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Show LANSING AND JOHNSON NAMED i i ' . 1 President Wilson Nominates New Counsellor and Solicitor Solici-tor of State Department. J I BOTH- MEN BRILLIANT! Associate Editor of American! Journal of International Law to Succeed Mcore. r - ' ' Washington, D. C, March 20. Robert Rob-ert Lansing of New York, and Con Johnson of Texas, will be nominated counsellor aud solicitor, respectively, of the stnts department, according to announcement from the NVhite House today. Mr. Lansing is an associate edito: of the American Journal of International Interna-tional Law. and the author of several works on international subjects. He will succeed John Bassett Moore. He is r0 years old, was associate counsel coun-sel for tho United States in the Behr-ing Behr-ing sea arbitration in 1S92-9S; counsel coun-sel for the United States in the Behr-Ing Behr-Ing sea claims commission, 1S96-97: solicitor for the United States in the Alaskan boundary tribunal. 1903; counsel in the arbitration at The Hague in 1909 of the North Atlantic const fisheries case. His home is in Wntertown. N. Y. Mr. Johnson, who will succeed Joseph Jo-seph W. Folk, as solicitor, is about -IS years old, and according to the statement state-ment issued from the White House today to-day is "one of the most brilliant lawyers law-yers in Texas." lie was a candidate for the United States senate once, but retired from the contest on accoun. of ill health. Leading Democrat of State. The White House described him as "one of the leading factors in progressive progres-sive democracy of Texas." With the naming of a new counsellor counsel-lor and a new solicitor, all the vacancies vacan-cies in the state department will have been filled, a new third assistant sec retary of state, William Phillips, having hav-ing recently been nominated. Mr. Lansing is a son-in-law of for-mor for-mor Secretary John W. Foster, of tho state department, a warm, personal friend of long standhjg of John Bassett Bas-sett Moore, whom he succeeds, and now is the agent for the United Stales on the British-American pecuniary claims commission now in session here. no |