Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-01
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KEY TO BE JUDGE.
Postmaster GeneraIship Vacant.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 80.

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WASHINGTON, d. c., April 80.
At the cabinet meeting this after-
noon the president rendered to
Postmaster General Key the posi-
ton of district judge of the eastern
and middle districts Of Tennessee,
made vacant by the death Of Judge
Trigg. e1A Ay-7u4 tHg z
The postmaster-gener accepted,
and his nomination will be sent to
the senate just before the adjourn
ment of congress. Nothing was
said about his successor, but 1t is
said Judge Tyner will be promoted
to the postmaster generalship.
The president sent to the senate
to,day the nomination of Rollin V.
Ankeny, of Jacksonville, to be sur
general of the United States
for the district of Florida.
Special to the Cincinnati lCommescisl.
| WASHINGTON, April 28,-Post-
master General Key will leave the
cabinet. The president has decided
to appoint him to the vacant judg~
ship in Tennessee, and Judge Key
has signifed his intention to accept.
Notwithstanding the prejudice that
me: his entrance to the cabinet, the
postmaster general is to day the
most generally popular man in the
presidents official family, and his
resignation will be regretted more
than that of any other man. 1t
is stated that General Tyner will be
rendered the postmaster generalship,
but this is scarcely true, as it
would not be considered exactly the
thing to have two cabinet ministers
from Indiana. Eugene Hale, who
declined the naval portfolio at the
commencement of the present ad.
ministration, is also spoken Of, but
it is stated at the white house that
the successorship Of Judge Key has
not yet been seriously considered,
A large number of dispatches and
letters have been received here
within the past two days asking the
appointment of Judge Key. lie is
universally acceptable to both par-
ties, and if he should accept there
would hardly be vote of opposition
from any person in Tennessee. To
day Judge Key received dispatch,
among others, from prominent Tens
nessee republicans, suggesting his
name for the place, and asking him
if he would accept. Judge Key
replied as follows; - 5@
WASHINGTON, D. O., April %.
Hon. -, Nashville, Tenn:
In answer to your dispatch, |
will say if the president should ten
der me the position of United States
District Judge, district of Tennese
see, think should accept.
. D. M. KEY.
The president, while perfectly Wills
ing to appoint Judge Key to this
position, yet does not want to lose
him from the cabinet. He said to-
day that it would be difficult to find
as good a man as Judge Key for the
position he now holds, and he does
not want to spare him. Indeed,
the president is quite anx-
ious to keep his present
official family together during the
remainder of his term. Judge
Baxter, of the U. S. circuit court,
lives in Tennessee, and it has been
suggested that he hold terms of the
district court, which he can do
under the law, until the end of the
present administration, when Judge
Key could qualify and assume his
duties as district judge, a position
for which he is eminently qualified.
In this view of the case Judge Key
will probably remain in the cabinet
until the close of the present ad
ministration. 1t is Enthusiastically
the presidents desire that he should