The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-26
Isaac Norwood, Rockland.
The chief Justices Successor.

The Chief Justices Successor.
The President will not appoint new
Chief Justice at once He has, of course,
given the matter no consideration as yet.
But the news of Chief Justice Waite's death
was no sooner told than senators, represent
atves and Others began to speculate about
his successor. The names most mentioned
were those of Speaker Carlisle, ex Gov.
Hoadly, Secretary Bayard, Secretary Villas,
Postmaster General Dickinson, Solicitor
General jerks. Hon. William l.. Putnam of
Maine, John Randolph Tucker, and William
Z. Niblack of Indiana.
Almost every man who spoke about it be-
gan by saying, "Now, if Thurman were only
ten years younger he would be just the man" !"
but all agreed that he was too old to be con-
sidered There is a general desire and be-
lief among Den ocrats that the President
will appoint man who will be good for ff-
teen or twenty years active service. Lyman
Trumbull has to be counted out for this rea-
son, although he is spoken Of
Speaker Carlisle had to decline the vacan-
cy given to Lamar, because he could not be
spared from the House, while Dickinson is
regarded as too young and Thurman as TOO
old. If the appointment IS TO De made out
side the sixth circuit, Secretary Bayard, Min
lister Phelps, and Gov. H0adly ale to be con-
sidered
Later Predictions.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The gentleman,
who predicted Justice Lamar's appointment
as associate justice long before it was actual
ly decided upon, is authority for the state
ment that Secretary bayard could have had
the appointment had lie desired it. He says
Bayard will be offered the Chief Justiceshp
and will accept There is a rumOr from an
other source of the same kind, coupled with
the statement that Minister Phelps will sue
ceed Mr. Bayard as Secretary of State. From
still another source comes the report that
Carlisle is likely to be appointed Chief JUS
tice.
Franklin b. Gowen, ex-president of the
Reading Railway, and counsel for George
Rice in his contests with the Standard Oil
Company, appeared before the Senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce Saturday,
and recommended several changes in the
law. He expressed the belief that out OF
the $500 900 annually paid for transporta-
tion in this country, from $50, 900 900 to $780,
100000 was taken from the pockets OF the
people and paid into the hands OF iavoIed
corporations, which fact accounted 1or tne
large fortunes that were sometimes made
very suddenly.
General Stephenson's Position.
General Luther Stephenson, governor at
the Soldiers Home at Togus, is here on his
way home, having returned from visit to
General Wooden at Fort Monroe. General
Stephenson said the story that he was to be
succeeded by General Banks was absurd and
could only have been put in circulation by
those who did not know the facts The gov
ernors of the various homes are appointed by
toe board of managers, which is composed of
nine gentlemen, elected by joint resolution
of Congress, and ex-ofiicio, the President,
secretary of war and the chief Justice of the
United States. The governors are supposed
to hold Office for life, although they have no
fixed tenure and to be removable only when
it is for the good of the institutions in their
charge.