Show I TAfT NAMES PITNEY FOR FORI HIGH COURT I New Jersey Lawyer and Judge Nominated for Supreme Bench WASHINGTON Fob 19 President Taft to today a- a sent to the thc senate the tho nomination nomination nomi nation of Chancellor Mahlon Mahion Pitney o ol of K New ew J Jersey ersoy to be associate justice justic o ol of the United States supreme court Ho Th I also nominated Julius JuJius M. M Mayor o ol of New York Ci City to be jud judge o of the United States district court for southern southern south south- I ern era New York and Ginger o or of Cossville Gossville Wis to be he district judge eastern district of Wj Wisconsin The The- statement that Chancellor Pitney Pitney Pit Pit- ney nay would 1 be named as tho the successor of the late lato Justice John M. M Harlan Hadan was made at tho the white hite house su subsequently to a call caB by John W W. Uri riggs s former attorney general of or the the- United Unite States Stages and a aoe delegation of oi New Jersey law all of whom spoke of or Judge Pitney Pit Pit- ne ney in the highest terms The fact that Mr Taft laft might select Pitney did aid not become known until last night and then it was discussed only among some of the presidents president's s closest friends efforts were made to guard ard the Clio secret Tho president had planned tp send end the nomination in tod y as a's asco a. a co complete ct su stir sur It Taft Mr docs i to es s' s Do any anT opposition Apposition in the tho senate nate Had Once D Decided on Hook Tn Th casting caslin about for a R successor to Justice o Harlan Mr Taft first looked beyond tho Mississippi ri river er At onetime one timo time it seemed certain that he be would name Judge c William C. C Hook of tb the I United States circuit court ourt and again that Secretary cr t r Charles Nagle of the de department de- de of commerce and labor tabor would be chosen There here was a l protest i. i against Judge Hook because of his decisions in two Oklahoma cases one involving the theAs As Ascent 2 cent faro fare law Jaw and the other the Jim Crow car law Th The latter case cae which Jute Judge e Hook decided in ill favor of the railroads and against the contention of the De negroes oes affected is said to have been the tho final cause of the presidents president's turning from the Kansas jurist La Labor or organizations protested protest cd a against Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary on the tho ground th that t he had bad b been u too lenient in the enforcement of the tho Immigration ration Jaws laws When Chancellor Pitney shall have been by bv the senate and has 1138 lia taken his lila place on the supreme mo bench President Taft will have had had the extraordinary ex ex- experience of having constituted con stunted a maiori majority of tho hi highest best tribunal tribuna tri tri- burial bunal in the land land land-a a bench honell on which it had harl been his most moat exalted ambition to servo as chief justice In Iii addition to tl naming e new justices jus jus- I tices of oC a court of nine President Taft 31 also 0 has the thc distinction of elevating Associate Justice Edward W W. 1 White te to tolie he lie chief m kiu making in all six nix supreme court appointments during the tho three o years he be le hns hog been president The rho five livo associate were r e Lurton lIu Hughes hes Lamar and Pitney Chancellor Pitney is just a little moro more than 54 4 years old six years year under Mr l Tafts Taft's a age e limit and has been a practicing ti lawyer and a judge since inee 1882 Ho lie served as associate justice of the theNe New Ne- Jersey supreme court from 1901 to IOOS and became chancellor i fn in the latter r year His ills term would e expire ire in 1915 WIG Hi Ills His home is in Norristown |