Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-12
APPOINTMENT MACHINE.

1t Starts Up and Grinds Out the Supreme
Judges-Two Democrats Selected At
torney General Start Given a District
Judgeship---Hahn,o of Lake City, TO Sue
coed Him---Windom's Resignation Re-
ceived-.-No appointment Made but Gen.
A. j. Edgerton Believed to Have the
Inside Track.
Gov. Pillsbury was not called upon
yesterday to undergo quite so severe
mental and physical strain as the day be-
fore, but his office yesterday was by no
means bed of roses. The governor
reached his Office little after 9 A. NJ,
and from that hour until few minutes
to P. NJ. there was steady inflow of
visitors upon him, the great majority of
whom, in their desire to relieve him of a
great responsibility, and out of the kind
Hest motives, merely called to tell him
who he should appoint to the Senatorial
| succession. But while the pressure was
/ steady and persistent. new form being
ready to step in as soon as another had
performed his mission, there was no grand
rush by delegations, with speeches, writ
ten addresses of recommendation, etc., as
on the day. preceding. Among the early
callers were Gen. J. II. Baker, Of Man
kato, and Gordon E. Cole, of Faribault,
both of whom have bad attack of SEN
atorial itch, and both of whom have been,
oh so vainly, hoping the executive light
ming might strike them and land them
in Washington.
Early in the forenoon the governor per-
petrated grand coup d'etat in the hope
it would withdraw attention from the
senatorial question and give him little
rest, by announcing his selections for the
two additional judgeships of the SUI
preme court created by the late legisla-
ture. The scheme worked well for only
brief space of time, and then the Sena-
torial pressure was renewed.
Along about 3 o'clock it became noised
around the governor had received the
official resignation of Mr.. Window, wi ich
added to the general interest felt in the
matter, as it was quite generally supposed
the appointment of his successor would
follow soon. This supposition proved to
be unfounded, as when the governor left
his office for his home little before 6, he
told the GLOBE reporter he would make
no appointment to-day yesterday.
The following is copy of Mr.. Win
dom's letter of resignation:
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
| WASHINGTON, March Z, 1851.
Hon. John s. Pillsbury, Governor, st. Paul,
| MINI.
DEAR SIR: hereby tender my resignation
as Senator of the United States from
the State of Minnesota, to take effect this
day. Very respectfully your obedient SER
want, WILLIAM WINDOW.
! Thus the matter stood upon the Sena-
torial question, so far as the press and
general public could learn when the sun
went down last evening. But neverthe-
less there is very general and positive
belief that the governor has arrived at
decision, and that that decision is not in
favor of either Mark 81. Dunnell, Gen.
Baker, Gordon E. Cole, o. P. Stearns,
or our lamented Ramsey, or any of the
army of small fry who have been long,
ingly hoping they might be the lucky
ones, but that it strikes directly at and
squarely hits, Gen. A. j. Edgerton, of
Dodge county. The GLOBE mourns
the failure of its own
favorite candidate, but as a
fearless and truthful journalist, it feels
constrained to say his eyes are "sot,"
and that Gen. Edgerton is selected to
wear the Senatorial robes.
THE ADDITIONAL JUDGES.
| AS said above, Gov. Pillsbury
allowed his selection for the
the additional judges of the supreme
court to be made public early in the day
These are Greenleaf Clark, Esq, of the
firm of Bigelow, Flandrau & Clark, of
Il Ill sc
Winona, present judge of the Third
judicial district, composed of
the counties of Winona, Wa
bashaw and Olmsted. Both NOM
nations were very favorably commented
upon by visitors to the capitol and citi-
zens generally, not few of whom made
it their business to personally congratu-
late the governor upon the selections he
had made. Judge Mitchell, it transpires,
was notified Of his selection Thursday, to
which he returned his acceptance the
same day. Mr.. Clark was informed of
his appointment yesterday morning, but
he did not reach decision until
ernor about 4:30 and signifylng his ac-
ceptance.
With the above the governor an
| uOuuCCu tuO dPPOluOuOuC VI uOu,
Charles M. Start, present attorney gen.
eral, to succeed Judge Mitchell as Judge
of the third district. Gen. Start was at
his home in Rochester at the time tbS
appointment was made, but he arrived in
the city shortly after noon. The GLOBE
can say that Gen. Start was thoroughly
surprised at learning of his appointment,
and at first he was in great doubt as to
his course. He had spent seventeen
years of his life in building up
a law practice in which he took
pride; and whether he should aband-
on it for the uncertain term of an cleo
tive judiciary, was a delicate question
He considered the matter all the after
noon, and finally, urged thereto by a
number of personal friends, he decided
to accept, and this morning he will re-
turn to his home at Rochester, and on
Monday go toWinona to qualify and hold
his first term of court.
The acceptance Of Gen. Start makes a
vacancy in the attorney gen.
eralship to be filled by
the appointment of the governor. An
irresponsible St. Paul newspaper, allud-
ing to this probable contingency,
gravely announced that the governors
choice would be Hon. j. B. Gillian, of