Show PITNEY GETS PLUM PRESIDENT SELECTS SELECT NEW JERSEY chancellor TO SUCCEED LATE JUSTICE HARLAN able and popular jurist secures appointment which was at first expected to fall to candidate from west of mississippi river washl washington bigton nigton president dent taft on monday holiday sent to the senate tho the nomination of chancellor mahlon pitney of new jersey to bo be associate justice of the united states supreme court in succession to the lato late justice liar ilar lan an la in executive session the senate without discussion referred chancellor Pit nomination to the committee on judiciary in casting about for a bucce successor I 1 sor to justice harlan mr tatt taft first drat I 1 looked ca ked beyond tho the mississippi river at one time it seemed certain ho be would name come judge william C alook of the united states circuit court and again that secretary charles nagel of the department of commerce com and labor would be chosen 41 chancellor pitney besides being recognized as aa an able jurist is popular befaro going on the state supreme bench he was active in politics and represented the old fourth new jersey district in congress the district was nominally democratic but ho he carried it twice in succession in 1894 and 1890 chancellor pitney be came a supreme court justice in 1901 I 1 and in 1908 1008 was appointed by governor fort to bo be chancellor of the state the highest judicial position in new jersey chancellor pitney was frequently mentioned for the nomination tor rot tho the governorship in 1907 although he be did not announce himself as even a receptive candidate ile he received a large voto veto in the republican state convention that nominated governor F fort ort |