The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-01-30
WILL MAKE 1T OUT !
Harrison Will Surely Make an APP
pOintment.
1t will Come South According to the
Reports.
THIS WEEK WILL END THE BUSINESS
OF Course 1t Is Hard to Tell Who Will
Be the Winner, Yet There Is
Plenty of Material.


Plenty of Material.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-[Special l.
THE GLOBE correspondent has the au-
thority for announcing in the most posi-
tive terms that President Harrison will
nominate a successor to the late Asso
ciate Justice Lamar. The nomination
will probably be sent to the senate be-
fore the end of next week. The presi-
dent will net be deferred by the demo
cratic and mugwump clamor which has
arisen since the death of Justice Lamar
from exercising what he regards, not
merely as his constitutional right, but as
his official duty. Moreover there is every
reason for asserting that whoever may
be nominated for the vacancy on the su-
preme bench, will be confirmed, despite
the partison opposition of certain demo-
cratic senators who will probably be led
by Senators Vest and VOORHEES,. The
president consulted, at the white house
to-day, about this subject with Vice
President Morton and Senators Mander-
son, Platt, Dolph, Higgins and others.
His conversation with the vice presi
dent Is supposed to have been with refer
ence to forcing confirmation and the
presiding officer of the senate is believed
to have satisfied tie president that it Is
within the power Of the republican ma
jority In that body to compel the confr-
nation OF any man who is up to the high
standard of the previous judicial ap
pointments made bv the administration.
The fight over the confirmation of ex
Representative McComas, of Maryland,
to the supreme bench of the District of
Columbia, which was very bitter and de-
termined, demonstrated that the demo-
cratic side of the senate chamber can be
overcome if the republicans are united in
their opposition to any nomination. This
can be done either by some form of clo-
ture restricted in its working to execu-
tive sessions or by threatening to spend
so much time in considering the nomina-
tion as to imperil one or more of the great
appropriation bills and so compel an ex-
ira session of the next congress imme
diately after March 4.
From the conversations which the
president held with some of the senator's
who consulted with him to-day THE
GLOBE correspondent is able to indicate
quite accurately the position taken by
the president. He believes it to be his
right and his duty to fill the vacancy on
the supreme bench. In the second place
he regards it as his duty to his party and
his country to nominate a republican or
at least man who is not impregnated
with the doctrine of states rights as was
Justice Lamar and as is Chief Justice
Fuller. In the next place the president
considers that the appointment ought, if
possible, to go south, inasmuch as Justice
Lamar was the only distinctive southern
man upon the supreme bench. Finally
the president, under ordinary circum.
stances, would regard 1t as almost i'm
perative to fill the vacancy by the promo
tion of some republican Judge of a south
ern circuit court. Such a promotion,
tion, however, would cause vacancy on
the local federal bench, which, on ac-
count Of the lack Of time between now
and March 4, would almost certainly be
left for President Cleveland to fill.
During the coming week President
Harrison will examine carefully the
names of prominent southern republi-
cans both on and off the federal bench
which may be submitted to him, and if
he finds among them man who meets
his standard as to private character and
professional requirements he will un-
doubtedly be nominated. If the list OF
southern republican jurists should not
prove wholly satisfactory, then the pres
ident might turn to the north, althoug b
even then he would be disposed to select
| a southern democratic judge or lawyer
whose partisanship is not extreme and
who recognizes thai the civil war ended
the doctrine of stases rights as we'll as
the institutions of slavery.
Of northern republicans, should he be