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Show STATE DEPARTMENT PLACESARE FILLED Robert Lansing Succeeds J. Bassett Moore and Cone Johnson Succeeds Folk. WASHINGTON, March 20. Prcsi-dent Prcsi-dent Wilson today nominated Robert Lansing of Watertown, N. Y.," to be counselor of the department- of stato, succeeding John linssctt Moore, and Cono Johnson of Texas, to be solicitor for the department succeeding Joseph W. Folk! " Mr. Lansing is an associato editor of tho American Journal of International Inter-national Law and tho author of several works on international subjects. Ho is fifty years old, was associate counsel for the Unite'd States in the Bering sea arbitration, 1SH2-IW; counsel coun-sel for the United States in tho Por-, ing sea claims commission, 1S9G-97; solicitor lor the I'nitcd States on the Alaskan boundary tribunal, 1 t)0:S ; counsel coun-sel in the arbitration at The Tlnguo in 1900 of -the North Atlantic coast fisheries fish-eries case. I lis home is in Walertown, N. Y. Mr. JfJhnstfil,' who will succeed Joseph W. Folk, as solicitor, is about 49 3cars old and according to tho statement state-ment issued from tho White House today, to-day, i.s one "of. the most brilliant lawyers in. Texas." lie was a candidate candi-date Tor tho United States senate once, but retired from the contest on account of ill health, Tho White House described' him as ono "of the leading factors in Progressive Progres-sive Democracy of Texas." With tho naming of a now counselor aud a netf solicitor, all tho vacancies in the stato department; will have been filled, a. new tliird assistant secretary of state: William Phillips, hnving recently been nominated. Mr. Landing is a son-in-law of former secretary John W. Poster, of the state department, a warm personal friend of long standing of John Bassett Moore, whom he succeeds and now is the agent for the United States on tho British-American pecuniary claims commiHsion now in session hero. Secretary Bryan said that ho knew both mon personally and considered them eminently fitted for their positions. po-sitions. Both aro Democrats. Mr. Johnson was a Wilson dolegato to tho Baltimore convention. Mr. Lansing has, not been in active politics. |