Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-28
THE CHIEF JUSTlCESHlP.
How the Presidents Choice was Re-
ceived.
Comments of tho New York Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-all the papers this
morning have more or less to say about
the Presidents latest nomination for Chief
Justice The sun says, "Mr. Waite is
well spoken of by those who are acqualnt-
ed with him, but the fact that he is not
generally known TO the country, Will rem
der his nomination for Chief Justice less
satisfactory than tmight be otherwise"
The World SAYS, ''If President Grants
third selection for Chief Justice had hap
pened to be his first, the appointment of
Mr. Waite would have been received with
wonder by the country and disappoint-
ment and regret by that portion of the bar,
who ever had any practice in the Supreme
Court, We have,n it says, mo doubt
Waite possesses some very good legal quail
ities," but comes to this conclusion. THE
| eight Associate Justices can decide every
case as ably without Mr.. Waite rs with
| him and the Senate would serve the best
interests of the country thoroughly by
keeping the Chief Justiceship vacant until
we get President who has some appreci-
alton of qualifications requisite for that
great station"
The Herald says "No further reason is
apparent for the nomination of Mr.. Waite,
| save that Grant is determined to nominate
the man he considers best and not the man
the country considers best"
! The Tribune says "Of course Mr.. Waite
! is not the best man who could be named
for the place, but there is no good reason
why he should not be promptly confirmed.
| To that great mass of serious people who
| believe in the principles for which we went
TO war, and who regard it as the duty of
National legislature to fortify and defend
those principles by statute, and the duty of
| the Judiciary to take care that they re
ceive no detriment through hostile con-
structon of the law or the constitution,
the correct political antecedents of MIR.
F.! Waite will seem faI more important than
all the learning and brilliant abilities OF
Gen. Cushing
The Times says: "The nomination OF
Judge Waite to the post of Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court Is a thoroughly re-
spectacle one, and will probably meet with
little opposition from any quarter. He Is
a man of very high personal character and
recognized ability and of quite sufficient
standing in his profession to justify the
belief that ne will make good Chief JUS
tice. In nominating Mr.. Waite the Presi
dent has shown an earnest desire to dis
charge very difficult duty in conscien
cious manner and without reference tC
party or private wishes of any clique il
J Washington or elsewhere"
The Cincinnati Commercials specia
from Washington, the day before the nom
ination, says; "The Ohio members of Con
gress have not taken any action as q dele
CATION, but they have all exerted their indi
vidual interest in Waite's behalf. Genera
Sherwood, who represents the district il
which Mr.. Waite lives, laid before the Pre-
sident to-day dispatches from the Bar o
: Toledo and a message from the Constitu
tional Convention at Cincinnati an
nouncing that that body, 'cithoW erceptio,
: on account Of politics, or any other reason
were united in urging Mr.. Waite upon thu
President as a man most eminently quail
for the position. Secretary Delano is alst
+ working N Waites interest, and feel
rather sanguine as to the result"