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Show uu MOORE TO 8E j COUNSELOR President Appoints Professor of Law to High Position Washington. Mar 17 John Baesett ' Mcore, professor Of International law at Columbia university and a recognized recog-nized authority on that subject is to be appointed counselor to the department depart-ment of state Professor Moore was ' appointed recently by Mr Taft as a i representative at The Hague tribunal. The president todav appointed Senators Sen-ators Fletcher of Florida and Oore of Oklahoma. Representative Moss of Indiana Colonel Harvey Jordan of Georgia, Dr John I.ee Coulter of Minnesota, Dr Kenyon L. Butter-field Butter-field of Massachusetts jnd Clarence J. Owen of Maryland, members of the commission authorbed in the last agricultural bill to ro-opera'e with the Amerlcnn commission assembled under the auspices of the Southern Commercial congress to study in European countries co-operative rural j credit unions and similar orpanlra- tions devoted to the hetterment of rural conditions The same men also, have been designated delegates to the general assemblv of the International Institute of Agriculture In Rome next August. McCombs May Accept. Intimations were rocehed at the White House today that National Chairman William F McCombs. final- , ly might accede to the president's re - quest that he become ambassador to Prance. It was said Mr. McCombs wps making such rapid headway with the organisation of the Democratic national committee, ihat he probab-lv probab-lv would be In position to no abroad within a month. President Wilson does not expect to anno inqe further appointments until the extra session of con -res? convenes con-venes April 7. unless some extraordinary extraor-dinary occasion demands it oo |