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Show Inn OH EMOT Senate Receives Nomination of Salt Lake Man to Diplomatic Post. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON', Sept. 5. Samuel Abbot Maginnis of Salt Lake City was today nominated by the president to be minister to Bolivia, a position paying a salary of 510.000. Early confirmation or the appointment ap-pointment is expected. Mr. Maginnis was recommended for this office some weeks ago by Senator King, and the recommendation rec-ommendation was promptly sent to the White House with the favorable Indorsement Indorse-ment of Secretary Lansing. Because he was overwhelmed with public pub-lic business the president did not consider diplomatic appointments until shortly before be-fore he left Washington, and one of h!s last acts was to sign the appointment of Mr. Maginnis. In conformity with diplomatic diplo-matic procedure, the president instructed the secretary of state to advise the Bolivian Bo-livian government of his selection and to request Bolivia to advise if she had objections ob-jections to Mr. Maginnis. The president aleo instructed that the nomination be held until a favorable reply should be received. That reply came by cable this morning, and the nomination reached the senate this afternoon. The nomination has been referred to the foreign relations committee for report, and favorable action ac-tion Is expected. Mr. Maginnis is a partner in the law firm of Mitchell & Maginnis and has been active in civic, political and fraternal circles cir-cles here since 1912, when he moved to Salt Lake from Ogden, He is a son of the late W. L. Maginnis. one time chief justice of the supreme court of Wyoming and later assistant United States district attorney for Utah, and Sette Abbot Maginnis. Ma-ginnis. He was managing director of the citizens' citi-zens' committee which recruited the men who attended the Fort Douglas training camp in 193 6, served three years as a director of the Wizards of the Wasatch, and has been vice president of the Democratic Demo-cratic league. In fraternal circles he is a past exalted ruler of the Salt Iake lodge of Elks and past state deputy of the Knights of Columbus. During the war Mr. Maginnis was secretary and chairman of the public safety committee and state counsel in Utah for the alien enemy property prop-erty custodian. Mr. Maginnis was born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 23, 1SS5. In 1914 he married mar-ried Miss Margaret MeKenna of Fairfield, Fair-field, Ky. In speaking of his appointment yesterday yester-day Mr. Maginnis said: "If the nomination is confirmed I shall consider it a great pleasure and an opportunity for service to be given the post to Bolivia. I believe that the next few years will be most important in cementing ce-menting the relations between the United States and South American countries, and I will deem it a privilege to have some part in this work of bringing about the most friendly intercourse between Bolivia and the United States." Mr. Maginnis wlil succeed John D. O'Rear, the former minister, who died at La Paz more than a year ago. |