New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-04
BEAUTIES OF GREENBACK CIRCULATION.
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THE CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP.
A GRAVE MISTAKE.
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From me ST. Louis Deaocraf (Rep)
Senator Roscoe COnkling has been nOmi-
mated by the President Chief Justice OF the United
States, 10 ill the vacancy occasioned by the death Of
Mr. Chase We look upon this nomination njudicious.
on the part of the President III there is thing upon
which public opinion is settled il is that every Senator
and Congressman who assisted prOted by the back
salary grab IS unworthy OF popular confidence. The
press has unanimously denounced the whole business.
and the popular and representative assembages of all
parties have condemned 1t in unequivoca terms. Only
tins week the Republican constituents or Senator Conk
ling have resolved, IN State Convention that the men
who passed the law and who reaped its fruits not fit
10 be trusted Among saarygrab sinners Mr. Conkling
may not be chief but he Is only Outranked by such men
Carpenter and Butler, and the appointment of such
man TO such place at snch time, gives an air OF
heartily coincide with public opinion in relation To the
Infamous salary grab law. We believe that Mr. Conk-
for the we have named, feel cOnst!a AIMED to
record our disapproval of his appointment.
AN UNFIT APPOINTMENT.
From The Springfield Republican (Indl
The special correspondents at Washington
are beginning to talk about Mr. Roscoe COnkng again
as the coming man one OF them asserts IN the most
that the President has placed the Chief Justceshp AT
Mr.. CoDklngs disposal and that the New-York senator
after debating the pros and cons in his nnd has
indicated Willingness TO take IT, OF course, such an
assertion by itself would 20 for nothing. The President
own counsel and is not In the habit OF taking special
correspondents, no matter how deseryedly eminent In
their vocation, into his confidence. &c. too the increas-
ing frequency with which Mr. C0Dklings name figures
in the dispatches OF less positive and oracuar news
TACT that opinion IN official and political circles indicates
Mr.. c. as lucky man; that COnkng stock is looking
up, as we say. At the same time, there IL feeling
rather than conviction that this appointment is really
in the air IL not by any IN, ans confined TO Washing
remote sections of the country. II may he false alarm
1t may be the shadow OF the coming event The more
thoughtful and sagacOus Republican journals, those
that brains with their partisanshp find themselves
little disquieted in their minds, and cannot
ceal their uneasiness With marked unanimty OF sen.
tment they are entering protests against UNIT and
ill-omened appointment. The language, course.
varies with the Independence ana courage OF the par
tcuar journal.
SENATOR COMBINES FITNESS
From ne A0hOa (iid)
The gossip about the Chief .JusticeshD grows
louder and points plainly than before TO Mr. Ros
coe COnkng the probable nominee for the office. ln-
deed gossip so far as to that il is at his
disposal but that he delays in accepting in order 10
see whether the result of the approaching election in the
State will be such as to enable him to select his own sue
cessOr in the Senate. The Boston Advertiser has per
formed. whether consciously not unable to say,
a somewhat ludicrous reduciO dd dbsrdum the APP
pOntmeD-if appointment 1t be-Dy looking into P00res
Congressional Directory" to see what NJ. Conkngs
qualifications for the place aud it pursues the in
the ChefJustice OF the United States ought TO lie
awer. II finds that he is A. years old that at q
which gave him good run Of criminal business that nj
20 he became Mayor Of Utica at 30 member OF Con,
gress for three successive terms and al 81 a United
States Senator which he still L. II IL easily there
FORE that he has been most OF his life in what Is called
practical politics. and very little at the Bar. The Adj
cerser therefore not surprised 70 find that his name
rarely appears in the reported cases OF his state
Court of the United States and that, in fact his small
practice has been that of jury lawyer, and 1t cannot
persuade itself that IL IL OF such stuff this that the
President will make a ChiefJustlce.
That Mr.. COnkngi is man Of ability. as The Advertiser
observes, nobody deny but then there all kinds
OF ability and his ability Is that OF ardent indeiat-
igabe stump speaker and party manager. Indeed, the
stump has In time pr0duced such fustian as he
pours from it, When papers ike The Adcertser talk OF
his ability politician IL only shows 10 what base
the word has come 10 politics, in any good sense
OF the word, Mr. COnking has not contributed single
useful or fruitful idea; he il not the author OF single
measure Of value or importance he has made no speech
which any sensible man can bear to read so that bis
political claims to the chief place ON the bench OF the
greatest tribunal In the world patry his pro-
fessOnal Indeed, there is in the very question
whether candidate for that place has had much legal
Illness for 1t, under which anybody but " manager"
would vince and blush The Advertiser feels hopeful
that the appointment will not be made, and hopeful
nothing, and in matters which has no
control can do no harm, we share the feeling.