Show DOINGS TBIY C IT T2 i J S Harlan Mentioned for High Bench i cNe WASHINGTON very interesting 1Y bit of unusual summer gossip concernIng changes In the personnel of tho supreme court of the United States connects the name ot James S Harlan member of the Interstate commerce commission with an associate asso-ciate justiceship in succession to his distinguished father John Marshall Harlan who has been on the supreme bench since 1877 and who recently celebrated his seventyslxth birthday It would occasion no surprise should ono or two changes in thb personnel per-sonnel of the highest federal tribunal aka place at tho beginning of the fall term Chief Justice Fuller now In his eovcntyseventh year and Associate As-sociate Justice Harlan have been credited with retirement inclinations at various times for some years past Il became evident however after much talk of this character that hero would be no retirements from the supreme bench during the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration and latterly it has been > said that neither the chief jus tice nor Justice Harlan was disposed to relax the labors which aro so congenial con-genIal to them But with Mr Taft In the office of appointive power many are inclined to believe there is a probability of a change of mind af fected also by other developments President Taft himself a former federal judge sat in the name circuit i from which Justice Harlan was appointed ap-pointed to the supreme bench and there doubtless Is what may bo termed n bond of judicial interest between be-tween them It Is felt that should judicial ju-dicial distinction be bestowed upon James S Harlan who has Inherited I the judicial temperament tho honor would be something peculiarly appreciated appre-ciated by both father and son for obvious ob-vious reasons aside from the general considerations pertaining to a supreme su-preme court appointment That conditions have arisen which may cause Justice Htulan to decide to take up duties in the service of the Presbyterian church which would be possible only through his retirement retire-ment from the bench is part of the latest gossip James S Harlan it appointed to the supreme bench i would take to that body export knowledge knowl-edge of Interstate commerce matters which will more and more occupy tha attention of the court The late gossip also connects Chief Justice Fullers name with revised plans to make an international trial 1 court out of The Hague tribunal i which is said to bo jin aim of President Presi-dent Taft Should matters eventuate as gossip suggests Illinois still would t have a representative In the highest curt of the land and tho way still be optn to fill another vacancy from the circuit of which Ohio and Kentucky the Matter the state from which Justice Jus-tice Harlan was appointed 32 yeara II ago form a part |