Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-01-11
TOE CASE FOR LAMAR.
View OF Senator Stewart. of
Nevada.

/, WASHINGTON, January, IN
issue for long time has excited s.
much interest in Washington a
| the question whether Lamar will b,
confirmed or rejected by the Senate
The Grand Army posts all over thu
North and other organizations arr
sending petitions BY the hundreds
to the Republican members of the
Senate, asking that Lamar be re-
jected. The Republicans have a
majority OF two in the Senate. All
, the Democrats of that body will, OIL
course vote 10 confirm Mr.. Lamar,
and it will require two Republicans
to make his confirmation sure. II
has been said that Senator Stewart
of Nevada will vote Tor Lamar, and
and, also, that Senator Stanford
will do likewise. Senator Stewart,
like the other Republican Senators,
has been literally flooded for some
days past with newspaper slips,
private letters, and resolutions pro-
testing against the confirmation OF
Mr.. Lamar as Justice OF the SUI
preme Court, on the ground that
Mr.. Lamar was rebel during the
war.
The Chronicle correspondent ask
ed Mr.. Stewart yesterday what he
| pi opposed 10 do about it. He said:
"If the nomination OF Mr. Lamar
involved only bis qualification for
the office of Justice OF the Sup.em
Court, the question would involve
nothing more than the selection of
a suitable person TO fill the high
Office for which he has been NOM
mated. In the case of every NOM
inee the tigatinn and report of
the committee having the matter in
charge is worthy Of great considera-
ton and is usually followed by
Senators, unless they themselves
have positive evidence inconsistent
with such report. The report of
the Judiciary Committee in the case
of Mr.. Lamar, SO far as relates to
his qualifications, would have its
full weight with every Senator. In
his case, however, there is some
danger of mixing the question of the
qualification Of the candidate with
political questions which effect the
whole country, and do not relate to
Mr.. Lamar any more than any
other Southern man who participant
ed in the late war.
"Among other qualifications for
the Office of Justice OF the Supreme
Court / should class as absolutely
essential and of the first lmpor-
lance full, urreserved and une-
quivocal belief in the Constitution
OF the United States, and particu-
larly in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments. No
person should be appointed to the
Office OF Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States to con-
atrue the Constitution who would
take the path to support that in
strument with the slightest mental
reservation. l shall, however be-
fore I vote, examine carefully and
diligently the record of Mr.. Lamar
since the reconstruction measures
were passed and three amendments
above mentioned were adopted and
Mississippi admitted as a State un-
der the terms and conditions of
such reconstruction measures and
amendments, and if T find that
he has fairly and without reserve
on those propositions, where he was
called out to speak, given his full,
free and unreserved adhesion to the |
verdict OF the war, as contained IN
the Constitution as it is, I shall re-
gard him as qualified in respect to
his opinions with regard to the |
Constitution, Notwithstanding bis
record previous, or during the |
war.
81 do not regard any man dis
qualified for any Office in the gift of
the Government of the United
States by reason ,,f the fact that