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Description: Charles Evans Hughes Named Chief Justice;
Ask President To Approve Seed Bill;
Judge Taft A Very Sick Man;
Chas. E. Hughes Chief Justice Supreme Court
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
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NAMED CHIEF JUSTICE
Photo with caption:
Charles Evans Hughes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP) – Democrats and republicans generally outside of the progressive group in congress today praised the selection of Charles Evans Hughes as the successor of William Howard Taft as chief justice of the supreme court. The progressives had expected Justice Stone to be appointed and may hold up confirmation until the judiciary committee inquires into recent cases in which Judge Hughes sided against the government although confirmation by a large majority is doubted by no one.
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ASK PRESIDENT TO APPROVE SEED BILL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AP) – Congressional representatives from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia asked President Hoover today to support an appropriation of $6,000,000 for seed in areas stricken by floods and storms last year.
The agriculture department recommended appropriation of that sum but the budge bureau cut the amount to $3,000,000.
Senator Heflin of Alabama and Smith of South Carolina and a number of members of the house were in the delegation.
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JUDGE TAFT A VERY SICK MAN
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He Returned To Washington Today Helpless and Shattered In Health
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AP) – Free of the robes of the Chief Judgeship of the United States, William Howard Taft returned to Washington today shattered in health and virtually helpless.
Perceptibly worn, weak and indifferent to his surroundings, the former president, who relinquished his high judicial office yesterday to Charles Evans Hughes, came back to the capital from Asheville, N. C., was assisted to his car, placed in an automobile, and driven to his Wyoming avenue home.
“A sick man” was the short description of Mr. Taft’s physician, Dr. Francis Hagner, who accompanied him on his journey from North Carolina. But he added that “as far as we can tell he is in no immediate danger.”
Ill as he was, the former Chief Justice was dressed when his train reached the Union station here at 7:05 a.m. but he remained in his drawing room while his car was being transferred to a level nearer the streets. Dr. Hagner time and again entered his stateroom to speak to the distinguished patient but he seemed to have difficulty in impressing upon Mr. Taft that the time had come to leave the car.
Gently, Doctor Hagner asked Mr. Taft to get to his feet, but it was necessary for several others to assist him. Step by step, Dr. Hagner and his aides guided the footsteps, once firm and vigorous, as the sick man left the train.
In the narrow passage between his stateroom and the side of the sleeper car, the former president grasped the hand rails to steady himself, although he literally was being carried along. A trained nurse, who has been with Mr. Taft throughout his illness always was nearby.
As the former president settled into a chair, Dr. Hagner said:
“That’s rather a tight fit, but it won’t be for long.” A trace of the famous Taft smile lighted the former chief justice’s pale and drawn face for an instant and his eyes seemed almost to twinkle, but the lids quickly drooped again.
Occasionally and with apparent effect Mr. Taft opened his eyes to look around but he spoke to none of those who gathered to meet him.
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CHAS. E. HUGHES CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
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Notable American Named To Succeed Taft
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ONE OF FOREMOST JURISTS-STATESMEN
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It is the Second Time Judge Hughes Has Held This High Position
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By RICHARD L. TURNER
Associated Press Staff Writer
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (AP) – Charles Evans Hughes, nominated by President Hoover as chief justice of the United States, will accept the appointment as offering the greatest opportunity for service that could be offered by the government.
His face wreathed in a smile, he displayed evident pleasure, over the appointment when he greeted newspapermen at his law offices on Lower Broadway.
He said he would issue a formal statement as soon as the received formal notice of this appointment but that he would resign at once as a justice of the world court.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AP) – Charles Evans Hughes, one of the foremost of the nation’s jurists and statesmen, is to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
He will succeed William Howard Taft, who, broken in health by arduous years in the public service, has been forced to resign and devote his entire attention to the betterment of his physical condition.
In spite of Mr. Hughes’ acknowledged talents, all Washington was surprised last night to learn of his appointment. His nomination was sent to the senate by President Hoover just as dusk was falling. A few hours previous Mr. Taft’s resignation had been announced and the interim had been filled with speculation as to his successor in the course of which Hughes’ name went unmentioned.
Thus, has a mighty turn of events caught up these two distinguished Americans, whose names are written large in the history of their nation. For one it brought the end of a career that led him thru the two loftiest offices of the American government. To the other it bore the beginning of a new and greater chapter in a career, already brilliant.
While Mr. Taft is the only man in history to serve as president and chief justice, Hughes missed the former by an extremely narrow margin. Opposing Woodrow Wilson in the campaign of 1916, he failed election by 23 electoral votes. So close was the balloting that the outcome was in doubt for days.
In their personal characteristics there is a wide divergence between the two, Taft brought to the Supreme bench his cheerful philosophies and his famous chuckle. With Hughes, the student of affairs the austerity of intellect are predominant.
Hughes career began in New York where his legal abilities brought early prominence and an opportunity for the republican mayoralty nomination in 1905. This, he declined. Two years later he became governor of the state and in 1909 he began a second term but resigned in 1910 to accept appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. This came from Taft, then president.
The Republican national convention at Chicago nominated him for the presidency on June 19, 1916, and he resigned from the Supreme bench the same day. After the defeat at the polls he returned to private practice and again entered the public service in 1921 to become secretary of state in the Harding cabinet.
In this capacity he was the principal American delegate to the naval arms conference of 1921 and astounded the world with his demands for extensive reduction of sea forces. He continued in the cabinet after Harding’s death and withdrew at the beginning of President Coolidge’s second term in 1925.
His international prominence brought him appointment to the arbitration court of the Hague, by Coolidge in 1926, and two years later election by the council and assembly of the League of Nations to an associate justiceship on the permanent Court of International Justice. In addition, he served as chairman of the American delegation in the sixth Pan-American conference in Havana in 1928.
Taft began and ended his career in the judiciary. His first public office was as Judge of the Superior Court at Cincinnati, to which he was appoi9nted in 1887. In1890, he became Solicitor General of the United States and two years later was appointed Federal Circuit Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
In 1901 he was appointed the first Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands.
Early in 1904, President Roosevelt brought him to Washington to become his Secretary of War. In 1908 he was nominated for the presidency by the Republican national convention and elected in the ensuing balloting.
He sought re-election in 1912 opposing Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, who had bolted the Republican ticket and formed an independent party. Wilson was elected.
He was appointed Chief Justice of the United States on June 30, 1921 by President Harding.