest- gating life lito Insurance companies and was associated with Charles K g Hughes In the tho reform of oC tho the Equitable compan company com corn pany pan Ho lie served in 1901 and 1902 as asa asa asa a member of ot the tho New cw York assembly |